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Lady Henrietta : I will go with my husband." 



Earl of Berkeley : " Then all that are my friends, 

 seize her, I charge you." 



Lord Chief Justice : " Nay, let us have no breaking 

 of the peace in the Court" 



" The Court broke up, and passing through West- 

 minster Hall there was a great scuffle about the lady 

 and swords drawn on both sides ; but My Lord Chief 

 Justice coming by, ordered a tipstaff that attended 

 him to take charge of her and carry her over to the 

 King's Bench." Harriet Berkeley and Mr. Turner 

 were then committed to the Marshal's House, after- 

 wards the debtor's prison, and liberated the last day 

 of term. The next term the suit was compromised.* 

 The worthless Harriet Berkeley seems before this to 

 have been so heady as to get into trouble. Lord 

 Berkeley wrote to Pepys, Feb. 23, 1677-8. "As for 

 Mrs. Henrietta," ( " Mrs." being the old style for 

 " Miss") "she is extremely troubled in anything that 

 gave you offence, and though she did not in the least 

 intend it, yet she begs y r - pardon." f 



Even in those days this scandalous trial for incest 

 left a stain upon Ford Grey's name which men never 

 forgot : and later, though the Whig party upheld him, 

 the stricter Puritans to their credit never forgave the 

 dishonour. Having lost his name, Ford Grey attempted 

 to redeem it by desperate risks. He had met the Duke 

 of Monmouth in the Charlton hunt, near Goodwood, 

 in this neighbourhood, J and determined to share and 

 guide his fortunes. In the very next year (1683) he 

 was imprisoned for his share in the Rye House Plot, 

 which was to have put the Duke of Monmouth, 

 natural son of Charles II., in the Protestant interest 

 on the Throne. 



It is curious that in the original design of the Rye 

 House Plot, Up Park was to have played a prominent 



Trial of Ford, Lord Grey. t Pepys, v. 294. 



Mr. Bennett's Memoir of Charlton Hunt. 



