An interesting appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England
Subtitle: 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 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 the dissenters.
Contributors: Foster, Michael, Sir, 1689-1763.; Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793.; Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780.; Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780.; Furneaux, Philip, 1726-1783.; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.; William Blackstone Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for the subscribers, by Robert Bell ..., Philadelphia
Published: 1772
Place of publication: America
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Great Britain. Parliament -- Elections.; Dissenters, Religious -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Law -- Great Britain.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Case of the late election of the county of Middlesex considered on the principles of the Constitution and the authorities of the law.
Notes: Cohen, M.L.  Bib. of early Amer. law, 5368
Eller 255
Evans 12328
Also issued in the same year in an octavo edition.
Signatures: pi⁶ B⁸ D-F⁴ [G]⁴ H-2M⁴.
Part I-V have special t.p.; t.p. for V is dated 1773.