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And I say unto you, even at this very momant

there is one among us whose thoughts turn not from the paths of greed and wickedness."

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NAUGHTY

DUCHESS

called to

the appear before Peers of the Realm assembled in historic Westminster #tail. As Duchess of Kingston she stood her trial dressed in black

One of

t h € world's

widow's weeds. The strangest

world held its breath for the

outcome of the scandal. stories

And at the close of this

pompots and ornate

farce recalled

she walked out # free

woman, no longer a dowager by C.D.T. duchess, it is true, but still

very much the Countess of Baker- Bristol.

A

DECVCAN

r + lund been found Ca

guilty of bigamy,

Elizabeth Chadleigh was born

In 1720, the

Colonel

child of only

Thomas

Chudleigh. She

leutenant-governor of Chelsea

Hospital.

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the cause And this Wis Eiszabeth's downfall

But meanwhile she consoled herself over her husband's denih by taking a trip to Rome in her private yacht where she was re- ceived by the Pope. From there She journeyed to Calsis.

While

sought home the older

Medows, w Salting steps to have the duke' will set aside.

abroad, ut

nephew,

Evelyn

pleasure

Bigamy charge

The

March,

Earl of Brisloj died in 1775, and Horace Wal- pele wrote:

"The bigamist úuchess is become a real peeress

hot last velyn

BAIL.

Medows had not

came to the masquerade ball in duchess went to her banker in

Her father died when she was a costume so scanty that

Elizabeth

six an ett little money for muther

chuld. and grew up in the country, far out of the social swim and nune too well eduented. But her saving grace was her

beauty

which even an attack of smallpox (at the age of 15 auf not Spri

Princess

been wasting his time and legal proceedings were started against her on a charge of bigamy. The Rome to recover the money and jewels she had left in his care. He refused to hand over - until she pointed two loaded pistols at his head. Then she came home to light the case.

She was in fact ita a strong If the verdict went position. against her she would become Ellzubed Bristol-appeared to be

tylus automatically the Countess of "Miss Chudleigh" with and Elizabeth began to see her Bristol, if not she remained the

Countess of Bristol. at length fed to tell Princess self as

Dowager Duchess of Kingston, Agusta about her secret mur- title much more worthwhile than But she could not be burned in Maid of (doubtful) Honour the hand-then the punishment

Augusta threw a shawl over her....

Finiselt by marrying Gonning.

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Maid of honour age, but this only increased

with her Royal and the acknowledged mistress for such an offence us hers-

r popularity

Wilharm PuBeuty. A distin- mistress.

Elizabeth WAS for leader of woelety secured

La duke.

il

The st

guished MP later to become Eari

Huif. of Elizabeth the post of Maid of notorious.

In 1740 she attended a mus- Honour to Augusta, wife of Frederick. Prince of Wales querade ball at Somerset House, given by the Venetian Ambas- (Salary £400 a year).

and at which the Royal Maids Most vi

Honour sackor, lved with the 1s mistress at Lmily were guests.

Leicester House and here Miss Chudleigh held a "court" of her owy to many eligible Young noblemen, one of whom had

honourable intentions.

That

since she could claim the privi the lege of the Pourage.

beoning

and quite scheming Elizabeth and a party The legal furce began on April of friends travelled again to 15, 1770. All the allegations were restore the proved and on April 22 she was Lainston-lo

the recordatiound guilty by every single peer. nrriage entry in But My Lord Bristol recovered. One gallant dissident, the Ditke Elizabeth tonk a trip abroad of Newcastle, added that she was and stayed far * time with guilty "erroneously Frederic II of Germany.

Scanty

robe

but not

intentionally."

tra

Russian trip

In 1708 she was back England and Hervey was anxious to start divorce proceedings. He had fallen

i love with Mss

Elizabeth went abroad again, Mory beautiful than ever, she

Iphigenia, Bath,

Mayacy A

a doctor's daughter of still calling herself Dueiress vi Among these was the 10-year arrived dressed as

"Miss Chudleigh," too. Kingston, leaving Evelyn od Duke of Hamilton. James doughter of Agamemnon, in the

fight

Нет Over was very rich, tolerably good rentiest of sacrificial robes," wanted her freedom, but not at Medows to

She inheritance. Her husband, now Walpole wrote: looking and an excellent catch. Horace

"She the cost of her "honour." But be had still to make his WIN 20

nated that you would instituted a suit of jactitation Lord Bristol, sull wanted a asking for a deeree that her mar- divorce but his collusion in the Grand Tour at the Continent have taken her for Andromeda,

Augusto Even Princess and so complete his ethication. Even

was ringe was a "false assertion." In earlier affair He wrote several Pettors from

Shucked.

She threw her shawl February the following year her jnctitation was abroad unging Elizabeth to wall; ove: "Miss Chudleigh," thereby suit was granted and she was that he had some say that Elizabeth's aunt, cutting short the sensation at declared a spinster.

Mrs Merrill, intercepted these the evening.

and Miss Chudleigh certainty But this was no setback to ber

turned elsewhere for a husband, career,

She fell

secretly

He

Trumped up

efforts.

of the suit of

so well-known

to abandon his

acquaintance, Prince

An old Radzivil, arrunited for the duchess to visit St Petersburg King George was de- with Jove in

hand-

in Russia But it was a trumped-up case Elizabeth was so pleased with some young Naval officer, Lieu- light with her charms.

her mother to bo tenant the Hon. Augustus John appointed

with collusion on both sides. Russia Uhat she bought an estate housekeeper at Windsor Castle.

