THE Monthly Chronologer. ON July 27, at York affizes, a fort of French strolling doctor, who had taken up his abode, for near fix months, in a village not far from Richmond, and there began to practife, brought his action against a farmer for business done for his family, and in court produced the following bill. 13 Dec. 1750. Mr. W. ALLEN, of Leyburn, Debtor to Mr. TURNER, Surgeon, 1. 3. d. To elexir of life. To phyfique To univerfale balfams, To alexitereales medicaments 3 To efcharotiques ditto To maturetifs ditto To paregoriques ditto To abforbans ditto To araleptiques ditto To patheretiques ditto 2 6 10 0 6 11 4 10 To attendance, fince Aug.} 19, to Dec. 8, 1750. 5 10 £485 The trial, which was a very diverting one, lafted about three hours; when the jury gave the doctor fix guineas. On the 29th, between one and two in the morning, as the poft-boy was coming with the Western mail to town, he was, on Blackwater-heath, attacked by a single highwayman, well mounted, who, when he came up to him, commanded him to ftand, which he refufing, he prefented a piftol, and fwore, if he did not comply, he would shoot him; and immediately ordered him to difmount, and then took away 36 bags. He gave the boy two fhillings to drink his health, who walking on, in hopes, if not to get the bags, to find his horse, in his way he took up two of them; and going farther found his horfe, on which he mounted, and rode to Bagfhot, where he was immediately ordered with the two bags to London, to acquaint the poft maftergeneral of the affair. The reward for taking the robber, on conviction, is 2001. over and above that given by act of parliament, for apprehending of highwaymen. St. Luke's hofpital for lunat cks, near upper Moorfields, was opened on the 30th, for the reception of patients, (fee p. 371.) and next day the governors dined together, August, 1751. at Grocers-hall, on that occafior, when his grace the archbishop of Canterbury, the Jord bfhop of Norwich, and many other clergy, and perfons of diflioction were prefent, who contributed very largely to the promotion of this charity, the collection then made amounting to 12191. 185. befides annual fubfcriptions. At the affizes at Hertford, Thomas Colley received fentence of death, for the murder of Ruth Ofborne, at Tring. It appear ed on the trial, which lafted feveral hours, that fome of the neighbours thinking the deceafed was a witch, and her husband John Ofborne, a w.zard, had it cried at Winflow, Leighton-Buzzard and Hamel Hempstead, on their feveral market days, that they were to be publickly ducked on Monday, April 22, at Tring: That the overfeer of the poor of Tring having heard of this, and believing both the man and his wife to be very honeft people, in order to prevent the fame, fent them into the workhoufe That the mafler of the workhoufe hearing on Sunday, April 21, that a number of people would affemble next day in order to duck them, he in the middle of the night removed them into the veftry-room adjoining to the church, be. lieving the fan&lity of the place would have fome awe upon the mob: That about 11 on Monday morning, a great mob, thought to be above 5000, came to the workhouse, and demanded the fe poor people, and on his telling them they were not there, they rufhed in and fearched the house, and all the clofets, boxes and trunks; and that they were fo infatuated, that they fearched the very falt-box for them: That there be ing a little hole in the ceiling, where the plaifter was broke, Colley hallowed out, Let's fearch the ceiling; which they did accordingly, and not finding them, declared they would pull the house down if they were not delivered to them; and ac cordingly they pulled down a large wail belonging to the houfe, and alfo pulled out all the windows and window frames, and threatned to burn down not only the workhoufe, but the whole town of Tring, if they were not delivered up: That the mafter, fearing the confequences, did at laft inform them where the two unhappy people were; upon this they went to the veftry-room, broke it open, and took them away in triumph. It further appeared, by the depofition of feveral witneffes, that the man and woman were carried to a pond, called MarionBbb Meer, 378 The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. Meer, and feparately tied up in two several cloths or fheets: That a rope was tied under the arms of the deceafed, and two men dragged her into the pond, and then standing one on one fide the pond and the other on the other, they dragged her quite cross the pond feveral times: That after this they brought her to the pond fide and fet her down, and then ferved