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Ha. Golden told the witness she had been in the
anatry ; but the witness did not ask where the was
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Mrs. Lettice Beal, sister to Mrs. Golden, residing
*Weymouth, said, that she heard of het sister's ant!'
riage soon after she went to live with Mr. Goldeste,W
wrote to her about it, to which letter she got an anew +
. fres Mr. Golden himself ; which her husband, who
was now on a voyage, had long since destroyed. She
rnmenvbered, however, that it ran thus--"'llitsibeth
Langrish that was, is now my lawful wife s I was
snarned in June (or July, the witness did not recollect
which) : I did not see any necessity for comißg to
Weymouth to declare our marriage, as I knoll r no
person there but Mr. Russel, Mr. Richard Weiods,
OM Mr. William Langrish." The letter was sirnad
''' John and Elizabeth Golden." The witness Clime
to London four years afterwards, and was at her
sister's house two days and a n*ht. Mrs. Coldest
was in every respect treated as Mr. G.'s wife. Mrs.
Foot, whom the witness knew long befere,caned while
she was at her sister's. She always directed to her
sister " Mrs. Golden," and was answered" Elizabeth
Golden."
Upon Upon her cross-examination, this witness said that
she and her sister never talked about the of her
imstriage ; and that Mx. G.'s former
never went by his name.
Upon her re.examination; she said that her sister
died of a decline; and, in answer to a question. from
1 the Bench, she said that it was in the same year with
her letter of inquiry that she received Mr. Golden's
answer.
Mr. Pearson, clerk of Mr. Hayes, attorney for the
itintiff, proved the register of the baptism from the
parish of St. Pancras, of " John, son of John and Eli-'
aabeth Golden, born March 14, baptized Nov. 14,"
and of " Robert, son of John and Elizabeth Golden,
born July 5, 1802, baptized July 29 ;" and also the
register of burials from the parish of St. George the
Martyr, Queen-square, containing the name of " Eli,
.
['sixth Golden, 27th of June, 1807." i
Mr. Benjamin Mason, stock-broker, said, that on,
1 the 21st of January, 1804, Mr. Golden, whom the
Iran' ess had known many years before, and who had•
before apprised him of his intention, brought Mrs.
Golden to his office, as his wife, to transfer her four
`per cents. into Mr. Golden's name. She was de-
scribed in the transfer ticket, " Elizabeth Golden,
late Elizabeth Langrish, now wife of John Golden."
The witness met Mr. Golden some time afterwards
in , Holborn, with a little boy in his hand : he said,
"this is my son." He always called Mrs. Golden
by that name. The witness also saw Mr. Golden
three or four days before his death, when he came to
*MO his stocks together, and to transfer some stock,
as he described it, belonging to his wife's sister Judith,
whom he was executor.
[ Mr. Mark Hanger, clerk in the Bank, produced
the transfer ticket., signed by both John and Elizabeth
Golden.

- 4,3* and bad !Vette:9ly met him at
.6es Ares. He recommended his wife and
-.sr to deal at the witness's shop, whither he had
accompanied them. He once told the witness, that
one oi the ladies at his house was ill ; the witness
asked Which ? and he replied, My wife."
Mr. Samuel Keld, acarpenter, had also known Mr.
G. for 20 years. He sent for the witness, August 15.
1804, to make a small deal coffin for his intent son, un-
ornamented, as he meant to inclose it in a stone coffin.
The boy, he said, should be buried as near to his father
as he could bury him for the present, and if any thing
happened to him or his wife, he should be re-interred in
vault which Mr. G. meant to provide. The inscrip-
tion was, " Robert, son of John and Elizabeth Gol-
den, Upper North-place, died August 14, 1804, aged
--." On the rld or 23d ofJune, 1807, Mr. Golden
seat for the witness again, to bury his wife; he said
he did not want any thing ostentatious, only plain and
neat. Mr. and Mrs. Foot were to attend the funeral.
