The Arraignment, Tryal and Condemnation of Stephen Colledge..

1681. 7/17/24-we have only copy on net, 80630. $450.. 7/17/24-we have only copy on net, 80630. $450. The Politicized Trial of "The Protestant Joiner" [Trial]. College (Colledge), Stephen [c.1635-1681]. The Arraignment, Tryal and Condemnation of Stephen Colledge for High-Treason, In Conspiring the Death of the King, The Levying of War, And the Subversion of the Government. Before the Right Honourable Sr. Francis North, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common-Pleas, And Other Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery Held at the City of Oxon for the County of Oxon, The 17th and 18th of August 1681. London: Printed for Thomas Bassett at the George in Fleetstreet, And John Fish Near the Golden Tun in the Strand, 1681. [vi], 30, 27-62, 69-84, 79-102 pp. Pagination irregular. With imprimatur leaf. Folio (12-1/4" x 7-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into recent paper-covered boards, pebbled-cloth spine with calf lettering piece, endpapers renewed. Light browning to interior, light soiling to title page and verso of final leaf, minor worming near foot of gutter of first half of text block, chipping to corners of several leaves, notable chipping to edges of title page, following leaf, and final leaf of text, corrections to page numbers in recent penciled hand to several leaves. $450. * Only edition. College, sometimes spelled Colledge, was a fervent Protestant propagandist and printmaker. He was known as the "Protestant Joiner," a reference to his original trade, fine carpentry. When Parliament moved to Oxford, in March 1681, College went there on horseback, armed and wearing armor, and advocated Parliament's resistance to the absolutist tendencies and Catholic sympathies of King Charles II. His willingness to incite violence led to his arrest on invented charges of sedition. Convicted a few weeks later, he was hanged, drawn and quartered. English Short-Title Catalogue R015865. (Inventory #: 80948)