the faid A. R. B. called at her house, at any time whatsoever
when the the faid M. E. B. was at home; and whereas in truth
and in fact the said G. W. did not deny the faid M. E. B. being
at home when he the faid A. R. B. called, at any time when
the faid M. E. B. was at home; and whereas in truth and in
fact the faid A. R. B. was not ever denied to be admitted to the
houfe of the faid M. E. B. under pretence that the faid M. E. B.
was not at home, or under any other pretence whatever, by the
order of the faid M. E. B.; and whereas in truth and in fact
the faid M. E. B. did, to the knowledge and obfervation of the
faid G. W. long before, to wit, for fix weeks next before the fix-
teenth day of January 1777, feem to have a liking and inclina-
tion to marry the faid A. R. B.; and whereas in truth and in
fact the faid G. W. at the time he was fo fworn and examined
as aforefaid, well knew that the faid M. E. B. long before, to
wit, for the fpace of fix weeks next before the faid fixteenth
day of January 1777, had a liking and inclination to marry the
faid A. R. B.; and whereas in truth and in fact the faid M. E. B.
did intend to marry the faid A. R. B. long before the evening of
the fixteenth of January 1777, to wit, for fix weeks before the
faid fixteenth of January 1777; and whereas in truth and in fact
the faid G. W. at the time he was fo fworn, and also at the
time he was fo examined as aforefaid, well knew that the faid
M. E. B. did intend to marry the faid A. R. B. before the even-
ing of the fixteenth of January 1777: And fo the jurors afore-
faid, upon their oath aforefaid, fay, that the faid G. W. on the
faid twentieth day of Auguft, in the twenty-feventh year of the
reign of our lord the now king, at the parish of St. Dunstan in
the Weft aforefaid, in the county of Middlefex aforesaid, before
the faid T. W. efquire, then being one of the faid mafters in
chancery, and fo as aforefaid having fuch fufficient power and
authority to adminifter the faid oath to the faid G. W. as afore-'
faid, knowingly, falfely, wickedly, malicioufly, wilfully, and
corruptly, in manner and form aforefaid, on his oath aforefaid,
in and by his anfwer to the faid third interrogatory, did commit
wilful and corrupt perjury, to the great difpleasure of Almighty
God, in contempt of our faid lord the king and his laws, to the
great damage of the faid A. R. B. to the evil and pernicious
example of all others in the like cafe offending, and against the
peace of our lord the now king, his crown and dignity.
W. FIELDING.

THE CITY OF BRISTOL, AND COUNTY OF THE SAME Indictment for CITY. The jurors for our fovereign lord the now king, upon perjury in a their oath prefent, that before the day of taking this inquifi- caufe in the ection, to wit, on the eighteenth day of December, in the year for defamation. of Our Lord 1779, at the parish of Saint James, in the city of

Bristol,

clefiaftical court

Bristol, and county of the faid city, Ruth Sheppard, wife of Francis Sheppard, late of the parish of Saint George, in the county of Gloucefter, labourer, not having the fear of God before her eyes, but being moved and feduced by the inftigation of the devil, and contriving and malicioufly intending to injure one Richard Green, and to avert truth itself, came in her own You must be proper perfon before 7. Camplin, then furrogate of the dean and careful as to this chapter of Bristol, and did then and there, that is to fay, on the defcription. day and year aforefaid, at the faid parish of Saint James, in the aforefaid city of Briftol, and county of the fame city, as a witnefs in a certain caufe or fuit, to wit, a caufe of defamation, then depending in the epifcopal court of Bristol, between one Anne Jones, by the name of Anne Jones, of the parish of Saint George, in the county of Gloucester and diocese of Bristol, widow, againft the aforefaid Richard Green, by the name of Richard Green of the parish of Saint James, in the city and diocefe of Bristol, clerk, take her corporal oath upon the holy Gofpel of God, before the faid J. Camplin (the faid J. Camplin then and there having full power and authority to adminifter an oath to the faid Ruth Sheppard in that behalf), and then and there, to wit, on the day and year aforefaid, at the faid parish of Saint James, in the aforefaid city of Bristol, and county of the fame city, by her own act and confent, upon her faid oath before the faid J. Camplin (the faid J. Camplin then and there having fuch power and authority to adminif ter the faid oath to the faid Ruth Sheppard as aforefaid,) falfely, wilfully, maliciously, and corruptly, did fay, repeat, depofe, fwear, and make depofition in writing, intituled as followeth, to wit, in the epifcopal court of Bristol, Anne Jones, of the parish of Saint George, in the county of Gloucefter and diocese of Bristol, widow, against Richard Green, of the parish of Saint James, in the city and diocese of Bristol, clerk, in a caufe of defamation; depofitions on the libel, and containing therein, amongst other things, as follows, that is to fay, to the fecond article of the faid libel (meaning a certain libel or articles of complaint which had been exhibited by the aforefaid Anne Jones against the aforefaid Richard Green, in and to the aforefaid epifcopal court of Bristol, in the aforefaid caufe or fuit of defamation, and in the fecond article whereof the faid Anne Jones had charged and accused the faid Richard Green with calling her a whore and otherwife defaming her) this deponent (meaning herfelf the faid Ruth Sheppard) faith, that fhe (again meaning herfelf the faid Ruth Sheppard) was prefent at the dwelling-houfe of the articulate (meaning the aforelaid Anne Jones) in the parifh of Saint George, in the county of Gloucefter, in the diocefe of Briftol, on Monday the twenty-feventh day of September laft paft (meaning the month of September in the year of Our Lord 1779 aforefaid), when the (meaning herself the faid Ruth Sheppard) heard the libellate Richard Green (mean

