Since the town has been grossly impos'd upon, and the conduct and character of the Lady Lawley, maliciously and falsly represented, ... as being an accomplice with Mr. Japhet Crook, in forgeries, perjuries, cheats, &c. ... it therefore becomes necessary at this time to disabuse the world in regard to the prejudice it may have resceiv'd against that lady from ... the misdemeanor, for which she was indicted, in the life-time of Sir Thomas Lawley, her late husband; by setting the case of the said lady ... as followeth. The true case of the Lady Lawley.