Droit le Roy, or a Digest of the Rights and Prerogatives of the Imperial Crown of Great-Britain
1764. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 95 pages. Timothy Breckneck (1719-1786) was a controversial lawyer and writer who was executed for conspiracy to commit murder in 1786. This work, which brought him national attention, was described in the House of Lords as a “pestilent treatise” that was “Jacobitical” in nature. despite.....