the husband in the fame manner, and fo on alternately, till the woman being brought to the shore the 3d time, and laid on the ground, foon expired That each of the three times Calley went into the pond, which in mud and water was not quite 2 foot and deep, and with a stick in his hand, turned the deceased over and over, and pushed her up and down feveral times: That when he came out of the pond, he went round among the people, and collected money of them as a reward for the great pains he had taken in fhewing them fport by ducking the old witch, as he called the deceased: That when he was in the pond, one called out to him and defired him to come out, and let the woman alone, for if he did not, he would certainly kill her, but he refused to come out, and faid he was a witch, and he would duck her again; and that he did after that, turn her over, and push her about in the pond several times; that the 3d time of ducking her, the last before he expired, he took hold of the cloth fhe was wrapt in, and pulled her up and down the pond, till the fame came off, and her body appeared naked; and that then he pushed her on the breaft with his flick, which the endeavoured with her left hand to catch hold of, but he pulled it away. Thus, according to the opinion of the furgeon at the trial, this poor woman expired by fuffocation with water and mud. She was in the 70th year of her age; but her husband, aged 56, being a lufty strong man, furvived the inhuman treatment of thefe barbarous mif. creants. Several other perfons were inddled with Clley, two not yet taken, and the rest to the jurors unknown; but it is hoped they will foon be difcovered and receive the just reward of their crime. (Sce P. 231.) THURSDAY, Aug. 1. General Wall, for fome time fince plenipotentiary minifter here from the king of Spain, having received freth letters of credence, giving him the character of ambasfador from his Catholick majesty, had a private audience of his majefly, at Kenfington, to prefent his faid credential letters. FRIDAY, 2. Was a fale of the British pickled herrings, at Garraway's coffee houfe; when the whole barrels fold, on an average, at 21. 48. Aug. each, the half barrels at 258. and the quarter barrels at 188, 6d. fo that they may now be afforded cheap. The affizes ended this night at Chelms. ford in Effex, when five perfons received fentence of death, among whom was John Ives, a publican of Colchester, for the murder of his wife, by throwing her down ftairs, and beating and bru fing her in a most barbarous manner,-In the fore. noon the grand jury at the faid affizes found a bill of indictment against John Swan and Elizabeth Jeffryes, for the murder of Mr. Jofeph Jeffryes, her uncle, on July 3 laft, at Walthamstow; and about fix in the evening they were both brought to the bar and arraigned on the faid indictment, to which they feverally pleaded not guilty; then the counsel for the crown moved to put off their trial till the next afsizes, on account of a material witnefs being kept out of the way; when it was learnedly debated by the gentlemen of the law on both fides (the prisoners having four counfel ;) the court were of opinion, for the reafons mentioned in two affidavits produced and read on the part of the profe cution, that the fame fhould be deferred to the next Lent affizes, and the prifoners to remain in cuftody, without bail, till that time.Mifs Jeffryes, the piece, fainted as foon as she came into court. SUNDAY, 4. This day began the change of the mourning for his late royal highness the prince of Wales, according to the orders of the lord chamberlain, viz. The men to continue in black, and to wear coloured fwords and buckles. -The ladies to wear black filk or velvet, coloured ribbands, sans and tippets, MONDAY, 5. This morning, at nine, their royal highneffes the prince of Wales, prince Edward, and the duke of Cumberland, went in a barge with the earl of Albemarle, and feveral other perfons of diftinction, attended by two other of his majesty's barges, with officers and other attendants, to Woolwich, where the matroffes were reviewed, their colonel marching at their head, with the chaplain, furgeon, and other perfons belonging to the regiment. They went thro' their exercifcs with great alacrity; and difcharged their cannon and fmall arms in a very regular manner; and concluded with letting off one piece nine times in a minute; after which, their royal highneffes repaired to the governor's house, where they dined and ftaid two hours, and upon their return went on board the King-George yacht at Greenwich, and drank coffee; and about fix o'clock they arrived at the Tower. The