Sacheverell, Henry. The state trial of Doctor Henry Sacheverell

Folger bibliographic ID: 345059
Folger call number: KD372.S23 S23545 2012
Folger holdings ID: 495905

"The celebrated trial of Doctor Henry Sacheverell in 1710 has been viewed as a classic example of the politicised 'state trial'. This work offers a critical edition of original texts and documents necessary for understanding the trial's significance. Previous historians have largely accepted the printing by Jacob Tonson of the 'authorised version' of the trial's proceedings as authoritative. This edition sets the Tonson account in its proper historical, and polemical, context by showing that it was not the only account on offer of the trial's proceedings in the early eighteenth century, and that it's authoritative status was hotly contested, particularly by Tories, but also by radical Whigs. The works collected in this edition consist of unique manuscripts, rare printed tracts, and images, most existing in only one copy and never before reproduced. By consolidating them in one volume, it is now possible for scholars to consult and compare these accounts in a readily accessible volume"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Introduction : reading the trial of Dr Sacheverell -- A brief chronology of the Sacheverell controversies -- The Osborn 'account' : Beinecke Library, MS S 13043 42 -- 'Proceedings in parliament against Dr Henry Sacheverell' : Beinecke Osborn MS C171 80 -- The Huntington tryal annotations -- Annotations to an impartial account -- Sacheverell's speech relating to the tumults -- Resistance or non-resistance -- Description of the High Court of Judicature -- Plan of the scaffold -- The case of Henry Sacheverell -- The life, character and pious deportment of Henry Sacheverell -- An alphabetical list -- Debates in the House of Lords on Sacheverell's impeachment -- Robert Walpole's manuscripts relating to the trial -- Materials relating to the Earl of Nottingham's contributions to the trial -- Ralph Bridges's correspondence with Sir William Trumbull relating to Sacheverell -- Major figures mentioned in the text

Extended title: The state trial of Doctor Henry Sacheverell / edited by Brian Cowan

Sacheverell, Henry, 1674?-1724 Trials (Impeachment) Great Britain

author: Sacheverell, Henry, 1674?-1724
subject: Sacheverell, Henry, 1674?-1724
associated with: Cowan, Brian
associated with: Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust