Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
12th October 1715
John
Kanton
proceedingsdefend
, was indicted for
taking to Wife
Mary
Lawton
proceedingsvictim
, on the 27th of July
last, his first Wife Dorothy being then alive
. The Prisoner own'd Dorothy to be his Wife, but denied the other Marriage; which was not prov'd; he was therefore
acquitted
.