The tryal between J. G. Biker, plaintiff; and M. Morley, doctor of physic, defendant for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife; on Tuesday the 30th of June, at Guildhall, London.

  • Biker, J. G.
Date:
1741
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Credit: The tryal between J. G. Biker, plaintiff; and M. Morley, doctor of physic, defendant for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife; on Tuesday the 30th of June, at Guildhall, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( J7 t|ie Circumftances, which were brought in Aid of the principal Fad, ought not to be fuch as are wholly incredible. That it is wholly improbable, that a Perfon of the Defendant’s Character, (fuch as they fhould Ihew it to be,) fober, prudent, moral, almoft arrived to the Top of his Frofeffion, a Fa¬ ther of Children ; happy in an agreeable Wife of his own, with whom he lived in great Amity ; a Man who was, as the Plaintiff’s Council had opened. Twelve or Fourteen Years older than the Plaintiff; gt a Time of Life when irregular Deli res are more eafily governed; a Man, who by the Nature of his Profeffion, was ruined if only fufpeded ; that he fhould refign himfelf a Slave to a deftrudive Paf- fion for a Ockly Woman, labouring under a Conti¬ nuation of Female Diforders; and the Wife of a Perfon, whom he knew to be at the very Time, infeded with the foul Difeafe; which, notwith¬ standing any intended Reftraint to the contrary, he might communicate to his Wife, and fhe to the Der fendant, if he could be fo mad, as to be guilty of the Crime now imputed to him. Then as to the Proofs, put the Teffimony of Anne Oliver out of the Cafe, and there is nothing laid to the Defendant’s Charge. They fhall fliew that fhe was feen and heard thro3 a Crevice to make a Bargain, and receive a Bribe for her Evidence ; and declared that fhe was fixed down by Affidavit which fhe had made, and was threatned with Newgate and the Pillory, and faid fhe could not go back. There is, indeed, a Story told of the Docffor’s coming to the Plaintiff’s Houfe, making long Vifits, and flay-? ing one Evening from Eight, till half an Hour af¬ ter Nine, the Night when Mrs. Biker countermand¬ ed the Milk-Porridge for half an Hour. Hard will be the Fate of the Gentlemen of the Faculty, efpecially that Part of it, which more particularly regards the fair Sex, if it fhall be imputed to a