260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
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State Trials, Volume II (first published in 1972) contains cases concerned with witchcraft, the scandals of the prisons, and colonial administration gathered from the full edition of State Trials completed in 1826. The author has selected some of the most interesting and important trials for this volume.
The book includes a general introduction, explaining the significance of State Trials... Read more
Introduction 1. A Trial of Witches at Bury St Edmunds (1665) with an account of the Salem Witch Trials (1692) 2. The Trial of John Huggins, Warden of the Fleet Prison, for the murder of Edward Arne (1729) 3. The Trail of Thomas Picton, sometime Governor of Trinidad, for causing the torture to be inflicted upon Luisa Calderon (1806)
Biography
Donald Thomas was an academic historian of crime. He was the author of several studies of the criminal underworld as well as biographies of Robert Browning, the Marquis de Sade, Henry Fielding, and Lewis Carroll.
