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The Carleton Bigamy Trial
Multiple conflicting perspectives come together in this collection to provide a Rashomon-style account of marriage, fraud, and trickery in seventeenth-century England. Mary Carleton was an ordinary woman from Canterbury who entered historical records when she was accused of bigamy. The seven pamphlets in this edition focus on the bigamy trial of Mary Carleton, in which the accused eloquently defends herself and is ultimately acquitted. Written in the early years of the English Restoration, they demonstrate that narratives presenting what "she said" and what "he said" can reveal, forcefully and painfully, how truth can be fragmented in the different arenas of law, love, and politics. Through their disparate accounts of a marriage gone wrong, these pamphlets reinforce the social status quo even while they radically shatter the very foundations that give it heft. In asking readers to question absolutes, they unmask the precarious relationship between words and the world.
The Production of a Female Pen
Based on a manuscript at the Lewis Walpole Library.
The Trial of Elizabeth, Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy, Before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in Westminster-Hall, in Full Parliament
Chudleigh, Elizabeth, Countess of Bristol, 1720-1788, calling herself Duchess of Kingston; 8/4/1744 married to Augustus John Hervey, who became Earl of Bristol; 2/11/1769 swore she was not married; 3/8/1769 married to Evelyn Pierrepont, Duke of Kingston; 4/15/1776 her bigamy trial began, verdict was guilty.
Double Trouble
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The Trials of Marriage
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the provincial and national newspapers reported aspects of marriage at all levels of society, and are a valuable source of contemporary accounts, often entertaining, which allow us to view the changing attitudes to marriage, and see them in the context of their times. Reports of court cases by a reporter who was present, are the closest we have to primary sources.Advertisements for wives and husbands appeared from the second part of the 18th century onwards, and the newspapers covered proposals and weddings which were unusual and/or amusing. There was widespread coverage of court cases resulting from adultery, and breach of promise, and the records of the Old Bailey of trials for bigamy, a statutory offence, show punishments from execution to branding, transportation, and imprisonment. Ending a marriage by divorce was not available to the great majority of the population, and wife selling was often regarded as a perfectly acceptable alternative. Attitudes and laws relating to the role and status of wives are seen to change considerably over the two centuries.
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, ... of April, 1776;
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansio...
