OF

State Trials

AND

AND
PROCEEDINGS FOR HIGH TREASON AND OTHER

CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS

FROM THE

EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE YEAR 1783,

WITH NOTES AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS:

COMPILED BY

T. B. HOWELL, Esq. F.R.S. F.S.A.

INCLUDING,
IN ADDITION TO THE WHOLE OF THE MATTER CONTAINED IN THE

FOLIO EDITION OF HARGRAVE,
UPWARDS OF TWO HUNDRED CASES NEVER BEFORE COLLECTED;

TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED

A TABLE OF PARALLEL REFERENCE,
RENDERING THIS EDITION APPLICABLE TO THOSE BOOKS OF AUTHORITY IN

WHICH REFERENCES ARE MADE TO THE FOLIO EDITION.

IN TWENTY-ONE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.
9 HEN. II. TO 43 ELIZ....... 1163-1600.

LONDON:

Printed by T. C. Hansard, Peterborough-Court, Fleet-Street :
FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN; J. M. RICHARDSON ;

BLACK, PARBURY, AND ALLEN; BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY;
E. JEFFERY; J. HATCHARD; R. H. EVANS; J. BOOKER; E. LLOYD;
J. BOOTH; BUDD AND CALKIN; AND T. C. HANSARD.

1816.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TO

VOLUME I.

PREFACES TO FORMER EDITIONS OF THE STATE TRIALS; xvi)

Mr. Salmon's Preface to the First Edition of the State Trials, in four

Volumes folio: printed in the Year 1719 - - - -

Mr. Salmon's Preface to the Case of Ship Money, which was printed in

a separate Volume, by way of Supplement to the First Edition -

Mr. Emlyn's Preface to the Second Edition of the State Trials, in six

Volumes folio: printed in the Year 1730 - ... -

Preface to the Seventh and Eighth Volumes of the State Trials: printed

in the Year 1735 - - - -

Preface to the Ninth and Tenth Volumes of the State Trials: printed

in the Year 1766 - - - - - ; - -

Mr. HARGRAVE's Preface to the Fourth Edition of the State Trials, in

Ten Volumés folio: printed in the Year 1775 - - -

Mr. HARGRAVE's Preface to the Eleventh (or Supplemental) Volume of

the Fourth Edition of the State Trials : printed in the Year 1781

STATE TRIALS IN THE REIGN OF

HENRY THE SECOND.

** The new Matter is marked (N.]

1. Proceedings against THOMAS BECKET, Archbishop of CANTERBURY,

for High Treason, (N.)- - - - - - - - -

HENRY THE THIRD.

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2. Articles of Accusation against HUBERT DE BURGH, with the Answers of

Master Laurence, Clerk of St. Alban's, on behalf of Hubert de Burgh,

earl of Kent, [N.] -

- -

13

EDWARD THE FIRST.'

3. Proceedings against PIERS GAVESTON (N.) - -

23

EDWARD THE SECOND.

4. Proceedings against HUGH and HUGH LE DESPENSER, (N.),

5. Proceedings against ADAM DE ORLETON, Bishop of HEREFORD, for

Treason, (N.] • - - - - - - - -

6. Proceedings against THOMAS Earl of LANCASTER, for Treason, (N.) -

7. Proceedings against King EDWARD THE SECOND, [N.] - -

EDWARD THE THIRD.

8. Impeachment of ROGER MORTIMER, Earl of MARCH, for Treason, [N.] 51

9. Proceedings against THOMAS DE BERKELE, for the Murder of King

Edward the Second, (N.) - - - - - - - - 55

10. Proceedings against JOHN STRATFORD, Archbishop of CANTERBURY,

for Treason, (N.] - - - - - - - - - - 57

11. Proceedings against JOHN WICKLIFFE, for Heresy, [N.] - ..

RICHARD THE SECOND.

12. Proceedings in Parliament against ALEXANDER NEVIL, Archbishop of

YORK, ROBERT VERE, Duke of IRELAND, MICHAEL DE LA

POLE, Earl of SUFFOLK, ROBERT TRESILIAN, Lord Chief Justice

of England, and NICHOLAS BRAMBRE, some time Mayor of London,

and Others, for High Treason - - - - - - - 89

13. Impeachment of THOMAS FITZ-ALAN, Archbishop of CANTERBURY,

of High Treason, [N.] - - - - - - : : 123
Page

14. Impeachment of THOMAS Duke of GLOUCESTER, RICHARD Earl of

ARUNDEL, THOMAS Earl of WARWICK, THOMAS MORTIMER,

and Sir JOHN COBHAM, knight, of High Treason (N.) - - -

125

HENRY THE FOURTH.

15. Articles of Accusation against RICHARD THE SECOND, King of Eng-

land, [N.] - - - - ... - - - - - - 135 .

16. Proceedings against JOHN HALL, for the Murder of Thomas Duke of

Gloucester, (N.) -- - - - - - - - - - 161.

17. Proceedings against WILLIAM SAUTRE, for Heresy, (N.) - - - 163

18. Trial and Examination of MASTER WILLIAM THORPE, Preste, for Here-

sye, before Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury: Written by

Himself - - - - - - - - - - - 175

19. Proceedings against JOHN BADBY, for Heresy, [N.] - .- - • 219

HENRY THE FIFTH.

20. Trial and Examination of Sir JOHN OLDCASTLE, LORD COBHAM, for

Heresy, before the Archbishop of Canterbury : Collected by John Bale

225

HENRY THE SIXTH.

21. Proceedings, upon an ex post facto Act, against Sir JOHN MORTIMER,

for making his Escape from Prison, [N.] - - -, - - - 267,

22. Proceedings against HENRY BEAUFORT *, Bishop of WINCHESTER,

for High Treason, [N.] - - • - - - - - - 268

23. Proceedings against WILLIAM DE LA POLE, Duke of SUFFOLK, for

High Treason, [N] - -

. . . . . 271

EDWARD THE FOURTH.

24. Proceedings against GEORGE Duke of CLARENCE, Brother to King Ed-

ward the Fourth, for Treason, (N.] - - - - - -

275