Volume 2

Trials for adultery, or, The history of divorces : being select trials at Doctors Commons ... from the year 1760, to the present time. ... / Taken in short-hand, by a civilian.

Date:
1779-1780
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Trials for adultery, or, The history of divorces : being select trials at Doctors Commons ... from the year 1760, to the present time. ... / Taken in short-hand, by a civilian. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    She alio depofes and fays, that. Lady Percy having fent for the deponent (after fhe had left Lady Augufta’s fervice) fhe went to live with her ladyfhip on the fif¬ teenth or flxteenth of December, 1777, as her own maid-fervant; and Lady Percy then was in lodgings at No. 6, in Sennet Street, in the city of Bath; but the de¬ ponent does not know that Mr. Bird was then at Bath, nor does fhe remember feeing him there; that Lady ^.ugufta Corbet was not at Bath at that time : that, on the fe- cond of February, I778, the deponent well remembering the day. Lady Percy left Bath, and went to Afh Park 5 and the deponent, and the houfe-keeper, Mrs. Pried; the butler, John Felton; and Thom as Morris, the footman, attended her thither: that, on the Sunday follow- 1 0 t: ' * - ■ - ' 1 . ' / ing their arrival at Afh Park, Mr. Bird came there between eight and nine o’clock * in the evening ; and the next day the de¬ ponent heard that Lady Augufla Corbet was dead, for an exprefs came to Afh Park with the news of her death : that, when Mr, Bird came, Lady Percy had no com- 3 Fany