William Godwin's Diary

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Trial, Ford lord Grey, pp. 94 (7  March  1816) Great Britain. Court of King's BenchThe trial of Ford Lord Grey of Werk, Robert Charnock, Anne Charnock, David Jones, Frances Jones and Rebecca Jones. At the King's-Bench-Bar on Thursday the 23d, day of November, A.D. 1682, in Michaelmas-term, 34 Car., II, rs., before all the judges of the said Court of King's Bench, upon an information exhibited there by His Majesty's Attorney General, for unlawful tempting and inticing the Lady Henrietta Berkeley, one of the younger daughters of the Rt. Honble. George Earl of Berkeley, to unlawful love and carying her away from her father's house in Surry, with an intent to cause her to live in a scandalous manner with the said Lord Grey. Upon which trial, the first five named defendants in the said informtion were found guilty. 1716

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