By Sir John Nicholl; Joseph Gurney; John Wight Wickes
London   J Butterworth
8.5" by 5.5" [5], 6-47pp
A scarce account of a legal trial conducted by Sir John Nicholl regarding the burial of an infant baptized by a dissenting minister.
By Sir John Nicholl; Joseph Gurney; John Wight Wickes

1810 The judgement, delivered, December 11th, 1809 / by the Right Honourable Sir John Nicholl, Knt., LL. D., official principal of the Arches Court of Canterbury, upon the admission of articles, exhibited in a cause of office promoted by Kemp, against Wickes, clerk, for refusing to bury an infant child of two of his parishioners, who had been baptized by a dissenting minister ; taken in short-hand by Mr. Gurney.

London   J Butterworth
8.5" by 5.5" [5], 6-47pp
A scarce account of a legal trial conducted by Sir John Nicholl regarding the burial of an infant baptized by a dissenting minister.
£170.00
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First Edition, Very Scarce

The first edition of this very scarce work.

This publication regards a trial that Sir John Nicholl presided over. He was noted for 'inflexible impartiality and great strength and soundness of judgement'. 

The trial was 'taken in short-hand by Mr Gurney' and concerns the refusal to bury an infant child of two parishioners. The child in question had been baptized by a dissenting minister.

Condition

In a quarter cloth binding, with marbled paper boards. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Occasional scattered spotting to pages.

Near Fine

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