This work offers a critical edition of original texts and documents necessary for understanding the trial’s significance. By consolidating all accounts of the trial, scholars are able to consult and compare these accounts in a readily accessible volume.

Presents critical editions of several manuscripts relating to this celebrated ‘state trial’
Demonstrates that the often cited and printed account of the trial by Jacob Tonson was incomplete and often regarded by contemporaries as a partisan production
Extensively illustrated with rare prints and drawings - most existing in only one copy and never before reproduced
Documents the intense interest of contemporary readers in the meaning of the trial and presents transcripts and illustrations of their annotations
Allow scholars to consult and compare the varying accounts of the trial in a readily accessible volume