A collection of proceedings and trials against state prisoners : as well where they have had the benefit of a legal trial, as where they have been cut off by arbitrary sentences, from the Norman conquest to this present time. Containing upwards of two hundred cases and trials not comprehended in any collection yet published. To which is added, so much of the characters of the persons accused, and the history of their times, as will discover the motives of the respective prosecutions, and the justice of the administration in each reign, as well as the various interpretations and alterations of the crown-law during this period / Being a work which gives great light into many obscure and controverted points in English history. Compiled by the editor of the four first volumes of state-trials in folio.