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depofe and fwear as follows, that is to fay, by the expreffion "I
(meaning himself the faid William Clarke) have fome very choice
paper forty years old" (meaning the faid expreffion contained
in the above-mentioned letter from him the faid William Clarke
to the faid George Crossley, dated "Workfop, 6 March 95"),
this deponent (meaning himself the faid William Clarke) meant
and alluded to fome very curious India paper which (meaning
which paper) was made a prefent of by the late Sir Hugh Pallifer,
baronet, to this deponent's (meaning the faid William Clarke's)
wife, who (meaning the wife of the faid William Clarke) was his
(meaning the faid Sir Hugh Pallifer's) near relation, and which
(meaning which paper) this deponent (meaning himself the said
William Clarke) meant would make a handfome chimney-board or
fire-fcreen; and by fuch expreffion (meaning the faid expreffion
"I have fome very choice paper forty years old") this deponent
(again meaning himself the faid William Clarke) meant fuch India
paper, and no other paper whereas in truth and in fact by the
faid expreffion, "I have fome very choice paper forty years old,"
the faid William Clarke did not mean and allude to fome very
curious India paper which was made a present of by the late Sir
Hugh Pallifer to the wife of the faid William Clarke; and
whereas in truth and in fact the faid William Clarke did not mean
that the faid paper would make a handsome chimney-board or fire-
fcreen; and whereas in truth and in fact by the faid expreffion,
"I have fome very choice paper forty years old," the faid William
Clarke did not mean the faid India paper above mentioned to have
been given to the wife of the faid William Clarke by the faid Sir
Hugh Pallifer: And fo the jurors aforefaid, upon their oath afore-
faid, do fay, that the faid William Clarke, on the faid thirty-first
day of May, in the thirty-fixth year aforefaid, at Westminster
aforefaid, in the faid county of Middlefex, before the faid court of
our faid lord the king, before the king himself, the faid court then and
there having a lawful and competent authority to adminifter the faid
oath to him the faid William Clarke, by his own act and confent,
and of his own moft wicked and corrupt mind, in manner and form
aforefaid, in and by his affidavit aforefaid, upon his oath aforesaid,
did falfely, wickedly, wilfully, and corruptly, upon his oath so taken
as aforefaid, commit wilful and corrupt perjury, to the great dif-
pleasure of Almighty God, in contempt of our faid lord the king
and his laws, to the evil and pernicious example of all others in the
ike cafe offending, and against the peace of our faid lord the king,
his crown and dignity.
G. WOOD.

MIDDLESEX. The jurors of our fovereign lord the king, perjury in an upon their oath prefent, that M. E. B. commonly called the fwer to inteiro- Countefs of S. on the twentieth day of Auguft, in the twentygatories in chan- seventh year of the reign of our fovereign lord George the Third, king of Great Britain, &c. did exhibit certain interrogatories in

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writing in his majefty's high court of chancery (the faid court then and still being held at Westminster in the county of Middlesex), in a certain caufe then and long before commenced by English bill of complaint, then depending and at iffue in the faid court of chancery, wherein the faid M. E. B. commonly called the countess of S. by W.L. efquire, her next friend, was the complainant, and A. R. B. efquire, H. B. T. G. efquire, W. B. efquire, and G. S. efquire, the defendants, in order that the faid interrogatories might be administered according to the course and practice of the faid court of chancery to certain witneffes to be produced, sworn, and examined in the faid caufe, fo then depending and at iffue on the part and behalf of herself the faid M. E. B. the faid complainant: And the jurors aforefaid, upon their oath aforefaid, further prefent, that it became and was made a material question between the faid parties in the faid caufe, to enquire in and by the faid interrogatories fo exhibited, touching and concerning a certain deed or inftrument, certain deeds or instruments, in the complainant's bill in the faid cause mentioned, and the time of executing the fame; and alfo touching and concerning a certain marriage before then had and folemnized between the faid M. E. B. and the faid A. R. B. and touching and concerning the caufe and confideration of the faid deed or inftrument, and whether fuch deed or inftrument was prepared or got ready for execution in contemplation of the faid marriage and after the faid M. E. B. had confented to fuch marriage and it was then and there, in and by the third interrogatory of the faid interrogatories fo exhibited by the faid M. E. B. as aforefaid, fet forth in manner and form and to the effect following, that is to say, had the complainant (meaning the said M. E. B.), as you (meaning the faid witneffes to be produced, fworn, and ex- Set amined as aforefaid) know, or for any or what reason believe, at whole interro any time before, and how long before her marriage with gatory. the defendant (meaning the faid A. R. B.) her prefent husband, and after the death of her firft husband, any intention, defign, and inclination to intermarry with, or did fhe (meaning the faid M. E. B.) in any and what manner intimate a vow or diflike to any and what perfons or perfon, an intention, defign, and inclination to intermarry with any other perfon, and whom, where, any, and what inftructions or directions given by or on the behalf of the complainant (meaning the faid M. E. B.) at any time before and how long before her marriage with the defen dant (meaning the faid A. R. B.) her prefent husband, to any and what perfons or perfon, for the preparing and getting ready for her execution any and what deeds or inftruments, or deed or inftrument, for felling, or limiting, or conveying all, or any, and what part of her ettates and property, fo and in fuch manner as that the (meaning the faid M. E. B.) might have the feparate and exclufive ufe and enjoyment thereof, and of the income arifing therefrom, independent of and free from the controul, debts.

