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The genuine trial of John Motherill for a rape on the body of Miss Catharine Wade : daughter of Mr. Wade, master of the ceremonies at Brighthelmstone, at the assizes held at East Grimstead, England, before Mr. Justice Ashurst, for the County of Sussex, on Tuesday the 21st of March, 1786 : together with the pleadings of the counsel on that very extraordinary trial
The genuine trial of John Motherill for a rape on the body of Miss Catharine Wade : daughter of Mr. Wade, master of the ceremonies at Brighthelmstone, at the assizes held at East Grimstead, England, before Mr. Justice Ashurst, for the County of Sussex, on Tuesday the 21st of March, 1786 : together with the pleadings of the counsel on that very extraordinary trial
Alternative Title
Half-title: Genuine trial of John Motherill, more generally known by the name of Brighthelmstone Taylor, for a rape
Creator
Motherhill, John
Date
1786
Publication Place
Dublin (Ireland)
Printer
T. N., fl. 1786
Description
Printed for the editor by T.N. and may be had of the booksellers and news-hawkers in town and country.
Likely published 1786.
At foot of t.p. (in square brackets): Price a British sixpence.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴.
Advertisement on half-title leaf verso.
ESTC (online)
No other recorded copy of this work identified at time of cataloging.
Provenance: Inscribed on second front fly-leaf recto: WWhittingham July 3 1822 ; University of Illinois Library bookplate on front paste-down: From the collection of James Collins, Drumcondra, Ireland. Purchased, 1918.
Bound with numerous other British and Irish trial proceedings from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Acquisition made accessible thanks to the generous support of the Frederick J. and Margret L. Worden Endowment.
Extent
24, p. [1] leaf of plates : bill. (engraving)
Dimensions
22 cm (8vo)
Language
English
Topical Subject
Trial proceedings
Geographic Subject
England
Sussex (England)
Ireland
Dublin (Ireland)
Temporal Subject
18th century
Genre Subject
Publishers' advertisements
Collection Title
Digital Rare Book Collection
Sub-Collection
Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library)
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The genuine trial of John Motherill for a rape on the body of Miss Catharine Wade : daughter of Mr. Wade, master of the ceremonies at Brighthelmstone, at the assizes held at East Grimstead, England, before Mr. Justice Ashurst, for the County of Sussex, on Tuesday the 21st of March, 1786 : together with the pleadings of the counsel on that very extraordinary trial
Alternative Title
Half-title: Genuine trial of John Motherill, more generally known by the name of Brighthelmstone Taylor, for a rape
Creator
Motherhill, John
Date
1786
Publication Place
Dublin (Ireland)
Printer
T. N., fl. 1786
Description
Printed for the editor by T.N. and may be had of the booksellers and news-hawkers in town and country.
Likely published 1786.
At foot of t.p. (in square brackets): Price a British sixpence.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴.
Advertisement on half-title leaf verso.
ESTC (online)
No other recorded copy of this work identified at time of cataloging.
Provenance: Inscribed on second front fly-leaf recto: WWhittingham July 3 1822 ; University of Illinois Library bookplate on front paste-down: From the collection of James Collins, Drumcondra, Ireland. Purchased, 1918.
Bound with numerous other British and Irish trial proceedings from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Acquisition made accessible thanks to the generous support of the Frederick J. and Margret L. Worden Endowment.
Extent
24, p. [1] leaf of plates : bill. (engraving)
Dimensions
22 cm (8vo)
Language
English
Topical Subject
Trial proceedings
Geographic Subject
England
Sussex (England)
Ireland
Dublin (Ireland)
Temporal Subject
18th century
Genre Subject
Publishers' advertisements
Collection Title
Digital Rare Book Collection
Sub-Collection
Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library)
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library
