[FINCH (Heneage, Earl of Nottingham, compiler)]. An Exact and Most Impartial Accompt of the Indictment, Arraignment, Trial, and Judgment (According to Law) of Twenty Nine Regicides, the Murtherers of His Late Sacred Majesty of Most Glorious Memory Begun at Hicks-Hall on Tuesday, the 9th of October, 1660, and Continued (at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayley) Until Friday, the Nineteenth of the Same Moneth: Together With a Summary of the Dark and Horrid Decrees of the Caballists, Preperatory to That Hellish Fact Exposed to View for the Reader's Satisfaction, and Information of Posterity. London: Printed for R. Scot, T. Basset, R. Chiswell and J. Wright, 1679.
SECOND EDITION. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (19 x 13 x 3 cm); pp.[4], 329. English text. Bound in contemporary full calf. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding secure having been neatly rebacked retaining the original boards. Interior well-preserved, some toning and inking to the endpapers. Nice armorial bookplate to front endpaper recto.
Notes: An extended account of the trial of those who precipitated the execution of King Charles I. Ten were condemned to death and hanged, drawn and quartered. Finch, a distinguished lawyer and Member of Parliament from an eminent family, held several high legal posts. He was Lord Chancellor of England from 1675 to 1682. At the time of this book's publication (first published in 1660) he was England's solicitor general. An important historical record.
