Volume 1
The trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in Westminster-Hall, in full Parliament, on Monday the 15th, Tuesday the 16th, Friday the 19th, Saturday the 20th, and Monday the 22d of April, 1776. On the last of which days the said Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston was found guilty / Published by order of the House of Peers.
- Elizabeth Pierrepont, Duchess of Kingston-upon-Hull
- Date:
- 1776
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in Westminster-Hall, in full Parliament, on Monday the 15th, Tuesday the 16th, Friday the 19th, Saturday the 20th, and Monday the 22d of April, 1776. On the last of which days the said Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston was found guilty / Published by order of the House of Peers. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ I JO ] Mr. Attorney General. Ann Pritchard. Yes. Mr. Attorney General. Ann Pritchard. Yes : Are you married ? Has your Hufband any Bufinefs ? a Place in the Cuftom-Houfe. Lord Grofuenor. What do you mean by Mrs. Cradock's being confined at Mr. Beau- water's ? Ann Pritchard. I went to enquire for her: I was not permitted to fee her. Lord Denbigh. I beg to know upon what Account you faw the Prifoner in February laft ? Ann Pritchard. By an Invitation to her Houfe-keeper. Lord Denbigh. Did you fee the Prifoner herfelf at that Time. Ann Pritchard. I did. Lord Denbigh. What pafied between you and the Prifoner ? Ann Pritchard. I cannot particularly relate it; nothing material. Lord Denbigh. Did nothing pafs relative to this Trial ? Ann Pritchard. Nothing. Lord Denbigh. Did nothing pafs relative to the Converfations between you and Mrs. Cradock ? Ann Pritchard. I do not recoiled there was. Lord Weymouth. I think the Witnefs has faid, that Mrs. Cradock told her that (he did not hear the Ceremony read ; and Mr. Cradock has Jikewife told your Lordfhips, that flie was prefent when the Ceremony was read; I fhould be glad to afk whether Mrs. Cradock gave any Reafon for not having heard the Ceremony ? whether, that fhe was at a Diftance in the Church, or the Clergyman did not fpeak loud enough ? Ann Pritchard. She was at too great a Diftance in the Church. Duke of Richmond. Did Mrs. Cradock tell you, that fhe had in her Examination before the Mafter in Chancery faid, that fine did not hear the Ceremony read? Ann Pritchard. She told me, fhe did. A Lord. The Counfel may produce that Examination. Lord Camden. I have been afking the fame Queflion, conceiving it would give Light to your Lordfhips, if it could be produced. I find that it is an Examination de bene ejje. Publication is not made, and the Examinations are fealed up. Ordered to withdraw. Mr. Wallace. My Lords, I fhall call WitnefTes now to prove the 'Confultation of Dr. Collier, and I fhall follow that, my Lords, with a Proof of what Advice he gave to the noble Lady at the Bar and the Duke of Kingfion in the Prefence of a Witnefs I have to pro¬ duce. My Lords, we have fent, but find there is no Poflibility of bringing Dr. Collier, or he fhould have been here.-—We will now call Dr. WARREN, who was /worn in like Manner. Mr. Wallace. I wifh Dr. Warren would inform your Lordfhips, whether he has lately feen Dr. Collier. Dr. Warren. I vifited Dr. Collier Yefterday, about Eight oClock in the Afternoon, and found him very ill under a Variety of Complaints, particularly a St. Anthony's Fire in his Head and Face, by which One Side of it was fo much fwelled, that the Eye was almoft clofed up. It appeared to me that he could not venture out without great Hazard. Mr. Attorney General. I beg Dr. Warren may be afked, whether he thinks Dr. Collier's Condition fuch, that he could not ftir out without Danger ? Dr. Warren. I faid fo, my Lords. Mr. Attorney General. What Sort of Danger do you mean, when you fpeak of the Dan¬ ger under which he would come out ? Dr. Warren. I think that he is in Danger*, I cannot fay that it would certainly kill him, but it would be very imprudent in me to advife him to come out. Ordered to withdraw. Air. Mansfield. The Witnefs now intended to be produced to your Lordfhips is Mr. Laroche. The Purpofe for which he is to be produced, is to tell your Lordfhips, that he faw Dr. Collier frequently with the Lady at the Bar and the late Duke of Kingfion, during the Suit in the Ecclefiaflical Court: That he has himfelf heard Dr. Collier affure both the Parties, the late Duke of Kingfion and the Lady at the Bar, after that Sentence in the Spiritual](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30458961_0001_0160.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
