Seven letters to the lords and commons of Great Britain, upon the impolicy, inhumanity, and injustice, of our present mode of arresting the bodies of debtors : Shewing the inconsistency of it, with Magna Carta and a free constitution: with observations on the draging of debtors to Sponging-Houses, and to prisons in the first instance, before the debt is proved, upon the bare affidavit of the vilest character: and likewise some remarks on the fatal effects of such proceedings, on the circumstances and morals of individuals. The whole illustrated by a variety of cases, taken from real life. By Josiah Dornford, Esq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dornford, Josiah, 1764-1797.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Debt, Imprisonment for--Great Britain.

Debt, Imprisonment for.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages,iv,3-78 pages ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by J. Andrews, Little Eastcheap; and sold by J. Bew, No. 22, Paternoster Row; W. Richardson, Royal Exchange; and No. 14, Philpot-Lane, [1786]

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

With a half-title.

Price in square brackets: Where may be had, the author's nine letters to the lord mayor and aldermen, on the state of the prisons; his letters on the police; and other tracts. (Price 1s. 6d.)

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T7866.

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