A  collection of proceedings and trials against state prisoners
Subtitle: as well where they have had the benefit of a legal trial, as where they have been cut off by arbitrary sentences : from the Norman Conquest to the present time, containing upwards of two hundred cases and trials not comprehended in any collection yet published : to which is added, so much of the characters of the persons accused, and the history of their times, as will discover the motives of the respective prosecutions, and the justice of the administration in each reign, as well as the various interpretations and alterations of the crown-law during this period : being a work which gives great light into many obscure and controverted points in English history
By: compiled by the editor of the four first volumes of State-trials in folio.
Contributors: Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.
Publisher: Printed for J. Wilcox ...
Published: 1741
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 610
Subjects: Trials -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Proceedings against state criminals
Notes: Signatures: pi1 [A]² B-7Q² chi².

Includes index.

ESTC T149939