The arraignment, tryal and conviction of Robert Feilding, Esq., for felony in marrying Her Grace the Dutchess of Cleaveland, his first wife Mrs. Mary Wadsworth : being then alive, at the Sessions-House in the Old Bayly, on the 4th day of December, 1706, before two of Her Majesty's justices of the Court of Queen's Bench one of the justices of Her Majesty's justices of Her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas and several others of Her Majesty's justices for the Goal-Delivery of Newgate : with copies of the several letters between Mr. Feilding and his first wife Mrs. Wadsworth, by the name of Anne Countess of Feilding : as also all the learned arguments of the Queen's council / perused by one of the judges present at the tryal : to which is added, an account of the proceedings against the said Mr. Feilding in the Spiritual Court at Doctors-Commons, and the sentence given against him there.

London : Printed for J. Mount, 1708.

16 pages, 36 pages.

Making of modern law. Trials, 1600-1926.

Reproduction of the original from Harvard Law School Library.

With: Mr. Cruden greatly injured, an account of a trial between Mr. Alexander Cruden bookseller to the late Queen, plaintiff and Dr. Monro, Matthew Wright, John Oswald and John Davis, defendants in the Court of the Common-Pleas in Westminster-Hall July 17, 1739, on an action of trespass, assault and imprisonment, the said Mr. Cruden, tho' in his right senses, having been unjustly confined and barbarously used in the said Matthew Wright's private madhouse at Bethnal-Green for nine weeks and six days, till he made his wonderful escape May 31, 1738 : to which is added a surprising account of several other persons, who have been most unjustly confined in private madhouses : the whole tending to shew the great necessity there is for the legislature to regulate private madhouses in a more effectual manner than at present. London : Printed for A. Injured and sold by the pamphlet-sellers of London and Westminster, 1740.

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Mr. Cruden greatly injured, an account of a trial between Mr. Alexander Cruden bookseller to the late Queen, plaintiff and Dr. Monro, Matthew Wright, John Oswald and John Davis, defendants in the Court of the Common-Pleas in Westminster-Hall July 17, 1739, on an action of trespass, assault and imprisonment, the said Mr. Cruden, tho' in his right senses, having been unjustly confined and barbarously used in the said Matthew Wright's private madhouse at Bethnal-Green for nine weeks and six days, till he made his wonderful escape May 31, 1738 : to which is added a surprising account of several other persons, who have been most unjustly confined in private madhouses : the whole tending to shew the great necessity there is for the legislature to regulate private madhouses in a more effectual manner than at present.

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