An Interesting appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England. Containing, I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the fourth volume of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters. II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks. III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply. IV. The case of the late election of the county of Middlesex considered on the principles of the Constitution and the authorities of law. V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his Exposition of the Act of Toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries on the laws of England. VI. Authentic copies of the argument of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of Judges Delegates, and of the speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of Lords, in the cause between the city of London and dissenters.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793

Foster, Michael, Sir, 1689-1763

Language:

English

Physical Description:

[4],iv,[1],6-119,[1],xii,155,[1]p. ; 4°.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : America: printed for the subscribers, by Robert Bell, at the late Union-Library, in Third-Street, Philadelphia, MDCCLXXII. [1772-1773]

Notes:

Parts I-V have separate title pages. Part V is described as "The second edition, with additions, and an appendix," and dated MDCCLXXIII on the title page. The appendix to Part V contains the material described on the general title page as comprising part VI.

Publisher's prospectus for Adam Ferguson's Essay on the history of civil society, p. [156]. Though recorded by Evans (entry 12766), the Essay was evidently not published.

Local Notes:

Library copy: ?1p.l.

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 12328; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2750; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2881