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- Conspiracy on Cato Street
- Conspiracy on Cato Street
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Illustrations and Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Timeline
- A Note on the Text
- Part One The Simple Tale
- Part Two Taking Its Measure
- Part Three Thistlewood: His Story
- Part Four Ordinary Britons
- Part Five The Executions
- Chapter 16 Trials and Verdicts
- Chapter 17 May Day at Newgate
- Chapter 18 Epilogue: Géricault Goes to Cato Street
- The People Listed
- Historiographical Note
- Trial Reports
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 16 - Trials and Verdicts
from Part Five - The Executions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 April 2022
- Conspiracy on Cato Street
- Conspiracy on Cato Street
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Illustrations and Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Timeline
- A Note on the Text
- Part One The Simple Tale
- Part Two Taking Its Measure
- Part Three Thistlewood: His Story
- Part Four Ordinary Britons
- Part Five The Executions
- Chapter 16 Trials and Verdicts
- Chapter 17 May Day at Newgate
- Chapter 18 Epilogue: Géricault Goes to Cato Street
- The People Listed
- Historiographical Note
- Trial Reports
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The trials on 17-27 April, sentences on 28 April, and executions on Monday, 1 May counted among the greatest public sensations of the era. Adolphus’s brilliant defence rested on the conspiracy’s absurdity and the crown’s dependence on the evidence of the unreliable turncoat, Adams.Chief justice Abbott, an unlovely enemy of radicals, advised the jury to deliver guilty verdicts, which they did.Abbott then ordered eleven conspirators to be executed as traitors.Five, however, were shown ‘mercy’ and transported, and one had his sentence respited.Adolphus asked them all to write in their own hands memento passages for him to distribute to his cabinet friend in facsimile.
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- Conspiracy on Cato StreetA Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London, pp. 343 - 364Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022