The Law as Security of Liberty and Juries
A 18th century essay argues that juries guard life liberty and property against arbitrary power. It defends the jury system, condemns information prosecutions, defends truth in libel cases, and cites Zenger and Murray trials as evidence of jury integrity. It ends with a London liverymen notice and a parliamentary candidacy note from Doctor's Commons, dated June 22, 1770.
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Billavera
Star Chamber
Iim
Verdi
Molt
England
Lasvyers
John Peter Zenger
New York
Hamilton
Ace
Owen
Murray
House of Commons
Paine's Warehouse sale of carpets bedding and furniture
A large stock of fresh-made goods offered at Paine's Warehouse No 67 Holborn North Side between Red Lion Street and Featherstone Buildings. Includes Wilton Kidderminster and Scots carpets bedding feather beds bedsteads and ready made furniture in various fabrics. rooms covered.
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Paine
Holborn
Red Lion Street
Featherstone
Deast A
Wilton
Kidderminster
Cheney
N. B
Worthy Liverymen urged to elect Thomas Oliver for City representation
A dated appeal from Thomas Oliver at Fenchurch Street to the London Liverymen invites support to fill the late Lord Mayor Beckford's seat. Oliver extols Beckford's service and pledges to follow his disinterested example, seeking public utility and loyal service to liberality. He closes with敬 respect and humility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Ladies Coterie Engravings and The Englishman in Paris
Next Monday to publish Price Six: a July 1770 City Magazine issue featuring designs from The Female Coterie, an engraving of the Englishman in Paris, and the Parisian Taylor translating an English figure into French. Includes history of the celebrated Female Coterie and the elopement of Miss E with Captain—published in London by J. Smith and distributed by booksellers across Britain and Ireland.
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Paris
Taylor
Citizen
London
J. Smith
Oxford
Cambridge
Dublin
Edinburgh
York
Bath
Brisfols
Britain
Ireland
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The
Middlesex. Journal
City of London
Thomas
Oliver
Doctor's Commons
Fenchurch Street
Thomas Oliver
Mife E
Wits Publi Ife Ds
Great-Britain
Wales
Westminster
Scotland
Court of Chancery
King’s Bench
Dutchy of Lancaster
Office of ‘Ordnance
Great
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