| Description |
9 unnumbered pages, 247 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
His State trials ; v. 2 |
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Thomas, Donald, 1926-
State trials ; v. 2
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| Contents |
A trial of witches at Bury St Edmunds (1665) with an account of the Salem Witch Trials (1692) -- The trial of John Huggins, warden of the Fleet Prison, for the murder of Edward Arne (1729) -- The trial of Thomas Picton, sometime Governor of Trinidad, for causing the torture to be inflicted upon Luisa Calderon (1806) |
| Summary |
This text put s forward the demands of public conscience, which as illustrated by State Trials, were not always as striaghtforwardly admirable as one would wish. Certainly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there was an increasingly strong currents of opinion which insisted that civil or criminal prisoners were entitled to humane treatment and sanitary conditions. All of these matters of public debate are reflected in the collections of State Trials |
| Notes |
The text of the trials is based on the Cobbett and Howell Complete collection of state trials published in 1809-26 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Public interest law.
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Trials -- Great Britain.
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Trials.
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| Author |
Howell, Thomas Bayly, 1768-1815.
Cobbett's complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to the present time
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| LC no. |
73180838 |
| ISBN |
0710073267 |
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9780710073266 |
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