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Box 26 contains Bentham’s writings on juries. Changes in British libel law in the late eighteenth century gave juries a much bigger role to play in such trials. But the crown was still able to influence the outcome of libel cases by packing juries full of compliant men. Bentham abhored this practice because he felt that stringent libel law undermined press freedom. Bentham included these sentiments in his Elements of the Art of Packing as applied to Special Juries (printed 1810, published 1820).

Detailed contents of this box are as follows:

• Folio 1: Inquerenda concerning Grand Juries in London; 1808
• Folios 2 to 11: Proposed law for the establishment of the liberty of the press in Venezuela; 1808
• Folios 12 to 55: Press - Code; 1809
• Folios 56 to 65: Press - Code - Defamation - Inserenda; [c.1809]
• Folios 66 to 67: Elements [of packing juries]; 1809
• Folios 68 to 136: Elements of packing - marginalia; 1809
• Folios 137 to 142: Press - particular codes; 1810
• Folios 143 to 156: J.B. to jurymen on libel law; 1817, 1819, 1820
• Folios 157 to 172: Observations on the Indictment against Wolseley [ The King against Wolseley and Harrison]; 1819
• Folios 173 to 191: Letters to juries [marginal outlines]; 1820
• Folios 192 to 203: The King against Edmonds and others [Observations]; 1820
• Folios 204 to 226: Letters to juries - Conspiracy, Rex v. Wolseley; 1820
• Folios 227 to 320: Letters to jurymen on the indictments: Rex v. Edmonds, Rex v. Wolseley; and on libel Law, 1820
• Folios 321 to 330: Letters to juries - Rex v. Wolseley - collactanea; 1820
• Folios 331 to 332: First lines - Constitutional corruption; [1820]
• Folios 333 to 357: Jury trial; 1821, 1822

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