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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2009
resolved unanimously, THAT the Foreman be desired to convey to the Hon. SIR NASH GROSE, Knight, one of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of king's Bench, the respectful and cordial acknowledgements of the Grand Jury of this County, for the able, judicious, and well-timed CHARGE delivered by him from the Bench on the opening of the Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and General Gaol Delivery, at Hertford, on Monday the 7th of March instant, containing matter of the most important nature, and expressed in terms, which, whether [4] We consider the authority from which they are derived, or the excellence of the sentiments themselves, are most happily calculated to inspire and to confirm, in all ranks of men, a sincere veneration for our Holy Religion, a dutiful submission to the Laws, and a steady attachment to the true principles of our invaluable Constitution; and earnestly to request, in the name of the Grand Jury of this County, that he will consent to the printing and publication of the same.
page 544 note 1 Here, and in the following paragraph, Grose made an allusion to the political trials of 1794 and the aftermath of the first years of the French revolution.
page 545 note 1 Note here the use of the word ‘class’, repeated throughout this text.
page 545 note 2 The allusion made by this, as well as by many a, magistrate to the experience of the jurors is a proof that they were often called upon to sit, and were empanelled with a certain regularity. See Cockburn, J. S. & Green, Th. A. eds., Twelve Good Men and True… (Princeton U.P., 1988)CrossRefGoogle Scholar: King, P. J. R., “Illiterate Plebeians, Easily Misled…” 254–304.Google Scholar