Observations on Lord L------h's speech to the grand jury of Surrey, : in two letters addressed to his Lordship, wherein Lord George Gordon, and the Protestant Association are vindicated and the false aspersions thrown out against them fully confuted. /
Consistent Protestant.
Edinburgh: : [s.n.],
Printed in the year M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]
A vindication of Lord George Gordon's motives regarding the eponymous Gordon riots, which had been sparked by the controversial Roman Catholic relief bill of 1778.
The bibliographic record for the copy held in Glasgow university library indicates that "Lord L-------H" was Lord Loughborough, i.e. Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, 1733-1805, who was in 1780 appointed to be Chief Justice of the Court of Common pleas.
Signatures: A-C⁶
ESTC
Rosslyn, Alexander Wedderburn, Earl of, 1733-1805
Gordon, George, Lord, 1751-1793
Catholic Church
Gordon Riots, 1780
Scotland Edinburgh.