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LAW ASHLEY, JAMES. The Case and Appeal of James Ashley of Bread-Street, London . . . Second Edition. 1753
ASHLEY, JAMES. The Case and Appeal of James Ashley of Bread-Street, London, addressed to the Publick in General . . . Second Edition. With a Remarkable Addition. Etched frontispiece portrait of Henry Simons (cropped in lower margin and rehinged). [8], 47 pages. 8vo, disbound; scattered foxing. London: Printed for, and Published by, the Appellant, 1753
- Notes: First published the same year. "Simons became prominent as the result of an action for assault and robbery brought against him by a certain James Ashley" (Rubens). This was apparently the first instance of a new trial being granted in a criminal case in England; see William Renwick Riddell, "By-Gone Phases of Criminal Justice in Enland," JCLC, Volume 22, Number 4, pages 528-30. Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, page 252; Rubens, Jewish Iconography 2257.
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