Celebrated Trials Connected With the Aristocracy

Written by Angle-Irish barrister, Peter Burke, this is a large volume of scandal amongst the British aristocracy which gained notoriety in the Georgian―Regency ages. Trials where victims have been killed in duels of honor, love affairs which have resulted in murder, attacks of masters upon servants, and servants upon masters are covered in detail. To spice the pot, we have notorious ladies such as Barbara Palmer and Elizabeth Chudleigh, who challenged the moral constraints of the day. Trials of clergymen-gone-astray, libertines, and wastrels share these pages with bigamists, forgers, and embezzlers and others who have thumbed their titled noses at the law and society, proving that crime often goes along with the human condition, and is not limited to the poor and ignorant among us. The book is a cross between a book of law, true crime, and an adventure-filled historical novel, but it is a factual account of some of the most notorious trials in British history. Has some added annotations for clarification.