State Trials, Volume I - Treason and Libel

State Trials, Volume I (first published in 1972) contains cases concerned with treason and the freedom of press gathered from the full edition of State Trials completed in 1826. The author has selected some of the most interesting and important trials for this volume.

List of contents

Introduction Salmon’s Preface (1719) Part 1. Treason 1. Sir Thomas More (1535) 2. Queen Catherine Howard (1542) 3. Colonel John Penruddock (1655) 4. Theobald Wolfe Tone (1798) Part 2. Libel 5. John Bastwick, Henry Burton and William Prynne (1637) 6. Richard Bxter (1685) 7. Edmund Curll (1727) 8. Henry Sampson Woodfall (1770) 9. John Horne (1777) 10. John Hatchard (1817)

About the author

Donald Thomas was an academic historian of crime. He was the author of several studies of the criminal underworld as well as biographies of Robert Browning, the Marquis de Sade, Henry Fielding, and Lewis Carroll.

Summary

State Trials, Volume I (first published in 1972) contains cases concerned with treason and the freedom of press gathered from the full edition of State Trials completed in 1826. The author has selected some of the most interesting and important trials for this volume.

Product details

• Authors: Donald Thomas
• Assisted by: Donald Thomas (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032861685
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3286168-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; USA, History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Criminal Law / General, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Defamation, Legal History, United States of America, USA, Legal aspects of criminology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Law & society, Criminology: legal aspects, Law and society, sociology of law, Criminal law: offences against the government, Offences against the government, Defamation law (slander & libel), Defamation law, slander and libel