Authority Cited: Foster
Author name and dates: Sir Michael Foster (1689-1763)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Judge respected by Mansfield, Blackstone; estab. 'club of dissenters’; moved to Bristol; pub. Court decisions with commentary
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) (BKG Note: one Foster cite identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Indicated in bold italic below. Thanks (2025) to Megan Rio, student at the University of Central Florida, for identifying this authority and locating the text source!]
Author name and dates: Sir Michael Foster (1689-1763)
Creative Commons License, National Portrait Gallery
BKG Bio-tweet: Judge respected by Mansfield, Blackstone; estab. 'club of dissenters’; moved to Bristol; pub. Court decisions with commentary
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) (BKG Note: one Foster cite identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Indicated in bold italic below. Thanks (2025) to Megan Rio, student at the University of Central Florida, for identifying this authority and locating the text source!]
- A report of some proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Goal [Gaol] Delivery for the trial of the rebels in the year 1746 in the county of Surry, and of other crown cases to which are added discourses upon a few branches of the Crown Law, 1762, Oxford, Printed at the Clarendon Press, sold by J. Worrall and P. Tovey at the Dove in Bell-Yard near Temple-Bar, London; manslaughter (p.261) [BKG Note: a much condensed quote, perhaps from memory.]