A Short View of the Political Life and Transactions of a Late Right Honourable Commoner. To Which Is Added, a Full Refutation of an Invidious Pamphlet, Supposed to Be Published under the […] of a Very Popular Nobleman...
- Anonymous Pamphleteer 1766 (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
This essay is an anonymous 1766 pamphlet which reviews the political career of an unnamed prominent commoner and appends a rebuttal to a rival pamphlet — attributed to a “very popular nobleman” — entitled An Enquiry into the Conduct of a Late Right Honourable Commoner. It is one of many anonymous works from this era in which British writers debated the colonial question on the eve of the American Revolution, often concealing their identities to avoid political or legal repercussions.
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