Copies of the Depositions of the Witnesses Examined in the Cause of

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(GROSVENOR CAUSE). Copies of the Depositions of the Witnesses Examined in the Cause of Divorce Now Depending in the Consistory Court of the Lord Bishop of London, at Doctor's-Commons. Between the Right Honourable Richard Lord Grosvenor, and the Right Honourable Henrietta Lady Grosvenor, His Wife As They Were Severally Taken by Mess. Lushington and Haseltine, Proctors, the Examiners in the Above Cause. London: Printed for J. Russel, 1771. 1st ed. viii, 240 pp. Bound in new antique-style 1/2-leather and marbled boards with gilt-lettered morocco spine panel. Light foxing, but a very good copy. Horace Walpole described Lady Walpole as a "young woman of quality, whom a good person, moderate beauty, no understanding, and excessive vanity had rendered too accessible" to the attentions of Henry Duke of Cumberland, George III's brother (Memoirs, Vol. 4, p. 164). The jury found for Lord Grosvenor and awarded him 10,000 pounds sterling from the Duke in an action of criminal conversation in July 1770. Grosvenor settled 1,200 pounds a year on his wife in arbitration in 1771 according to DNB.

Price: $500.00