BLACKSTONE, Sir William (1723-1780). 2 autograph letters signed, addressed to the Earl of Shelburne, Winchester and Wallingford, 4 August and 9 October 1766, the first congratulating Shelburne on his appointment as Secretary of the Southern Department in the Pitt administration; the second asking for his intercession with the new Lord Chancellor to obtain a judgeship for Blackstone, 5 pages, 4to.
BLACKSTONE, Sir William (1723-1780). 2 autograph letters signed, addressed to the Earl of Shelburne, Winchester and Wallingford, 4 August and 9 October 1766, the first congratulating Shelburne on his appointment as Secretary of the Southern Department in the Pitt administration; the second asking for his intercession with the new Lord Chancellor to obtain a judgeship for Blackstone, 5 pages, 4to.

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BLACKSTONE, Sir William (1723-1780). 2 autograph letters signed, addressed to the Earl of Shelburne, Winchester and Wallingford, 4 August and 9 October 1766, the first congratulating Shelburne on his appointment as Secretary of the Southern Department in the Pitt administration; the second asking for his intercession with the new Lord Chancellor to obtain a judgeship for Blackstone, 5 pages, 4to.

'Your Lordship is no Stranger to the Wishes I had formed, of sometime or other obtaining a Seat on the Bench, a Situation, for which my Friends flatter me that my Talents (if I have any) are better adapted than for the Bar; and to which my Rank in the Profession, and the Character in which I have the Honour to serve the Queen, make it no Presumption to aspire ... Upon the Vacancy made by the Promotion of Lord Chief Justice Wilmot, I have still held the same Conduct; not knowing how far the Engagements & Obligations of Government might be interested in the Chain of Removals which that Event might occasion. But since the Vacancy continues still open, I am now told I should be wanting to myself were I not to make a Tender of my Services on so fair an Occasion'. In the event Blackstone was not appointed a judge in the Court of Common Pleas until 9 February 1770.

Included with the lot are 4 pages, folio, containing a long poem, dated 1756, not autograph, but ascribed to Blackstone in an 18th-century hand. It is headed 'Frienship [sic] an Ode' and comprises 16 stanzas, comparable to a poem 'The Lawyer's Farewell to his Muse', known to have been written by him and published by D.A.Lockmiller in Sir William Blackstone, 1938.

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