Treason Trials (21 results)

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 39 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. Sir Adam Blair and others prosecuted for high treason during the post-revolutionary unrest. 14 pages, printed in double columns. Printed between 1809 and 1826, these historic documents are vivid extracts from Cobbett's State Trials, pages from the courtroom record that preserve the voices, arguments, and verdicts which helped shape the course of British justice and still echo through its constitutional legacy. Over two centuries old, each leaf is a tangible fragment of legal history, compelling, original, and rarely encountered outside institutional collections. These are not reprints or replicas, but authentic 19th-century printings, rich in drama and steeped in history. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Cobbett's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 25 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::Octavo; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. Men from Galloway tried for resisting royal authority in a wave of regional unrest. 20 pages, printed in double columns. Printed between 1809 and 1826, these historic documents are vivid extracts from Cobbett's State Trials; pages from the courtroom record that preserve the voices, arguments, and verdicts which helped shape the course of British justice and still echo through its constitutional legacy. Over two centuries old, each leaf is a tangible fragment of legal history, compelling, original, and rarely encountered outside institutional collections. These are not reprints or replicas, but authentic 19th-century printings that are rich in drama, and steeped in history. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Cobbett's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 25 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::Octavo; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. James Earl of Loudoun and others prosecuted for opposing royal authority. 27 pages, printed in double columns. Printed between 1809 and 1826, these historic documents are vivid extracts from Cobbett's State Trials; pages from the courtroom record that preserve the voices, arguments, and verdicts which helped shape the course of British justice and still echo through its constitutional legacy. Over two centuries old, each leaf is a tangible fragment of legal history, compelling, original, and rarely encountered outside institutional collections. These are not reprints or replicas, but authentic 19th-century printings that are rich in drama, and steeped in history. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Cobbett's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 25 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::Octavo; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. Stirling and several associates are accused of aiding the abortive Jacobite invasion attempt of 1708. Their trials reflect the unsettled politics of postâ'Union Scotland, the persistence of Jacobite loyalties, and the governments efforts to suppress networks of support for the exiled Stuarts. 6 PAGES, printed in double columns. A genuine 1777 printing taken from the authoritative Complete Collection of State Trials. Originally compiled to serve both as a legal reference and a vehicle of political discourse, the State Trials series shaped contemporary and subsequent understanding of justice, authority, and dissent. The generously sized sheets on which these trials are printed offer particular pleasure to the eye and hand, bearing clear signs of their handmade origin: chain lines and wire impressions from the mould are readily visible, some pages display watermarks, and the paper varies subtly in thickness, all characteristic of 18th century rag paper. This particular trial report has been preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 30 x 47 cms. Category: State Trials; Printed before 1800; State Trials::Large Folio. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. Surrey and his father, the Duke of Norfolk, are accused of heraldic pretensions and designs interpreted as threats to Henry VIIIs succession. Surrey is tried before commissioners at Guildhall, while proceedings against Norfolk follow separately. The cases reveal the paranoia of the final Tudor years and the peril faced by noble families caught in court faction. 5 PAGES, printed in double columns. A genuine 1781 printing taken from the authoritative Complete Collection of State Trials. Originally compiled to serve both as a legal reference and a vehicle of political discourse, the State Trials series shaped contemporary and subsequent understanding of justice, authority, and dissent. The generously sized sheets on which these trials are printed offer particular pleasure to the eye and hand, bearing clear signs of their handmade origin: chain lines and wire impressions from the mould are readily visible, some pages display watermarks, and the paper varies subtly in thickness, all characteristic of 18th century rag paper. This particular trial report has been preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 30 x 47 cms. Category: State Trials; Printed before 1800; State Trials::Large Folio. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. A large group of men are charged with high treason for assembling to pull down bawdy houses during widespread disorder in London. The Crown argues that such riotous gatherings amount to levying war. The prosecutions reveal the Restoration governments anxiety about urban crowds and its readiness to stretch treason law to maintain order. 