London: Richard Baldwin, 1681. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Folio, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. [4], 18, 29 [1] p. First leaf blank, second work with caption title only. Sir Miles Stapleton (1628-1707), "Being charged by the informer Bolron with being concerned in the plot of Sir Thomas Gascoigne, in June 1680 he was sent from London to be tried at York. He was brought to the bar in the following month, but he challenged so many jurors that the trial was postponed. It came off on 18 July 1681, and there were three witnesses against him, viz. Bolron, Mowbray and John Smith of Walworth, Durham. Sir Miles defended himself energetically, and brought many persons to throw discredit on the testimony of the informers. The jury immediately acquitted him, but... it is very surprising that when Thomas Thwing was afterwards tried upon the same evidence, he was condemned and executed." ODNB.

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