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Upper section only of a Lords Justices warrant, bearing the signatures of the Earl of Hardwicke, the Duke of Marlborough and the Earl of Rochford by HARDWICKE, ROCHFORD, Earls of, MARLBOROUGH, Duke of, Lords Justices

by HARDWICKE, ROCHFORD, Earls of, MARLBOROUGH, Duke of, Lords Justices

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Upper section only of a Lords Justices warrant, bearing the signatures of the Earl of Hardwicke, the Duke of Marlborough and the Earl of Rochford

by HARDWICKE, ROCHFORD, Earls of, MARLBOROUGH, Duke of, Lords Justices

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After 1751. 5 x 9 inches, in good condition. Philip Yorke (1690-1764), 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor (1737), who presided at the trials of the Jacobite lords in 1745, and promoted the laws which proscribed the wearing of tartan and abolished heritable jurisdiction in Scotland.