5 PAGES, printed in double columns. A genuine 1776 printing taken from the authoritative Complete Collection of State Trials. Originally compiled to serve both as a legal reference and a vehicle of political discourse, the State Trials series shaped contemporary and subsequent understanding of justice, authority, and dissent. The generously sized sheets on which these trials are printed offer particular pleasure to the eye and hand, bearing clear signs of their handmade origin: chain lines and wire impressions from the mould are readily visible, some pages display watermarks, and the paper varies subtly in thickness, all characteristic of 18th century rag paper. This particular trial report has been preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 30 x 47 cms. Category: State Trials; Printed before 1800; State Trials::Large Folio. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. Robert Watt tried and executed for plotting a revolutionary uprising in Edinburgh. 119 pages, printed in double columns. Printed between 1809 and 1826, these historic documents are vivid extracts from Cobbett's State Trials; pages from the courtroom record that preserve the voices, arguments, and verdicts which helped shape the course of British justice and still echo through its constitutional legacy. Over two centuries old, each leaf is a tangible fragment of legal history, compelling, original, and rarely encountered outside institutional collections. These are not reprints or replicas, but authentic 19th-century printings that are rich in drama, and steeped in history. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Cobbett's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 25 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::Octavo; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. Sir Richard Grahme and others prosecuted for high treason in the wake of the Glorious Revolution. 79 pages, printed in double columns. Printed between 1809 and 1826, these historic documents are vivid extracts from Cobbett's State Trials, pages from the courtroom record that preserve the voices, arguments, and verdicts which helped shape the course of British justice and still echo through its constitutional legacy. Over two centuries old, each leaf is a tangible fragment of legal history, compelling, original, and rarely encountered outside institutional collections. These are not reprints or replicas, but authentic 19th-century printings, rich in drama and steeped in history. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Cobbett's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 25 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::Octavo; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. Price and more than a hundred Protestants are tried for high treason against James II during the WilliamiteJacobite struggle in Ireland. The mass proceedings reflect the chaotic realignment of loyalties after the Glorious Revolution and the use of treason law as a tool of wartime control. 7 PAGES, printed in double columns. A genuine 1776 printing taken from the authoritative Complete Collection of State Trials. Originally compiled to serve both as a legal reference and a vehicle of political discourse, the State Trials series shaped contemporary and subsequent understanding of justice, authority, and dissent. The generously sized sheets on which these trials are printed offer particular pleasure to the eye and hand, bearing clear signs of their handmade origin: chain lines and wire impressions from the mould are readily visible, some pages display watermarks, and the paper varies subtly in thickness, all characteristic of 18th century rag paper. This particular trial report has been preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 30 x 47 cms. Category: State Trials; Printed before 1800; State Trials::Large Folio. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. Essex and Southampton are tried for leading the abortive rising against Elizabeth I, a desperate attempt to regain political influence. The proceedings expose factional tensions at court, Essexs dramatic fall from favour, and the Crowns insistence on making an example of highâ'born rebels. 7 PAGES, printed in double columns. A genuine 1776 printing taken from the authoritative Complete Collection of State Trials. Originally compiled to serve both as a legal reference and a vehicle of political discourse, the State Trials series shaped contemporary and subsequent understanding of justice, authority, and dissent. The generously sized sheets on which these trials are printed offer particular pleasure to the eye and hand, bearing clear signs of their handmade origin: chain lines and wire impressions from the mould are readily visible, some pages display watermarks, and the paper varies subtly in thickness, all characteristic of 18th century rag paper. This particular trial report has been preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 30 x 47 cms. Category: State Trials; Printed before 1800; State Trials::Large Folio. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. A group of men are charged with participating in a plot against the restored monarchy. Their prosecution reflects the early Restoration governments determination to suppress republican conspiracies and reassert authority after the upheavals of the Civil War and Interregnum. 