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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    oning was 16s. 6d. in this the Witnefs fays, he h confirm’d by his Book, (which he produced) he re¬ ceived the Reckoning, and ’tis enter’d, Mafter Paid; „ they left Sixpence or a Shilling for the Waiter (which he does not remember) but he after¬ wards gave it to Anne Oliver—(he did not attend in the Houfe that Day.—This Witnefs now knows the Defendant, and believes he was not the Man,—- that they went away together between three and four o’Clock—he does not remember that there was any other Company that Day or Night.-he endea¬ vours to keep his Accounts in his Books right, and has turned away feveral Servants for not making due Entries.-Anne Oliver came about half an Hour after they were gone—.when he faw her at Tottenham, he did put it to her, whether (he would come away, if fhe could get as much by fpeak- ing the Truth -but (he faid fhe was fixed ;—her Husband’ came in, and (hewed a Watch, which this Witnefs had not feen for a great while before —the Husband had Wine of feveral forts-—this Witnefs faid, you do not want for any thing — upon which the old Woman, who was placed over her by the Plaintiff, faid, no, if fhe could eat Gold fhe fljould have it.-The Book which this Witnefs produced, being infpedted, the Entry for the 18th of April, appeared to have a Figure altered, but the Day of the Week (Saturday) was fairly entred, and the Entry was in Courfe next after the 17th, — on the top of the following Leaf there were two Lines obliterated, fo as not to be legible.-This Witnefs faid, he had turned, away two Servants, for not making due Entries;—-that the Charge for the Houfe, for a Man and a Woman, is ten Shillings and Sixpence ; but they might have bathed for the fame—-—fays, he faw the Defendant before he went to Tottenha?n-that the Defendant’s Attorney had feen him, but not applied to him ; that he had been