ing the faid Richard Green hereinbefore-mentioned) abuse the articulate Anne Jones (meaning the faid Anne Jones hereinbeforementioned) in a very fcandalous manner, and call her (meaning the faid Anne Jones) a whore feveral times; and that afterwards on the fame twenty-feventh day of September laft paft (meaning the month of September, in the year 1779 aforefaid), fhe (meaning herself the faid Ruth Sheppard) was in company with the faid Anne Jones, in Wade-ftreet, in the parish of Saint Philip and Jacob, in the county of Gloucester and diocefe of Bristol, when the libellate (meaning the faid Richard Green) took hold of the bridle of the horfe on which the articulate Anne Jones was then riding, and again called her a whore feveral times, as by the faid depofition (reference being thereto had) will, among ft other things, fully appear: Whereas in truth and in fact the faid Ruth Sheppard was not prefent at the dwelling-houfe of the aforefaid Anne Jones, in the parish of Saint George, in the county of Gloucef. ter, in the diocefe of Briftol, on Monday the twenty-seventh day of September, in the year 1779 aforefaid, nor did the then hear the aforefaid Richard Green abuse the aforefaid Anne Jones in a very scandalous manner, and call her a whore feveral times; and whereas in truth and in fact neither the faid Richard Green nor the faid Ruth Sheppard was prefent at the dwelling houfe of the faid Anne Jones, in the aforefaid depofition mentioned, on the twenty-feventh day of September 1779, nor did the faid Richard Green then or at any other time abufe the aforefaid Anne Jones in a scandalous or any other manner, nor did he then or at any other time whatsoever call her a whore feveral times in the hearing of the faid Ruth Sheppard; and whereas in truth and in fact the aforefaid Richard Green did not on the aforefaid twenty-feventh day of September, in the year 1779 aforefaid, call the aforefaid Anne Jones a whore, or in any other manner whatfoever defame the faid Anne Jones, and fo the faid Ruth Sheppard well knew at the time of her taking her aforefaid oath and making her aforefaid depofition in that refpect as aforefaid; and whereas in truth and in fact the aforefaid Ruth Sheppard was not on the aforefaid twenty-feventh day of September 1779 in company with the faid Anne Jones in Wade-street, in the parish of Saint Philip and Jacob, in the county of Gloucester and diocese of Bristol, nor did the aforefaid Richard Green take hold of the bridle of the horfe of the aforefaid Anne Jones, as in the aforefaid depofition is falfely and corruptly alledged, and again call her a whore feveral times; and whereas in truth and in fact the faid Richard Green did not on the aforefaid twenty-feventh day of September, in the year 1779 aforefaid, take hold of the bridle of the horfe of the aforefaid Anne Jones, and call her a whore, as the faid Ruth Sheppard hath, in her depofition aforefaid, falfely, wilfully, and corruptly depofed, and fo the faid Ruth Sheppard well knew at the time of her making her aforefaid depofition in that refpect; and whereas in truth and in fact the aforefaid Richard Green did

not

not at any time on the aforefaid twenty-feventh day of September
1779, call the aforefaid Anne Jones a whore: And fo the afore-
faid jurors, on their aforefaid oath, do say, that the aforesaid Ruth
Sheppard, on the faid eighteenth day of December, in the year of
our Lord 1779 aforefaid, at the faid parish of Saint James, in the
city of Bristol and county of the fame city, before the aforefaid
J. Camplin (the faid J. Camplin then and there having
full power and authority to adminifter the aforesaid oath to the
faid Ruth Sheppard in the refpect aforefaid), by, of, and through
her own act and confent, in manner and form aforefaid, upon her
aforefaid oath did falfely, maliciously, wilfully, and corruptly, com-
mit wilful and corrupt perjury, to the great difpleasure of Al-
mighty God, in contempt of the laws of this realm, to the
wicked and evi example of all others in the like cafe offend-
ing, to the fubverfion of public juftice and good government of
this kingdom, to the great damage of the aforefaid Richard
Green, and against the peace of our lord the now king, his
crown and dignity.
V. LAWES.