colours of the 17517 The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. the feveral veffels they paffed by were dif played, and their royal highnesses were Taluted by 21 guns from the Tower-wharf, as alfo by the cannon from Woolwich, the yachts at Greenwich, and the ships in the river. THURSDAY, 8. One Robert Darby, alias Jones, was taken at Gravefer d, as he was endeavouring to get a paffage to France, on fufpicion of his being the perfon who robbed the Western-mail on July 29 laft. (See p. 377.) On Saturday he was brought to town, and examined at Pontac's by Mr. alderman Rawlinfon, who committed him to the Poultry-counter for further examination. His wife was with him, and she was committed to Woodstreet-counter. On Monday he was brought to the general poft office, and examined at the board, where were prefent Mr alderman Winterbottom and Mr. alderman Rawlinfon, and after fome time he was remanded back to the Counter for further examination, the poft-boy not being pofitive to his perfon or drefs. But the next day he was examined again, and committed to Newgate; but his wife was discharged. FRIDAY, 9. The parliament, which stood prorogued to the 13th inftant, was ordered to be further prorogued to Oct. 15. MONDAY, 12. This night, between 11 and 12, a fire broke out in a warehouse at Cox and Cotton's wharf, near the Bridge-yard, Southwark, which burnt with great violence for feveral hours, and confumed two dwelling-houses, and feveral warehouses with goods therein to a confiderable value. The flames communicated to the shipping, fome of which received great damage in their rigging, &c. others, by flipping their anchors, efcaped. TUESDAY, 13. Thomas Jones and James Welch were committed to the New Goal, Southwark, charged on oath before juftice Clark, on an information taken in writing of one Nicholls, a carman and accomplice, with forcing from him the perfon of Sarah Green, on July 23d. 1748, in the evening, in a place called Parfon's-walk, near Newington church-yard, in Surrey, and then and there affaulting, wounding and illtreating her, of which wounds the died in St. Thomas's hofpital. This was the inhuman murder Mr. Richard Coleman, the brewer's clerk, fuffered for, who left the world declaring his innocence in the most folemn manner, (fee Mag. for 1749, P. 142, 19.) This black and fhocking affair came out by an accidental converfation an asquaintance had with Welch about persons 379 dying wrongfully; upon which Welch fwore a great oath, and faid Coleman died wrongfully, for that Nicholls, Jones, and he, were the perfons concerned in the murder for which Coleman fuffered. The young man to whom he faid this bore it upon his mind for a year; but being very uneasy about it, at laft difclofed the whole converfation, upon which the criminals were apprehended. The fame day a most shocking and unnatural act was committed at Henley upon Thames on Mr. Blandy, an attorney, a gentleman of a good eftate and great character in his profeffion, by his only daughter, whofe inclinations he oppofed, with refpect to her keeping company with a Scots officer, faid to be nearly related to two noblemen of that country, in revenge of which, and in order to be her own miftrefs, the perpetrated the unnatural crime of parricide, by poisoning her own father, as it is faid, in the following manner; water-gruel being his customary breakfast, The put fome poifon into it; he drank only part of it, faying to the maid it had an odd taste, and the maid not imagining any wicked defign, drank it up; but in a fhort time both of them found it to be poifon, and immediately fent to an apothecary, who fent them fomething to prevent any bad effect; but the cruel daughter found means to put fome more poifon in that which the gentleman was to take, which foon killed him. 'Twas faid the officer had a wife in Scotland, which was the rea fon of Mr. Blandy's forbidding his addreffes to his daughter. But the circumstances of this horrid affair must be left to time to dif cover. THURSDAY, 15. The worshipful company of ftationers held their annual venifon feast at their hall near Pater-nofter-row. Their entertain. ment was closed with dishes of British pickled herrings, which gave great fatisfaction. On the occafion Mr. Leveridge fung a fong in praise of the British fishery, to a most jovial chorus of, a fishing we will gos &c. accompanied with initruments. TUESDAY, 20. This morning, at the affizes at Kingston, came on the trials of Thomas Jones, a porter, and James Welch, a hackney writer, on the evidence of James Nicholls, a carman, an accomplice, for the murder of Sarah Green, near Newington, in July, 1748, for