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- Creator:
- Bristowe, Thomas
- Published / Created:
- [1778]
- Call Number:
- File 63 778 B86
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Description:
- Title from first line of text., Date based on trial date of one of Bristowe's victims. Cf. Jackson, W. New and complete Newgate calendar, London, 1794-1795, v. V, p. 299-302., Not in ESTC., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Bankruptcy and Fraud
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > 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
