The question stated, whether the freeholders of Middlesex lost their right, by voting for Mr. Wilkes at the last election?
By: in a letter from a member of Parliament to one of his constituents.
Contributors: William Blackstone Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for G. Woodfall ... and Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart ...
Published: 1769
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780; Wilkes, John, 1727-1797; Great Britain. Parliament -- Contested elections; Contested elections -- England -- Middlesex; Suffrage -- England
Notes: LC copy has ownership stamp of: Franklin Institute Library.
Eller 260
"First edition of Sir William Meredith's anonymous pamphlet. It concerns the controversy whether John Wilkes had a right to sit as a member of Parliament; Meredith charges that Sir William Blackstone's parliamentary debates were inconsistent with what he had advanced on the subject in his Commentaries"--Eller, C.S. The William Blackstone Collection in the Yale Law Library, 1938, p. 110.
Imprint date from Eller.
LC copy has author and date of publication supplied in ms. ink notation on half title page.