124 results filtered with: Libel and slander - Early works to 1800
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An answer to Mr. Agate's expostulatory letter. By John Withers. To which is added, Mr. Tross's vindication of himself, from several aspersions cast upon him in the pamphlet falsly call'd Plain truth.
Withers, John, 1669-1729.Date: M.DCC.IX. [1709]- Books
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Unto the Right Honourable, the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of George Ross merchant in Montrose, and John Allan messenger there, ...
Ross, George, merchant in Montrose.Date: 1739]- Books
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Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, baronet, ...
Gordon, John, Sir, -1783.Date: 1765]- Books
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Mr. Erskine's speech on the trial of Thomas Williams, On the Twenty-Fourth of June, 1797, for Publishing Paine's ̀̀age of Reason.''
Williams, Thomas, bookseller.Date: 1797]- Books
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Replies for James Baikie of Tankerness, one of the freeholders of the county of Orkney, to the answers offered in the name of Robert Græme of Breckness, Patrick Honeyman of Græmsay, John Mackay of Strathy, Thomas Baikie of Burness, Samuel Mitchelson junior writer to the Signet, and David Covingtree of Newark, pretended freeholders in the county of Orkney.
Baikie, James, -1764.Date: 1761]- Books
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Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of David Kennedy in Altercanoch, ...
Kennedy, David, in Altercanoch.Date: 1762]- Books
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Unto the Right Honourable, the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of Esther Gifford, daughter and executrix of the deceased William Gifford wright in Edinburgh, and Thomas Calder merchant there, her husband, for his interest, pursuers; ...
Gifford, Esther.Date: 1756]- Books
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Information for Mr. James Sands minister at Birsay, Mr. Thomas Baickie minister at Kirkwall, Mr. John Keith minister at Walls, and Mr. George Oswald minister at Dinnet. Against Captain James Moodie of Melsitter, and some others of the justices of the peace in Orkney. July 26. 1712.
Sands, James, approximately 1673-1723.Date: 1712]- Books
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A first letter form R- R-s, Esq; to the creditors of Burton's Bank. Containing, part of his answer to two letters, lately printed and addressed to them, and signed X.Z.
Roberts, Robert, Esq.Date: Printed in the year, MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
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Account of the proceedings, of the associate session, Presbytery and Synod, against Matthew Scott. Being the sequel of the mighty suit of a six-pence. Containing copies of several original letters &c. relative to the process.
Scott, Matthew, shop-keeper in Glasgow.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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Lord Colston reporter. December 3. 1761. Information for John Chancellor Hyde, dyer in Aberdeen, defender, against Charles Halket, merchant in Aberdeen, pursuer.
Hyde, John Chancellor.Date: 1761]- Books
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An antidote against modern slanders and calumnies, wherewith disaffected persons traduce the present government. Designed for the benefit of those honest and true-hearted subjects who love their Queen, Church, and country: Particularly for the gentlemen-freeholders of the county of Sussex, who have their ears daily deafned with such calumnies. The substance of which was deliver'd in a sermon by R. Owen, vicar of Iford, near Lewes in Sussex.
Owen, R. (Richard), active 1713-1721.Date: MDCCXIII. [1713]- Books
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The genuineness of Lord Clarendons's history of the rebellion printed at Oxford vindicated. Mr. Oldmixon's slander confuted. The true state of the case represented. By John Burton B.D. Fellow of Eton College.
Burton, John, 1696-1771.Date: 1744- Books
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Memorial for Alexander Chancellor eldest son of John chancellor of Shieldhill, and James Blair son of Cornet George Blair in Lanark, deceast. ...
Chancellor, Alexander, active 1727.Date: 1727]- Books
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A review of the constitution of Great Britain: Being the substance of a speech delivered in a numerous assembly on the following question: "Is the petition of Mr. Horne Tooke a libel on the House "of Commons, or a just statement of public grievances "arising from an unfair representation of the people?" By a Friend to the people.
Friend to the People.Date: 1791- Books
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The speech made by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury to His Majesty, when he enter'd that City.
Willis, Richard, 1664-1734.Date: 1722- Books
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A treatise against detraction, in ten sections. By the Reverend Mr. Andrew Le Mercier, Pastor of the French church at Boston in New-England.
Le Mercier, Andrew, 1692-1763.Date: 1733- Books
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George, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the faith. To our lovits macers, messengers at arms, our sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and severally specially constitute, greeting, forasmuch as it is humbly meaned and showen to us by ou lovit Sir James Steuart advocate, ...
Scotland. High Court of Justiciary.Date: 1715]- Books
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George, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, ... to [blank] messengers at arms, our sheriffs ... at the instance of Thomas Goldie writer in Dumfries, and Alexander Williamson agent to the late Duke of Queensberry near Drumlanrig, ... against Isobel Mackie, spouse to David Johnston, captain-lieutenant of our marine forces, lately in America, daughter to the deceased John Mackie writer in Dumfries, and the said Captain David Johnston, for his interest, ...
Goldie, Thomas, writer in Dumfries.Date: 1785]- Books
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The government of the thoughts: a prefatory discourse to The government of the tongue, by the author of The whole duty of man.
Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.Date: [1710?]- Books
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A letter to the Honourable Sir Richard Perrott, bart. on the famous Flint petition to His Majesty, and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; With some strictures on Poyning's Act, and the state of Irish politics in the administration of that eminent statesman, the Right Honourable Sir John Perrott, knight of the Bath, Lord Lieutenant, Captain General, and General Governor of Ireland, &c. &c. A patriotic anecdote of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham, never before published. Some remarks on the Russian expedition, and a curious engraving of the atchievement of the ancient noble House of Perrott. By a Briton.
Briton.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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Considerations on the matter of libel. Suggested By Mr. Fox's notice in Parliament, of an Intended motion on that subject. By John Leach, Esq; of Lincoln's-Inn.
Leach, Thomas, 1746-1818.Date: [1795?]- Books
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An apology for Mrs. Eugania Stanhope, editor of the Earl of Chesterfield's letters to Philip Stanhope, Esq. addressed to that Lady. By an Amateur Du Bon Ton.
X. Y. Z.Date: [1775]- Books
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Rational reflections on tale-bearing and detraction. By Ralph Mather.
Mather, Ralph.Date: 1786- Books
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An essay on the art of news-paper defamation, in a letter to Mr. William Griffin, printer and publisher of the Morning Post, a master of that art. By C.D. Piguenit.
Piguenit, C. D.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]