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1 Papers Published by the Committee Established at Aylesbury, 1845, for the Purpose of Collecting and Diffusing Information on the Punishment of Death 1 (1845)

handle is hein.death/pcayinfopd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: P AP EIRS PUBLISHED BY THE COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED AT AYLESBURY,, 1845, FOR THE PURPOSE OF COLLECTING AND DIFFUSING INFORMATION ON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. 1. Preliminary Observations-p. 4. 2. The Argumbnt from Scripture, and the conse- quent Duty of Christian Men-p. 9. 3. The Argument from the INew Testament L connexion with the Thirty-seventh Article of the Church of England-p. 16. 4. The Example of Capital Executions, and its effects-p. 20. 5 and 6. The same continiued- p. 26, and 33, 7. The same coniinued; and the authorities on that subject-p. 41. 8. Practical Evidences of approach of the Abolition of all Death Punisnmentin England -p. 49. 9. The same continued; and summary of the whole argument-p. 56. 1 ERRATUM-page 3-line 30, for Wisdom, read Wonder. INTRODUCTION. ON the 30th of April, 1845, a public Meeting was. held, in the Town Hall, at Aylesbury; John Lloyd, Esq., in the Chair, for the purpose, as the advertise- ment set forth, of Calmly and thoroughly 'discus- sing the question of the Total Abolition of the Pu- nishment of Death. At the close of the meeting, which was attended by between four and five hun- dred persons, among whom were most of the princi- pal inhabitants of the town, and several of the gentry, clergy, and farmers from the neighbourhood round; it was resolved, unanimously, that a humble address be presented to Her Most Gracious Majesty, and Petitions to both Houses of Parliament, with a view to the abolition by law of all Capital Punishments. The Petitions to the two Houses set forth :- That We have observed, with sorrow and alarm, A

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