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the quarter sessions, containing several recent and very
important decisions …
Printed for Henry Butterworth … London:
and J. Cooke, Hodges and M’Arthur … Dublin (Dublin printed),
1825. FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 75, 8vo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy.
COPAC has BL only, but there is a copy
in D on-line.
(2)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
422
.
STEWART (Wm.).
The Law and Practice of Distresses in
Ireland: containing the several statutes, with respect to taking,
impounding, rescuing and disposing of all kinds of distresses,
including some recent decisions. With practical directions as to
the whole course of the proceeding, from the seizure to the sale
of a distress.
Printed for Henry Butterworth, London: and J. Cooke …
Dublin,
1825
FIRST EDITION, pages (2), 86, 8vo, recent paper wrapper:
with a few light marginal pencil notes, otherwise a very good
copy.
Not in Black. COPAC has Bodleian only. There is a copy in D on-line,
but not in Dt
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
STEWART (Wm.).
The New Law
of Distresses. Comments on the act 7 and 8 Geo. IV. C. 69, “for
the relief of persons aggrieved by unlawful or excessive distress
for rent in Ireland. “ Being a supplement to the laws of
distresses … (with) an appendix of forms. …
Printed for H.
Butterworth, London: R. Milliken, J. Cumming … Dublin,
1827.
FIRST EDITION, with a folding table, pages (2), 79, (1, blank),
14, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: the title-page very lightly soiled,
otherwise a very good copy. (2)
Not in Black or COPAC, though there is a copy in D on-line.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
423
.
STIRLING (James).
Letters from the Slave States.
John W.
Parker,
1857
FIRST EDITION, with a frontispiece map, pages viii, 374, (2,
advertisements), 8vo, original green cloth: binding dull but
sound and with some light fingering, but a good, sound copy
with the bookplate of The Leeds Anti-Slavery Association
Library on the front endpaper.
Stirling, of Glasgow, was the author of books on banks, trade unions,
patents for inventions, law, etc., so his observations on social conditions
in the eastern and southern states of the USA are valuable. His US
travels also extended to Cuba.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
BARNES (Albert).
The Church
and Slavery.
Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan,
1857. FIRST
EDITION, pages (2), (7) - 196, (16, advertisements), complete
thus, small 8vo, original cloth: a very good to nice copy.
(2)
CAIRNES (John E.).
The Slave Power: its character, career
and probable designs: being an attempt to explain the real issues
involved in the American contest.
London: Parker, Son, and Bourn,
1862. FIRST EDITION, pp xviii, 304, 8 (ads), 8vo, recent
boards, with label: a very good copy. (3)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
424
.
[STOCK (Joseph), Bp. ].
A narrative of what passed at
Killalla, in the County of Mayo, and the parts adjacent, during
the French invasion in the summer of 1798. By an Eye-Witness.
Dublin, printed: London: re-printed for J. Hatchard and J. Wright …
Printed by T. Baylis,
1800
Pages (2), 182, (2, advertisements), 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a
very good to nice copy.
This issue, with ‘Hatchard and Wright’ rather than “Wright and
Hatchard’ in the imprint, is not in ESTC. An uncommon issue of “The
most authentic record extant of the episode it describes, written with a
rare impartiality. Its liberality is said to have been a bar to the bishop’s
advancement.”
“In January 1798 Stock was elevated to the episcopal bench as bishop of
Killalla. He applied himself energetically. In June he and a number of
magistrates formed a committee to administer the oath of allegiance to
the local Catholic clergy and their congregations. It appeared that the
area would escape serious disorder until the unexpected arrival, on 23
August, of a French expeditionary force under General Humbert, while
Stock was holding his first episcopal visitation. He was captured and his
episcopal residence commandeered as a military headquarters. Things
could have been worse. Humbert threatened to send Stock to France
when he failed to procure boats and cars for military service, and it was
suggested that he should accompany the military as a hostage. Stock
was spared this fate and, though his son was chosen instead and the
French occupation resulted in his losing goods to the value of £600, both
his published and private accounts of his experience betray little
evidence of bitterness. Indeed his Narrative of what Passed at Killala
…, which was published anonymously, was not only the most authentic
published record of what transpired but was also written with an
uncommon degree of impartiality, which may have been a bar to his
advancement. There is little doubt that Stock’s decision to stay in the
town when he could have fled, combined with his ability to
communicate with the French officers in their own language, helped to
keep the level of material destruction in the region within bounds, but it
would be wrong to conclude that Stock was unaffected by the experience.
His diary records his disappointment at the tardiness of the crown forces
in delivering protestants ‘from perpetual pillage and [the] daily and
nightly expectation of murder’ ten days after the French force was
defeated at Ballinamuck. “. – ODNB.
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
425
.
[STOCK (Joseph), Bp. ].
A narrative of what passed at
Killalla, in the County of Mayo, and the parts adjacent, during
the French invasion in the summer of 1798. By an Eye-Witness.
Dublin, printed: London: re-printed for J. Wright … and J. Hatchard
… Printed by T. Baylis,
1800
Pages (2), 182, (2, advertisements), 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a
very good to nice copy. Different version of imprint to lot 424.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
426
.
STOPFORD (Edward A.).
A letter to the Rev. Dr.
Marshall, late a clergyman of the Church of England, now a
Roman priest, on the subject of a sermon, preached by him in
the Roman Catholic chapel of Kells, July 27, 1851: by the Rev.
E. A. Stopford, Arch-deacon of Meath, and Rector of Kells …
with an appendix, containing an historical narrative of eleven
priests confined in Newgate for not renouncing the Pope’s
pretended deposing power, [from Dr. O’Connor’s
“Columbanus”, Letter VI]. To which is added, King James’s
Oath of Allegiance.
Warrington: Printed by George Furnival,
Sankey Street,
1852
48-pages, large 12mo, unbound, uncut, sewn as issued, a few
leaves unopened: very good
An unrecorded edition (not in COPAC or WorldCat) of a controversial
pamphlet originally privately published at Kells in 1851.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
DILL (Richard).
Prelatico-
Presbyterianism: or, curious chapters in the recent history of the
Irish Presbyterian Church.
Dublin: M’Glashan and Gill …,
1856.
FIRST EDITION, pages xvi, 456, cr 8vo, original cloth: a very
good copy.
Dill (1807-58), Donegal-born presbyterian minister, instrumental in the
foundation of Magee College, Londonderry.
(2)
PERCEVAL (Arthur Philip) et al.
Letter to … James Slade
… on … church reform. Rivington, 1831. [with: ] A letter to
Lord Henley, respecting his publication on church reform.
Rivington, 1832 [with: ] [PERCEVAL (Dudley) ] Draft of a
petition to the king, against Lord Althorp’s proposed bill for
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