[Commonplace book by a student of history, law and government]

Description

Commonplace book kept by an unidentified English or Irish student, with excerpts from and citations to authorities including John Locke; William Blackstone; Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu; Adam Smith; William Robertson. Henry St. John Viscount Bolingbroke, and others. Leaves 100-110 contain a report of a legal case involving John Leland, debtor, of the County of the City of Dublin and the Barons of the Exchequer.