which murder Mr. Richard Cole. man unhappily fuffered. There were the greatest number of perfons at the trial ever known on fuch an occafion, all expreffing their abhorrence and deteftation of fo fhocking a crime. In the course of Nicholls's evidence he opened fuch a scene Bbba of 380 The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. of cruelty, as drew tears almost from the whole court, and Mr. juftice Burnet gave a moft moving charge to the jury, who, without hefitation, brought them in guilty. Seven more were convicted and condemned at the faid affizes for different crimes. Welch and Jones are to be hanged in chains immediately after their execution. (Of which we shall give an account in our next, together with Coleman's folemn declaration of his innocence.) SATURDAY, 24. This day Thomas Colley, for the cruel murder of Ruth Ofborne, on fuppofition of her being a witch, was executed at Gubblecut crofs, near Marlton - green, in the parish of Tring, in Hertford hire. About 10 on Friday morning he received the facrament at Hertford, administered to him by the Rev. Mr. Edward Bouchier, when he figned a folemn declaration of his belief relating to witchcraft; which he defired might be carried to the place of of execution, and was there publickly read, at his earnest requett, juft before he was turned off, by the Rev. Mr. Randal, minister of Tring, who attended him in his laft moments. He was escorted by 108 men belonging to the regiment of horfe blue, with their officers, and two trumpets; and the proceffion was flow, folemn, and moving. Friday night he was lodged in St. Alban's goal; and at five the next morning was put into a one-horse chaile, with the executioner, and came to the place of execution about eleven, and after half an hour (pent in prayer he was executed, and immediately after hung up in chains on the fame gibbet he was hanged on. The infatuation of most of the people in that part of the county was such, that they would not be feen near the place of execution, infifling that it was a hard cafe to hang a man for deftroying an old woman that had done fo much damage by her witchcraft. It was faid, he was to have been executed a week fooner, but when the proper officers came to convey him from the goal, a prodigious mob alfembled, and would not fuffer him to be taken out of prison. His Declaration, above-mentioned, was as follows. I Good people, BESEECH you all to take warning by an unhappy man's fuffering; that you be not deluded into fo abfurd and wicked a conceit, as to believe that there are any fuch beings upon earth as witches. It was that foolish and vain imagination, heightened and inflamed by the strength of liquor, which prompted me to be in. frumental (with others as mad brained as myfelf) in the horrid and barbarous mur Aug. der of Ruth Ofborne, the fuppofed witch, for which I am now fo defervedly to fuffer death. I am fully convinced of my former error, and with the fincerity of a dying man, declare, that I do not believe there is fuch a thing in being as a witch; and pray God, that none of you, thro' a contrary perfua fion, may hereafter be induced to think, that you have a right in any fhape to perfecute, much less endanger the life of a fellow-creature. I beg of you all to pray to God to forgive me, and to wash clean my polluted foul in the blood of Jefus Chrift, my Saviour and Redeemer. So exhorteth you all, the dying Thomas Colley MARRIAGES and BIRTHS. July 26.tenham, Efq; to Mifs Betty Hriftopher Metcalf, of Tot Clegg, of the fame place, a 30,000l. for. tune. 27. Capt. Baker, commander of the Stafford Indiaman, to Mifs Small, daughter of the lieut, governor of St. Helena. 28. Francis Wharton, of Lengdon, in Worcestershire, Efq; to Mifs Dennis, only daughter of capt. Dennis. Charles Burgoine, of Oxfordshire, Elq; to Mifs Henrietta Smallbrooke. 29. Valentine Nevill, Efq; counsellor at law, of Gray's- Inn, to Mrs. Wellbec, a widow lady, of 20,000l. fortune. Aug. 8. Henry Toye Bridgman, of Pincknah, in Gloucestershire, Efq; to Mifs Floyer. Mr. Glegg, only fon and furviving heir of Mr. Giegg, late an eminent banker in Lombard-ftreet, to Mifs Cartwright, of Lad-Lane. 9. George Hawkins, Efq; of Alftree, in Middlefex, to Mifs Margaretta Barker, of Great Ruffel-freet. 10 Capt. Macdonald, to Mifs Debordes, of Chelsea. 13. Sir William Maynard, Bart. to Mifs Charlotte Bishop, fecond daughter of Sir Cecil Bishop, Bart. and niece of the Rt. Hon. the lord viscount Falmouth. Richard Adams, Efq; recorder of the city of London, to Mifs Molinier, daughter of John Molinier, of Putney, Efq; 15. Sir Archibald Grant, of Monimusk, Bart. to Mifs Callendar, a 30,000l. fortune. Hon. William Egerton, Efq; fon of the late lord bishop of Hereford, to Mifs Mary Kirke. 