Staves, Susan. “Matrimonial Discord in Fiction and in Court: The Case of Ann Masterman”. Fetter’d or Free?: British Women Novelists 1670-1815, edited by Cecilia Macheski and Mary Anne Schofield, Ohio University Press, pp. 169-85.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Squire | Her father, Robert Squire
, from a royalist Yorkshire family, was a lawyer who owned property including valuable lead and alum mines. In 1702-4 he conducted a lawsuit over ownership of some lead mines with... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Masterman Skinn | She, it appears, had petitioned first, alleging his impotence and cruelty. Staves, Susan. “Matrimonial Discord in Fiction and in Court: The Case of Ann Masterman”. Fetter’d or Free?: British Women Novelists 1670-1815, edited by Cecilia Macheski and Mary Anne Schofield, Ohio University Press, pp. 169-85. 179 |
politics | Elinor James | Rosewell was tried at the Court of King's Bench
for high treason. EJ
visited him in prison, then went to the king (who according to her own account received her like a familiar friend). Rosewell's... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | After this she was summoned to the King's Bench
with a warrant for her committal to the Tower of London. She mounted her own legal defence, and was released. Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, pp. 1 - 59; various pages. 8, 181 Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, pp. 183-75. 259 |
Occupation | Edmund Curll | Edmund Curll
was fined at the Court of King's Bench
for his pornographic publications, and stood, according to his sentence, in the pillory. The Monthly Chronicle. Aaron Ward. |
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