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Charles Yorke PC (30 December 1722 – 20 January 1770) was a British politician who briefly served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. His father was also Lord Chancellor, and he began his career as a Member of Parliament. He served successively as Solicitor-General and Attorney-General for several governments, during which he was best known for writing what became the Quebec Act. He was appointed Lord Chancellor over his objections, but he committed suicide only three days after taking the post. (From Wikipedia) More about Charles Yorke:
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| | Books by Charles Yorke: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Yorke, Charles, 1722-1770: Connecticut; Old John Uncas and the Greater Part of the Tribe of Moheagan Indians, by Samuel Mason Their Guardian, Appellants; The Governor and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut in New England in America, and George Richards, Esq. ,and Several Other Persons, Intruders on the Lands in Question, Respondents: The Appellants Case (ca. 1770), also by Fowler Walker (multiple formats at archive.org)- Yorke, Charles, 1722-1770: Some Considerations on the Law of Forfeiture, for High Treason (third edition; London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1748) (multiple formats at archive.org)
Additional books by Charles Yorke in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Yorke, Charles, 1722-1770: Athenian letters, or, The epistolary correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War : containing the history of the times, in dispatches to the ministers of state at the Persian court ; besides letters on various subjects between him and his friends. (John Archer ..., 1792), also by Samuel Salter, Thomas Birch, Catherine Talbot, John Lawry, Henry Coventry, William Heberden, Henry Heaton, Daniel Wray, John Green, George Henry Rooke, and Philip Yorke Hardwicke (page images at HathiTrust)- Yorke, Charles, 1722-1770: Athenian letters: or, The epistolary correspondence of an agent of the king of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian war. A new edition; to which is prefixed a geographical index. In two volumes. Illustrated with engravings, and a map of ancient Greece ... (T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810), also by Samuel Salter, Thomas Birch, Catherine Talbot, John Lawry, Henry Coventry, William Heberden, Henry Heaton, Daniel Wray, John Green, George Henry Rooke, and Philip Yorke Hardwicke (page images at HathiTrust)
- Yorke, Charles, 1722-1770: Athenian letters, or, The epistolary correspondence of an agent of the king of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War. (printed and fold by James Decker ;, 1800), also by Samuel Salter, Thomas Birch, Catherine Talbot, John Lawry, Henry Coventry, William Heberden, Henry Heaton, Daniel Wray, John Green, George Henry Rooke, and Philip Yorke Hardwicke (page images at HathiTrust)
- Yorke, Charles, 1722-1770: Letters from a late eminent prelate to one of his friends. (Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809), also by William Warburton and Richard Hurd (page images at HathiTrust)
- Yorke, Charles, 1722-1770: Letters from a late eminent prelate to one of his friends. (Printed by George Gower, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808), also by William Warburton and Richard Hurd (page images at HathiTrust)
- Yorke, Charles, 1722-1770: Letters from a late eminent prelate to one of his friends. (Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809), also by William Warburton and Richard Hurd (page images at HathiTrust)
- Yorke, Charles, 1722-1770: Lettres athéniennes, ou Correspondance d'un agent du roi de Perse, à Athènes, pendant la guerre du Péloponèse (Dentu, 1803), also by Alexandre-Louis de Villeterque, Samuel Salter, Thomas Birch, Catherine Tablot, John Lawry, Henry Coventry, William Heberden, Henry Heaton, Daniel Wray, John Green, George Henry Rooke, and Philip Yorke Hardwicke (page images at HathiTrust)
- Yorke, Charles, 1722-1770: Some considerations on the law of forfeiture for high treason. Occasioned by a clause, in the late act, for making it treason to correspond with the Pretender's sons, or any of their agents, &c. With an appendix concerning estates-tail in Scotland. (Printed for J. and J. Rivington, 1748) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Yorke, Charles, 1722-1770: Some considerations on the law of forfeiture for high treason : occasioned by a clause, in the late act, for making it treason to correspond with the Pretender's sons, or any of their agents, &c. (Printed for J. Roberts, 1745) (page images at HathiTrust)
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