The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio by the king's attorney-general against Thomas Paine : for a libel upon the revolution and settlement of the crown and regal government as by law established : and also upon the bill of rights, the legislature, government, laws, and parliament of this kingdom, and upon the king : tried by a special jury in the court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Tuesday, the 18th of December, 1792, before the Right Honourable Lord Kenyon
Pages [1]-[4] at end: publisher's advertisements ("The following trials are published from Mr. Gurney's short-hand notes").
Erratum on page 196.
Handwritten contents on front flyleaf.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 606 as assigned by Yeates.
English short title catalogue,
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time,
Summary
First edition of this work on the proceedings directed against the second part of Rights of man. The speeches of the attorney-general (Sir Archibald Macdonald) and of Mr. Erskine, counsel for the defendant, are given in full.
Typis Guil. Bowyer, impensis J. Walthoe, G. Conyers, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. & B. Sprint, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth, B. Lintot, J. Tonson, R. Gosling, W. & J. Innys, J. Osborn & T. Longman, R. Robinson, T. Woodward, F. Clay, B. Motte, A. Ward, T. Wotton, & executorum Richardi Sare,
Date of Publication
MDCCXXVI. [1726]
Physical Description
3 v. in 6 pts. : ill., port. ; 40 cm (fol.)
Notes
Each vol. in 2 pts.
Vol. 2 imprint statement begins: Londini : Typis S. Palmer, impensis J. Walthoe ...
Vol. 3 imprint statement begins: London : Printed by T. Wood for J. Walthoe ...
Tail-pieces.
Part of vol. 1 printed in red and black.
Includes indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 720 as assigned by Yeates.
Book plate of Bowater Vernon of Hanbury Hall in the Counder of Worester. on back of title pages of vol. 1.
ESTC,
Contents
Vol. 1. De anno civili veteris ecclesiae, seu Reipublicae Judaicae, dissertatio. De jure naturali & gentium juxta disciplinam Ebraeorum. De synedriis & praefecturis juridicis veterum ebraeorum -- v. 2. De successionibus in bona defunctorum & de successionibus in pontificatum Ebraeorum. De diis Syris. Eutychii ecclesiae suae origines. Uxor Ebraica. Analecta Anglo-Britannica. Janus Anglorum. Dissertatio ad Fletam. Judicium de decem scriptoribus Anglicanis. Mare clausum. Vindiciae de scriptione maris clausi. Marmora Arundelliana. Notae in eadmerum. Epistolae & poemata -- v. 3. England's Epinomis. Original of duels. Titles of honour. History of tythes, with the answers to Sempill, Tilseley, and a letter to the Marquis of Buckingham. Of the passage touching the number 666. Of Calvin's judgment on the Revelations. Of the birth-day of our Savior. Of his purpose and end in writing the History of tythes. Of the Jews sometimes living in England. Discourse of the office of Lord Chancellor. Privilege of the baronage of England. Judicature in Parliament. Of the original of ecclesiastical jurisdiction of testaments. Letter to Mr. August. Vincent, rouge-croix, concerning his discovery of errors. Arguments concerning the baronies of Grey and Ruthen. Notes upon Drayton's Polyolbion, Fortescue de laudibus, etc. and Hengham's summa, &c. Speeches in the House of Lords and Commons. Table talk.
