State trials / edited by Donald Thomas.

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London : Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., l972.

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26229

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Trials -- Great Britain.

Contents:

volume l: Treason and libel

Treason

1. Sir Thomas More (1535)

2. Queen Catherine Howard (1542)

3. Colonel John Penruddock (1655)

4. Theobald Wolfe Tone (1798)

Libel

5. John Bastwick, Henry Burton and William Prynne (1637)

6. Richard Baxter (1685)

7. Edmund Curll (1727)

8. Henry Sampson Woodfall (1770)

9. John Horne (1777)

10. John Hatchard (1817)

volume 2: The public conscience

1. A trial of witches at Bury St Edmunds (1665) with an account of the Salem witch trials (1692)

2. The trial of John Huggins, warden of the Fleet prison, for the murder of Edward Arne (1729)

3. The trial of Thomas Picton, sometimes Governor of Trinidad, for causing the torture to be inflicted upon Luisa Calderon (1806).

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The text of the trials is based on the Cobbett and Howell Complete collection of state trials publised in 1809-26.

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Supreme Court Library Queensland. Legal heritage collection. Bruce Harvey McPherson, CBE collection.

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0710073259

0710073267

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2 volumes : Illustrations ; 23 cm