Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63178	The tryal of John Giles at the Sessions-House in the Old Bayly, held by adjournment from the 7th day of July, 1680 until the 14th day of the same month the adjournment being appointed on purpose for the said Giles, his trial for a barbarous and inhumane attempt to assasinate and murther John Arnold.	Giles, John.; England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London)	1681 (1681)	Wing T2192; ESTC R24640	35,802	58

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