OR,

A COLLECTION

OF

THE MOST INTERESTING TRIALS,

PRIOR TO THE REVOLUTION OF 1688,

REVIEWED AND ILLUSTRATED, .

BY

SAMUEL MARCH PHILLIPPS, Esq.

OF THE INNER TEMPLE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY W. WALKER, 196. STRAND.

1826.

LONDON:

Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode,

New-Street-Square.

ΤΟ

SIR JOHN RICHARDSON,

LATE ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S JUSTICES

OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS,

This Work is inscribed,

WITH EVERY SENTIMENT

OF RESPECT, ESTEEM, AND REGARD,

BY

THE AUTHOR.

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PREFACE.

THE HE following work contains a select number of the English State Trials, from an early period to the era of the Revolution. The case of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, the first in the selection, is the oldest on record, which reports the evidence in detail, or which gives any full narrative of the proceedings. There are two cases, of still more ancient date, and of some celebrity, which are here omitted; because they are chiefly composed of controversial discussions on the doctrines of the Church. One of them is the case of Lord Cobham, a warrior and martyr, in the reign of Henry the fifth; the other, that of Sir Thomas More,