Lives Trials, Behaviour, Execution and Last Dying Words of Arthur...
Unrecorded Account of the Execution of the Cato Street Conspirators [Cato Street Conspiracy]. Thistlewood, Arthur [1774-1820], Primary Defendant. Lives Trials, Behaviour, Execution and Last Dying Words of Arthur Thistlewood, William Davidson, James Ings, John Thomas Brunt, And Richard Tidd, For High Treason. They Were Executed This Morning in Front of Newgate, And Their Heads Severed from Their Bodies. Strood: Printed by J. & T. Sweet, [1820]. 8 pp. Octavo (6-1/2" x 4-1/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in self-wrappers, thread perished, edges untrimmed, loosely resewn into recent 7" x 5" card folder with typed title to front. Woodcut vignettes to title page and foot of last page. Light toning, slight soiling in a few places, creasing along spine, a few small holes to each leaf with minor loss to legibility on pp. 5-6. Rare. $950. * Led by Arthur Thistlewood, the event known as the Cato Street Conspiracy was an attempt to murder all of the ministers, including the Prime Minister, of King George IV in 1820. Motivated in part by the economic depression of the period, the conspirators wished to avenge earlier protests suppressed by the state, such as the Paterloo Massacre. The conspirators' goal was to overthrow the government and initiate a revolution similar to the French Revolution. Betrayed by one of the co-conspirators, Thistlewood and four others were captured, tried and executed. There are many accounts of this trial, nearly all published in London. Our account, published in Strood, appears to be unrecorded. No copies located on OCLC or Library Hub.
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