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Extracts from the minutes of evidence and speeches of counsel, delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons, during the session of Parliament held in 1830, to try the merits of a petition against the return of members for the Borough of Evesham. To which is prefixed, a letter to Sir John Gibbon, Bart. presiding magistrate at the late meeting of the magistrates of the county of Middlesex.
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EASTHOPE, Sir John (1784-1865)
Extracts from the minutes of evidence and speeches of counsel, delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons, during the session of Parliament held in 1830, to try the merits of a petition against the return of members for the Borough of Evesham. To which is prefixed, a letter to Sir John Gibbon, Bart. presiding magistrate at the late meeting of the magistrates of the county of Middlesex.
London (Place), printed by R. Clay,, 1833.
27, [1] p. ; 22.5 cm. (8°)
The 'Letter' dated 19 March 1833, to the chairman of the Middlesex magistrates (one of whom was Soane), is signed 'John Easthope'. Easthope's purpose in publishing these extracts was to influence his fellow magistrates against the election to the bench of 'Mr. Rotch', a barrister who had attempted to implicate Easthope in the conspiracy to return particular candidates for the Borough of Evesham. Another 'Letter' from Easthope was published later in the same year (q.v.).
Binding Bound in a numbered series of late 19th century half calf pamphlet volumes. (Archive, Trustees' Minutes 18 June 1866). With binder's stamp 'Bound By Mansell' on front pastedown.
Reference Number 2169
Additional Names Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons; Gibbon, Sir John; Great Britain. Parliamentary Select Committee on the Evesham Election
Extracts from the minutes of evidence and speeches of counsel, delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons, during the session of Parliament held in 1830, to try the merits of a petition against the return of members for the Borough of Evesham. To which is prefixed, a letter to Sir John Gibbon, Bart. presiding magistrate at the late meeting of the magistrates of the county of Middlesex.
London (Place), printed by R. Clay,, 1833.
27, [1] p. ; 22.5 cm. (8°)
The 'Letter' dated 19 March 1833, to the chairman of the Middlesex magistrates (one of whom was Soane), is signed 'John Easthope'. Easthope's purpose in publishing these extracts was to influence his fellow magistrates against the election to the bench of 'Mr. Rotch', a barrister who had attempted to implicate Easthope in the conspiracy to return particular candidates for the Borough of Evesham. Another 'Letter' from Easthope was published later in the same year (q.v.).
Binding Bound in a numbered series of late 19th century half calf pamphlet volumes. (Archive, Trustees' Minutes 18 June 1866). With binder's stamp 'Bound By Mansell' on front pastedown.
Reference Number 2169
Additional Names Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons; Gibbon, Sir John; Great Britain. Parliamentary Select Committee on the Evesham Election