25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST

The David Stather Library

 
  Lot 158
 

158

'Popish Plot' - Trials
The Tryal of William Stayley, Goldsmith; For Speaking Treasonable Words Against His Most Sacred Majesty: And upon full Evidence found Guilty on High Treason. And received Sentence accordingly, ... November the 21th, 1678,
Robert Pawlet, 1678, folio, 8, 7-10 pages, inscription to head of title page, recent cloth. ESTC R228446;
The Tryals of William Ireland, Thomas Pickering, and John Grove; for Conspiring to Murder the King: Who upon Full Evidence were found Guilty of High Treason, At the ... Old-Baily, December the 17th 1678. And received Sentence accordingly.
Robert Pawlet, 1678, folio, [4], 84 pages, 'quire' state, recent half calf. ESTC R2719;
The Tryall of Richard Langhorn Esq: Counsellor at Law: for Conspiring the Death of the King, Subversion of the Government, and Protestant Religion. .... found Guilty of High Treason, and received Sentence accordingly, .....on Saturday, ... 14th. of June 1679.
H. Hills, T. Parkhurst, J. Starkey ..., 1679, folio, [2], 41, 44-45, 44, 47-56, 59-68, [2] pages, lacking leaf P2, correction to page 19 in early hand, later half calf. ESTC R1705 variant state;
The Tryals of Sir George Wakeman, Barronet. William Marshall, William Rumley, and James Corker, Benedictine Monks. For High Treason, for Conspiring the Death of the King, Subversion of the Government, and Protestant Religion. At the ... Old-Baily, ..... 18th July 1679,
H. Hills, T. Parkhurst, J. Starkey ..., 1679, folio, [2], 84 pages (lacking first blank leaf), pages tanned with a little staining, recent cloth. ESTC R13879;
The Trial, Conviction and Condemnation of Andrew Brommich and William Atkins, for beiug [sic] Romish Priests, Before the Right Honourable ,The Lord Chief Justice Scroggs, At Summer Assizes last at Stafford held there for the County of Stafford; Where they received Sentence of Death accordingly. Together with The Tryal of Charles Kern, at Hereford Assizes last for being a Romish Priest.
Robert Pawlett, 1679, folio, 20 pages, recent cloth. ESTC R18341;
With three others. (8)

Sold for £420
Estimated at £300 - £500


 

Auction: The David Stather Library, 25th Jan, 2023

A single-owner sale of the Library of David Stather (1940-2022)

The library comprises a large collection of early books, pamphlets and manuscripts on English history, focusing on the English Civil War, the ‘Popish Plot’,  the Monmouth Rebellion and the Glorious Revolution, early Parliament and the Monarchy of that period, the development of English law, the Reformation, early bibles and prayer books, chronicles of English history and some very early books on witchcraft.

The earliest manuscript dates from 1285, and the earliest book is an incunable from 1486, however the majority date from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Interestingly, many are books that contribute to English history rather than just reporting on it, for example the collection includes books reporting the Popish Plot, which were written specifically to create social division through what is now known as ‘fake news’.

 The books have been lovingly preserved by David Stather and the auction provides a rare opportunity to purchase books from a very focused collection built up over his lifetime.

Please submit any enquiries for the sale to books@tennants-ltd.co.uk 

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