11 PAGES, printed in double columns. A genuine 1778 printing taken from the authoritative Complete Collection of State Trials. Originally compiled to serve both as a legal reference and a vehicle of political discourse, the State Trials series shaped contemporary and subsequent understanding of justice, authority, and dissent. The generously sized sheets on which these trials are printed offer particular pleasure to the eye and hand, bearing clear signs of their handmade origin: chain lines and wire impressions from the mould are readily visible, some pages display watermarks, and the paper varies subtly in thickness, all characteristic of 18th century rag paper. This particular trial report has been preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 30 x 47 cms. Category: State Trials; Printed before 1800; State Trials::Large Folio. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. These close associates of the Earl of Essex are tried for their part in the 1601 rebellion. Their proceedings reveal the intellectual and military circle around Essex, the planning behind the failed rising, and the Crowns swift retribution against those who supported the Earls challenge to royal authority. 8 PAGES, printed in double columns. A genuine 1778 printing taken from the authoritative Complete Collection of State Trials. Originally compiled to serve both as a legal reference and a vehicle of political discourse, the State Trials series shaped contemporary and subsequent understanding of justice, authority, and dissent. The generously sized sheets on which these trials are printed offer particular pleasure to the eye and hand, bearing clear signs of their handmade origin: chain lines and wire impressions from the mould are readily visible, some pages display watermarks, and the paper varies subtly in thickness, all characteristic of 18th century rag paper. This particular trial report has been preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 30 x 47 cms. Category: State Trials; Printed before 1800; State Trials::Large Folio. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. A group of Catholic priests including Lionel Anderson and William Russel are prosecuted for high treason under statutes criminalising the presence of Jesuits and seminary priests in England. Tried in the shadow of the Popish Plot, their cases show how religious identity itself became grounds for capital prosecution during the height of antiâ'Catholic panic. 13 PAGES, printed in double columns. A genuine 1776 printing taken from the authoritative Complete Collection of State Trials. Originally compiled to serve both as a legal reference and a vehicle of political discourse, the State Trials series shaped contemporary and subsequent understanding of justice, authority, and dissent. The generously sized sheets on which these trials are printed offer particular pleasure to the eye and hand, bearing clear signs of their handmade origin: chain lines and wire impressions from the mould are readily visible, some pages display watermarks, and the paper varies subtly in thickness, all characteristic of 18th century rag paper. This particular trial report has been preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 30 x 47 cms. Category: State Trials; Printed before 1800; State Trials::Large Folio. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. Preston and Ashton are arrested while attempting to flee to France with incriminating papers linking them to the exiled James II. Their trials, among the earliest treason prosecutions after the Revolution of 1688, reveal the fragility of the new regime and the persistence of highâ'level Jacobite intrigue. 79 PAGES, printed in double columns. A genuine 1777 printing taken from the authoritative Complete Collection of State Trials. Originally compiled to serve both as a legal reference and a vehicle of political discourse, the State Trials series shaped contemporary and subsequent understanding of justice, authority, and dissent. The generously sized sheets on which these trials are printed offer particular pleasure to the eye and hand, bearing clear signs of their handmade origin: chain lines and wire impressions from the mould are readily visible, some pages display watermarks, and the paper varies subtly in thickness, all characteristic of 18th century rag paper. This particular trial report has been preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 30 x 47 cms. Category: State Trials; Printed before 1800; State Trials::Large Folio. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. The case illustrates the Crowns use of treason law to secure convictions in the tense political climate of the midâ'1690s and provides a richer sense of the courtroom setting and the official framing of the so-called Jacobite conspiracy to assassinate William III. 37 PAGES, printed in double columns. A genuine 1777 printing taken from the authoritative Complete Collection of State Trials. Originally compiled to serve both as a legal reference and a vehicle of political discourse, the State Trials series shaped contemporary and subsequent understanding of justice, authority, and dissent. The generously sized sheets on which these trials are printed offer particular pleasure to the eye and hand, bearing clear signs of their handmade origin: chain lines and wire impressions from the mould are readily visible, some pages display watermarks, and the paper varies subtly in thickness, all characteristic of 18th century rag paper. This particular trial report has been preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 30 x 47 cms. Category: State Trials; Printed before 1800; State Trials::Large Folio. