The trial of Lawrence Earl Ferrers, for the murder of John Johnson : before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in Westminster-Hall, in full Parliament, on Wednesday the 16th, Thursday the 17th, and Friday the 18th of April, 1760 : on the last of which days, judgment for murder was given against him / published by order of the House of Peers.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Ferrers, Laurence Shirley, Earl, 1720-1760.

Contributor:

Billingsley, Samuel, bookseller.

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ferrers, Laurence Shirley, Earl, 1720-1760--Trials, litigation, etc--Early works to 1800.

Ferrers, Laurence Shirley.

Ferrers, Laurence Shirley, Earl, 1720-1760.

Trials (Murder)--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Trials (Murder).

Great Britain.

Genre:

Trials, litigation, etc.

Trial and arbitral proceedings.

Penn Provenance:

Orrery, John Boyle, Earl of, 1707-1762 (autograph) (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Paget, Almeric H. (Almeric Hugh) (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Diamond, Bernard L. (Bernard Lee), 1912- (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 55 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 35 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

e.d, isn, e?o? DoMr (3) 1760 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Samuel Billingsley ..., MDCCLX [1760]

Notes:

Signatures: pi² A-O².

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

RBC copy bound with: An account of the execution of the late Laurence Earl Ferrers, Viscount Tamworth. London : Sold by M. Cooper ..., MDCCLX [1760]

RBC copy has ms. shelf-mark ("C c 9-10") in red pencil on front pastedown; ms. shelf-mark ("P. shelf. 5.") in brown ink on front free endpaper; modern ms. notes in pencil on back pastedown.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2016 from Meyer Boswell Books, Inc.

RBC copy has ms. inscription ("Corke. Given to me at the H. of Lords. May 28. 1760.") in brown ink at head of title leaf recording the acquisition of this work by John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and 5th Earl of Orrery; armorial bookplate of the same person on front pastedown.

RBC copy has armorial bookplate of Almeric Hugh Paget, 1st Baron Queensborough (1861-1949), on front pastedown.

RBC copy has autograph ("B Diamond") of Bernard L. Diamond (1912-1990) in pencil on front pastedown; typescript bibliographical note (with one ms. correction in blue ink) on letterhead of the same person laid in.

RBC copy bound in early quarter leather over paper boards; 5 raised binds on spine.

RBC copy: left board partially detached; boards and spine damaged.

Cited in:

ESTC T143971

OCLC:

2126542