The tryal of Thomas Thomson and Lavinia Whitney, on an indictment for a conspiracy, in procuring one William Gibson, a sawyer, to personate Mr. Samuel Brooks, an eminent grocer, and marry the said Whitney, in his (the said Brooks) name, with a view and intent to subject him to the payment of her debts, and force him to allow her a separate maintenance. Try'd at Guildhall, on Monday the 2d day of November, 1730, before the Right Honourable Humphry Parsons, Esq; Lord-Mayor of the City of London; the Hon. Mr. Baron Thompson, Recorder of the said City; and other his Majesty's Justices, at an Adjournment of the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer.

Date:

1730