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STEUART, A. Francis, Editor THE DOUGLAS CAUSE.
Edinburgh William Hodge 1909 1st hardcover VG no jacket
247pp+illus. VG in green cloth with gilt titles, top-edge-gilt. Covers are just very slightly rubbed at edges. Foxing to fore-edge, endpapers and scattered to some pages. One of the scarcest trials in the Hodge series, this edition was the only one published and the trial did not go forward into the later Notable British Trials series. Probably the greatest civil trial affecting 'status' in Scottish law and no trial of its time created so great a sensation or aroused so much popular feeling. The Cause arose on the death, without issue, on 21st July 1761, of Archibald, Duke of Douglas and the efforts to prove the lawful heir lasted in all for eight years, eventually reaching the House of Lords.
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125.00 GBP
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STEUART, A. Francis, Editor TRIAL OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
William Hodge, Edinburgh. Notable British Trials. 1923 1st Edition Hardcover VG No Dj
206pp+illus. Red cloth with gilt titles. Ex-private College Library, small ink stamps and numbers to endpaper. Small mark to spine where label neatly removed. Bookplate inside cover. Couple of page edges little chipped but not affecting text. The first trial of a crowned and accredited sovereign, Mary was tried for alleged complicity in the Babington Plot that was designed to free her and kill Queen Elizabeth of England. Mary had in fact been entrapped into the plot by Elizabeth's faithful supporter, Walsingham, after she had been held prisoner for 18 years. The state trial, legal processes and a rare account of the Queen's last miseries that she bore with great dignity.
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25.00 GBP
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