D Alan Orr.

D Alan Orr. Treason and the State: Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War. (Cambridge Studies in Early recent British History.) New York: Cambridge University Pres 2002 Pp xii, 229 $5500 ISBN 0-521-77102-1

This work is about four treason trials that took place in the 1640 Three of them are comparatively well known--those of Strafford in 1641 of Laud in 1645 and of Charles I in 1649 The fourth is that of Connor Lord Maguire in 1645 Maguire was an Irishman who was accused of plotting in 1641 to seize Dublin Castle. He was tried in England and his case

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