A full and true account of the cruel and inhuman behaviour of a certain late M[ember]r of P[arliament] to his lady; or, Articles of peace exhibited by *.*. **** **********, against her husband, ****** ******** *****..
[London? : s.n.,
1785?]
Broadside concerning events preceding the kidnapping of Mary Bowes, countess of Strathmore, which was organised by her second husband, Andrew Robinson Stoney Bowes. He had proved to be a violent and abusive husband and in February 1785 she escaped from him and went into hiding, subsequently raising an action for divorce on the grounds of her husband's ill-treatment of her and his adultery. This broadside outlines her reasons for doing so, giving examples of Bowes's cruelty, and repeats her request for a restraining order against her husband "for the preservation of this exhibitant's life and person from bodily harm".
In two columns
Caption title; in NLS copy the blanks and asterisked names in the title have been completed in MS, the names being: "R. H. Lady Strathmore" and "Andrew Robinson Bowes".
ESTC
Broadside concerning events preceding the kidnapping of Mary Bowes, countess of Strathmore, which was organised by her second husband, Andrew Robinson Stoney Bowes. He had proved to be a violent and abusive husband and in February 1785 she escaped from him and went into hiding, subsequently raising an action for divorce on the grounds of her husband's ill-treatment of her and his adultery. This broadside outlines her reasons for doing so, giving examples of Bowes's cruelty, and repeats her request for a restraining order against her husband "for the preservation of this exhibitant's life and person from bodily harm".
Bowes, Andrew Robinson Stoney, 1747-1810
Strathmore, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of, 1749-1800
England London.