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Title: State Trials, Political and Social
Volume 1 (of 2)
Author: Various
Editor: Harry Lushington Stephen
Release Date: December 13, 2008 [EBook #27515]
Language: English
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STATE TRIALS
_All rights reserved_
[Illustration: W Ralegh.]
STATE TRIALS
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL
SELECTED AND EDITED
BY H. L. STEPHEN
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I
[Illustration]
LONDON
DUCKWORTH AND CO.
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1899
Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to Her Majesty
CONTENTS
PAGE
INTRODUCTION, vii
SIR WALTER RALEIGH, 1
CHARLES I., 75
THE REGICIDES, 123
COLONEL TURNER AND OTHERS, 169
THE SUFFOLK WITCHES, 211
ALICE LISLE, 239
_The portraits of_ SIR WALTER RALEIGH _and_ LORD RUSSELL _are taken from
photographs of pictures in the National Portrait Gallery, by permission
of_ Messrs. WALKER and BOUTALL.
To G. DE L'E. D.
DEAR GERALD,--As you suggested the idea of this book to me, and as I
know that whether it succeeds or fails I can count confidently on your
sympathy, I will throw into the form of a letter to you the few remarks
which I might otherwise put into a preface. For as I have confessions to
make which amount almost to an apology, I had rather address them to one
who is pledged to express the most favourable possible view of my
literary efforts, such as they are, than to that hypothetical reader, of
whose tastes I feel most shamefully ignorant, though I am ready to
assume everything in his favour.
Far abler writers than I have frequently dilated on the charms attending
a study
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