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diſcovery had been made, yet too well knowing the truth, began to think of uſing the ſame method, which ſhe had heard before put in practice, of delivering herſelf from any impertinence; for as to danger, ſhe was not ſufficiently verſed in the laws to apprehend any.
In the mean time the mother, at the ſolicitation of ſome of her relations, who, notwithſtanding the ſtout denial of the wife, had given credit to the ſtory, had applied herſelf to a magiſtrate, before whom the Totneſs man appeared, and gave evidence as is before mentioned. Upon this a warrant was granted to apprehend the Doctor, with which the conſtable arrived at her houſe, juſt as ſhe was meditating her eſcape.
The huſband was no ſooner ſeized, but the wife threw herſelf into the greateſt agonies of rage and grief, vowing that he was injured, and that the information was falſe and malicious, and that ſhe was reſolved to attend her huſband wherever they conveyed him.
And now they all proceeded before the Juſtice, where a ſtrict examination being made into the affair, the whole happened to be true, to the great ſhock and aſtoniſhment of every body; but more eſpecially of the poor wife, who fell into fits, out of which ſhe was with great difficulty recovered.
The whole truth having been diſcloſed before the Juſtice, and ſomething of too vile, wicked and ſcandalous a nature, which was found in the Doctor’s trunk, having been produced in evidence againſt her, ſhe was committed to Bridewell, and Mr. Gold, an eminent and learned counſellor at law, who lives in thoſe parts, was conſulted with upon the occaſion, who gave his advice that ſhe ſhould be proſecuted at the next ſeſſions, on a clauſe in the vagrant act, for having by falſe and deceitful practices endeavoured to impoſe on ſome of his Majeſty’s ſubjects.
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