Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. List of Contributors xi
5. Preface xv
6. List of Abbreviations xvii
7. Part One: What Were the State Trials?
8. Introduction: The State Trials in Historical Perspective 1
9. 1 State Trials and the Rule of Law under the Later Stuarts and Early Hanoverians 24
10. 2 Corruption and Later Stuart State Trials 50
11. Part Two: Restoration State Trials
12. 3 ‘Blood will have Blood’: The Regicide Trials and the Popular Press 73
13. 4 The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunket 93
14. 5 Sham Plots and False Confessions: The Politics of Edward Fitzharris’s Last Words, 1681 113
15. 6 Constructing Conspiracy: Reporting the Rye House Plot Trials 135
16. Part Three: Revolutionary State Trials
17. 7 Enforcing Uniformity: Public Reactions to the Seven Bishops’ Trial 161
18. 8 Revolutionary Justice and Whig Retribution in 1689 179
19. 9 Relitigating Revolution: Address, Progress, and Redress in the Long Summer of 1710 204
20. 10 Politics and Sentiment in the Jacobite State Trials 224
21. 11 Defeating Innuendos: The Trials of Thomas Rosewell (1684) and Daniel Isaac Eaton (1794) 247
22. Index 267
23. STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN CULTURAL, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY 281