Dangerfield elizabeth (5 risultati)

paperback. Condizione: Like New. First Edition. In nearly new condition: firm and square with strong joints, no creases. Just a few hardly noticeable cosmetic rubs. Hence a non-text page shows a small 'damaged' stamp. Despite such this book looks and feels unread. Thus the contents are crisp, fresh and tight. And so a very nice book in great condition, now offered for sale at a reasonable price.…

Condizione: Very Good. The books cover is in very good condition with minor shelf ware such as scuffs and scratches, otherwise the content is in very good condition.

Condizione: Fine.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. 20 p. ; folio Begins page 1 hence no title page. "Dangerfield was born about 1650 at Waltham Abbey, Essex, the son of a farmer. At the age of 12 around 1662, he ran away from home to London, and never returned to his home.He began his career by robbing his father, and, after a rambling life, took to coining false money, for which offence and others he was many times imprisoned: it was later said that to describe his career one need simply copy out a list of every major crime in English law. [1]False to everyone, he first tried to involve James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth and others by concocting information about a Presbyterian plot against the throne, and this having been proved a lie, he pretended to have discovered a Catholic plot against Charles II. This was known as the Mealtub Plot, from the place where the incriminating documents were hidden at his suggestion, and found by the king's officers by his information.[2]Mrs Elizabeth Cellier, in whose house the tub was, almoner to the Countess of Powis, who had befriended Dangerfield when he posed as a Catholic, was, with her patroness, actually tried for high treason and acquitted (1680). [3]For a time Dangerfield was used as a secondary witness in the Popish Plot trials to supplement the evidence of Titus Oates and William Bedloe, but his character was so unsavoury, even compared to the other informers, that Chief Justice William Scroggs finally told juries to disregard the evidence of "so notorious a villain". [4] Dangerfield, when examined at the bar of the House of Commons, made other charges against prominent Roman Catholics, and attempted to defend his character by publishing, among other pamphlets, Dangerfield's Narrative.This led to his trial for libel, (Kenyon notes that he could not be tried for perjury as no-one had ever believed his evidence)[5] and on 20 June 1685 he received sentence to stand in the pillory on two consecutive days, be whipped from Aldgate to Newgate, and two days later from Newgate to Tyburn.[6] On his way back he got into an argument with a barrister, Robert Francis, who struck him in the eye with his cane; the cane seems to have entered the brain, and Dangerfield died shortly afterwards from the blow.[7] Francis was tried and executed for murder.[8] While several witnesses testified that he had deliberately stabbed at Dangerfield's eye,[9] the verdict came as something of a surprise to the public, the popular view being that the death "could hardly have been even called manslaughter". King James II was solicited for a royal pardon, but, despite his utter contempt for Dangerfield, decided that it would be wrong to let the crime go unpunished.[10]. Book.…