Volume 1

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    twelve months, and to pay a small fine, WTiile she remained in prison, he petitioned for a di¬ vorce : but she being assisted with money by Captain Goodyere, and other friends, opposed it so strongly, that the House of Lords were of opinion that it could not be granted ; and so dis¬ missed the petition. The Captain’s view in furnishing the distressed lady with money, as he himself told Sir John, was, that he should not marry a young woman, and so beget an heir to his estate; and this was one of the principal motives that induced Sir John to leave the greatest part of his estates to his sister’s sons. JBy^the death of Sir John, an estate of 400/, per annum devolved to the Lady Hinely, his widow, not as a jointure, but as an estate of her own; which Sir John, while living, kept in his own hands. Thus the principal occasion of this horrid and barbarous murder, was the injury Captain Goodyere apprehended Sir John had done him in cutting off the entail of his estate, except 600/*