John Burn letter

Address: Orton, [Westmorland]. To Thomas Cadell [?the elder] Esq, 'bookseller, Strand, London'. 'I have by the coach this day sent you Barry's Justice [i.e. E Barry 'Present practice of a justice of the peace' (1790)] & in the margin have marked the vs & pages in our Justice [i.e. R Burn 'The justice of the peace and parish officer' (1755 and many susbequent editions)] from which he has copied. I may safely say there is not one hunderd pages, put the whole together of his 4 volumes, which is not copied from my father...'.
Autograph, with signature. Franked: 'Appleby'[-in-Westmorland].

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Several different editions of Richard Burn 'The justice of the peace and parish officer', including those revised and expanded by John Burn, are available across ULRLS - see the main Library catalogue for details. A copy of Edward Barry 'Present practice of a justice of the peace' (1790) is available in Senate House Library Special Collections - Library classmark: Case F.f.2,3