The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-10 00:00:00

AUGUST 1.

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/Clary Reynolds was indiaed for the wilful murder
of her teniale child, at a place called Gillingham, 'in
~the county of Kent. ,'The Prisoner was servant to a
'Mr. Grinstead, and was 'observed to be exceedingly
ill, though none of the family suspeded her be
• with child. Ori.the 24th of June she was much
""worse;, in 'the evening of which day she secreted
herself in the privy belonging to. the' house, and was
delivered of a female Want. She was asked, 'a short
time afterwards, if she was better ; she said she was,
and begged to go to bed. The next morning a child
'Was discovered down the privy, and the Prisoner ac-
sed of brutally destroying her babe ; she replied,
she kneW.she bad aaed wrong inleeHing her preg-
nancy'a secret, but that she thought. 'she had two
months to go"; and meant, .when her
.mistress got:up
(Mrs. Grinstead lay itp at-the time), to ask leave to
go home.to her mother. She added, that the,chilil
was dead-hom, and, that she, wished fo conceal her
shame. A Witness, 7who was in the adjoining
h&tse, swore positively that she heard the cry of a
shDttly gf-cer,iiheakd something, thrown
down the privy. Tltis ;it,was argued,_might have
been the cry cif Mrs. arintead's. infant, and- not
the Prisoner's; Vrhieh, inked, appeared tb he 'the
fad,. as Mr. Andrew'S, the Surgeon, who viewed
the child after it was taken up, said, that he could
not take Upon himself to say the child was live

There Was another faft.`very much in favour of
'the Prisoner,. namely, that she had Made provision
of clothes for her expetied infant. She had a good
charaaer as to• her afie6tion for children ih general,
and to her having lived in her place five years. She
bad Always been looked upon as a good girl; and it
was suppokd that shame had :induced her to corlagl
her misfortune, 'rather than premeditated guilt: The
Judge, summed up with mush feeling, and the jury
pronounced her—Not Anil y.

John Chapman, James Sm;/.!,, and Wm. Balls,
were indiaed for feloniously killing and slaying
George, Skinner, in the City of Canterbury, on
the 7th day of May. last ; it appeared the deceased
was fighting with . one of the prisoners, when .he
receiied a blow which drov-e hini-upder a carriage,
on which. the other two prisoners were sitting, the
wheel of which went over his, bead, and killed' him'
on the spot. The Prisoners were found guilty of
manslaughter, and were sentenced to one month's
imprisonment. They have lain in gaol from the
time of the accident.

YORK ASSIZES.

SIP. THOMAS PILKINGTON AND OTHERS 5/.' GILL

AND /OTHERS.

THE Plaintiff is boiner ocertain ancient Corn-
Milk in the towpia Wakefield, to which the pri_
vilege of su;A. acid ;pkf is annexed : The Defendant
and other persons ba(l eiecled mod9rn Mils within
the soke maniir of Vi•Takefkid, and the question to
be tried was, wheclier the erection of such Mills,
for the purpose of grinding Corn, was or Was not:
an invasion of the Fraintid's rights, as proprietor
of the ancient sole mill?

Serjept COCK EL L statathe case of the Plaintiff,
and admitted, that the question lay within a very
narrow compass. It 'was
.simply: this ; Whether
any corn could legally be ground in the township

dr' Wak ek6ePe at die
as the Plaintiff's Were in a td
it ? The Leartied.Sedeatit- 'then stared the tirid cif
the Plaintiff', aS 'deduc6.l throug-li the farbilyf
to whorl J;ttri-..!s I; had mado the • original
,gratit of
these mills: he also stared two decrees .of the Dticliy
Court of Lanea'ster, &milt-ming these rights; thE.
• one dated sti 'early as the-year /616, the other iii
1761. He also dwelt on the teasonahltilesS of, thiS •
privilege of 5.94 e, as arising -from- the duty inetirf;
bent on the lord of *the manor, of keeping Up hi§
mills in proper repair and. Condition:
. The evidence on the paft or
.the original grant of-these Mills by Janics
w'arda 'Confirmied.by Oliver Cromwell ; the trtrci
decrees, he -one-dated 1610, the other 176 r, con.:
.fittning..the' right of -.coke; and the paroletestimo.i.
Hies of,seVeral old 'witnesses speaking to the customs
Mr. Woon, on the part. of the Defendants, ob-
served, that
,the evidence winch had. been adduced
no means afffaed the defence he was insolieted
'C'o,•triai.t,e: he was ready to, admit, to the. utmost
extent that those decreeS went, that all Corn " con,
surned-,---sold, -or
,uttered,l! at the deu;elling-house.t
of those, persons living with the soke, ought to be
grotind_at the Plaintiff's mills ;, bt. u,-the Defendant's -
mills had been ereded for the.purpose. of grinding
corn, not for:the inhabitants. of
.N,V.fikeficld, nor to •
be consumed_ within the limits of the Plaintiff's pri-
vilege; lint:for :the'purpose of being sent to L
shire, and other distant parts. This had been ad'-
'omitted by the Plaintiffs and the Defendants con.:
ce-ived cheams:else:s perfectly, justifiable in so doing..
.„.
Ln-d FNb OR'OUG-11 sai.l, he had never read in
any leg4l report, or heard of any claim, of this sort,
.56 exr,lisiv6, as Vtll,lr lIC Plaintiff`sued for: This
privilege of syke *as originally a mere ad-vantage,
,16 which f•U Lord of the Manor was-entitled in re-
ciprocity, for the expellee Of bti.ildi'ng and keo. ping in
repair-mills for the convenience of his tenants; but
.as for this claim, which was not only ,for a mo:-!o-
-poly,,,.::-t5 tespeding the 'internal Lonsdrripti(fn of-
Wakefiehi (.v-hick was allowed), but- fnr- Cntire
corn-trade :hat 'night be established- here ; it was a
claitn,s2., very. extraordinary and .eXtensive, that it
.require.T.Very sitri6t pr'oof establis custom to
sat lion it (if any custom could be allowed to sanc-
tion a,chim :so hostileso the.interests of the corn-
muniry,) As. to the • decrees -that had been read,
they proved, nothing more than. what was ti_thatted
.by the Defendant ; -that, the Plaintiff had an exclu..
sive right to grind at his mills, the corn used for
the- conSump.tion .of the town of WakcfiJA-; but
as' t 9 any exclusive. privilege- of the P-;-.li vita tw,pre
vent persons in -Wakefield from itintling.io7rn foe-
the-use of other distrietN, he could :neither find it in •
the -evidence, nor- infer, it by analogy-, frum the
known rights of other sokernills. .
Verdict fur the Defendants. -