Author: Thomas, Donald, editor:
Title: State Trials. Vol. 1 : Treason & Libel. Vol. 2: The Public Conscience
Description: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1972). orig.boards. 22x14cm, (253)+(253) pp, TWO VOLUMES. Volume runs xiii, 236, (4)pp; Vol. 2 runs (2), 247, (4) pp. 8pp plates. Rubbed,some binding soil, Good+ ¶ A selection based on Cobbett & Howell's 33 volume " Complete Collection of State Trials" (1809-26). Contents: Volume 1: Treason. Sir Thomas More (1535); Queen Catherine Howard (1542); Colonel John Penruddock (1655); Theobald Wolfe Tone (1798); Libel: John Bastwick, Henry Burton & William Prynne (163 7); Richard Baxter ( 1685); Edmund Curll (1727); Henry Sampson Woodfall (17 70); John Horne ( 1777); John Hatchard ( 1817); Volume 2: A Trial of Witches at Bury St. Edmunds (1665) ...; Trial of John Huggins...(1729); Trial of Thomas Picton...(1806)

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