TRIAL.

The Proceedings at Large in a Cause of an Action Brought by Anthony Fabrigas, Gent. Against Lieutenant General John Mostyn, Governor of the Isle of Minorca, Colonel of the First Regiment of Dragoon Guards, and One of the Grooms of His Majesty's Bed-Chamber; for False Imprisonment and Banishment from Minorca to Cathegena in Spain. Tried before Mr...

London, G. Kearsley. 1773. First edition. Folio. pp. [2], iii, [1], 3-32, 29 - 62. A complex case held before Lord Justice Mansfield involving legal jurisdiction and conflicting legal systems which is still cited today. From an address to the bookseller and publisher G. Kearsley it is clear that Gurney had been commissioned by the plaintiff to record the proceedings. Bound with "Farther Proceedings in the Cause of Fabrigas and Mostyn" (London, 1774) which is lacking the title page and final advertisement leaf. Disbound. Title-page dusty and chipped at upper corner. One of two slightly different issues put out by Kearsley in 1773, this issue being held by BL, York University, Ont., Illinois, Yale and Harvard only. The second item held by BL (two copies, one imperfect like this one).

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