Finch, Heneage (Earl of Nottingham)
AN EXACT AND MOST IMPARTIAL ACCOMPT OF THE INDICTMENT, ARRAIGNMENT, TRAIL AND JUDGEMENT (ACCORDING TO LAW) ...
London: John Berkenhead, 1660 1st ed. "...OF NINE AND TWENTY REGICIDES, THE MURTHERERS OF HIS LATE SACRED MAJESTY OF MOST GLORIOUS MEMORY: BEGAN AT HICKS-HALL ON TUESDAY, THE 9th OF OCTOBER, 1660 AND CONTINUED AT THE SESSIONS-HOUSE IN THE OLD-BAYLEY UNTILL FRIDAY, THE NINETEETH OF THE SAME MONETH. TOGETHER WITH A SUMMARY OF THE DARK, AND HORRID DECREES OF THOSE CABALLIFTS, PREPARATORY TO THAT HELLISH FACT. EXPOSED TO VIEW FOR THE READER'S SATISFACTION, AND INFORMATION OF POSTERITY." Please note, I have replaced "f's" with "s's" for ease of reading. The extremely uncommon first edition of the trial of the regicides in October, 1660. Ten were condemned to death and publicly hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross or Tyburn, London., very good, 3/4 19th century leather binding (hardcover), 287pp
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