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tiaving tried all the means in our power for his recovery ?' The society has now existed for three years : they are forming a
library of all works upon these important subjects : —they have published two volumes , containing the opinions of different authors upon the punishment of death : and a third volume ,
containing the debates during the last session , in rhe two houses of parliament , upon ihe hills for abolishing the punishment of death for stealing to the amount of forty
shillings in a dwelling-house ; for stealing to . the amount of five shillings privately in a shop , and for stealing in navigable rivers : with the debates on the erection of Penitentiary Houses ? In the
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Copy of a Letter written by Charles ihe Second to the Chancellor ^ concerning the Execution of Sir Henry Vane , with Observations *
[ " From Mr . Serjeant HeywoocTs Vindication of Mr . Fox ' s History , 4 to . Appendix , pp . 24—z 6 . ~ ] No single act of Charles the Second has left so foul a st ain upon
his memory , as his having sought the execution of Sir Henry Vane . He had not been one of the Judges of the late King , and therefore his life ought to have been spared according : to the King ' s
declaration sent from Breda , and his confirmation of it afterwards in Parliament . But besides this , the Commons having shewn repugnance to except him out of the Act of Indemnity , the Lords throug h the medium of the Chan , celloi- who acted as their mana-
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course of a few months it is their intention to publish a fourth volume , containing ; the debates
during the present session , upon the bills now pending in parliament for the abolition of the punishment of death for five different offences , and an account of all the convictions and
executions in England since the year 1731 . N . B . Subscriptions are received by William Allen , Plough-Court , Lombard-Street ; and J . Fry , Mildred-Court .
[ Any communications ^ tending to promote the humane object of the above laudable society , will be cheerfully inserted in this work . Ed . ]
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ger at a conference , had intimated that though on account of Vane being of a mischievous activity / 3 they desired to have him left to the mercy of the king , yet they
would be ready to join with the commons in a petition , that , in case he should be attainted , he should not be executed * Upon
this intimation , the commons passed the bill , and it afterwards received the royal assent . Accordingly , a petition from both houses was presented b y the chancellor to the king , reminding him of his declaration , and praying that if Vane and Lambert should be
attainted , yet execution as to their lives might be remitted , and the king acceded to their request . When a new Parliament met , the commons , as Sir Henry Vane says , instigated by persons who wished for his estates and by his own te-
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Copy of a Letter written by Charles IT * S < J 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1811, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2418/page/7/
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