The argument of the Lord Keeper Sommers, on his giving judgment in the bankers case: . deliver'd in the Exchequer-chamber, June 23, 1696.
John Somers, 1st Baron Somers of Evesham (1651 – 1716)
Category
Books
Date
1733
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3122631
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 128 p. . 4to.. Loose inside: single sheet of MS, endorsed: 'A passage out of Thuanus relating to the unalienableness of ye patrimony of ye crown of France'. Inscription on flyleaf: 'This Argument was publish'd, by Sir Joseph Jekyll Knight Master of the Rolls, from an authentic manuscript. 1733.' Old Wimpole shelfmarks: V.5.1* [brown ink]; Tt/2 [pencil]; Tt.9.18 [dark blue ink]. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: The Honble. Charles Yorke [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770, younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, gilt fillet borders. Spine gilt; label lacking.
Makers and roles
John Somers, 1st Baron Somers of Evesham (1651 – 1716)