[Drop-head title:] A bill to enable Elizabeth Gomeldon, widow, and her trustees, to enter their respective claims before the Commissioners and Trustees for the Forfeited Estates.

[GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT]

Verlag: [s.n.] [1720], [London], 1720

Beschreibung

Single bifolium. 3pp, [1]. Edges uncut. Docket title to verso of second leaf. Stab-stitch holes to gutter margin, small burn-holes to text (without loss of sense). A rare survival of a Georgian bill (Private Acts, 6 Geo.I.c.14) relating to the petition of Elizabeth Gomeldon, enabling her to present her claim before the Commissioners and Trustees for the forfeited Estates to regain control of property that was felt had been unduly bequeathed to Thomas Stanley (1684-1749), a distant relative of William Stanley (d.1495), an ally of pretender Perkin Warbeck, and thus attainted by High Treason. ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (BL, NA, and NLS), and one further location in North America (Huntington). ESTC T21749. Size: Folio. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ25474

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Titel: [Drop-head title:] A bill to enable ...

Verlag: [s.n.] [1720], [London]

Erscheinungsdatum: 1720