drop head title case right honourable (1 Ergebnisse)

Single sheet. Docket title to verso. Old horizontal folds, stab-stitch holes and remnants of binding to one margin. A remarkably rare survival of polemical commercial lobbying literature presenting the arguments of Richard Tylney, Viscount Castlemaine (1680-1750) regarding litigation against Thomas Juson, Rector of Wanstead, Essex, whom he accuses of the 'violent' destruction of a hedgerow on his property and carrying away several parcels of wood. The case was brought before the House, who found Juson to be in Breach of Privilege. ESTC records a single copy in North America (Huntington), and none elsewhere. ESTC N504918. Size: Dimensions 200 x 310 mm.