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CRIMINAL CONVERSATION TRIAL AND ‘DIVORCE’ PROCEEDINGS
ARCHIVAL AND UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL
Cumbria Record Office, Barrow-in-Furness: Hart Jackson & Sons, Solicitors
BD HJ Precedent Book 6/Page 321–48 (Worsley Deeds of Separation)
BD HJ Precedent Book 6/Page 321–48 (Worsley Deeds of Separation)
Isle of Wight Record Office: Worsley Family Papers:
JER/WA/38/1–2, 38/4–5
Lambeth Palace Archives: Court of Arches
10302
Worsley
v.
Worsley
(Suit for Divorce)
JER/WA/38/1–2, 38/4–5
Lambeth Palace Archives: Court of Arches
10302
Worsley
v.
Worsley
(Suit for Divorce)
Supporting Materials and Counter Suits Aa 77/15, 18, 37, Aa 78/2–3, D 2324, E 45/17, G 129/68 G 152/14–15, J22/8
CONTEMPORARY PUBLICATIONS
Anon.,
A New Collection of Trials for Adultery or, General History of Modern Gallantry and Divorces
(1802)
A New Collection of Trials for Adultery or, General History of Modern Gallantry and Divorces
(1802)
Anon.,
The Cuckold’s Chronicle
(1793)
The Cuckold’s Chronicle
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Anon.,
Trials for Adultery: or the History of Divorces Being Select Trials at Doctor’s Commons, for Adultery, Fornication, Cruelty, Impotence, etc., 1779–1781
, 7 vols (1781)
Trials for Adultery: or the History of Divorces Being Select Trials at Doctor’s Commons, for Adultery, Fornication, Cruelty, Impotence, etc., 1779–1781
, 7 vols (1781)
Pye Donkin, Robert,
The Trial with the Whole of the Evidence between the Right Hon. Sir Richard Worsley, Bart, and George Maurice Bissett, Esq. Defendant for Criminal Conversation with the Plaintiff’s Wife
(1782), editions: 1–2, 4–5, 8
The Trial with the Whole of the Evidence between the Right Hon. Sir Richard Worsley, Bart, and George Maurice Bissett, Esq. Defendant for Criminal Conversation with the Plaintiff’s Wife
(1782), editions: 1–2, 4–5, 8
CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS
Anon., ‘The Trial between Sir Richard Worsley and Captain Bisset’,
European Magazine
, i 154 (February 1782), pp. 17–18
European Magazine
, i 154 (February 1782), pp. 17–18
‘Crim. Con. Intelligence’,
Hampshire Chronicle
, 25 February 1782, p. 3
Hampshire Chronicle
, 25 February 1782, p. 3
Monthly Review
(March–August 1782)
(March–August 1782)
Morning Herald
(15, 22, 27, 28 February, 2 March 1782)
(15, 22, 27, 28 February, 2 March 1782)
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(22 February 1782)
(22 February 1782)
World
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(22 February 1782)
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The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745–1799
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Lloyd, Sarah, ‘Amour in the Shrubbery: Reading the Details of English Adultery Trial Publications of the 1780s’,
Eighteenth Century Studies
, no. 39 (2006)
Eighteenth Century Studies
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McCreery, Cindy, ‘Breaking All the Rules: The Worsley Affair in Late Eighteenth Century Britain’, in
Orthodoxy and Heresy in Eighteenth Century Society
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Orthodoxy and Heresy in Eighteenth Century Society
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Staves, Susan, ‘Money for Honor: Damages for Criminal Conversation’,
Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture
, ed. Harry C. Payne, vol. 11 (London, 1982)
Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture
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Sexuality in Eighteenth Century Britain
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Wood, J.L., ‘A Picture of the Times: the Crim Con Suit over Lady Worsley’,
Factotum
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Factotum
no. 25 (February 1988), pp. 7–8
GENERAL
ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
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Chatsworth 214 (14 July 1778)
Chatsworth 214 (14 July 1778)
Derbyshire Record Office
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: Unknown to Unknown, 30 January 1782, James Worsley to William Clarke, 6 July 1784
: Unknown to Unknown, 30 January 1782, James Worsley to William Clarke, 6 July 1784
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Leeds Record Office
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: HAR/ACC/492, HAR/CORR/5, Stewards Letter Book, WYAS HAR/ Estate Correspondence/ Misc. 18 & 19c, WYL250/3/188, 3/247–8, 3/250, 3/263, 3/213, 3/203, 3/264, 3/491, 3/510, 3/14, 3/397, 3/270–285
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(Regarding the Worsleys of Pylewell): PWF 2293, 2295, 2296, 10642
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PCC Wills
: Maurice George Bisset, Sir John Fleming, Lady Seymour Dorothy Fleming, William Hargrave, John Frederick Adam Hesse, Edwin Lascelles, Sir Richard Worsley, Sir Thomas Worsley
: Maurice George Bisset, Sir John Fleming, Lady Seymour Dorothy Fleming, William Hargrave, John Frederick Adam Hesse, Edwin Lascelles, Sir Richard Worsley, Sir Thomas Worsley
Home Office
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Burials Records for the churches of
St James, St Margaret & St John, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Anne, St Marylebone, St George Hanover Square
St James, St Margaret & St John, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Anne, St Marylebone, St George Hanover Square
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St Marylebone, St George Hanover Square
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Uncatalogued Correspondence from George William Coventry, Lord Deerhurst in folder F.81: Deerhurst to Lady Coventry (no date) 1778/9, 25 July 1779, 5 Sept. 1779, 9 Jan. 1780, 28 Feb. 1780
Uncatalogued Correspondence from George William Coventry, Lord Deerhurst in folder F.81: Deerhurst to Lady Coventry (no date) 1778/9, 25 July 1779, 5 Sept. 1779, 9 Jan. 1780, 28 Feb. 1780
Letter Regarding the Divorce of Lady Maria Baynton, 29 Dec. 1781
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