The English Historical Review 1889 Vol 4 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The English Historical Review, 1889, Vol. 4 In 1778 - just a hundred years ago - Lord Mansfield vacated the office of chief justice. His lordship had characterised Erskine's advocacy of freedom as puerile rant and declamation but Erskine's theories were destined to triumph within but a very short period. Rejected by Lord Mansfield, they were accepted by Lord Kenyon, a chief justice of a different and more enlightened type. Pitt and Fox alike admitted the force of the reformer's arguments, and it was Fox himself who in 1791 abandoned his previous attitude, and introduced his famous bill to amend the law of libel. Postponed for a time, through the action of Lord Thurlow, it was brought forward again in the following year, and, despite renewed opposi tion, passed into law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.