Volume 2
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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![£ 3 ] Serjeant at Arms. God fave the King ! Then Garter., and the Gentleman Uiher of the Black Rod, after Three Reverences, kneel¬ ing, jointly prefented the White Staff to his Grace the Lord High Steward; And then his Grace, attended hy Garter., Black Rod, and the Purfe-Bearer (making his proper Reverences towards the Throne) removed from the Woolpack to an armed Chair, which was placed on the uppermoft Step but one of the Throne, as it was prepared for that Purpofe; and then feated himfelf in the Chair, and delivered the Staff to the Gentleman Ufher of the Black Rod on his Right Hand, the Purfe-Bearer holding the Purfe on his Left. Clerk of the Crown. Serjeant at Arms, make Proclamation. Serjeant at Arms. Oyez, Oyez, Oyez! Our Sovereign L.ord the King llriftly charges and commands all Manner of Perfons to keep Silence, upon Pain of Imprifonment. Then the Clerk of the Crown, by Direeflion of the Lord High Steward, read the Crr- thrari., and the Return thereof, together with the Caption of the Indictment, and the In¬ dictment certified thereupon, Elizabeth Duchefs Dowager of Kingjion in hac verba: ^jjEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland ^ King, Defender of the Faith, and fo forth. To Our Juftices of Oyer and Terminer at Hicks’ Hall, in Saint John-Jireet, in and for Our County of Middlefex, and to every of them, greeting. We being willing, for certain Reafons Us thereunto moving, that all and fingular Indictments of whatfoever Felonies whereof FJrzabeth calling herfelf Duchefs .Dowager of-Kingjion, by the Name of' Elizabeth tho Wife of Augujlus John Hervey, late of the- Parifli of Saint George, Hanover Square, in the County of Middlefex, Efquire, is indicted-before you (as is faid) be determined before Us in Our Parliament, and not elfe- where do command you and every of you, that you or One of you do fend under your ■ Seals, or under the Seal of One of you, before Us in Our prefent Parliament, immediately after- the Receipt of this Our Writ, all and fingular the Indictments nforefaid, with all Things touching:the fame, by whatfoever Name xKq Elizabeth is called in the fame, ; together with this Writ, that We may caufe further to be done thereon, what of Rio-ht . ..and according to the Law and Cuftom of England We fhall fee fit to be done. Witi^efs H. Qiirfelf at IFeJiminJicr the Eleventh Day oI^November, in the Sixteenth Year of our Reign. rORKE. -To the Juftices^ of Oyer and'Terminer, at Hicks’ Hail, in John-ftreet, in and for the County of Middlefex, and to every of them,, a Writ of Certiorari to certify into the Upper Houfe-of Parliament the Indictment found againfl } Elizabeth calling herfelf Uuchefs'Dowager olKingJlon, by the Name of Elizabeth Wife of Augufins John Hervey, for Bigamy, returnable immediately before the King in Parliament. rORKE. J®y Order, of'the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament aflembled. The '-’Ejteciuion of this Writ appears by the Schedules and Indictment to this Writ ■ .-annexed. The Anfwer of S'w John Hawkins, Knight, One of the Juftices within written. i'Middlefex. j ■!:>£ it Remembered, That at the General Seffion of Oyer and Terminer of 3 Our Lord the King, holden for the County of Middlefex at Hicks’ Hall,' in ' Saint John-jireet, in the faid County, on Monday the Ninth Day of January, in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Third, King of Great Britain, and fo forth, before Sir John Hawkins, Knight, John Cox, David Wilmot, John Brettell, •Efquires, and Others their Fellows Juftices of Our faid Lord the King, afligned by His Majefty’s Letters Patent under -the Great Seal of Great Britain directed to fame Juftices - before named, and others in the faid Letters named, to inquire more fully the Truth by 1 the Oath of good and lawful Men- of tlie faid County of Middlefex, and by other Ways, Means, and Methods by which they fhall or may better Enow (as well within Liberties as without) by vEom the Truth of the Matter may be better known, of all Treafons, Mif- prifions of Treafon, InfurreClions, Rebellions, Counterfeitings, Clippings, Wafhings, falfc ^^doinings, and other Falfities of the Money oi Great Britain and other Kingdoms and Dominions](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30458961_0002_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
