Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
13th October 1736
41.
Mary
(the
Wife
of
John)
Sommers
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, was indicted, for that she on the fourteenth Day of February, in the second Year of his Majesty's Reign
, in the Parish of St. Bride's London,
did take to Husband
John
Sommers
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, and to him, was then and there married; and that afterwards, to wit, on the twenty seventh of April, in the second Year of his Majesty's Reign, she the said Sommers, in the Parish of St. Bennet Paul's Wharf
, feloniously took to Husband
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, and to him was then and there married, her former Husband being then alive
.
To this Indictment the Prisoner pleaded not Guilty; and desired her Trial might be deferr'd 'till next Sessions, many of her Witnesses being in the Country, and she on that Account unable to make a proper Defence. Which Request was granted by the Court.