A Letter to John Wilkes, Esq; Sheriff of London and Middlesex: In Which the Extortion and Oppression of Sheriffs Officers, With Many Other Alarming Abuses, Are Exemplified and Detected; and a Remedy ProposedHolloway, Robert, active 1771-1808
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A Letter to John Wilkes, Esq; Sheriff of London and Middlesex: In Which the Extortion and Oppression of Sheriffs Officers, With Many Other Alarming Abuses, Are Exemplified and Detected; and a Remedy Proposed
Holloway, Robert, active 1771-1808
Crime; Extortion; Freedom; Sheriffs
It may be said with more envy than justice, that the subject matter is
but the consequence of a private quarrel between the author and ONE of
the parties alluded to. Such squibs of malice, and other obstacles of
the like nature, I am well aware of, and am provided with proper
artillery to combat all such opposition. It is therefore necessary to
declare, that I took chambers in Gray’s-Inn with a settled purpose of
detecting the numerous and enormous abuses and cruelties contained in the
following treatise.
How I came to fail in the undertaking, my Letter to the Citizens of
London fully explains.
The seizing my furniture, books, papers, and every thing I was possessed
of, under PRETENCE of debt, and the more flagrant PRETENCE of EXECUTION,
together with the dispossessing me of my habitation, will neither serve
to prevent the subscribing myself of Gray’s-Inn, or continuing there, if
a GRAIN of JUSTICE or EQUITY is to be found in a TON of LAW.
I am,
With some degree of faithfulness,
The public’s devoted servant,
ROB. HOLLOWAY.
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE originals from whence these copies are most exactly drawn, being
WHOLE LENGTH pieces, in a Letter to the CITIZENS of LONDON, the
publication has been SUPPRESSED on account of their MONSTROUS MIEN.
Notwithstanding the _Dignity_ and _Gracefulness_ of their personages, I
shall make bold to exhibit them to that part of the public who have
curiosity enough to know the NAMES, FIGURE, and CHARACTER of the most
ILLUSTRIOUS SCOUNDRELS this century has produced.
*** The publisher of this Letter will give a direction to the author
ROB. HOLLOWAY.
TO
JOHN WILKES, Esq;
SIR,
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