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Author Postgate, Raymond, 1896-1971, author.

Title Murder, piracy and treason : a selection of notable English trials / by Raymond Postgate
Published London : J. Cape, [1925]

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Description 1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Contents A trial by combat. Katrington. 1380. London -- The trial of a dead man for heresy, and strange things that followed. Hunne. 1514. London -- The trial of a baron for killing his neighbours. Charles, Lord Stourton. 1557. Stourton (Wilts) -- The trial of two witches: Amy Duny and Rose Cullender. 1664. Bury St. Edmunds -- Punishing the jury. William Penn. 1670. London -- Who killed Sir Edmondbury Godfrey? 1679. London -- A trial before Judge Jeffrey S. Baxter. 1685. London -- Jack Sheppard. 1724. London -- Jonathan Wild the Great. 1725. London -- The morning star of American liberty. Zenger. New York. 1735 -- Lieutenant Richardson the pirate. 1738. New York and elsewhere -- The spy. Thistlewood. 1820. London -- A regency buck's murder. Thurtell. 1824. Hertford -- The last insurrection. Frost the Chartist. 1839. Newport -- A Victorian Bottomley. William Roupell, M.P., 1862. London -- Respectable Mr. Thompson. Charles Peace. 1879. London -- Appendix. The city marshal's list of flash words. 1718; and, John Hall's interpretation of the several qualities of rogues. 1714
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-249) and index
Notes Description based on PDF title page, viewed April 22, 2012
Subject Trials -- Great Britain
Trials
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Other Titles Selection of notable English trials