Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xvi

List of Abbreviations

pp xvii-xviii

Part One: - What Were the State Trials?

pp 1-2

Introduction: The State Trials in Historical Perspective

pp 3-23

1 - State Trials and the Rule of Law under the Later Stuarts and Early Hanoverians

pp 24-49

2 - Corruption and Later Stuart State Trials

pp 50-70

Part Two: - Restoration State Trials

pp 71-72

3 - ‘Blood will have Blood’: The Regicide Trials and the Popular Press

pp 73-92

4 - The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunket

pp 93-112

5 - Sham Plots and False Confessions: The Politics of Edward Fitzharris’s Last Words, 1681

pp 113-134

6 - Constructing Conspiracy: Reporting the Rye House Plot Trials

pp 135-158

Part Three: - Revolutionary State Trials

pp 159-160

7 - Enforcing Uniformity: Public Reactions to the Seven Bishops’ Trial

pp 161-178

8 - Revolutionary Justice and Whig Retribution in 1689

pp 179-203

9 - Relitigating Revolution: Address, Progress, and Redress in the Long Summer of 1710

pp 204-223

10 - Politics and Sentiment in the Jacobite State Trials

pp 224-246

11 - Defeating Innuendos: The Trials of Thomas Rosewell (1684) and Daniel Isaac Eaton (1794)

pp 247-266

Index

pp 267-280

Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History

pp 281-285