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ADMISSION TO THE TRIAL OF WARREN HASTINGS ON DAY NINETY-FIVE
HASTINGS
(Warren, 1732-1818, Governor-General of India)]
Finely engraved ticket, numbered 251 and given to Ralph Jackson Esq,
granting permission to the “Bearer to Pass and Repass” during Session Ninety-Five “For the Trial of Warren Hastings Esq...”, in the centre is a shield with an arm above it, holding a leaf, 5” x 3” on card, Westminster Hall,
Warren Hastings was impeached on the grounds of corruption and cruelty in his Indian Administration. This trial of 145 days ended with his acquittal but cost him £70,000 and ruined him financially. The East India Company granted him a pension and he lived the rest of his life in Worcestershire. Over the trial’s seven years only twenty-nine peers were in continuous attendance, and these passed the final verdict.
Item Date:
1795
Stock No:
42687
£375
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