[Hervey, Thomas]:

$150 · Offered by William Reese Company

A LETTER TO WILLIAM PITT, ESQ; CONCERNING THE FIFTEEN NEW REGIMENTS LATELY VOTED BY PARLIAMENT: WHEREIN SOME OF THE GENERAL ARGUMENTS, TOGETHER WITH HIS IN PARTICULAR, FOR OPPOSING THE MOTION TO ... This work is attributed to the eccentric 18th-century British pamphleteer, Thomas Hervey. Hervey studied for a time at Christ Church, Oxford, eventually took a place in Parliament for one of the seats for his family's borough of Bury St. Edmunds, and gained a reputation for drinking, scribbling and becoming "unhinged" before his time. In the work at hand he rails against newly voted-in regiments.

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