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Chapter 16 - Trials and Verdicts

from Part Five - The Executions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2022

Vic Gatrell
Vic Gatrell
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The trials on 17-27 April, sentences on 28 April, and executions on Monday, 1 May counted among the greatest public sensations of the era. Adolphus’s brilliant defence rested on the conspiracy’s absurdity and the crown’s dependence on the evidence of the unreliable turncoat, Adams.Chief justice Abbott, an unlovely enemy of radicals, advised the jury to deliver guilty verdicts, which they did.Abbott then ordered eleven conspirators to be executed as traitors.Five, however, were shown ‘mercy’ and transported, and one had his sentence respited.Adolphus asked them all to write in their own hands memento passages for him to distribute to his cabinet friend in facsimile.

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public interestAdolphusdefenceverdictsjustice Abbottautographsmementossentences
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Conspiracy on Cato Street
A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London
 , pp. 343 - 364
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Trials and Verdicts
  • Vic Gatrell, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Conspiracy on Cato Street
  • Online publication: 06 April 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974981.017
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  • Trials and Verdicts
  • Vic Gatrell, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Conspiracy on Cato Street
  • Online publication: 06 April 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974981.017
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