Item C/1 - Causes célèbres

Album containing cuttings relating to cause célèbres of the early and mid seventeenth century. These include: Caroline of Brunswick's claim to the title of Queen Consort and the Cato Street conspiracy, both of 1820; the Davidson and Gordon fraud of 1858-1859; various trials and executions, such as those of the forger Henry Fauntleroy and the murderer John Thurtell. The case of William Dove, a Leeds man hanged for poisoning his wife in 1856, aroused much interest in the Milnes family due to the murderer's local connections.