Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
7th September 1720
Joseph
Pew
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Brides
, was indicted for
taking to Wife
Mary
Bickerstaff
proceedingsvictim
, on the 16th of July 1719
His former Wife
Ann
Locket
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being then living
. He owned that he was Married to Mary Bickerstaff; but no Evidence appearing to prove the first Marriage, the Jury
Acquitted
him.