Famous Trial of the Great Republican Advocate
Seminal Event In English Constitutional History
[Algernon Sydney] Jeffreys, Sir George:
The Arraignment, Tryal & Condemnation of Algernon Sidney, Esq; for High treason. For Conspiring the Death of the King, and Intending to Raise a Rebellion in This Kingdom. Before the Right Honourable Sir George Jeffreys, Knight and Baronet, Lord Chief Justice of England, at His Majesties Court of King-Bench at Westminster, on the 7th. 21th. and 27th. of November, 1683.
Printed for Benj Tooke at the Ship in St. Paul’s Church yard, 1684. Small folio. pp. 67. Disbound but Very Good; with Jeffrey's imprimatur leaf authorizing printing. This is the contemporary account of Sidney's famous--or infamous--trial for high treason which describes the torturous sentence of drawing and quartering. Sydney believed in a republican form of government which did not go over well during the reign of the house of Stuart. Sydney’s “guilt “was established in part on his (then) unpublished 'Discourses on Government', one of two works which Jefferson later called "the best elementary book of the principles of government."
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