Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The question stated, whether the freeholders of Middlesex lost their right, by voting for Mr. Wilkes at the last election? / in a letter from a member of Parliament to one of his constituents.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1872
Identifier
ark:/88435/dctq57p227r
Publisher
London : Printed for G. Woodfall ... and Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart ..., [1769]
Language
English
Date Created
1769
Extent
[5], 10-72 p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC T46216
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
"First edition of Sir William Meredith's anonymous pamphlet. It concerns the controversy whether John Wilkes had a right to sit as a member of Parliament; Meredith charges that Sir William Blackstone's parliamentary debates were inconsistent with what he had advanced on the subject in his Commentaries"--Eller, C.S. The William Blackstone Collection in the Yale Law Library, 1938, p. 110
Imprint date from ESTC.
With a half title.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Recent marbled boards.

Discovery Information

Subject
Blackstone, William 1723-1780
Wilkes, John 1725-1797
Great Britain Parliament—Contested elections
Contested elections—England—Middlesex
Suffrage—England

Physical Characteristics

File Count
78

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fa01a665-f241-4b76-b5bb-c898a3cd06c6/manifest