BROUGHTON, Thomas.
A letter to James Hugh Smith Barry Esq. High Sheriff, of the County Palatine of Chester, containing some observations on a late transaction, in this county, by the Rev. Sir Thomas Broughton, Baronet.
[Chester?, 1795].
8vo, pp. 14, [2 (blank)]; small stain to half-title; very good, stab-stitched.
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A letter to James Hugh Smith Barry Esq. High Sheriff, of the County Palatine of Chester, containing some observations on a late transaction, in this county, by the Rev. Sir Thomas Broughton, Baronet.
A rare letter from Sir Thomas Broughton, addressed from Doddington Hall in Cheshire and dated 30 November 1795, in which he complains about the printing of resolutions carried at a recent meeting at Northwich regarding the ‘present high price of corn’.
‘Permit me only to observe that … it is needless for gentlemen to ride twenty or thirty miles to meet in the three cornered palace, at Northwich, if their deliberations and determinations are afterwards to be over-hauled, snipped or mangled, by Mr Potts and Mr Leycester … It may perhaps seem to some that I have felt personal pique … I assure you I feel nothing of the sort: the resolution I had the honour to propose, as soon as the meeting adopted it, became their legitimate child.’ Broughton opens with reference to the recent attempt on King George III’s life and ‘his providential escape from the daring outrage offered to his Royal Person’.
Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, Thomas (1745-1813) succeeded to the Broughton baronetcy in 1766, subsequently overseeing the construction of Doddington Hall.
No copies traced in the US. OCLC shows 2 copies in the UK (British Library, National Library of Wales).
