Old Bailey
until 1903 an English which the sittings of the Central Crimcourt or sessions house in London, in inal Court were held for the trial of offenses within its jurisdiction. The judges of this court are the lord mayor, the lord chancellor, the judges, aldermen, recorder, and common serjeant of London London. But of these the recorder, the court are in most cases the actually pre- serjeant, and the judge of the sheriff's recorder, the siding judges. Here were tried in 1660, court are in most cases the actually preafter the Restoration, after the Restoration, the surviving clasts" and "First Defense" were in the judges of Charles I.; and Milton's "Iconosame year burned at the Old Bailey by the common hangman. The patriot Lord William Russell was tried here in 1683, Jack Sheppard in 1724, Jonathan Wild in 1725, the poet Savage in 1727, Dr. Dodd Bellingham, the assassin of the statesman statesman Perceval, in 1812, the Cato Bailey adjoins Newgate Prison, between street street conspirators in 1820. The Old Holborn Viaduct and Ludgate Hill, where the Central Criminal Court now stands.
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