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Report of the trial for libel, (the queen, on the prosecution of the right honourable Lord Leigh, v. Charles Griffin,) : in calumniously alleging murders to have been committed at Stoneleigh Abbey, thirty-four years ago. Tried at the Warwickshire lent assizes, 1849, before chief justice Sir Thomas Wilde, Knight. From the type of the Warwick advertiser of Saturday, April 7th, 1819; with corrections and additions.

Accession number
PML 147193
Published
Warwick : Printed and Published by Henry Sharpe, 1849.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Cover title.
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Relating to the unsuccessful claim to the Leigh peerage brought by George Leigh, and the prosecution for libel of solicitor Charles Griffin, following an assault on the Abbey in 1844 and his publication of Stoneleigh Abbey thirty-four year ago.
The trial specifically concerned the spectacular charge that in 1814 Lord Leigh had assisted his mother, Julia Judith Leigh (1771-1843) in stealthily removing a monument and coffin plates from the family vault and buried them, along with the bodies of several witnesses, under a bridge abutment on the estate. Local solicitor Charles Griffin, author of the 1848 pamphlet Stoneleigh Abbey, thirty four years ago, was ultimately sentenced to two years for libel against the Leigh family.
Description
35 p. ; 25 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department