AN ABRIDGMENT

OF

BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES

ON

THE LAWS OF ENGLAND.

OF

BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES

ON THE

LAWS OF ENGLAND,

INTENDED FOR THE USE OF YOUNG PERSONS, AND
COMPRISED IN

A SERIES OF LETTERS

FROM

A FATHER TO HIS DAUGHTER.

BY SIR J. E. EARDLEY-WILMOT, BART.,

BARRISTER-AT-LAW, FOR MANY YEARS CHAIRMAN OF THE WARWICKSHIRE SESSIONS,
AND LATE LIEUT.-GOVERNOR OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.

A NEW EDITION,

CORRECTED AND BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT DAY,

BY HIS SON,

SIR JOHN E. EARDLEY-WILMOT, BART.,

BARRISTER-AT-LAW, RECORDER OF WARWICK.

**** "Of Law, no less can be acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom
of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in Heaven and Earth do
her reverence; the very least, as feeling her care, and the greatest, as not exempt
from her power; both Angels and Men, and creatures of what condition soever,
though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring
her as the mother of their Peace and Joy." Hooker's Eccl. Polity, Book I.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN AND LONGMANS.

ΤΟ

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS

VICTORIA ADELAIDE MARY LOUISA,

PRINCESS ROYAL,

THIS EDITION

OF AN

ABRIDGMENT OF BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES

ON THE

LAWS OF ENGLAND,

THE MILD ADMINISTRATION AND IMPROVEMENT

OF WHICH HAVE DISTINGUISHED THE HAPPY REIGN OF

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS'S AUGUST PARENT,

IS, WITH PERMISSION,

MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY HER DUTIFUL AND OBEDIENT SERVANT,

JOHN EARDLEY EARDLEY-WILMOT.