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OLD RECORDS OF MIDDLESEX

When Ben Jonson Was Branded

For the first time an exhibition has been held at the Middlesex Guildhall of translations and tran- scripts of documents from the Mid-

dlesex Sessions records relating to the 17th-century.

These were shown to the

repre-

DEATH LEAP FROM - LINER WITH PEARLS

At End Of Cruise To West Indies

When the French liner Colombie arrived at Plymouth it was revealed that a woman passenger, wearing a valuable rope of pearls, had jumped overboard the previous night.

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sentatives of 30 public schools who She was Mrs. Maude Fairclough, are attending the three-days Head-65, who was on her way to Haddon masters Conference at the Guild-

Hall Hydro, Buxton, and she hall. The documents, which throw made a cruise to the West Indies

and back. a light on crime and punishment in old London, formed the subject of Mrs. Fairclough was accompanied an address by Mr. St. John Gore by her niece, Mrs. D. P. Cooke, of Micklethwait, K.C., Chairman

Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire. of

She at- Middlesex Quarter Sessions.

tended a farewell concert. It is

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later,

her

Wonderful Memories" She was reported missing when

There is the original indictment believed that a few hours of the dramatist, Ben Jonson, "late clad in a dressing-gown over of London yeoman," for manslaugh- night attire and wearing the pearls, ter of "a certain Gabriel Spencer, she jumped into the sea. being in the peace of God and the said lady the Queen, at. Shorediche in the county of Middlesex afore she failed to take a bath that she said in the Fields there." The in-

had asked her stewardess to pre- dictment goes on to describe how pare. When a search proved fruit- [less, a letter was found in her cabin. In it, it is understood, were the phrases:

Jonson

"feloniously and wilfully struck and beat the same Gabriel with a

certain sword of iron and steel call- My sight is going. My memory is "I have no more interest in life.

ed a rapiour worth 3s; which he then and there had and held drawn

failing. What does life hold for me? I am taking my pearls with

a passenger said that Mrs. Fair- clough had once said that she would never part with them.·

in his right hand, giving the same me, they hold such wonderful. me- Gabriel Spencer then and there with the sword aforesaid in and upon The pearls were the only article

mories.” the right side of the same Gabriel other than the clothing missing a mortal wound six inches in depth from Mrs. Fairclough's cabin, and and one inch in breadth, of which certain mortal wound the same Gabriel Spencer then and there in- stantly died at Shorediche afore-

Mr. Cyril Maude, the actor, who said in the aforesaid county of Middlesex in the Fields aforesaid." said, "The letter

was also returning from the cruise, explains what Benefit Of Clergy

have been. a mystery. Jonson pleaded benefit of clergy, Throughout the trip Mrs... Fair- and was sentenced to be branded clough was happy and gay." with the letter T.

Mrs. Cooke was too distressed to discuss the tragedy.

Mr. Micklethwait, commenting on this document, said there was no

would

A few hours before the liner ar-

reference in contemporary biogra-rived Col. Archibald Gerard Tan- phies to this duel, which was re-uer, general manager of the Unit- vealed by the discovery of this in-ed British Oilfields of Trinidad Ltd., dictment. It was the custom to who was being brought home from brand the letter T on the left thumb Trinidad gravely ill for treatment, of a prisoner who escaped the gal- died. He was 42. lows. In the case of Jonson the gaoler was probably persuaded to use a cold iron.

on

Among other exhibits is the in- dictment of John Willenhall and Thomas Jenynges for breaking into the King's Palace, Whitehall, July 16, 1615, and stealing valuable silver plate and other goods belong ing to Sir Fulke Greville, knight Willenhall escaped arrest, but Jenyn ges was sentenced to be hanged.

“GRACIE” MAY BE DAME GRACIE

When the Coronation Honours Tempest and Gracie Fields are List is published on May 12, Marie likely to be named as Dames of the British

Mirror Political Correspondent.

Empire, writes the Daily

"I'll believe it when it happens~~~

Mr. Micklethwait also referred to the case of Jane Baylie, charged not before. But if it's true, it's a with stealing goods valued at 56s "Daily Mirror" over the transcon- great honour," Gracie told the 3d. The justices, by reducing the value to 41⁄2d, so that the charge "The only honour I know of that's tinental 'phone from Hollywood. could be altered from grand larcom ceny to petty larceny, saved woman from being hanged and was sentenced to be whipped.

the is the Freedom of Rochdale on May coming my way at Coronation time she 12," she went on.

"But I'm having the grandest holiday you could think of here. Contrasting the reign of terror It's parties, parties, all the time. I

modern meskil for home in three weeks.” thods of dealing with offenders, Mr. Micklethwait said that from time

in the old days

for 50

A workman who fell from a water- to time he was confronted with tower being erected at Southwold, an incorrigible criminal who had Suffolk, and broke his arm, shouted been in and out of prison

"Stand clear below" when in mid-air. years. Inquiry in these cases often revealed that the man's life of crime lethwait said there had been a mar- dated from the time when he had vellous increase in the efficiency of been sentenced to a long term of the police and their methods. Drunk- imprisonment, perhaps even penal enness had diminished to an ex- servitude, for stealing something traordinary extent. People went to quite trivial.

the cinema instead of the

public

Replying to questions, Mr. Mick-house.