Authority Cited: Layer's Trial
Author name and dates: Christopher Layer (1683-1723)
also see image below from a newspaper in the British Museum
BKG Bio-tweet: Lawyer; Jacobite plotter; agent of Lord North and Grey; visited Pretender in Rome; tried in 1722; executed in 1723
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One Layer's Trial cite added in 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
Author name and dates: Christopher Layer (1683-1723)
also see image below from a newspaper in the British Museum
BKG Bio-tweet: Lawyer; Jacobite plotter; agent of Lord North and Grey; visited Pretender in Rome; tried in 1722; executed in 1723
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One Layer's Trial cite added in 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
- The Whole Proceeding upon the Arraignement, Tryal, Conviction and Attainder of Christopher Layer, Esq; for High Treason in Compassing and Imagining the Death of the King. In the Court of the King's Bench at Westminster, in Michaelmas Term; In the Ninth Year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord George, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland: Annoq; Domini 1722. Perused by the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice, and the rest of the Judges at the Court of King's Bench, and by the Counsel for His Majesty, and for the Prisoner, 1722, London: Printed by S. Buckley in Amen-Corner. [folio, 152 pp.] [BKG Note: A library catalogue description says "printed by William Bowyer; his records show 5000 small and 100 large copies printed." One of the copies may well have passed though the Lichfield bookshop of SJ's father, and this would have been a political issue of interest.]
- Layer (no work cited); introduce (Dict.: "If he will introduce himself by prefaces, we cannot help it." Text from title above (p.106): "Mr Hungerford. But if the Gentleman will follow some of your examples, and introduce himself by prefaces, we cannot help it.") See the images below (personal copy).
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