This is to give notice, that, on the 21st of this current February, one Medwin, a middle-siz'd man, with one leg remarkably smaller and shorter than the other, carried away from his friends a minor of rank and fortune, with an evident design to marry him clandestinely to his sister-in-law Martha Dolben, a mantua-maker, ... It is supposed they are coming to Scotland, or the Isle of Man, in order to evade the laws of England ... .
Gentleman.
Gibbon, W.,active 1925,donor.StEdNL
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1756]
An appeal to trace those involved and prevent the marriage.
Title from caption and text.
Place of publication from text.
Dated 16 March 1756 in pencil at foot of text.
At end of text: This advertisement is published by a gentleman now in Edinburgh, who acts by an authority from the Lord Advocate of Scotland, and may be heard of, by applying to George Muir Esq; principal clerk of justiciary, or to David Ross merchant at Douglas in the Isle of Man.
A circular, it was originally printed as an advertisement in both the Caledonian Mercury and the Edinburgh Evening Courant of 2 March 1756.
Placed with four letters regarding efforts to identify the people described in the circular: two manuscript and two typescript. One of these on paper headed The Manx Museum, Library and Art Gallery, Isle of Man, dated 18 March 1925, signed W. Gibbon and addressed to the Secretary of the Advocates Library suggests Gibbon or the Manx Museum as the donor of the circular. Gibbon writes: You may keep the printed circular. I have another copy.
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