Some considerations on the law of forfeiture, for high-treason: . occasioned
The Rt Hon. Charles Yorke (1722-1770)
Category
Books
Date
1795
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3013579
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx, 238 p. . 8vo.. Former shelfmark: Tt.9.26. - Includes a half-title [2] p. in addition to collation at Belton; and additional preliminary matter to extend the printed text to p. xxiv. Provenance: Armorial bookplate after 1754): Philip, Earl of Hardwicke. [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754; also found in Wimpole books acquired by his successors]. - Extensively annotated and augmented with inserted slips. - Includes at end a thirty-page manuscript 'Memorial by Lord Advocate of Scotland to the Attorney and Soll. General upon the cases of several claims on forfeited estates', dated at end 'June 2nd 1750', with red waxed seals. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, gold-decorated spine, falling apart; boxed.
Makers and roles
The Rt Hon. Charles Yorke (1722-1770)