Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton, 2006.
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William Murray first Earl of Mansfield
Standard Name: Mansfield, William Murray,,, first Earl of
Used Form: Lord Mansfield
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Anne Damer | Soon after her husband's death, obscene libels (bearing a political subtext) began to appear against AD
. William Combe
led the way in a couplet satire, The First of April; or, The Triumphs of Folly... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Hands | The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed
. It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies... |
| Residence | Janet Schaw | She travelled with her brother Alexander
, heading for his post on St Kitts; she may have intended to live with him there (having no male relations left at home since her father's death)... |
| Textual Production | Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore | The Universal Register (later The Times) printed a letter from Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
, to Lord Mansfield
, the Chief Justice, of 10 November, before her recent abduction by her estranged husband
. |
| Violence | Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore | His various hired accomplices, some dressed as constables, brandished at her servants a warrant for their arrest (obtained by bribery), ordered her coachman off his coach at pistol-point while she was in a shop, and... |
Timeline
26 March 1768: Lord Baltimore (Frederick, the sixth baron,...
Building item
26 March 1768
Lord Baltimore (Frederick, the sixth baron
, who was known for his promiscuity and was said to admire the Islamic system of harems) was acquitted (with two female accessories) of raping a Methodist
or Independent
22 June 1772: Chief Justice Lord Mansfield ruled (in the...
National or international item
22 June 1772
Chief Justice Lord Mansfield
ruled (in the case of James Somerset
) that English law did not allow a slave-owner the right to remove a slave by force from Britain.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
437
Boswell, James, 1740 - 1795. Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Editors Hill, George Birkbeck and Laurence Fitzroy Powell, Clarendon, 1934, 6 vols.
3: 87n3
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