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Lord Chief Justice [Wilmotis?] Speech on [illegible] sentence of Death on the Criminals at Exeter Midsummer [Afrize?] 1957

My Fellow [Executives].

You all stand here convicted of crimes, for which the Law deems you guilty of Death. When the habitable parts of the Earth were reduced into Empires Kingdoms + Provinces, the legislature thought it [excepting?] to Establish Laws for the regulation and conduct of Mankind, and to preserve the community, in harmony and good order; and the offenders who violated those laws, were always subject to the penalties such laws inflicted; And was there to be no regulation made, no law or order to be observed, Confusion (underline Confusion) (underline) Murder, (underline) Bloodshed