BIB_ID
339158
Accession number
MA 148.31
Creator
Francis, Philip, Sir, 1740-1818.
Display Date
1770 Apr. 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.), bound ; 22.5 cm.
Notes
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
By descent to his eldest granddaughter Miss Francis, and in her possession in 1871; sale (London, Sotheby's, 27 November 1897); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1901.
Summary
Relating news of the passage of "Mr. Grenville's bill for regulating the mode of deciding contested elections....They will now be determined by thirteen persons chosen by ballot, and sworn like a jury."
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