favell samuel (2 Ergebnisse)

Sl. marked. Disbound. Renier signature. 20pp. 'The Camberwell Riot now becomes a question of vital importance to the people of England; for, if once you can put down public meetings and the liberty of the press, Magna Charta [sic], the Petition of Right, and even the trial by jury, will afford but feeble securities for the liberty of our country'.

Margins sl. damp marked. Disbound. Renier signature. 48pp. Samuel Favell, 1754-1830, was a Common Councilman of the City of London. Although a Radical in his younger days (he was a member of the Revolution Society), he migrated towards Whiggism following the war with Napoleon, although he never lost his enthusiasm for parliamentary reform.