Rights and Privileges of both the Universities and of the University of Cambridge in particular defended
Subtitle: In a Charge to the Grand Jury at the Quarter Sessions for the Peace held in and for the Town of Cambridge the tenth Day of October 1768 : Also An Argument in the case of the Colleges of Christ and Emmanuel
By: By James Marriott, LL.D.
Publisher: Printed by J. Archdeacon, Printer to the University: Sold by T. & J. Merrill, and J. Woodyer in Cambridge J. Fletcher and D. Prince at Oxford; J. Rivington, B. White, Johnson & Co. J. Beecroft, and J. Worrall in London
Published: 1769
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: University of Cambridge.; Cambridge. -- University. -- Christ College.; Cambridge. -- University. -- Emmanuel College.; University of Oxford.
Notes: 'The Charge' (pp (3) to 14; the 'Argument' (pp (15)-35); 'Postscript' (p. 36).

The DNB article on Sir James Marriott, speaking of this publication, quotes Gray, who wrote: 'It moved the town's people to tears and the university to laughter'; he was described as 'less deficient in talent than in soundness of judgment'. in his youth he was 'gay and volatile', and even in the admiralty court he displayed excessive jocularity. Gray wrote of him in 1766 that his follies should be pardoned 'because he has some feeling and means us well''.

The 'Argument' has separate, sectional title-page, reading: 'Argument in the Case of the Poor's Rate charged on the Colleges of Christ and Emmanuel, in the University of Cambridge. 1768'.

ESTC1184M7 [Rights]; ESTC1184M9 [Argument]; Bowes 599.