It wields an unseen sceptre over thrones and populations, and bloody slaughter is as profitable to its pockets as the most peaceful peculation ."
12.
Convicted of peculation in connection with the supplies for the army in Italy, he was executed at Montfaucon on the 9th of August 1527.
13.
In February 1249 Frederick fired his advisor and prime minister, the famous jurist and poet Pier delle Vigne, on charges of peculation and embezzlement.
14.
Following an investigation by Parliament into royal grants of monopoly, financial peculation and corrupt officials, Bacon was convicted of corruption and forced into retirement.
15.
The commissioners'report, which was not published, found that the military administration was riddled by " oppression, peculation, and graft ".
16.
In 1850 he was tried for peculation and convicted; and, though this judgment was reversed on appeal, he left the service of Prussia.
17.
This came to a point in 1586 when the surveyor of the ordnance, John Powell, accused Painter and two others of peculation ( embezzlement ).
18.
Between 1850 and 1870 Wysber appears to have been guilty of numerous peculations among the merchants and clergy of Hungary, extending his operations even to Vienna.
19.
The office of fiscal procurator was always held by an equestrian, unlike the office of governor, which was reserved for members of the higher peculation.
20.
The privy council on 24 February 1550 issued an injunction against him, further prohibiting him from removing the woods already felled, which suggests suspicions of peculation.
