Article: Treason and the State: Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

D. Alan Orr. Treason and the State: Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 229. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-77102-1.

This book is about four treason trials that took place in the 1640s. Three of them are comparatively well known--those of Strafford in 1641, of Laud in 1645, and of Charles I in 1649. The fourth is that of Connor Lord Maguire in 1645. Maguire was an Irishman who was accused of plotting in 1641 to seize Dublin Castle. He was tried in England and his case raised interesting questions about the extent to which Magna Carta and other English ...

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