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. Anne Boleyn and her brother are tried before the Lord High Steward for adultery, incest and conspiring the Kings death; their alleged lovers are tried separately by commissioners. The proceedings, driven by court faction and Henry VIIIs determination to remarry, remain among the most dramatic and controversial treason trials of the Tudor age. 7 PAGES, printed in double columns. A genuine 1778 printing taken from the authoritative Complete Collection of State Trials. Originally compiled to serve both as a legal reference and a vehicle of political discourse, the State Trials series shaped contemporary and subsequent understanding of justice, authority, and dissent. The generously sized sheets on which these trials are printed offer particular pleasure to the eye and hand, bearing clear signs of their handmade origin: chain lines and wire impressions from the mould are readily visible, some pages display watermarks, and the paper varies subtly in thickness, all characteristic of 18th century rag paper. This particular trial report has been preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 30 x 47 cms. Category: State Trials; Printed before 1800; State Trials::Large Folio. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Unbound. Condition: Good. First Edition. Broadside printed on silk, approximately 240mm x 305mm in size, n.d. but probably late 1794, or very early 1795. Light surface soiling, a couple of patches of foxing and a few spots of discolouring, minor creasing, very minor fraying to top and bottom edges (possibly as issued?), linen hinge to left hand side. Celebrating the acquittal of John Horne Tooke, who had, with Thomas Hardy and John Thelwall, been indicted for high treason. The jury only took minutes to acquit him. The broadside names the twelve gentlemen of the jury, as well as Tooke's lawyers. The ESTC has a song sheet with the same title, and a similar broadside printed by the radical Daniel Isaac Eaton, but not this. The printer was Wilson, the BBTI gives three possible Wilson's - Andrew, Effingham, and William. It seems likely that this would have only been produced in small numbers, perhaps as a memento for the members of the jury and the principal protagonists? For Horne Tooke, see Baylen and Gossman, 'Biographical Dictionary of Modern Radicals, Volume 1: 1770-1830', pages 490-493. Unrecorded Size: Folio. Silk.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Signed second edition of The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851 by William Ulher Hensel, published in 1911. (illustrator). Second Edition. Quarto, ix, 158pp. Beige cloth, title in black on paper label affixed to spine. Top edge gilt. This is the first revised edition, second released overall, issued in the same year of the 60th anniversary commemorative report of the Christiana Riot. Complete with 17 full-page plates with protective tissue guards, including frontispiece. Includes over 25 additional pages than the first issue, with five more illustrations. Solid text block, faint soiling to boards, front hinge loose. Previous ownership bookplate to front free endpaper. A near fine example. (Blockson 2591) Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Presented to B.Y. Junger by W.U. Hensel 2nd." An important piece with references to official trial reports, personal reminiscences, and interviews with the victim's families. The Christiana Riot of 1851 occurred when a group of African-Americans and white abolitionists defended four fugitive slaves from a Maryland posse seeking to recapture them. The confrontation resulted in the death of Edward Gorsuch, the slave owner, and injuries to several others. This event further divided pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States, already heightened by the restrictions of the recently passed Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Following the riot, 38 people were arrested and charged with treason under the Fugitive Slave Act, leading to a highly publicized trial. Castner Hanway, a local white miller, was the first to be tried and was acquitted, setting a precedent that led to the dismissal of charges against the other defendants. The Christiana Riot and trial were pivotal in galvanizing abolitionist sentiment and underscoring the deep divisions that would soon lead to the Civil War. Signed.

Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. A series of major prosecutions targets leading Jesuits and Catholic laymen Whitebread, Harcourt, Fenwick, Langhorn, and later Wakeman with three Benedictine monks accused of conspiring to kill the King. These trials form the core of the Popish Plot prosecutions, driven by informer testimony and political panic. Their outcomes chart the rise and eventual erosion of belief in the Plot. 67 PAGES, printed in double columns. A genuine 1776 printing taken from the authoritative Complete Collection of State Trials. Originally compiled to serve both as a legal reference and a vehicle of political discourse, the State Trials series shaped contemporary and subsequent understanding of justice, authority, and dissent. The generously sized sheets on which these trials are printed offer particular pleasure to the eye and hand, bearing clear signs of their handmade origin: chain lines and wire impressions from the mould are readily visible, some pages display watermarks, and the paper varies subtly in thickness, all characteristic of 18th century rag paper. This particular trial report has been preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 30 x 47 cms. Category: State Trials; Printed before 1800; State Trials::Large Folio. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

