Author: LAW
Title: The Trial of Lawrence Earl Ferrers, for the Murder of John Johnson
Description: 1760. [LAW] THE TRIAL OF LAWRENCE EARL FERRERS, FOR THE MURDER OF JOHN JOHNSON, BEFORE THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF PEERS, IN WESTMINSTER-HALL, IN FULL PARLIAMENT. London: Published by Order of the House of Peers and printed by Samuel Billingsley, 1760. 55 pp. Folio, lacks boards, title page detached, spine mostly missing. Title page continued: "On Wednesday the 16th, Thursday the 17th and Friday the 18th of April, 1760: On the last of which Days, Judgment for murder was given against him." Faint horizontal crease, else contents excellent with only minimal foxing to edges. A good binding candidate. The 4th Earl of Ferrers murdered his estate's rent collector (Johnson), becoming the last peer of the realm to be dispatched as a criminal by hanging. .

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