The Lawyer: Professions will abuse each other, the Priest won't call the Lawyer Brother; While Salkeld still beknaves the Parson...First edition of the broadside.
London: William Wilson , St. Peters Hill, circa 1803, (printer). Small folio. 20 x 32cm. 4pp. Tears in margin. Etching of a an ancient man holding a key and facing a lawyer as headpiece...
OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:
984827583...
... James Townley (1746–1817) was the son of James Townley (1714–78), sometime playwright and headmaster of Merchant Taylors’ School, and he was educated there like his father before him. Making a very successful career as a proctor (i.e., advocate or solicitor) in Doctor's Commons (i.e., the English courts of civil law, including, e.g., Admiralty), he married Mary Gosling (1753–1839), an accomplished architect responsible for several important buildings in Ramsgate including their own Townley House, which was for many years a notable center of society both local and larger. Townley's verse ...
William Wilson, 16 St Peters Hill .....
Son of William Wilson cabinet maker of St Gregorys London will PCC 2.10.1789. At 8 Ave Maria-lane Ludgate-hill (SunFire 1790). His will PCC 12.1.1815 mentioned wife Mary, brother John Wetherell Wilson carver of Dublin and brother Rev Harry Bristow Wilson master at Merchant Taylors school....From the collection of Frederick Ruffner, the founder of Gale Research, Detroit. Item #51-7092
Price: $350.00