The proceedings at large on the trial of George Gordon, Esq; : commonly called Lord George Gordon, for high treason, in the Court of King's Bench, Westminster; before the Right Hon. William, Earl of Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice, Edward Willes, Esq; Sir William Henry Ashurst, Knt. Sir Francis Buller, Knt. On Monday and Tuesday, February the 5th and 6th, 1781. Carefully compiled from the short-hand writing of Mr William Blanchard, and revised by the several counsel concerned..
Los Angeles County Law Library (Calif.),former owner.StEdNL
[Edinburgh]  London: : Printed for the editor: Sold by Mr Harrison, no. 2 Red Lion Court, Fleet-Street; Mr Blanchard no. 4. Dean Street, Fetter-Lane; Mr Baldwin, Pater-Noster-Row; Mr Robson, New-Bond Street; and all the booksellers in London and Westminster. Edinburgh reprinted: sold by W. Coke, Leith; and P. Anderson, bookseller, Edinburgh.,
M. DCC. LXXXI. [1781]
Price One Shilling.--bottom of title page.
The proceedings of the trial of Lord George Gordon, head of the Protestant Association, for inciting the riots in London of 1780, later known as the Gordon Riots. Gordon had led a large crowd to the Houses of Parliament to present a huge petition against (partial) Catholic Emancipation. The crowd subsequently rioted for several days, destroying several public and private buildings, and over 400 people died when the army was called in. Gordon was charged with treason, but was acquitted.
ESTC record calls for a portrait, presumably as frontispiece, but in UCLA copy there is no plate and there is no detailed record available for the copy in the library of the University of Illinois, Urbana, to verify existence of a plate.
ESTC
Bookplate and inkstamp of the "Law Library of Los Angeles County".
Gordon, George, Lord, 1751-1793
Treason
Scotland Edinburgh.
England London.