The state trials and the politics of justice in later Stuart England. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Brian Cowan, Scott Sowerby.
• Authors: Cowan, Brian; Sowerby, Scott, 1973-
• Contents: Part One: What Were the State Trials? ; Introduction: The State Trials in Historical Perspective - Brian Cowan and Scott Sowerby; 1. State Trials and the Rule of Law under the Later Stuarts and Early Hanoverians - Tim Harris and Stephen Taylor; 2. Corruption and Later Stuart State Trials - Mark Knights; Part Two: Restoration State Trials ; 3. 'Blood will have Blood': The Regicide Trials and the Popular Press - Melinda S. Zook; 4. The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunket - John Marshall; 5. Sham Plots and False Confessions: The Politics of Edward Fitzharris's Last Words, 1681 - Andrea McKenzie; 6. Constructing Conspiracy: Reporting the Rye House Plot Trials - Newton Key; Part Three: Revolutionary State Trials ; 7. Enforcing Uniformity: Public Reactions to the Seven Bishops' Trial - Scott Sowerby; 8. Revolutionary Justice and Whig Retribution in 1689 - Mark Goldie; 9. Relitigating Revolution: Address, Progress, and Redress in the Long Summer of 1710 - Brian Cowan; 10. Politics and Sentiment in the Jacobite State Trials - Paul Monod; 11. Defeating Innuendoes: The Trials of Thomas Rosewell (1684) and Daniel Isaac Eaton (1794) - Annabel Patterson; ; ; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Martlesham : The Boydell Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 349.4209033; Trials -- England -- History -- 18th century; Criminal law -- England -- History -- 18th century; Justice, Administration of -- England -- History -- 18th century; Monarchy -- England -- History -- 18th century; Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800102743
• Related ISBNs: 9781783276264
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