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4 The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunket
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John Marshall
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- List of Illustrations ix
- List of Contributors xi
- Preface xv
- List of Abbreviations xvii
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Part One: What Were the State Trials?
- Introduction: The State Trials in Historical Perspective 1
- 1 State Trials and the Rule of Law under the Later Stuarts and Early Hanoverians 24
- 2 Corruption and Later Stuart State Trials 50
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Part Two: Restoration State Trials
- 3 ‘Blood will have Blood’: The Regicide Trials and the Popular Press 73
- 4 The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunket 93
- 5 Sham Plots and False Confessions: The Politics of Edward Fitzharris’s Last Words, 1681 113
- 6 Constructing Conspiracy: Reporting the Rye House Plot Trials 135
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Part Three: Revolutionary State Trials
- 7 Enforcing Uniformity: Public Reactions to the Seven Bishops’ Trial 161
- 8 Revolutionary Justice and Whig Retribution in 1689 179
- 9 Relitigating Revolution: Address, Progress, and Redress in the Long Summer of 1710 204
- 10 Politics and Sentiment in the Jacobite State Trials 224
- 11 Defeating Innuendos: The Trials of Thomas Rosewell (1684) and Daniel Isaac Eaton (1794) 247
- Index 267
- STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN CULTURAL, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY 281
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- List of Illustrations ix
- List of Contributors xi
- Preface xv
- List of Abbreviations xvii
-
Part One: What Were the State Trials?
- Introduction: The State Trials in Historical Perspective 1
- 1 State Trials and the Rule of Law under the Later Stuarts and Early Hanoverians 24
- 2 Corruption and Later Stuart State Trials 50
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Part Two: Restoration State Trials
- 3 ‘Blood will have Blood’: The Regicide Trials and the Popular Press 73
- 4 The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunket 93
- 5 Sham Plots and False Confessions: The Politics of Edward Fitzharris’s Last Words, 1681 113
- 6 Constructing Conspiracy: Reporting the Rye House Plot Trials 135
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Part Three: Revolutionary State Trials
- 7 Enforcing Uniformity: Public Reactions to the Seven Bishops’ Trial 161
- 8 Revolutionary Justice and Whig Retribution in 1689 179
- 9 Relitigating Revolution: Address, Progress, and Redress in the Long Summer of 1710 204
- 10 Politics and Sentiment in the Jacobite State Trials 224
- 11 Defeating Innuendos: The Trials of Thomas Rosewell (1684) and Daniel Isaac Eaton (1794) 247
- Index 267
- STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN CULTURAL, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY 281