Clune, Frank

The Scottish Martyrs: Their Trials and Transportation to Botany Bay

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1969. 8vo, cl bds, d.j., b&w plates, illus endpapers. D.j very worn and marked, endpapers lightly foxed but o/w good.

The Scottish Martyrs advocated parliamentary reform and universal suffrage at a time when the French Revolution had brought such doctrines into disfavour with the authorities, and after biased trials were transported to NSW. Clune has depicted not only these memorable and often entertaining characters and their doings, but also their period and their world. Item #86473

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