The arraignment and conviction of Mervin Lord Audley, Earle of Castlehaven, (who was by 26. peers of the realm found guilty for committing rapine and sodomy) at Westminster, on Monday, April 25. 1631. By vertue of a commission of oyer and terminer, directed to Sir Thomas Coventry, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England, Lord high Steward for that day, accompanied with the judges. As also the beheading of the said Earle shortly after on Tower Hill.

People / Organizations

• Mervyn Touchet Castlehaven (Author)
• Tho: Thomas ("printed for")

Imprint

London: printed for Tho: Thomas, 1642 [i.e. 1643]

Publication year

1643-1643

ESTC No.

R20942

Grub Street ID

85651

Description

[4], 12 p. : port. (woodcut) ; 4⁰

Note

The publication year is given according to Lady Day dating.

The first leaf bears a portrait of Castlehaven and a list of the Lords present at the trial.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "January 3d".Citation/references Wing (2nd ed., 1994), A3743

Thomason, E.84[2]