Excerpt from A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors, From the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, Vol. 20 of 21: With Notes and Other Illustrations The Trial of an Action brought by stephen sayre, esq. Against the Right Hon. William henry Earl of roch ford, one of his Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, and theretofore one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, for False Imprisonment, A. D. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.