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Richard Martin

1822 | Act to Prevent the Cruel and Improper Treatment of Cattle

Magistrates empowered to inflict a Penalty on Persons convicted of cruel Treatment of Cattle. (Richard Martin, Act to Prevent the Cruel and Improper Treatment of Cattle [1822])



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Source Documents1822| United Kingdom Parliament [Richard Martin], Act to Prevent the Cruel and Improper Treatment of Cattle, 1822 July 22.



[     d-1793] John Oswald
[1759-1796] Robert Burns
[1759-1797] Mary Wollstonecraft
[1731-1800] William Cowper
[1745-1813] Benjamin Rush
[1749-1814]Samuel Jackson Pratt
[1755-1814] John Bidlake
[1762-1816] Rene Martin Pillet
[1738-1819] John Wolcot
[1738-1819] Peter Pindar
[1792-1822] Percy Shelley
[] Elizabeth Kent
[1750-1823] Lord Erskine
[1764-1823] Anne Radcliffe
[1788-1824] Lord Byron
[1824] Clergman of England
[1743-1825] Anna Barbould
[1745-1827] Charles Daubeny
[1757-1827] William Blake
[1772-1827] Legh Richmond
[1767-1831] Louis Simond
[1748-1832] Jerermey Bentham
[1754–1832] George Crabbe
[1766-1832] Herman Daggett
[1770-1832] James Plumptre
[1754-1834] Richard Martin
[1772-1834] Samuel Coleridge
[1775-1834] Charles Lamb
[1758-1835] Thomas Taylor
[18th-19thc] Rev. C. Hoyle
[1772-1835] Thomas Young
[1756-1836] William Godwin
[1753-1839] John Lawrence
[1770-1850] William Wordsworth
[1770-1853] Joseph Cottle
[] Articles-Romanticism


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