Sir William Blackstone

Standard Name: Blackstone, Sir William

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Anne Clifford
In each marriage LAC felt that the marble pillars of her husband's mansion imprisoned her; her life flowed through these two great families like a river through a lake, without mingling any part
qtd. in
Clifford, Lady Anne. “Introduction / Annotations / Bibliography”. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619, edited by Katherine O. Acheson, Garland, 1995, pp. 1 - 37, 133.
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Timeline

1671: The Game Act raised the property qualification...

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1671

The Game Act raised the property qualification for hunting and shooting game to ownership of a park, or an income of about £100 a year.
Landry, Donna. Invention of the Countryside: Hunting, Walking, and Ecology in English Literature, 1671-1831. Palgrave, 2001.
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By December 1765: Sir William Blackstone published the first...

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By December 1765

Sir William Blackstone published the first book of his Commentaries on the Laws of England; he completed it in 1769.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
20 (1765): 424-36
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Texts

Blackstone, Sir William, and Edward Christian. Commentaries on the Laws of England. 15th ed., Vol.
4 vols.
, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809.