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Seven letters to the Lords and Commons of Great Britain, upon the impolicy, inhumanity, and injustice, of our present mode of arresting the bodies of debtors; shewing the inconsistency of it, with Magna Charta and a free constitution; ... By Josiah Dornford, Esq

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1786]
Call number: 321913
Creator: Dornford, Josiah (1764-1797)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (8vo)
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Seven letters to the Lords and Commons of Great Britain, upon the impolicy, inhumanity, and injustice, of our present mode of arresting the bodies of debtors; shewing the inconsistency of it, with Magna Charta and a free constitution; ... By Josiah Dornford, Esq

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