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or intermeddling of any future husband, or of any and what perfon with whom the (meaning the faid M. E. B.), as you (meaning the witneffes to be produced, fworn, and examined as aforefaid) know, or for any and what reafon believe, had it in contemplation to intermarry, and were or was fuch deeds or inftruments, or deed or inftrument, at any time and when prepared and got ready for her to execute, or how otherwife, as you (meaning the witneffes to be fo produced, fworn, and examined as aforefaid) know, or for any and what reafon believe, and was it then in her (meaning the faid M. E. B.) contemplation to intermarry with any and what perfon, as you (meaning the faid witneffes) know, or for any and what reafon believe; and did fuch perfon approve of or was he privy to the making, or to the complainant's (meaning the faid M. E. B.) intention of making fuch fettlement or not, as you (meaning the faid witneffes) know, or for any and what reafon believe, were or was fuch deeds or inftruments, or deed or inftrument, prepared and got ready for execution in contemplation of her the complainant's (meaning the faid M. E. B.) marriage with the defendant (meaning the faid A. R. B.) her prefent husband or not, as you (meaning the faid witnefles) know, or for any and what reafon believe, how long before her (meaning the faid M. E. B.) marriage with her prefent husband (meaning the faid A. R. B.) had the (meaning the faid M. E. B.) refolved upon, confented, or agreed to fuch marriage, as you (meaning the faid witneffes) know, or for any and what reason believe Declare as by the faid third interrogatory affiled, &c. remaining of record in the faid high court of chancery, at Westminfter aforefaid, in the faid county of Middlefex, may more fully and at large appear: And the jurors aforefaid, upon their oath aforefaid, further prefent, that G. W. late of the parish of Greetham, in the county of Rutland, hufbandman, who was and is one of the witneffes to whom the faid interrogatories in the faid cause were to be, and were accordingly adminiftered, after(1) twenty- wards, to wit, on the twentieth (1) day of Auguft (2) in the twenty-feventh (3) year of the reign aforefaid, at the parish of "Janua- Saint Dunftan in the Weft, in the faid county of Middlefex, came in his own proper perfon before T. W. efquire, (4) then (3) thirtyfourth." being one of the mafters of the faid court of chancery, and hav(4) Edward ing feen the faid interrogatory fo exhibited in the faid court of chancery, then and there, to wit, at the faid parish of Saint Dunftan in the Weft, in the faid county of Middlefex, before the faid T. W. efquire, fo being such master of the said court of chancery, was duly fworn and took his ccrporal oath on the holy Gofpel of God, before the faid T. W. efquire (then being one of the mafters of the faid court of chancery, and then and there, to wit, at the parish laft aforefaid, in the faid county of Middlesex, having fufficient power and authority to administer an oath in that behalf to the faid G. W.); and in and by the faid oath the faid G. W. on his faid oath before the faid T. W. efquire

