64. Jacobite Rebellion.- The Report to the... House of Commons... of the Commissioners of Enquiry... Appointed to Execute the several Trusts and Powers... contained in a late Act... An Act for Appointing Commissioners to Enquire of the Estates of certain Traitors, and of Popish Recusants, for Jacob Tonson and others, 1717 bound with Reasons Humbly Offer’d Against the Bill, Entituled, An Act for the Sale of the Forfeited Estates, 1½pp., [Wing R525D], n.p., n.d. [ between ?1690 and ?1718] bound with A Report from the Committee To whom all the Books, Instruments, and Papers Relating to the Estate of James late Earl of Derwentwater, for R. Williamson and W. Bowyer, 1732 bound with “Sr John Eyles/ The House being come to a Resolution that you are guilty of a great Irregularity, as a Commiss.r & Trustee for the Sale of the forfeited estates... I do reprimand you accordingly”, manuscript, 1p., fold, browned, edges frayed, n.d. [c. 1720s] bound with Particular and Rental of the Estate late of Joseph Wadsworth, in Bilsborough in the Parish of Garstang in the County of Lancaster, 1p., 1720 bound with Particular and Rental of the Estate late of Gabriel Hesketh, Esq; in the County of Lancaster, 1p., 1720 bound with A Further Report from the Commissioners and Trustees of the Forfeited Estates in Scotland, for Jacob Tonson and others, 1724, and 14 others similar, together 21 pieces, some with folding appendices, some soiling, browning and foxing, ink stamps of the Crown Estate Office on fly-leaf and front free endpaper, inner hinges strengthened, library buckram, folio.
est. £300 – £400
All relating to the forfeitures and seizures of estates (mostly in England and Ireland) in the aftermath of the failed Jacobite rebellion on 1715.