20. Mr. James Townsend, an eminent wholefale grocer in St. John-flreet, to Mifs Deborah Waring. They were married at the Quakers-meeting at Alton, in Hants. 224 1 1751. MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, DEATHS, &c. 22. Mr. John Lloyd, an eminent brewer in Golden-Lane, to Mrs. Dolfufs, of Stoke Newington, a 20,000l. fortune. Dr. Watts, an eminent phyfician at St. Alban's, to Mifs Everett, daughter of the late Mr. deputy Everett. Hon. Thomas Penn (one of the two proprietors of the province of Pensylvania) to the lady Juliana Fermor, youngest daughter to the Right Hon. the late earl of Pomfret, July 24. The lady of the lord Byron, deliver'd of a daughter. 27. The lady of Sir George Beauchamp, Bart. of a daughter. Aug. 3. The lady of John Corbett, of Shrewsbury, Efq; of a fon. 11. The lady of the Hon. Admiral Bofcawen, of a fon. The lady of the Right Hon. the lord George Manners, of a fon. 17. The lady of Barker, Efq; fifter to the countefs of Marchmont, of a daughter. The lady of the Hon. Richard Fitzpa trick, of a daughter. 24. The lady of capt. Wetherston, of the first regiment of foot guards, of a fe venth fon, having been married 7 years. 27. Marchionefs of Granby, of a fon and heir. July 20, DEATHS, SIreland. IR Standish Harston, Bart. in Rev. Mr. Aaron Thompfon, vicar of Mr. John Wilfon, at Kendal, in Westmoreland, a noted botanift of that place, and author of a Synopfis of British Plants, after Mr. Ray's method. 30. Rt. Hon. the counters of Thanet, wife to the prefent earl. Aug. 1. Mr. Peter Hartopp, an eminent Turkey merchant. The lady of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Rawdon, baron Rawdon of Moyra, and fifter to the Right Hon, the lord viscount Hillsborough, in Ireland. 2. James Trimnell, Efq; nephew to the late Dr. Trimnell, lord bishop of Norwich. Capt. John Meffing, aged 86, who had been a commander in the train of artillery upwards of 50 years, and was at the taking of most of the towns in Flanders, under the duke of Marlborough. 3. Gilbert Walmsley, Efq; register of Litchfield cathedral. 4. Mr. William Cole, one of the clerks belonging to the Treafury, and fon of James Cole, Efq; 381 Holderness, by whom he has left the prefent earl of Holderness, and the counters of Ancram; but has left no iffue by her Iaft husband, the earl of Fitzwalter. Rev. Mr. Smith, minifter of Moulfey, and preacher at Kew chapel. 8. Sir Harry Seaton, Bart. in Scotland. 9. Dr. Freind, canon of Chrift-church, Oxford, and prebendary of Windfor, formerly mafter of Westminster-school, in the 85th year of his age. Major-general Alexander Gordon, aged near go, at his feat at Auchintoul, in Bamffihire. He was attainted by the name of major-general Thomas Gordon, after the rebellion in 1715; by which mifnomer he was made free, and has ever since lived at home in a private manner. 10. Dr. Thomas Crowe, aged 80, many years an eminent phyfician of this city, and one of the vice-presidents of St. Luke's hofpital for lunaticks. Mr. Terry, eldeft door-keeper to the houfe of lords, having enjoyed that post upwards of 40 years. Lancelot Rollefton, Efq; at his feat at Watnall Hall, in Nottinghamshire. Nicholas Merwin, Efq; formerly one of commiffioners of bankrupts, &c. Mr. Jackson, at his house near Croydon, in Surrey, on whofe evidence a poor farrier was executed about 3 years ago, for a fuppofed robbery committed upon him; but a fellow, who has fince been executed, and hung in chains, for robbing and murdering Mr. How's fervant, confessed the robbery, for which the above unhappy perfon fuffered. 15. Thomas Shaw, D. D. profeffor and principal of St. Edmund's Hall, in the uni verfity of Oxford. 16. Mr. John Coggs, a wholesale sta tioner in Bread-street. 23. The lady Wrey, daughter of Joha Edwards, of Highgate, Efq; and wife of Sir Bouchier Wrey, Bart. Jonathan Collyer, Efq; one of the directors of the South Sea company. Sir William Twyfden, of Eaft Peckham, in Kent, Bart. 25. Her grace the dutchefs of Richmond, at Goodwood, in Suffex, in the 45th year of her age. 26. William Potter, Efq; poffeffed of a plentiful fortune in Hampshire, which comes to his only fon, one of the clerks. of his majesty's houfhold. 29. Mr. Roger Bayley, deputy houfekeeper of St. James's, and door-keeper of his majesty's chapel royal. Ecclefiaftical PREFERMENTS. R. elected a canon of Salif Con. The counters of Fitzwalter, Mufatedral, Mr. Henry Shep eldest daughter of the late duke of Schomberg: Her first husband was the earl of herd, prefented to the living of Friskney, 5 in |