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peared very ragged, and otherwise 

 much distressed, and was at that 

 time beating the boy most severe- 

 ly : she then accosted him, the mas- 

 ter, saying she was in great dis- 

 tress, and a long way from home ; 

 and after some further preliminary 

 conversation, said, if he would give 

 her two guineas to enable her to 

 get home, she would bind her son 

 apprentice to him ; this proposal 

 was agreed to, and the boy was re- 

 gularly indentured, the woman 

 having previously made affida- 

 vit as to being his own mother. 

 This testimony was corroborated by 

 the boy himself; but as no doubt 

 remained in the mind of any one 

 respecting the boy's real mother, 

 his master, without further cere- 

 mony, resigned him to her. The 

 inhabitants interested themselves 

 very humanely in the poor wo- 

 man's behalf, by not only paying 

 her coach- fare back to London 

 (her children having been freed by 

 one of the proprietors), but also by 

 collecting for her the sum of 

 2/. 5s. 



26. At the Lancaster assizes, 

 Mr. Martin Lolley was found 

 guilty of bigamy. The first mar- 

 riage was proved to have been 

 solemnised in England some years 

 ago ; and the second was con- 

 tracted in the beginning of the pre- 

 sent year, the first wife being alive. 

 On the prisoner's behalf several 

 witnesses were examined, by whom 

 it was proved, that previous to the 

 second marriage, a divorce had 

 been sued for, and obtained, in 

 Scotland, by the first wife, on the 

 ground of adultery, Mr.Duncan, a 

 writer to the signet, and a solicitor 

 in the Scotch ecclesiastical court, 

 was examined as to the mode of 

 proceeding in such cases ; and it 

 appeared, that previous to a divorce 



being obtained it is always cus- 

 tomary and necessary to have evi- 

 dence of the real grounds upon 

 which the pursuer seeks for the di- 

 vorce, and also to hear the demur- 

 rer's reasons why it should not be 

 given. He said tnere had been 

 numerous instances of divorces be- 

 ing obtained in that manner, and 

 recognized as legal ; but on his be- 

 ing asked whether he ever knew of 

 an English marriage being dissolv- 

 ed by the decree of the Scotch ec- 

 clesiastical court, he said he could 

 not recollect an instance. The 

 jury, by the direction of his lord- 

 ship, brought in a verdict of guilty ; 

 but reserved the case for the consi- 

 deration of the twelve judges. 



'27. Hudclersfield— Last Friday 

 night, about fifty men, all armed 

 with guns, went to the house of 

 Mr. Edward Hepworth, a farmer at 

 Sheepridge, about two miles from 

 Huddersfield, and after breaking 

 open his door with an iron mall, 

 they demanded a gun ; but on be- 

 ing'told he had no fire-arms, they 

 insisted that he should reduce the 

 price of his corn and milk; and 

 then proceeding to destroy his fnr- 

 niture, they broke to pieces his 

 clock, tables, and every thing of 

 value in his house. After this 

 wanton outrage, they proceeded to 

 several other houses in that neigh- 

 bourhood, where they committed 

 similar depredations, and then dis- 

 persed. We have now upwards of 

 1,000 soldiers in this town: the 

 publicans are very much distressed 

 to accommodate them. There are 

 only about thirty-three public- 

 houses in the town, so that each 

 house has, on an average, upwards 

 of thirty soldiers. How long this 

 is to continue we cannot tell. 

 WicL— The herring-fishery in 

 going on 

 successfully. 



this neighbourhood is t.-..-^ 



