ſays a certain learned Author, who, I believe, was never quoted before in any but a Law-book, would be the Means of creating an eternal Diſſention between them. It would, indeed, be the Means of much Perjury, and of much Whipping, Fining, Impriſoning, Tranſporting, and Hanging.
Partridge ſtood a while ſilent, till being bid to ſpeak, he ſaid, he had already ſpoken the Truth, and appealed to Heaven for his Innocence, and laſtly, to the Girl herſelf, whom he deſired his Worſhip immediately to ſend for; for he was ignorant, or at leaſt pretended to be ſo, that ſhe had left that Part of the Country.
Mr. Allworthy, whoſe natural Love of Juſtice, joined to his Coolneſs of Temper, made him always a moſt patient Magiſtrate in hearing all the Witneſſes which an accuſed Perſon could produce in his Defence, agreed to defer his final Determination of this Matter, till the Arrival of Jenny, for whom he immediately diſpatched a Meſſenger; and then having recommended Peace between Partridge and his Wife (tho’ he addreſſed himſelf chiefly to the wrong Perſon) he appointed them to attend again the thirdDay:
