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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