H. DAYTON, No. 107 NASSAU STREET.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.: DAYTON & ASHER.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM

THE BEQUEST OF
EVERT JANSEN WENDELL

1918

J. J. REED, PRINTER & STEREOTYPER, 43 Centre Street.

PREFACE.

Sallus

THE popularity of the "Recollections of the Court Room" in England, has induced the American publishers to issue the work uniform with the series of tales known as "The Confessions of an Attorney,"

and

Experiences of a Barrister," etc.; works which have had extraordinary success. This edition is not an exact reprint of the English one; many errors, to be attributed to haste, have been corrected; much matter, of a local interest merely, has been omitted, several narratives, among which are those entitled Eugene Aram, The Force of Fear, The Unlawful Gift, etc., have been added. In addition to the fact that these tales are authentic, it is certain that their aim and tendency are good; they are pure, and they are instructive as well as interesting.

CONTENTS.

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TWO SINGULAR CASES OF ISOLATED TREASON,

FALSEHOOD FATALLY MADE USE OF BY THE INNOCENT,

A MURDER IN THE TIME OF THE CRUSADES,

MONARCHS PROSECUTING THEIR OWN SONS,

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TWO SINGULAR CASES OF ISOLATED TREASON.

A thing devised by the enemy.-Shakespeare.

MUCH to palliate, much even to defend, may be urged in
favor of the loyal traitors who supported the cause of the exiled
Stuarts. Theirs was a mistake between the rex de jure and
the rex de facto-their fidelity to one king was their only trea-
son against the other. They bore no private hate nor malice;
of their sincerity, disinterestedness, and devotion, there could
be no doubt; and even their enemies are now inclined to for-
get their errors in recalling the gallantry and heroism they
displayed. Treason, however, seldom bears so venial a shape;
and of all the species of this wicked and dangerous offence, few
are more likely to hurt a country more than the two trea-
cherous acts which form the subject of the following narrative.
The baseness of the crime was increased in the earlier of these
instances by the pecuniary views of the culprit. A melancholy
interest notwithstanding attaches to offenders who, gentlemen
in other respects, should so forget themselves in this. Pity,
too, will be felt for the latter of them, whose faithlessness to
his king was so cruelly matched by the system that was
adopted to bring him to conviction.

The men who committed these treasons were Dr. Florence
Hensey and the Rev. William Jackson. Nearly thirty years