stockpurse

Updated: May 31, 2025

The bill was, however, found at the quarter sessions, and the indictment was removed by certiorari into the Court of King's Bench, to be tried at the assizes. This was considered as a great point gained by my enemies; and the members of the stockpurse association were greatly rejoiced, that they had got me into what was considered by some of them as being a serious scrape.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2