Book #86064
In Peril Before Parliament. First edition.
Marsden, Philip, [1916-1984]. In Peril Before Parliament. London: Barrie and Rockcliff, [1965]. First edition. xv, 270 pp. Publisher's burgundy cloth very good, in moderately worn dust jacket. Internally clean. A very good copy. $45. * This book examines accounts of nine trials in which the English Parliament served as a court (as opposed to a legislature) including those of King Charles I (1649) for treason, Lord Lovat (1746) for treason following the Jacobite rising, Queen Caroline (1820) for adultery and Lord Russell (1901) for bigamy.
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