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I have been well acquainted with both several years, I have always heard the best of characters of her, as most affectionate to her husband, free from levity, vanity and extravagance, and incapable of committing a crime of this sort.

W. H. WINSTONE, ESQ. EXAMIN'D by Mr. JEKYL.

I have known Mrs. Leigh Perrott five years, she always has appeared a woman of the highest honour, and the last person I should suspect of an accusation of this kind.

Dr. MAPLETON, EXAMINED BY Mr. PELL.

I have known her near 30 years, she has always been a most respectable character, I, as well as numbers of my friends have known her to be such.

Mrs. WINSTONE, EXAMINED BY Mr. BOND.

Miss CHOLMONDELEY, EXAMINED BY Mr. DALLAS.

I have known her 40 years, she is a person who has always borne the most respectable character for religion, and in every other respect: I have been in great intimacy with her.

Mr. T. COWARD, EXAMINED BY Mr. JEKYLL.

I am a linen draper, and live at Bath; have known her 8 or 10 years, have always thought her a woman of the strictest honor, she has been a customer of mine, and I have never had a doubt of her honesty.

W. LONSDALE, EXAMINED BY Mr. PELL.

I live at Bath and am a silk-mercer, I have known her 4 years, she is a woman of the highest honor.

Mr. WRIGHT, EXAMINED BY Mr. BOND.

I am a jeweller and perfumer at Bath, have known her 5 years, have had the highest opinion of her, she is very honest and very strict.

JUDGE LAWRENCE went through the evidence most ably, in the course of which he observed that the character given her was the very best; that if the Jury had any doubt, her character ought to weigh in her favor, but that this would depend on their consideration of the facts; that if they believed Filby, they must pronounce her guilty, for the facts he had stated proved the offence, but that still there was a material fact in her favor, the circumstance of her returning to Bath-Street so soon, when she might have gone home and concealed the lace; the case however was left with them.

FINIS.

BATH, APRIL 5, 1800.

BATH: PRINTED AND SOLD BY W. GYE, MARKET-PLACE.

Transcriber's Note

Apart from minor normalisation of punctuation, the text is presented as printed in the original, including inconsistent hyphenation , inconsistent and period spelling and inconsistent capitalisation in headings. The original uses the long s only in the prefatory pages, thereafter reverting to modern usage.

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