The question stated, whether the freeholders of Middlesex lost their right, by voting for Mr. Wilkes at the last election?
Subtitle: in a letter from a member of Parliament to one of his constituents.
Contributors: Birmingham Law Society,; William Blackstone Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The second edition.
Publisher: Printed for G. Woodfall ... Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart ...
Published: 1769
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Blackstone, William, -- Sir, -- 1723-1780.; Wilkes, John, -- 1725-1797.; Great Britain. -- Parliament -- Contested elections.; Contested elections -- England -- Middlesex.; Suffrage -- Great Britain.
Notes: "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.

Written by William Meredith. Cf. Eller.

Date of publication suggested by Eller.

Eller 261

ESTC T108714

LC copy has ownership stamp of Birmingham Law Society.