The State Trial of Doctor Henry Sacheverell

This work offers a critical edition of original texts and documents necessary for understanding the trial's significance. By consolidating all accounts of the trial, scholars are able to consult and compare these accounts in a readily accessible volume. Presents critical editions of several manuscripts relating to this celebrated 'state trial' Demonstrates that the often cited and printed account of the trial by Jacob Tonson was incomplete and often regarded by contemporaries as a partisan production Extensively illustrated with rare prints and drawings - most existing in only one copy and never before reproduced Documents the intense interest of contemporary readers in the meaning of the trial and presents transcripts and illustrations of their annotations Allow scholars to consult and compare the varying accounts of the trial in a readily accessible volume

Brian Cowan holds the Canada Research Chair in Early Modern British History at McGill University in Montreal. He has written extensively on the history of the public sphere in early modern Britain, including his prize-winning monograph, The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse (2005). He edits the Journal of the British of Studies, with his colleague Elizabeth Elbourne, for the North American Conference on British Studies. This volume is the first publication resulting from his continuing research on the media politics surrounding the 1710 trial of Doctor Henry Sacheverell.

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Acknowledgments

Note on Style and Conventions

Abbreviations/Contractions

Chapter 1. Introduction: Reading the Trial of Dr Sacheverell

Chapter 2. A Brief Chronology of the Sacheverell Controversies

Chapter 3. The Osborn ‘Account’: Beinecke Library, MS S 13043

Chapter 4. ‘Proceedings in Parliament against Dr Henry Sacheverell’: Beinecke Osborn MS C171

Chapter 5. The Huntington Tryal Annotations

Chapter 6. Annotations to an Impartial Account

Chapter 7. Sacheverell’s Speech Relating to the Tumults

Chapter 8. Resistance or Non-resistance

Chapter 9. Description of the High Court of Judicature

Chapter 10. Plan of the Scaffold

Chapter 11. The Case of Henry Sacheverell

Chapter 12. The Life, Character and Pious Deportment of Henry Sacheverell

Chapter 13. An Alphabetical List

Chapter 14. Debates in the House of Lords on Sacheverell’s Impeachment

Chapter 15. Robert Walpole’s Manuscripts Relating to the Trial

Chapter 16. Materials Relating to the Earl of Nottingham’s Contributions to the Trial

Chapter 17. Ralph Bridges’ Correspondence with Sir William Trumbull Relating to Sacheverell

Chapter 18. Major Figures Mentioned in the Text

Index

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The State Trial of Doctor Henry Sacheverell

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