Indictment for MIDDLESEX, to wit. The jurors for our lord the king, upon perjury before a their oath prefent, that the borough of Cricklade, in the county of committee of the Wilts, is an ancient borough, and for a long space of time two houfe of com- burgeffes of the fame borough have been elected and fent, and have

mons concern

ing bribery and been used and accustomed, and of right ought to be elected and treating at the fent to ferve as burgeffes for the fame borough in the parliament of Cricklade elec- this kingdom, to wit, at the borough of Cricklade, in the county

tion.

of Wilts; and that on the feventeenth day of February, in the fifteenth year of the reign of our fovereign lord George the Third, king of Great Britain, &c. an election of an apt and difcreet burgefs of the faid borough to serve as a burgess for the aforesaid borough of Cricklade, in the place of William Earle, efquire, then deceated, in the then parliament of our faid lord the now king, came on, to wit, at the borough of Cricklade, in the faid county of Wilts, and thereupon one Samuel Peach, efquire, and one John Dewar, efquire, were returned to ferve in the faid parliament for the faid borough of Cricklade: And the jurors aforefaid, upon their oath aforefaid, further prefent, that afterwards, to wit, on Thursday, the nineteenth day of January, in the fifteenth year of the reign of our faid lord the king, the faid John Dewar did prefent a certain petition in writing to the lower houfe of parliament of our faid lord the king, then held at Westminster aforefaid, to wit, in the parish of Saint Margaret, Weftminster, in the county of Middlesex, directed to the honourable the commons of Great Britain in parliament affembled, thereby fetting forth, among other things, that at the late election of a burgess to ferve in parliament for the faid borough of Cricklade, in the county of Wilts, in the room of the faid William Earle, efquire, deceased, and Samuel Peach, efquire, the petitioner were candidates; and

that

that at the faid election, which came on the twenty-seventh day of December then laft before Thomas Carter, bailiff, and returning officer for the faid borough, a great majority of legal votes. was given for the petitioner, who ought to have been returned accordingly, but the faid returning-officer, notwithstanding such majority, had returned the faid Samuel Peach and the petitioner, inftead of the petitioner alone, to the great injury of the petitioner, and in violation of the rights of the electors of the faid borough, and fuch petition therefore prayed that the faid return might be amended by erafing the name of the faid Samuel Peach therefrom, and that the faid petitioner only might be declared duly elected, or have fuch other relief as the houfe fhould think meet: And the jurors aforefaid, upon their oath aforefaid, do further prefent, that afterwards, to wit, on Thursday, the nineteenth day of January, in the fifteenth year of the reign of our faid lord the now king, the faid Samuel Peach, efquire, did prefent a certain petition in writing to the lower houfe of parliament of our faid lord the king, then held at Westminster, in the county of Middlefex, to wit, in the parish of Saint Margaret, Westminster, in the county of Middlefex, directed to the honourable the commons of Great Britain in parliament affembled, thereby fetting forth, among other things, that at the late election of a burgess to represent the borough of Cricklade, in the county of Wilts, in parliament, in the room of William Earle, efquire, deceafed, the faid Samuel Peach, the petitioner, and John Dewar, efquire, were candidates, that the faid election came on about eleven of the clock in the forenoon, of the twenty-feventh day of December then laft paft, and the returning-officer proceeded to take the poll in the church, as the most convenient place for that purpose, and continued the poll till four of the clock of the afternoon of the fame day, when only forty-one out of near two thousand perfons having a right to vote had given their fuffrages; that the poll being adjourned to the fame place, and at the hour of nine on the next morning, the petitioner, with his counfel, agents, and a very numerous body of electors who meant to vote for the petitioner, appeared at the church-porch pursuant to the faid adjournment; that as the returning-officer and the candidates, together with the electors, were entering the church, in order to proceed to the place of polling, a riot commenced, which obliged the returning-officer immediately to close the poll, and on that account he returned the faid John Dewar and the petitioner to represent the said borough in the room of the faid William Earle; and that the petitioner, by reason thereof, was prevented from receiving the fuffrages of a large majority of the electors for the faid borough, and of obtaining a legal right to represent the said borough for the remainder of the then prefent parliament; that from the time of the decease of the faid William Earle unto the close of the poll, the town of Cricklade, by means of the feasts and entertainments daily and constantly given by and at the expence of the said John

Dewar