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(TRIAL FOR ADULTERY). By Authority. Ten Thousand Pounds Damages?ĶA Report of the Trial on an Action...Brought by the Reverend Charles Massy Against the Most Noble the Marquis of Headfort, for Criminal Conversation with Plantiff's[!] Wife. Philadelphia: Printed for and sold by P. Byrne, and for B. Dornin, 1804. 1st Am. ed.?. 8vo. [3]-8, 95 pp. Removed, first leaves becoming loose. Foxing, some stains; blank piece lacking from last leaf. $175.00

 

S & S 7173 (2 copies). A New York issue is noted. Evidently published in America because "...the first action of the kind a Jury of this county has ever been impanneled to try..."