St Petersburg and re- Ilervey, second son of Lord It was some time in 1750 that Hervey was free to wed again, near

it Chudleigh. There Hervey and grandson of the aged Elizabeth Chudleigh

(still but he had changed his mind. named Earl of Bristot.

Mrs Hervey) met the And Elizabeth married her ducal she set up a brandy distillery, Hervey

but became bored with the whole was 20 and not an Duke of Kingston, five years her lover in March that year.

and left it all to an exciting young man;

he was senior. They went everywhere The service was held in St project

carpenter

hdd who poor, had few prospects, but he had blue blood. Because Bliza tegether, to his town house and George's, Hanover Square, and English

amured her. the Duke Kingston re-

of to his country seat, Thoresby, on so

She journeyed on through the beth could no longer remain a Maid of Honour as a married the edge of Sherwood Forest. He covered part at least of the huge

icat Prince's fortune he had lavished over the capitals of Europe, still living as Kensington. and there years on his mistress. The new reandalously as ever, welcoming alcons of adventurers | in secret before midnight On Elizabeth set up home, giving duchess was presented at Court the

lavishly for her magnificent dinners and baile, and the King wore her colours, and

the amusements. and entertaining many surrepti- But in September, 1773, the

Finally she settled down at an Back to sea ulous lovers.

duke died and with him his title. eslate, St Aastase, just outside It was during this period-or He left his wife all his personal Faris wintre she died on August £4,000 a year 20, 1788. She had drunk veral the extra perhaps earlier--that Elizabeth, property, The service r

Pained a widow parochial chapel of Latuston was it is said, journeyed furtively to while she

glasses of wine when she heard his estate lawandt had gone against her. by the rector, the Linston in order to destroy the The mainder of chiducted

before fateful marriage entry in the went to his Junior nephew, A blood Rev. Thomas Amis,

vergel burst. Tho small number of witnesses. The perish record,

Charles Mcdows, whose elder

Countess-Duchess was no more, marriage was duly recorded

However, in 1750, her hus- brother had been band's brother-Bow the Earl of disinherited,

woman, their wedding took place

August 4, 1744.

the parish register.

In

Within days Hervey's leave expired and be returned to his

ship and salled to Jamaica-for

two

On ils return in

a house

mysteriously

Uelober, 1741, he and Elizabeth Order your copy now

quarteiled. She wlohed to re-

main a Maid of Honour ke wanted her as a full-me wife.

She won. The deception went Hervey returned to, sen, waa promoted to captain, and

on;

was born.

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absence

"Mins Chudleigh's" from Court started a wave of gosip. Her old love, James, Duke of Hamilton,». returnel from his tour and again offered minringo. ElikaboutTM recusod- wistfully and James comoted

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The

Stationmaster's Umbrellas.

And The Minister's Ban On Tea

THEN amiable, bespectacled Stationmaster Taro Matsumoto of Hamadera, near Osaka, saw passengers caught unawares by sudden rain squalls as they came home from work, he cut down and bought twenty his smoking. saved yen umbrellas, which he provided at the station on loan, free of charge, for unprotected passengers.

on

There

The umbrellas are available in a rack at the station. is no supervision over their use or return.

After six months, Stationmaster Matsumoto beamingly anncunced that

now instead of twenty, he

has thirty-six umbrellas!

TOW a

mosquito non-stop?

doctors,

quitoes at Lake Blwa, have decided that the longest solo hop

only 150 yards. for the average honourable mosquito

H con factor in experiments with 10,000 dyed mos

This now milestone in human knowledge is expected to help research Into the spread of malaria and sleeping sickness.

GRICULTURAL, and Forestry Minister Ichiro Kono is rc- nowned as a tough politician and ruthless mastermind behind Japan's parliamentary bamboo screen. Observers be- lleve, however, that he has overplayed his hand in his latest pronouncement to all Ministry bureau chiefs for an immediate end to the traditional Japanese practice of serving tea at conferences.

In Japanese government and business offices, this tantamount to instructing clerks and administrative chiefs to

stop using the electric light when working at night time. No office is without its unfailing service of green tea, day an night, summer or winter.

"The custom," sternly says Mr Kono, “unnecessarily pro- longs conferences and contributes to inefficiency. In London and Washington, pitchers of water are deemed adequate for conference Librlention,

[APANESE historians are in a flutter over the discovery in a remote farm-house near Osaka of a family diary which has been scrupulously mulntained cach day for four centuries, The diary belongs to the humble Mori family, and was begun in the year 1550 by the sturdy farmer, Kenichi, whose descendants still live on the same farm and have fulfiled the injunction of each successive head of the hours down the centuries to keep the diory record unbroken,

All volumes of the unique 400-year-old diary have been stored in a large chest, end the Chinese ink characters remain strong and clear on Japanese, parchment, which hus" only slightly yellowed.

The diary is now being reverently studled by historians, who expect that it will provide an unprecedented first-hand record of Japanese farm life and habits since the days when Archibishop Cranmer was burned at the stake and more' thán half a century before St Francis Xavier'ørrived in Japan.

Mrs Toyo Mori, the pleasant, hard-working' widow who now makes the unfailing thily entries of farm troubles and family and neighbour gossip, wonders what all the scholarly fuss is about. "It's just an old Mor! custom," she observes.

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