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efquire (the faid T. W. efquire, then having fuch fufficient power and authority in that behalf as aforefaid), did fwear, that he the faid G. W. would true answer make to all fuch questions as fhould be asked him upon thofe interrogatories at the time of his examination; that he would fpeak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, without favour or affection to the parties And the jurors aforefaid, upon their oath aforefaid, further prefent, that the faid G. W. late of the parish of Greetham aforefaid, in the faid county of Rutland, afterwards, to wit, on the fame twentieth day of Auguft, in the twenty-feventh year of the reign aforefaid, was duly examined in the faid high court of chancery, at Weftminster aforefaid, to wit, at the faid parish of Saint Dunftan in the Weft, in the faid county of Middlefex, according to the courfe and cuftom of the faid high court of chancery, upon the faid interrogatories; and that he the faid G. W. not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and feduced by the inftigation of the devil, and minding and intending unjustly to aggrieve the faid A. R. B. one of the defendants aforefaid, did then and there, to wit, at the parish of Saint Dunftan in the Weft, in the faid county of Middlefex, upon his oath aforefaid, in his anfwer to the said third interrogatory, knowingly, falfely, wickedly, malicioufly, and corruptly, by his own act and confent (amongst other things) anfwer, fwear, and affirm in writing as follows, that is to fay, and this deponent (meaning himself the faid G. W.) further faith, that he (meaning himself the faid G. W.) is well convinced in his own mind the complainant (meaning the faid M. E. B.) never had a liking for or an intention to marry her prefent husband (meaning the faid A. R. B.) until the night before fhe was married, and therefore could not refolve upon a marriage with him (meaning the faid A. R. B.); and faith that he (meaning him felf the faid G. W.) does not recollect or believe that the defendant B. (meaning the faid A. R. B), the complainant's (meaning the faid M. E. B.) prefent hufband (meaning the faid A. R. B.) ever vifited at the complainant's (meaning the faid M. E. B.) house more than twice; once he (meaning the faid A. R. B.) came to dinner, and once to fupper, between the death of the complainant's (meaning the faid M. E. B.) firft husband and the complainant's (meaning the faid M. E. B.) marriage (meaning the marriage of the faid M. E. B. with the faid A. R. B.); and thofe vifits only appeared to this deponent (meaning himself the faid G. W.) to be in a common friendly way as an acquaintance; and that fo far from the complainant's (meaning the faid M. E. B.) having any liking for the defendant B. (meaning the faid A. R. B.) fhe (meaning the faid M. E. B.) feemed rather to diflike him (meaning the faid A. R. B.) and his (meaning the faid A. R. B.) company; for this deponent (meaning himself the faid G. W.) received general orders from the complainant (meaning the faid M. E. B.), that whenever the defendant B. (meaning the U 4 faid

faid A. R. B. then called Stoney) called at her houfe (meaning the house of her the faid M. E. B.), he (meaning the faid A. R. B.) was not be admitted, but the complainant (meaning the faid M. E. B.) was always to be denied being at home; and that this deponent (meaning himself the faid G. W.), in pursuance of fuch general order, did deny the complainant's (meaning the faid M. E. B.) being at home, when the defendant B. (meaning the faid A. R. B.) called, although fhe (meaning the faid M. E. B.) was at home at the fame time; and that the complainant (meaning the faid M. E. B.) never feemed to have the leaft liking for or inclination to marry the faid defendant B. (meaning the faid A. R. B.); nor does this deponent (meaning himself the faid G. W.) believe the (meaning the faid M. E. B.) ever intended it until the evening of the fixteenth of January 1777, as by the faid answer to the faid third interrogatory, remaining affiled in the faid high court of chancery at Weftminster aforefaid, may, among other things, more fully appear; whereas in truth and in fact he the faid G. W. at the time he took his faid oath, and alfo at the time he was fo examined as aforefaid, well knew that the faid M. E. B. had had an intention to marry the said A. R. B. her present husband long before, to wit, for the space of two months before the night on which the faid M. E. B. was married to the faid A. R. B.; and whereas in truth and in fact the faid A. R. B. the complainant's prefent husband, had, between the time of the death of the earl of S. then deceased, the first hufband of the faid M. E. B. in his lifetime, and the marriage of the faid M. E. B. with the faid A. R. B. at divers and diftinct times, amounting together to a great number, to wit, five hundred times, from time to time vifited at the house of the faid M. E. B.; and whereas in truth and in fact he the faid A. R. B. had dined and fupped with the faid M. E. B. at the house of the faid M. E. B. at various times more than twice, to wit, fifty times between the death of the faid first husband of the faid M. E. B. and the marriage of the faid M. E. B. with the faid A. R. B.; and whereas in truth and in fact the faid G. W. at the time he took his faid oath, and alfo at the time he was fo examined as aforefaid, well knew that the faid A. R. B. had from from time to time, at divers and diftinct times more than twice, to wit, five hundred times, vifited the faid M. E. B. at the house of the fard M. E. B. between the time of the death of the faid first husband of the faid M. E. B. and her marriage, and had at divers of those times more than twice, to wit, fifty times, dined and fupped with the faid M. E. B. at her faid house; and whereas in truth and in fact the faid G. W. did not at any time whatfoever receive general orders or any orders from the faid M. E. B. that whenever the faid A. R. B. called at her house he was not to be admitted, but that the faid M. E. B. was always to be denied being at home; and whereas in truth and in fact the faid M. E. B. was not denied being at home to the faid A. R. B. when he