Admission tickets : Westminster Hall, 1793 May 23-1794 May 30.

Physical Description:: 4 items (4 leaves) ; 21 x 17 cm and smaller.
Notes:: Engraved admission tickets with mss. notations.
With Hasting's coat of arms in the center with text around image: For the trial of Warren Hastings, Esq. Peter Burrell Dy. Great Chamberlain.
Warren Hastings (1732-1818) was the first governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1785. He joined the British East India Company in 1750 as a clerk. In 1757 he was made the British Resident of Murshidabad; appointed to the Calcutta council in 1761; a member of the Madras council in 1769; made governor of Bengal in 1772; and appointed the first Governor-General of India in 1773. However, Hastings resigned in 1784, and, returning to England, was charged with high crimes and misdemeanors by Edmund Burke. He was impeached for corruption in 1787 but was acquitted in 1795.
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Abstract:: A collection of four engraved admission tickets to the trial of Warren Hastings for the 75th, 116th, 136th, and 141st days in Westminster Hall, each signed by (presumably) the chamberlain for the day -- Chedworth, Somerset, Darlington, Dorchester. Two are printed in black ink, another in blue, and the fourth in green ink; they all carry seals. Three contain comments in a contemporary hand about the day's proceedings praising Sir Robert Dallas's defense, commenting on the fact of Mr. Pitt's reply, and evaluating Edmund Burke's remarks on his second day of speeches. Three of the tickets have been torn in the corner, possibly when the bearer entered the hall?
Variant Titles:: For the trial of Warren Hastings, Esq.
Topics:: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Chedworth, John Howe, Baron, 1754-1804
Coats of arms
Dallas, Robert, Sir, 1756-1824
Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818
Somerset, Charles Henry, Lord, 1767-1831
Language:: English
Genre:: Engravings -- England -- London -- 1793
Tickets
Format:: Image
Content Type:: Prints & Photographs
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Call Number:: LWL Mss File 11
Orbis Record:: 8150113
Yale Collection:: Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:: Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:: lwlpr25224 (parent)
oid pointer:: 16035057
Citation:: Admission Tickets. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Volume/Enumeration:: Digital version
OID:: 16035056
PID:: digcoll:2811441