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Excerpt from An Address Delivered to the Grand Jury of Washington County, Pa. At the January Term of the Court, 1835
On times. It can indeed be followed into Scythia, as one of the valuable privileges of the rude, but free inhabitants; and the 1n stitution of it is ascribed to Woden himself - their great legis lator and chieftain. A similar mode of trial existed among the Romans, as already noticed, and Tacitus mentions, that m Germa ny the Lord of a territory had always 100 co assessors, chosen out of the Ingenui or freemen, when he sat in Judgment. It 18 said that the same number originally prevailed among the Saxons, but perhaps this rs incorrect, as we find among the Visigoths, in Spain, descended from the same stock, that Juries of twelve men were employed, not only m determining rights, but in deciding upon the qualifications of men to high offices; and it is a fact that the constable 1n the court lest of an English manor is returned in the same way to the day. But at all events, we know that it existed in its present form as early as the time of Alfred, who hung Cadwine for sentencing a man to death without the verdict of twelve Jurors, upon whom he had put himself for trial. The same great monarch having united the Heptarchy and made.
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