...authorize and require you, taking a constable to your assistance, to make strict and diligent search for the authors, printers, and publishers of a seditious...treasonable paper, entitled The North Briton, Number XLV. Saturday, April 23, 1769, printed for GK in Ludgatestreet, London, and them or any of them having...

...motion was made in the House of Commons by Sir William Meredith, to declare " that a general warrant for apprehending and seizing the authors, printers, and publishers of a seditious libel, together with their papers, is not warranted by law." The introduction of this proposition was...

...influence. On the 14th of February, a motion was made in the House of Commons, " that a general warrant for apprehending and seizing the authors, printers, and publishers of a seditious libel, together with their papers, was not warranted by law." Had not this motion been evidently dictated...

...On the fourteenth of February, a motion was made in the boose of commons, " that a general warrant for apprehending and seizing the authors, printers, and publishers of a seditious libel, together with their papera, was not warranted by law." The friends of administration were far...

...you (the messengers) taking a constable to your assistance, to make a strict and diligent search for the authors, printers, and publishers of a seditious and treasonable paper, entitled The North Britain, No. 45, and them, or any of them, having found, to apprehend and seize, together with their...

...their laudable attempt to obtain a seasonable and parliamentary declaration, that a general warrant for apprehending and seizing the authors, printers, and publishers of a seditious libel, together with their papers, is not warranted by law ;' and evinced their gratitude to lord chief...

...you (the messengers), taking a constable to your assistance, to make a strict and diligent search for the authors, printers, and publishers of a seditious...and treasonable paper, entitled ' The North Briton,' No. 45, and them, or any of them, having found, to apprehend and seize, together with their papers,...

...require you — taking a constable to your assistance — to make strict and diligent search after the AUTHoRS, PRINTERS, and PUBLISHERS, of a seditious...and treasonable paper, entitled ' The North Briton, No. 45, Saturday, April 23d, 1763,' printed for George Kearsley, Ludgate St. London, and them or any...

...the secretary of state, directing the officers to apprehend and seize, together with their papers, the authors, printers, and publishers, of a seditious...treasonable paper, entitled the North Briton, Number XLV. These general warrants were clearly illegal, but they had been so long in use, and so uniformly...

...On the fourteenth of February, a motion was made in the house of commons, " that a general warrant for apprehending and seizing the authors, printers, and publishers of a seditious libel, together with their papers, was not warranted by law." The friends of administration were far...