The tryal of William Sacheverell Esq; and several other gentlemen : for a riot committed at Nottingham, on the election of a mayor of that town; before the Lord Chief Justice Jefferies, at the King's-Bench Bar, in Easter term 1684. To which is added, the case of the town of Nottingham, drawn up by Mr. Sacheverell.

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