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Item #75975 The Trial of the Rev Thomas Fyshe Palmer, Before the Circuit Court. Trial, Thomas Fyshe Palmer, Defendant.

The Trial of the Rev Thomas Fyshe Palmer, Before the Circuit Court...

The Trial of a "Scottish Martyr" [Trial]. Palmer, Thomas Fyshe [1747-1802], Defendant. The Trial of the Rev. Thomas Fyshe Palmer, Before the Circuit Court of Justiciary, Held at Perth, On the 12th and 13th September, 1793, On an Indictment for Seditious Practices. Taken in Court by Mr. Ramsey, An Eminent Short-Hand Writer from London. With an Appendix. Edinburgh: Printed for W. Skirving, [1793]. 195, [1] pp. Lacking portrait frontispiece. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Moderate toning, light soiling and a few faint stains to exterior, light foxing to a few leaves, clean tear to leaf O3 (pp. 109-110) affecting text without loss to legibility. $125. * Only edition. Palmer, an English minister and political reformer active in Scotland, was convicted of sedition in 1793 for circulating a radical address to the public. Along with six other men, referred to as the "Scottish Martyrs to Liberty," he was sentenced to seven years' transportation to Botany Bay. English Short-Title Catalogue T93757.

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