Report from the Select Committee on Privilege (Tower High Level Bridge (Metropolis) Committee

1879, sessional number 294. x and 69 pp. Minute of Appointment, Report, Proceedings of the Committee, List of Witnesses and Minutes of Evidence. Committee appointed July 1879. The Chairman was Spencer Horatio Walpole. Evidence given by 9 witnesses including James Hooker, Parliamentary agent and solicitor in firm Wyatt, Hoskins and Hooker (engaged for the wharfingers who were petitioners against the High Level Bridge Bill), John Sandilands Ward of 51 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, solicitor, Charles Edmund Grissell, formerly a lieutenant in Royal Navy, Ralph Daniel Makinson Littler, Q.C., and Lord Henry Lennox, M.P. and Chairman of the Committee on the Tower High Level Bridge Bill. Relates to an attempt by Grissell and Ward, through bribery, to influence the findings of the High Level Bridge Bill. Folio. Rebound in blue cloth boards with gold titling. Small part of top corner of final leaf torn away, but no loss of text. Item otherwise in nice sound condition.