Description
4to, pp. 10. Extracted from a volume. The leaves largely detached, outer leaves soiled.
Unto the Right Honourable The Lord Justice Clerk, and Lords Commissioners of Justiciary. The Petition of John Lawson of Westertown.
- [s.l.]: [s.n.] 1785
- Not in ESTC.
£65
Notes
John Lawson was one of a number of supposedly fictitious voters in Elgin and Forres during the election of 1784, in which Alexander Penrose-Cumming was defeated by James Duff, Earl of Fife. This petition, unknown to ESTC, is his response to the charges, inviting the case to go ahead.
