1709 Fine ROYAL Binding LAWS English STATUTES High TREASON Great Britain Q ANNE


1709 Fine ROYAL Binding LAWS English STATUTES High TREASON Great Britain Q ANNE

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A collection of the several statutes and parts of statutes now in force, relating to High treason, and misprision of high treason.London: Charles Bill, & the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1709
First Edition. Rare treatise on Treason, with notable and very valuable royal binding with central gilt emblem of the Arms of Queen Anne.
A fine example of a typical Queen Anne binding, several similar examples of which can be found in the British Library (see Davis Gift, II, no. 158).Publication of this treatise on high treason followed hard on the heels of the Treason Act 1708 (7 Ann c 21), by which Parliament \"harmonized\" the laws of high treason in \"Great Britain\" following the union in 1707 of England and Scotland, each of which had different and sometimes quite distinct concepts of \"high treason.\" The final part of this small volume bears a title-page reading \"A form and method of trial of commoners, in cases of high treason, and misprision of high treason,\" with the same imprint information at the main title. (A woman tried and convicted, seeking a stay of execution because pregnant, may pray \"a Jury of [12] Matrons or Motherly Women\" confirm and attest the same; other data are equally particular and evocative.) While the pagination and signature markings of this final part are not continuous from A collection of several statutes, it is clear that the \"two\" were printed as a whole and are not separate works, although they are sometimes catalogued as if they were and are even sometimes sold as such. Printed mostly in roman type with some italic, this has headings in gothic and some long passages also in gothic.Contemporary full calf boards with gilt panel and armorial crest in gilt, the spine with raised bands and gilt decor, as shown. Marbled endpapers w/ bookplate of (Thomas) White (of ) Wallingwells; gilt page edges. Binding and contents clean. 6\" x 3.75\". 113, [1], [14], 44, [4] pp.; complete. WHITE, Thomas (1667-1732), of Wallingwells, Notts. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
ConstituencyDatesEAST RETFORD11 Jan. - 15 Apr. 1701EAST RETFORD1701 - 28 Nov. 1702EAST RETFORD1708 - 11 Jan. 1711EAST RETFORD1715 - 30 Sept. 1732Family and Education

b. Aug. 1667, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of John White, M.P., of Tuxford, Notts. by Jane, da. of Sir Thomas Williamson, 1st Bt., of East Markham, Notts. educ. Christ’s, Camb. 1686. m. 28 July 1698, Bridget, da. and h. of Richard Taylor, M.P. for East Retford 1690-8, of Wallingwells, Notts., 2s. 3da. suc. fa. 1713.

Offices Held

Clerk of the Ordnance 1718-d.

Biography

White came of an old Nottinghamshire family, tracing their descent as landed gentry back to the beginning of the fifteenth century. Both he and his father, several times M.P. for the county, were friends and followers of John Holles, Duke of Newcastle, the leader of the Nottinghamshire Whigs, whose heir, Lord Pelham, subsequently himself Duke of Newcastle, used to refer to White as his ‘first friend’ in the county.1

In 1699 White acquired through his wife the estate of Wallingwells, carrying with it an interest in the neighbouring town of Retford, for which he was returned as a Whig at five general elections between 1701 and 1710, though three times unseated on petition. From 1715 he held the seat continuously for the rest of his life, securing a place in the Ordnance worth £600 p.a. He voted with the Government in all recorded divisions till his death, 30 Sept. 1732.


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