At the mercy of the state : a study of judicial tyranny
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1872328776
ISBN 13
9781872328775
Category
United Kingdom
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Publication Year
1998
Publisher
Pages
xvi, 185 pages
Subject
United Kingdom Famous Trials
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Abstract
"This book is the latest in what is fast becoming a comprehensive series of biographies of outstanding legal figures and historical aspects of the law by John Hostettler, uses infamous trials to trace the course of what he describes as "judicial Tyranny" from the early fifteenth century until well into the nineteenth century. The word 'infamous' is used advisedly, for although the cases selected are high points along the judicial/political road to the form of justice we have today, they will leave many a reader feeling uncomfortable and wondering how such bias, intolerance and, by modern standards, injustice, could be shown by man, to man, over such a long period." - Cover
Description
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.
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.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-177) and index.
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1
