Mrs. Stanley's case..
Stanley, Meliora,active 1716-1720.
[London? : s.n.,
1718?]
Caption and docket title.
Meliora Stanley, née Gomeldon, states that she has had her property seized because of her husband Thomas Stanley who "was outlawed for high treason, as being concerned in the late rebellion at Preston." She claims that she has been reduced to a "necessitous starving condition for an offence which she is altogether innocent of". As a consequence of her husband's estate being forfeited because of his involvement in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, the interest of Elizabeth Gomeldon was threatened.
ESTC
Gomeldon, Elizabeth, 1679-
Stanley, Thomas, active 1716-
Inheritance and succession
Jacobite Rebellion, 1715.
Forfeiture