To the public: Whereas many persons, labouring under the most grievous oppressions, from their defenceless situation are constrained to silence, and a quiet submission to all the atrocious robberies which are daily committed by the infamous appendages to the law ... apply to Mr. Thomas Bristowe, Cavendish-Bridge, Leicestershire

A broadside printing of an 18th century scam, exploiting the helplessness of English debtors before the law. And especially the perennial animus towards the legal profession--"the chicanery of petty-fogging (would-be) attornies, the shameful plunder and extortion of bailiffs and sheriff-brokers"--these and more epithets shouted at the reader in an assortment of bold and italic type