The Treason trials, 1794 / Alan Wharam.

Leicester : Leicester Univ Press, 1992.

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Hardy, Thomas, -- 1752-1832.

Tooke, John Horne, -- 1736-1812.

Holcroft, Thomas, -- 1745-1809.

Thelwall, John, -- 1764-1834.

Kyd, Stewart, -- -1811.

Joyce, Jeremiah, -- 1763-1816.

Baxter, John, -- 1819-1886.

Trials (Treason) -- Great Britian.

1. The background: reformers and revolutionaries

2. The new societies and The Rights of Man

3. Revolution, regicide and war

4. Seditious conspiracy

5. Over the Border

6. The Scottish martyrs

7. The road to treason

I. The Rights of Swine and the King's Head in a Basket

II. Sheffield Blades

III. Loyal Lambeth

IV. Chalk Farm and the Crown and Anchor

V. The French connection

8. The arrests

9. Rivals in law

I. Jack Scott and Bessy

II. Tom Erskine, sailor and soldier

III. Law and politics

IV. Dress rehearsal

10. The Tower

11. The trials of Watt and Downie

12. The trial of Thomas Hardy: the case for the Crown

13. The trial of Thomas Hardy: the case for the defence

14. November the fifth

15. The trial of John Horne Tooke: the case for the Crown

16. The trial of John Horne Tooke: the case for the defence

17. The end of the trial of John Horne Tooke

18. Unfinished business

19. The aftermath

I. The Cordwainer and the Hoary Traitor

II. Lord Eldon and Lord Erskine

III. Eldon, Hardy and the Great Reform Act

20. Epilogue

Appendix I: The Treason Act 1351

Appendix II: The courts and the legal profession

Appendix III: Ca Ira and La Carmagnole.

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