The Case Of Sir Robert Austen And Sir Robert Furnese, Petitioners For New-romney In The County Of Kent..
At some time bound into a volume and subsequently removed, inner blank margin partly cut away, traces of previous folding, and some foxing. Four lines, contemporaneously deleted in ink, but still legible.
£450.00
Details
SHENNANIGANS IN NEW ROMNEY, 1727
Publisher
No printer or date but,,
Place
[London]
Date
[1727].
Item Description
Folio. Single sheet letterpress broadside. 9.75 x 15 inches. With a docket title to otherwise blank verso, The Case of Sir Robert Austen and Sir Robert Furnese } Barts.
Illustrations
Decorative initial.
Notes
A rare printed broadside concerning the disputed New Romney parliamentary election of 1727. Only two copies of this broadside are recorded by COPAC; BL and Nat.Lib. Scot.
ESTC T26364. Smith, 292 Jessup, Frank W. A New Mayoral Dispute (Arch. Cant., 62, 1949).
[Stock No. 21260]
Subjects
18th Century • Cinque Ports • East Kent • Kent • Politics • Romney Marsh