The trial at large of the Rev. Richard Burgh and four others
Subtitle: who on the 26th of November, 1792, in the Court of King's-Bench were convicted by a special jury of a conspiracy in the King's Bench prison, in uniting to effect their own escape of the other prisoners, by introducing a wooden box and many pounds weight of gunpowder for the purpose of blowing up the walls of the said prison
Series: Making of modern law
Publisher: Printed for H.D. Symonds
Published: 1792
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Trials (Conspiracy); Early works to 1800
Other titles: Trial at Bar
Notes: "This interesting trial contains all the arguments of counsel, as also a full narrative of the evidence, in which the whole of the diabolical plan of the conspirators their intention to liberate the prisoners in the different gaols and afterwards to set fire to them and then to proceed to demolish and plunder the House of Lords Thurlow and Kenyon, &c., and to destroy some of the highest and most venerable magistrates iu this kingdom, is unravelled and clearly brought to light, the whole concludes with the charge of the Lord Chief Justice to the jury, in which it is observed that if this gunpowder plot had been carried into execution it would have involved high treason and murder."

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