Download or read book A Selection of Cases From the State Trials, Vol. 2 written by John William Bund Willis-Bund and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Selection of Cases From the State Trials, Vol. 2: Trials for Treason (1660 1678) This volume brings the Trials for Treason down to the end of the Popish Plot and the dismissal of Chief Justice Scroggs. The trials have been given with very little abbreviation; this has considerably swollen the size of the volume; but having regard to the views put forward in the introduction as to the legality and fairness of the trials - a view so totally opposed to the one usually accepted - it would be most unfair to omit the observations of the Judges during the progress of the trials. As no person can get a fair idea of these trials without reading them at length, it was thought better, even at the risk of increasing the bulk of the book, to give the trials as fully as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.