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The date is puzzling, as Gordon was not taken into the marshal’s custody till 9 Dec. See the New Annual Register … for the Year 1787 (1788), p. 48. Perhaps the writ was issued in anticipation of Gordon’s arrest.

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George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. To the Marshal of our Marshalsea in our Court before Us or his Deputy Greeting. We command You that You have before our Trusty and well beloved Francis Buller Esquire one of our Justices assigned to hold Pleas before Us at his House in Lincolns Inn Fields immediately after the Receipt of this our Writ the Body of George Gordon Esquire commonly called Lord George Gordon being committed and detained in our Prison under your Custody [(as it is] said) together with the Day and Cause of the taking and Detain[ing] of the said George Gordon Esquire commonly called Lord George Go[rdon] by whatsoever Name the said George Gordon is called in the same to undergo and receive all and singular such Things as our said Justice shall then and there consider of concerning him And have You then there this Writ Witness William Earl of Mansfield at Westminster the twenty eighth Day of November in the twenty eighth Year of our Reign
By the Court Templer

[Endorsements:]
F: Buller
The Execution of this Writ appears in a certain Schedule hereunto annexed.
Jas Walker
Marshal KB

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A parchment document bearing stamps of various kinds. The right-hand edge is worn, and the ends of a few lines have been lost.

(At the centre is an open book, with a dagger and a sceptre crossed on it, surrounded by the motto ‘Doctrina parit virtutem’. A similar ornament appears in A History of the Late Warres, by Count Galliazzo Gualdo Priorato (1648), p. 191.)

(At the centre is a helmet on a plinth, surrounded by birds or bees.)

(At the centre is a ship in full sail, with buildings and rocks to one side.)

(The ornament is from p. v. Below it are three lines of a printed dedication.)

(The ornament is from sig. A2r. Below it are three lines of a printed dedication.)

(Two flying storks, one feeding the other, in a landscape, within an ouroboros.)

(A fleur-de-lis, between the letters ‘L A’, in an elaborate frame.)

(Minerva and an owl, standing either side of an olive tree. Minerva holds a shield bearing the head of Medusa and a banner inscribed ‘Ne extra oleas’. This device appears in Descartes’ Tractatus de homine (1677).)

(The central illustration depicts a porcupine below the motto ‘Mordentes sauciabuntur’, within a strapwork frame. This device appears at the end of Icones operum misercordiae, by Giulio Roscio (1586).)

(A head breathing on two hands holding a heart, within two mottos: ‘Verbis initur, manibus contrahitur, corde conservatur societas’ and ‘Concordia res parvæ crescunt, discordia maximæ dilabuntur’; the whole within an elaborate frame. Below the device is printed in capitals ‘A Lyon,’ evidently part of the publisher’s imprint.)

(A person in classical dress, standing on a small winged globe and holding a banner. Below the device is printed ‘A PARIS’, the first line of the imprint.)

(The illustration depicts the visit of the Magi, within a strapwork frame. At the foot is a printer’s mark containing the initials ‘F. M.’)

(Below the device is printed ‘Serjeant’s Inn, Fleet Street. | Incorporated by Charter of Queen Anne, | 1706, for the Insurance of Lives.’)