THE TRIAL OF WILLIAM STONE FOR HIGH TREASON at the Bar of the Court of King?s bench on Thursday the twenty-eighth, and Friday the twenty-ninth of January, 1796. Presided over By Chief Justice Lord Kenyon, William Stone accused of being a French Spy during The French Revolution. Taken in short-hand, by Joseph Gurney. 1796 THE PERSONAL COPY OF LORD KENYON WHO WAS THE CHIEF JUSTICE AT THE TRIAL OF WILLIAM STONE HELD AT THE OLD BAILEY CENTRAL CRIMINAL LAW COURT IN LONDON

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Published in London in 1796, this is the transcript of the trial of William Stone who was accused of being a French Spy during The French Revolution. During the French Revolution, when paranoia gripped the British government that something similar could erupt here, those radicals identified as sympathetic to the revolutionary ideals were marked out for surveillance. Their meetings were infiltrated by spies, harassed, banned from pubs; they were arrested and a number were tried for treason. William Stone was a Unitarian radical accused of being a French agent. He was tried at the Old Bailey, after nearly two years? incarceration, on January 28 and 29, 1796, for ?treacherously conspiring with his brother, John Hurford Stone, then in revolutionary France, to destroy the life of the King and to raise a rebellion in his realms.? William Stone?s brother, John Hurford Stone, was said to have been present at the 1789 storming of the Bastille. He and William worked with their uncle, a coal merchant. John Stone was considered very clever and cultured, and had advanced far beyond the Unitarian doctrines of his family. He joined Dr. Richard Price?s radical congregation in London. In October 1790. His trial at the Old Bailey was presided over by Chief Justice Lord Kenyon, this book is Lord Kenyon?s own personal copy with his name in ink to the title page, the book coming from The Estate of Lord Kenyon, Gredington. Bound in the original boards with paper spine title label, pages untrimmed, many remain uncut along top edge, some rubbing wear to binding, moisture stain to spine that does not affect the contents, endpapers browned, some light browning within else in good general condition. THE PERSONAL COPY OF LORD KENYON WHO WAS THE CHIEF JUSTICE FOR THE TRIAL OF WILLIAM STONE AT THE OLD BAILEY. N° de ref. del artículo 002437

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