The violets then got a piece of ground for the vault,
whither the son was removed. The inscription on
Mrs. Golden's coffin was, " Elizabeth Golden, died
so and so, aged so and so." He seat for the witness
.4 third time, on the last day of the same year, to bury
his wife's sister. He said, " I and my son, and Mr. ,
Foot, will attend the funeral." The witness asked,
Shell I bury her with Mrs. Golden ?" To which
Mr. G. replied, " Damn it, no ; that's for me, ms
boy, and his child, if he should have one." He, on
occasion, iatroduced his wife to the witness's mo-
ther-in-law, in the street. He told the witness to con-
sult his wife what gloves should be given to the ser-
vants upon the occasion of his son's funeral. This wh-
ites' also remembered a sale of Mr. G.'s goods, after
his death ; the linen was marked " E. G.
John Renshaw, workman of Mr. G. said that be
was ordered by his master, a fortnight or three weeks
:Were his wife died, to apply to St. George's burying
ground, Queen's-square, for a place for the burial of
his family. The witness was also ordered to make a
tomb-stone " To the memory of Elisabeth, wife of
John Golden, and also of Robert their son." Mrs.
Golden was then in a dying state, and Mr. G. then
frequently saw the stone, and upon her death marked
the age " 42," in the blank which was left for that
purpose. Mr. Golden died suddenly, at the age of
62, upon which the witness fetched Mr. and Mrs.
Foot, who remained in the house the sane night ;
Mr. F. till the day following ; and Mrs. F. three
sinks afterwards. The wittiess was ordered by Mr.
William Ulyate to remove the tomb-stone, in order
to bury Mr. Golden his uncle. The grave lay open
six weeks, and was then put together. Several weeks
afterwards be was ordered to erase the whole in-
scription from the tomb-stone, and to inscribe the
grave to his lat. master only.
Upon his cross-examination, this witness said, that
six weeks after his master returned from the country,
he told him Mrs. G. was his wife. It was known how-
ever a fortnight afterwards among the servants.
Mr. Burroughs, surgeon and man-midwife, atten-
ded Mr. Golden's famil 1800, Mrs. Rockett being

Elizabeth Paring, ladies' monthly nurse, remem- , _ ..ar. ty in
bored that about six years ago, Mr. Golden called en then his housekeeper. He attended Mrs. G. upon
her, and said that his wife was dangerously ill, and her confinement with her first and second child, and
the witness must attend her immediately. She had had no reason to believe she was not Mr. G.'s wife.
been before applied to, to attend Mrs. Golden as The Plaintiff's Counsel then called several trades.
nurse, but this call was six weeks sooner than she ex- men, to whom Mr. G. introduced Mrs. G. as his wife,
petted. She went, and continued there ten weeks, with orders to trust her accordingly ; and among them
jig
during which time Mr. Golden's third child, Robert, Mr. Wi , who said he always thought Mr. Golden
wee born. He was christened the Sunday before the a sin ar man, although he did not think him capa-
witness left, his sponsors being Mr. and Mrs. Foot and ble passing the woman for his wife who really was
Son. Mrs. Golden was churched before the chris- not.
telling. She was treated in every respect as Mr. G.'s Mr. Herbert met Mr. Golden in September, 1807.,
wife, who was very attentive and well-behaved to her. at Hastings, when he introduced Mrs. G. and a little
She was quite a modest woman. The witness recol- boy, as his wife and child.
lected, that one day, as they were discoursing upon ' The ATTORNILY.GISERAL then addressed the Jury
the custom of newly-married couples to take a trip on behalf of the defendants, intreating their attention
into the country, Mrs. Golden approved the fashion to the above dates, and laying before them the fol-
and said, that she and her husband went to the Isle lowing case :
of Wight for six weeks, in a post-chaise. Mrs. Elizabeth Boardman said, that she kept a i
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Mr. John Wilson, surveyor of Dou hty.street, knew lodging-house near Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, and',
Mr. Golden more than 20 years : e often met him remembered a person of the name of Golden lodging
at the King's Arms public-house, C apel.street, Bed- with her for three weeks, towards the end of the sum-
ford-row :he recollected his going into the country mer of 1800, with a lady who passed for his wife.—
and his coming home. After this he asked the wit- Mrs. Golden did not go ont at all, except once to
ness home to introduce Mrs. Golden to him as his Carisbroke with the witness's servant, who proved the
wife : he was accordingly several times at their house, parties were not married then; Mr. Golden went often
when Mr. G. always treated Mrs. G. as his wife, to Cowes. Nothing at all was said about their mar-
which the witness had to reason to doubt she was.— riage..
