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all obstacles, and clears all objections that may hare
arisen to cloud and obscure the title. And, after issue
`6.sigaoae joined in a writ of right, the judgment is ab-olutely
final; so that a recovety had, it)-this -action, may be
pleaded in bar of any other claim or demand."

BURY ST. EDMUNDS, Jose 14 AND 15.
DOE, Li DIM• TYNDALE. *ARNETT, AND ELAM/ELL,
AGAINST MIMING, DEVISEE 04, BAITER DiCEASED,
AND RICHARD lIALLS.-SAME AGAINST MIMING AND
RENTIPIELD-sAME AGAINST HILSIIIIO AND PLOWMAN.
-SAME AGAINST HESIING, (MARGE. AND OTHERS.
These were four actions of ejectment (originally
brought as one action by the lessors of the plaintiff,
hut served by the defendants into lout), to.try the title
of William Elacknell, a labouring man residing at
Farnham Royal, Bucks, to the manor of Oulton, and
certain lands belonging thereto, situate near Lowestoft,
in the county of Suffolk, as heir at law of Dame Susanna
Graves, the widow of the late Admiral Sir Thomas
Graves deceased. The other lessors of the plaintiff,
Tyndale and Barnet., are the devisees of the will of
Daniel Blacknell deceased, the father of the said Wil-
liam Blackneli.
It appeared in evidence on the trial, that in the year
1769, Lady Graves ('hen Susannah Blactnell) purchased
the estates in cpesticn from the trustees of the late
Thomas Anguish, Esq. deceased, and that, in the deed
by which they were conveyed to her, an outstanding,,
satisfied, mortgage term was assigned to her trustee to,
attend the inheritance.

In the year 1808, and previous so her marriage with
the said Sir Thomas Graves, her Ladyship executed a
marriage settlement, by which the property in question
was conveyed to the late Mr. Itobe►t Baxter, a solicitor,
of considerable practice in London, upon certain trusts,
with a power reserved of appointing the estates by her
will in case she should die in the life-time of Sir Thoma 4.
Her Ladyship attempted the exercise of that power
by a will made in 1818, arta Sir Thomas died in 1814.
Lady Graves survived him, and died in 1816; and the
principal questions en the trial were, first, whether the
les,or of the plaintiff, William Blacknell, was her heir
at 1.4 w ? Sec. nd, whether her will was a good execution
of the power of appointment reserved by her marriage
settlement ; and child. whether the outstanding satisfied
mortgage term (which the defendants were allowed to
set up by secondary evidence, the purchase deeds being
lust) was a bar to the recovery of possession hr the les-
sors of the plaintiff ?

The first point being merely a question of fact (the
only one that went tl tits jury), was thoroughly inves-
tigated by the production of all the necessary docu-
ments, such as parish registers, family deeds, &c. and
by a long and strict ex +(isolation of a number of very
aged witnesses, who identified the various branches of
the family in the most satisfactory manner, such docu-
mentary and oral testimony bringing down the pedigree
to the lessor of the plaintiff, William Blacknell, and
roving him to be the heir-at-law i f her Ladyship.
Under the direction of the Learned Judge, Mr. Justice
BATLIIT, the Jerry accordingly found, that the lessor
of the plaintiff, William Blacknell, was the heir at law
of Lady GI3VCS, as the eldest son of Daniel Blacknell,
I.te of Woburn, who died about tl.ree years ago, and
who, w_hilst living, washer heir as first cousin, ex prate
pcterna ; and a nonsuit was accordingly entered in the
kin three causes, subject to the opinions of the Court of
King's Bench upon the law of the case.
The plaintiff was n,nsuited in the fourth cause, with
liberty for him to move to set' such nonsuit aside, on the
ground that the Learned Judge ought not tb have al-
lowed a subsisting lease, granted by Lady Graves to the
present tenant, William George, to be read in evidence
for the de!endants, without their first calling the attest-
ing witnesses to prove the due execution thereof, and
also subject to the opinion of the Court on the law of
the care, as in the other three causes.

The questions respecting the outstanding term, and
tile execution of the power, are to form the subject of a
special case for the opinion of the Court in term time;
and the result, therefore, of these trials is, that the claim
rf the less, rof the plaintiff, William Blacknell, to be
the heir at 14w of Lady Graves, is fully established, and
that the other lessors of the plaintiff, Tyndale and Bar-
nett, use tl'e devifees antler the wilt of Daniel !Madmen
deceased (the father of the present claimant), who, at
her Ladyship's death, was her he:r at law.

GUIIIDFORD, JULY 17. • • '-
. dirabeth,Ciiittadea, F
,young woman of respectable
arpear.ince, was indiktvd for feloniously uttering a
'forged 101. Bank: of .England note, knowing it to be
faged., arraignment the prisoner pleaded
,g9liSequence of a private intimation that
lier life would, be ,spaced. There were three Otter
similar charges against; the prisoner. Sentence of Death
*as recordea.r