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The honest man's companion or, the family's safeguard. Illustrated with copper plates, and done at the Request of several Gentlemen and others, occasion'd by an Attorney's defying any Person to paint him or his Brotherhood in their proper Colours, or to propose any Method to regulate them, or their Practice. As also remarks upon Roman-Catholick lawyers practising as chamber-counsel and conveyancers, and the Danger and Consequences attending it; with the Author's own Case. Likewise Some Hints relating to the Clergy, Pleading Lawyers, Work-Houses, our Plantations, Prisons, Prisoners, Pawnbrokers, Bailiffs, and Felons; together with the Dying Speech of Wreathocke the Attorney.

Title
The honest man's companion [electronic resource] : or, the family's safeguard. Illustrated with copper plates, and done at the Request of several Gentlemen and others, occasion'd by an Attorney's defying any Person to paint him or his Brotherhood in their proper Colours, or to propose any Method to regulate them, or their Practice. As also remarks upon Roman-Catholick lawyers practising as chamber-counsel and conveyancers, and the Danger and Consequences attending it; with the Author's own Case. Likewise Some Hints relating to the Clergy, Pleading Lawyers, Work-Houses, our Plantations, Prisons, Prisoners, Pawnbrokers, Bailiffs, and Felons; together with the Dying Speech of Wreathocke the Attorney.
Author
Hodshon, Read
Publication
Newcastle upon Tyne : printed for the author, and sold by Martin Bryson, Bookseller in Newcastle, 1736.

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Description
[12],72p.,plates; 8⁰.
Subject
Lawyers > Early works to 1800
Note
  • The dedicatory preface signed: Read Hodshon.
  • Reproduction of original from British Library.
Indexed In (note)
  • English Short Title Catalog
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
OCLC
  • 642281937
  • ECCO1-T112534
Author
Hodshon, Read.
Title
The honest man's companion [electronic resource] : or, the family's safeguard. Illustrated with copper plates, and done at the Request of several Gentlemen and others, occasion'd by an Attorney's defying any Person to paint him or his Brotherhood in their proper Colours, or to propose any Method to regulate them, or their Practice. As also remarks upon Roman-Catholick lawyers practising as chamber-counsel and conveyancers, and the Danger and Consequences attending it; with the Author's own Case. Likewise Some Hints relating to the Clergy, Pleading Lawyers, Work-Houses, our Plantations, Prisons, Prisoners, Pawnbrokers, Bailiffs, and Felons; together with the Dying Speech of Wreathocke the Attorney.
Imprint
Newcastle upon Tyne : printed for the author, and sold by Martin Bryson, Bookseller in Newcastle, 1736.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Indexed In:
English Short Title Catalog, T112534.
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Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Place of Publication
Great Britain England Newcastle upon Tyne.
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