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State trials, a work in thirty-three volumes octavo (from which 'selections' were brought out by Mr. J. Willis-Bund in 1880), containing all trials for offences against the State, and others partaking in some degree of that character, fro 1163 to 1820. Eight continuation volumes, for the period from 1820 o 1858 have been brought out under the auspices of a Government committee; the eighth and last volume contains the index, and appeared in 1898.