Trial of the Rev. Alexander Fletcher, A. M. before the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Sense and a Special Jury. By the Author of The Trial of the Rev. Edward Irving, A. M.

[Fleming, James]

Edité par London, London, 1825

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Contemporary 1/2 leather by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, boards and first several leaves detached, corners bumped and backstrip lightly chipped. Original front wrapper, with bookseller's label of G. & J. Robinson, Liverpool, bound in. 111, [1], 24 pp., 2 hand-colored engraved plates. An early note laid in, from an unnamed bookseller, suggests that the plates are probably by Henry Alken. Fletcher was the Scottish-born minister of the United presbyterian Church, who In April 1824, was prosecuted in the civil and ecclesiastical courts for breach of promise to marry Miss Eliza Dick. According to the DNB, "In the king's bench no verdict was given, but in the meeting of the United Associate Synod at Edinburgh he was suspended from the exercise of his office and from church fellowship. The trial and suspension provoked a spate of publications ." One of those publications was this satire of the trial of the Reverend, before a "Court of Common Sense" with a 'special jury' consisting of a dozen illustrious Scots, including Sir Walter Scott, the Foreman. Much of the comic content consists of imagined conversations between members of the jury, during questioning of a witness. The verdict, after a deliberation of 5 minutes, is delivered by the foreman, Sir Walter Scott: "My Lord, we unanimously find the defendant Guilty upon the whole counts of the indictment.[.

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• Titre: Trial of the Rev. Alexander Fletcher, A. M. before the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Sense and a Special Jury. By the Author of The Trial of the Rev. Edward Irving, A. M.
• Éditeur: London, London
• Date de parution: 1825
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
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