There was no levity in her manner • and Mr. G. al- Anne Mitchell, servant to Mr. Golden, remembered
ways spoke of her as his wife in her absence. The Mrs. Elizabeth Langrish coming home on Saturday
witness had heard Mr. G. joked at on account of his i the lath of September, 1800, her master having at.-
' marriage at last, at the King's Arms, which however ; rived the day before. She came, as the witness sup.
he never denied. • The witness saw him constantly ; posed, in the capacity of housekeeper. Mr. Golden
about with his children, particularly the plaintiff, of ' said, " Well Betsy, now you are come to stay with us
whom he seemed remarkably fond. He was also very for a continuance." They at first slept in separate beds,
touch affected by his wife's death. I on separate floors ; but one day they went out very
1 , Mr. Thomas Hight, stationer, in Holborn, had also I privately, as the witness thought and told her mother
been acquainted with Mr. Golden more than twenty `at the time, for the pqrpose of being married. This
years, having been on the Court of Assistants of the was at the beginning 161 October, and they staid four
Carpenters' Company, and dined regularly once a ' hours. They did not say any thing when they came
month together, and the witness having succeeded back, but had their dinner as usual. Mrs. Langrish
him as renter:warden of that Company. The witness did not take her left hand glove off for some days ;1
I had met Mr. Golden in the street, with a lady; whom but at lan seemed anxious to display the wedding-ring
be introduced as his wife, and having sometimes called upon it. The witness perversely refused to notice it, 1
at his house, although he had never eaten or drank although Mrs. Langrish took every pains to induce
'there, he had no doubt Mrs. Golden was his wife. her to do so. Within a day or two, Mt. Golden called
4)n one occasion the witness found him very low, her up into the parlour, and raid, " Nanny, I have ,
having just lost his sister-in-law, who, he said, went got something to say to you. This is your mistress
off just as his poor wife did. The witness knew of (pointing to Mrs. L.), and you are to obey her as
his absence for two months, when he went into the such, even though she should countermand what I
country, as he did not get his balance as renter-war- order." The witness replied," I thought so ;" upon
den paid him till his return. , which Mr. G. asked, with a violent oath, " what busi-
Dr. Sandernan attended the family of Mr. Golden, ness have you to think r' Mrs. Golden's pregnancy
and remembered his calling upon the nitness and say- was then rather visible, but that was as much as ie.
ing, " I have taken your advice at last ; I have mar- was. The witness paid particular attention to her, as
tied a young woman of neither family nor fortune, she was herself privately married. She never heard
but I hope she will make me a good wife." He then where Mrs. Golden was married, but she really and
desired the witness to call and see her ; which he did, in her heart believed she was se. The witness and
. and knew his children. Upon one occasion when he her mistress used to jeer a little about their marriages,
called Mrs. Sandman was in his carriage, upon which the former saying, in allusion to her visits to her hus-
' Mr. G. said, " 'Would it be presuming too much to band while she was not known to be married to him,
a* Mrs. S. in to visit Mrs. G. I" The witness re- " Oh, Nanny ! how could you live with a man before
plied, " By no means ;it was a cold day, and Mrs. S. you were married to him ?" and the latter replying,
would willingly come in :" which she accordingly did. " I have never lived with him before I could shew my
The witness had not the least suspicion Mrs. G. was ring and certificate ; here they are." bhe left Mr.
not Mr. G.'s wife. He attended Mrs. G. in her last Golden's s 'rvice on the 16th of January.
illness, which was a decline ;he also attended her Elizabeth Cawley was servant to Mr. and Mrs.
sister, who lived with them, and died six months after. Golden for five months from March, 1804. She sat
wards of the same complaint, which she had contrac at the same tabie with her mistress, who often told
tr.l by her attention to her sister. The witness had a her she was married At Hastings on a Saturday, and
ring sent him upon Mrs. G.'s death, which he had advised the witness, it ever she married, to select that
lost. He remembered, however, that the inscription day on account of its good luck. When a reward of
ran " Elia. Golden., died awls a day, aged so and so." SOO was offered try „the plaintiff for the discovery of
Mr. William Scarlettt jewsPit. liad 411,10 Lawira Mr. and Mu. Golden's maniage•registers *Witold Mt, -

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