{"id":1253,"date":"2019-01-19T22:24:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T22:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/?page_id=1253"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:36:24","slug":"state-trials","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/collections\/british-and-irish\/state-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"State Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most complete edition of the State Trials is that by Cobbett and Howell. Links to the all 33 volumes on Google<\/a> were diligently compiled by Naomi Clifford, but when that site went down I scraped the links and put them below. Another set was hosted by the seemingly defunct Constitution Society, but can be found via the Wayback Machine<\/a>. Hathi Trust also has a complete set, with multiple doubles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A preceding compilation, ‘A Complete Collection of State-Trials, and Proceedings For High-Treason’, (6 volumes, 3rd edition, 1742) was also hosted by the Constitution Society, in chunked pdfs of 50 pages each, and again can be found via the Wayback Machine<\/a>. The Internet Archive has this set, with the four additional volumes<\/a>, the last published in 1766. The second edition (6 vols, 1730)<\/a> of this can be found on Hathi Trust.<\/p>\n

Lushington’s two volume selection is available in transcribed text at Project Gutenberg: [vol. 1]<\/a> [vol. 2]<\/a><\/p>\n

There was an 8 volume continuation, the State Trials New Series, that covered the period 1820 to 1853. All volumes are available through Hathi Trust<\/a>, and\u00a0Wikipedia has links to the Internet Archive’s copies<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Cobbett’s State Trials<\/h3>\n

Volume 1, 1163-1600 (1809)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 2, 1603-1627 (1809)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 3, 1627-1640 (1809)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 4, 1640-1649 (1809)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 5, 1650-1661 (1810)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 6, 1661-1678 (1810)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 7, 1678-1680 (1810)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 8, 1680-1682 (1810)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 9, 1682-1684 (1811)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 10, 1680-1685 (1811)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 11, 1680-1688 (1811)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 12, 1687-1696 (1812)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 13, 1696-1697 (1812)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 14, 1700-1708 (1812)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 15, 1710-1719 (1812)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 16, 1722-1725 (1812)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 17, 1726-1743 (1813)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 18, 1743-1753 (1813)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 19, 1753-1770 (1816)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 20, 1771-1777 (1814)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 21, 1778-1784 (1814)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 22, 1783-1794 (1817)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 23, 1793-1794 (1817)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 24, 1794 (1817)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 25, 1794-1796 (1818)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 26, 1796-1798 (1818)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 27, 1798-1800 (1818)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 28, 1802-1803 (1820)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 29, 1804-1806 (1821)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 30, 1822, 1806-1808 (1822)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 31, 1823, 1809-1813 (1823)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 32, 1817 (1824)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 33, 1817-1820 (1826)<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 34, General Index (1828)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most complete edition of the State Trials is that by Cobbett and Howell. Links to the all 33 volumes on Google were diligently compiled by Naomi Clifford, but when that site went down I scraped the links and put them below. Another set was hosted by the seemingly defunct Constitution Society, but can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":420,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1253","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1253\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}