Hargrave MS 84-86

Reports of Cases in the House of Lords, Chancery, King's Bench, C. B. and Exchequer, chiefly from 1727 to 1752 inclusive: but containing one Case, before the Lords, as far back as 1693. With Indexes to the Matter and the Names of the Cases in three Volumes. Folio, on paper.

The first Case is a very curious one, before the House of Lords in 1693, on the Petition of Lady Isabella Dutchess of Grafton and William Bridgman Esq^r. her Trustee, concerning the Office of Chief Clerk of the King's Bench. Amongst other important matter in these Volumes, there is a full Report of the Arguments of Mr. Henley, afterwards Earl of Northington, for the Def^t. in Error at the Bar of the Lords in the Case of Martin on the demise of Treconnell against Strachan, and of the Opinion of the Judges for the Def^t. in Error as delivered by Willes, Chief Justice. There is also a full Report of the famous Case of Burgess and Wheate in the King's Bench upon its being sent there by the Lord Chancellor.