First Edition. [bound with:]The Arraignment, Tryal and Condemnation of SirJohn Friend, Knight, for High Treason on Monday March 23.1695/6 London, Printed for Samuel Heyrick and Isaac Cleve. 1696. [and with:]The Arraignment, Tryal and Condemnation of SirWilliam Parkins Knt who was found guilty of high-Treason, March 24.1695/6 London, Printed for Samuel Heyrick and Isaac Cleve. 1696. [and:]The Arraignment, Tryal and Condemnation of Ambrose Rookwood who upon full Evidence was found Guilty of High Treason on Tuesday the 21st of April, 1696 London, Printed for Samuel Heyrick and Isaac Cleve. 1696. [and:]The Arraignments, Tryals and Condemnations of Charles Cranburne, and Robert Lowick London, Printed for Samuel Heyrick and Isaac Cleve. 1696. [and:]The Arraignment, Confession and Condemnation of Alexander Knightley . London, Printed for Samuel Heyrick and Isaac Cleve. 1696. [and:]The Arraignment, Tryal and Condemnation of Peter Cooke, Gent.For High-Treason London, Printed for Benjamin Tooke 1696. Seven works in one vol., folio, pp.Charnock: [2], 76 (wanting the imprimatur leaf), Friend: [2], 44 (wanting the imprimatur leaf), Parkins: [2], 48 (wanting the imprimatur leaf), Rookwood: [4], 75, [1], Cranburne: [4], 72, Knightley: [4], 8 (with an initial blank), Cooke: [2], 71, [1] (wanting the imprimatur leaf); first named work frayed at the front, some browning, else good copies; bound together, spine very dry and worn, covers wanting; contemporary manuscript collective title-page laid in loose (torn); ownership inscriptions to first title-page 'J.F.Davenport 1778' and 'Franklin Davenport 1780' (seebelow).First editions of the trials of the Jacobite conspirators convicted in March and April1696 in connection with a plot to assassinate WilliamIII near Turnham Green in February that year, and to encourage a French invasion to restore JamesII to the throne. The main prosecution witness was George Porter, a violent former highway-robber fatally recruited to the cause, who betrayed his co-conspirators immediately after his arrest on 27February1696. The first three trials were rushed through just days before the Treason Trials Act (which allowed defendants counsel) came into force on 25 March 1696. 'The accused assassins Charnock and SirWilliam Parkyns defended themselves ably [though fruitlessly], but Friend, being ill-educated, unintelligent, and partly deaf, was helpless' (ODNB). Charnock, King, and Keyes were hanged, drawn, and quartered on 18March, Charnock leaving a last paper that admitted his guilt, and so harmed his fellow conspirators tried later. Friend and Parkyns were hanged at Tyburn on 3April1696. Ambrose Rookwood, namesake and great-grandson of the Gunpowder plotter, was tried on 21 April, and was the first conspirator to be allowed legal representation under the new Treason Trials Act; the account of the trial includes much procedural on the new legislation. He was executed along with Cranburn and Lowick on 29April1696. Alexander Knightley and Peter Cook were both found guilty but later pardoned after giving information. Provenance: 1. Josiah Franklin Davenport (b.1727) was the nephew of Benjamin Franklin (his mother was Franklin's older sister Sarah) and received much support from the Founding Father. Franklin's will of 1757 made Davenport contingent beneficiary of the income of his printing house and also made provision for Davenport's children. Franklin helped him set up a bakery in Philadelphia in 1749, but by 1759 he was secretary to the Pennsylvania Indian Commissioners, and then managed the trading post at Pittsburgh from 1761 to '65; he moved to New Jersey in around 1770 where his cousin, Governor William Franklin, helped him to the posts of justice of the peace and county clerk of Burlington and then Gloucester; he appears to have died in the same year as he signed this volume, as his wife opened a school in their house that year. 2. Franklin Davenport (17551832), the eldest son by Davenport's second marriage, was at Princeton, then trained as a lawyer and was admitted to the New Jersey state bar in 1776 with a practice in Gloucester City, and was appointed prosecutor of the pleas in 1777. Active in the New Jersey militia during the Revolutionary War, rising from private to captain by 1779 (and later a major general in 1823), he resumed the practice of law after the end of the war; served in the New Jersey general assembly; and was successively a Federalist party senator (17989) and then representative (17991801). It is not coincidental that the years of the Revolution saw a flurry of American treason trials, against those accused of collusion with the British in Davenport's home county of Gloucester alone eighteen men were convicted of high treason during the war, presumably under his watch as the county prosecutor. Wing T2255, A3759, A3760, A3755, A3767, A3748A, and A3757. Language: English.