Author: Sollom EmlynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
A Collection of State-trials and Proceedings, Upon High-treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours, from the Reign of King Edward VI. to the Present Time
Author: Sollom EmlynDefining a British State
Author: L. SteffenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230513751
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Explores the formation of the British state and national identity from 1603-1820 by examining the definitions of sovereignty and allegiance presented in treason trials. The king's person remained central to national identity and the state until republican challenges forced prosecutors in treason trials to innovate and redefine sovereign authority.
Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Present Time ...
Author: Thomas Bayly HowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Treason
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson
Author: John DickinsonPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 164453181X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
John Dickinson’s entry into public life in Delaware and Pennsylvania is a highlight of the ninety-eight documents written over four years printed in Volume Two of The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson. The volume opens with Dickinson’s legal notes as he established himself as one of the most prominent and learned lawyers in colonial British North America. His cases dealt with, among other issues, interpretation of wills, disputes over land, sailors suing for wages, a fine on a Quaker who refused military service, and a notorious murder in a prominent Philadelphia family. It concludes with Dickinson offering thoughtful advice to a young man who was considering the arduous work in becoming a lawyer. “I think,” he wrote, “those must be infinitely the most happy, whose fatigues are softend by a conscious Benevolence of mind wishing & endeavouring to [pro]mote the Happiness of others as well as their own.” Dickinson’s hard work on behalf of his clients brought him success in other areas of his public life. In October 1759, he was elected to his first public position as a representative for Kent County, Del., the following year he was elevated to the position of speaker, and in 1762, he became a representative for Philadelphia County, Pa. As a legislator in two colonies, learning his craft as a global war unfolded, he contributed to bills on military and defense, Indian relations, infrastructure improvements and city management, and served on various committees. The death of George II occasioned debates over laws and judges, in which Dickinson participated. This era concludes with Dickinson playing a central role in managing the unfolding Paxton Riots, in which frontiersmen massacred peaceful Indians and threatened the Quaker leadership of Pennsylvania. In private, Dickinson lost the two most prominent male figures in his life in 1760, his father, Samuel, and soon thereafter, his mentor, colleague, and friend, John Moland. In honor of Moland, Dickinson published a poem and became a proxy head to Moland’s large family. Though his extant correspondence during this period is small, he exchanged letters with Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, Israel Pemberton, William Allason, George Read, Thomas McKean, and others. Perhaps most significant, he wrote a lengthy, unpublished essay on the flag-of-truce trade and also maintained commonplace books as he considered his place within the British Empire, opening up the next phase in Dickinson’s life as a leader of the resistance against Britain. Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason
Author: Thomas Bayly HowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria
Author: Susan Dunn-HensleyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319632272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This book examines how early Stuart queens navigated their roles as political players and artistic patrons in a culture deeply conflicted about the legitimacy of female authority. Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria both employed powerful female archetypes such as Amazons and the Virgin Mary in court performances. Susan Dunn-Hensley analyzes how darker images of usurping, contaminating women, epitomized by the witch, often merged with these celebratory depictions. By tracing these competing representations through the Jacobean and Caroline periods, Dunn-Hensley peels back layers of misogyny from historical scholarship and points to rich new lines of inquiry. Few have written about Anna’s religious beliefs, and comparing her Catholicism with Henrietta Maria’s illuminates the ways in which both women were politically subversive. This book offers an important corrective to centuries of negative representation, and contributes to a fuller understanding of the role of queenship in the English Civil War and the fall of the Stuart monarchy.
The Office and Authority of a Justice of Peace ... To which are Added English Precedents, of Indictments, Warrants,&c. Never Before Printed ... The Eleventh Edition, Corrected, Amended and Continued Down to this Present Year, Etc
Author: William NELSON (of the Middle Temple.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Redwood Library and Athenæum, in Newport, R.I.
Author: Redwood Library and AthenaeumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1820. (etc.)
Author: Thomas Bayly HowellA Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783
Author: Thomas Bayly HowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description