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An appeal to the public, touching the death of Mr. George Clarke, who received a blow at Brentford on Thursday the eighth of December last, of which he ... died ..
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An appeal to the public, touching the death of Mr. George Clarke, who received a blow at Brentford on Thursday the eighth of December last, of which he ... died ... By John Foot, surgeon ...
Published
London, R. Davis, 1769.
Physical Description
51 p. 21 cm.
Local Notes
LWL 49 1609 22:6: Horace Walpole's note on title-page: March 28.
Notes
Authorship has been attributed to Horne Tooke.
The incident took place in an election riot; L. Balfe and E. M'Quirk, condemned to death for the murder, were pardoned 10 March 1769, partly on Foot's medical evidence.
Provenance
Strawberry Hill Sale, day iii, lot 110, to Thorpe, £36.15.0; offered in Thorpe's Supplement for 1842; purchased by Henry Labouchere, later Baron Taunton; sold by his grandson at Sotheby's, 2 December 1920 (Stanley Sale), lots 454-5, to Quaritch, £248; sold by Quaritch to Sir Leicester Harmsworth.
Secker, T. Letter to the Right Honourable Horatio ... : Horace Walpole's note on title-page: June; Horace Walpole's title: Letter from Bp. Secker to R.H. Horatio Walpole.
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English
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June 01, 2002
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