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BRANDRETH, Jeremiah.
The Trials of Jeremiah Brandreth , William Turner, Isaac Ludlam, George Weightman, and others, for High Treason….
London, Butterworth and Son, 1817.
Two volumes, octavo; uncut in the original grey boards with printed paper labels; slight wear to joints but a fine copy in original condition.
Rare original record of the High Treason trials that resulted from the last of the English peasant revolts - the so-called "Brandreth Riots" or "Pentrich Revolution", an armed insurrection of workers protesting against pay and conditions in the Nottingham area. Fourteen of the "conspirators" were transported to Australia (the three ringleaders, sometimes called "The Pentrich Martyrs" - Jeremiah Brandreth, William Turner and Isaac Ludlam - were hanged and beheaded). Shelley famously lamented the judgement in An Address to the People on The Death of the Princess Charlotte: 'a calamity such as the English nation ought to mourn with an unassuageable grief…'.
Only the Mitchell and National Library copies of the book are recorded by Ferguson (Addenda, 670aaa).
Ferguson, 670aaa.
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