Murder in the Tower: And Other Tales from the State Trials

ISBN-13: 9780754604709 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 288 str.

Alan Wharam

Opis

In 1730 a set of State Trials was published, containing reports of many criminal and other important trials, along with related material. This text contains selected cases from this series, taken from the 17th or very early-18th centuries. Almost all the cases here are criminal trials.

Recenzje

'... absorbing... a particularly useful and enlightening [...] Introduction... Murder in the Tower is an excellent work and is one that will be particularly useful to graduate students...' Seventeenth-Century News

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; The imprisonment of Sir Thomas Overbury; The princess and the perjurer; The Bawdy House Riots; A tavern brawl: the trial of Philip, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery; A most unusual elopement: the trial of Lord Grey of Werk; The Rye House plot: I. The plot; II. The Trials of Thomas Walcot, William Hone and William, Lord Russell; III. The trials of John Rouse and William Blague; IV. The trial of Colonel Algernon Sidney; V. The aftermath of the Rye House Plot; VI. Murther in the tower: 13 July 1683 - the death of Arthur Capel, Earl of Sussex; An Irish interlude; A crime of passion: the trial of Lord Mohun; The Old King’s Head conspiracy; The voyage of the Charles the Second; The voyage of the Loyal Clencarty: the trial of Captain Thomas Vaughan; A duel in the dark; The barrister and the Quaker: R.V. Cowper, Stephens, Rogers and Marson; Captain Kidd and the Adventure Galley; Scratching a witch; Appendices; Index.

O autorze

Alan Wharam