Publication Place: Leicestershire, England / Subject (Topic): Fraud

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Creator:: Bristowe, Thomas
Published / Created:: [1778]
Call Number:: File 63 778 B86
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text
Abstract:: A broadside printing of an 18th century scam, exploiting the helplessness of English debtors before the law. And especially the perennial animus towards the legal profession--"the chicanery of petty-fogging (would-be) attornies, the shameful plunder a...
Description:: Title from first line of text.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Bankruptcy and Fraud
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > To the public: Whereas many persons, labouring under the most grievous oppressions, from their defenceless situation are constrained to silence, and a quiet submission to all the atrocious robberies which are daily committed by the infamous appendages to the law ... apply to Mr. Thomas Bristowe, Cavendish-Bridge, Leicestershire