Famous and infamous cases
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Book
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Category
United Kingdom
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Publication Year
1950
Publisher
Pages
263 pages
Subject
United Kingdom Famous Trials
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Abstract
""Balbus murum aedificavit". That enthralling piece of information is, apart from the fact that Gaul was divided into three parts, the only recollection I possess of roman history. The fault is no doubt entirely mine although I sometimes feel that is might properly by shared in some degree by my distinguished tutors. They instructed me fully as to the precise nuber of cohorts employed by Julius Caesar in his numerous and most tiresome campaigns, and also as to the dates of the various births and deaths of a larger number of the Roman Emperor..." - Chapter 1
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Contents:
Balbus built a wall.--Bluff King Hal and the trial of Anne Boleyn.--The Tudor queens.--The trial of Sir Walter Raleigh.--The vicissitudes of the Church.--The Stuarts and the trial of Charles I.--Judge Jeffreys and the Bloody Assize.--Young blood in the days of Queen Anne.--Piracy and the trial of Captain Kidd.--Matrimonial troubles in the seventeenth century.--The doldrums of the early Hanoverians.--The divorce case of Queen Caroline.--Pictures in shorthand.--The Tichborne claimant.--Victorian days: the baccarat case and the trials of Oscar Wilde.--The gangsters of Berchtesgaden.--L'envoi.
Balbus built a wall.--Bluff King Hal and the trial of Anne Boleyn.--The Tudor queens.--The trial of Sir Walter Raleigh.--The vicissitudes of the Church.--The Stuarts and the trial of Charles I.--Judge Jeffreys and the Bloody Assize.--Young blood in the days of Queen Anne.--Piracy and the trial of Captain Kidd.--Matrimonial troubles in the seventeenth century.--The doldrums of the early Hanoverians.--The divorce case of Queen Caroline.--Pictures in shorthand.--The Tichborne claimant.--Victorian days: the baccarat case and the trials of Oscar Wilde.--The gangsters of Berchtesgaden.--L'envoi.
Biblio Notes
Includes index.
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