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Author:

Hostettler, John.

Title:

At the mercy of the state : a study in judicial tyranny / by John Hostettler.

Publisher:

Barry Rose Law Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

xvi, 185 p. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Trials--Great Britain.
Judges--Great Britain--Biography.
Criminal law--Great Britain--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-177) and index.

Contents:

Burning alive (1413) Sir John Oldcastle -- A righteous judge (1535) Sir Thomas More -- A rare acquittal (1554) Sir Nicholas Throckmorton -- The torment of a Jesuit (1581) Edmund Campion -- A man of quality (1603) Sir Walter Raleigh -- The ship-money case (1637) John Hampden -- Freeborn John (1637) John Lilburne -- Regicide (1649) King Charles I -- Tumultuous Assembly (1670) Penn and Mead -- The Protestant Joiner (1681) Stephen College - Trial of a Dissenter (1685) The Rev. Richard Baxter -- The drowning of Sarah Stout (1699) -- Whigs and Tories (1710) Dr. Sacheverell -- Levying war in the Kingdom (1710) Daniel Dammaree -- Shooting a Lord (1742) Edward Arnold -- Atrocious cruelty in prisons (1729) Huggins and Bambridge -- An Irish Patriot (1803) Robert Emmet -- Repression and revolt (1817) James Watson -- The Newport rising (1839) John Frost.

ISBN:

9781872328775
1872328776

OCLC:

(OCoLC)40244342

Locations:

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)