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<HEAD>THE CASE OF <HI>Sarah Monk,</HI> The Wife of Mr <HI>Chri&s;topher Monk,</HI> in An&s;wer to a Paper, touching their Marriage; the Truth whereof is as followeth;</HEAD>
<P>THat the &s;aid Mr <HI>Chri&s;topher Monk</HI> became acquainted with <HI>Sarah</HI> his Wife about <HI>Chri&s;tma&s;s</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, and after &s;ix Weeks acquaintance, and earne&s;t Court&s;hip by him made to the &s;aid <HI>Sarah,</HI> his now Wife, he at the la&s;t obtained her Affections, and her Con&s;ent to marry him, and thereupon reque&s;ted her Father's Con&s;ent, that he might have the &s;aid <HI>Sarah</HI> to be his Wife, who ob|tained the &s;ame; whereupon the &s;aid Mr <HI>Monk</HI> appointed and fixed the Marriage|day to be upon <HI>Shrove-Tue&s;day</HI> la&s;t, and de&s;ired Mr <HI>Hungerford,</HI> her Father, to bring his Daughter, and meet him at the <HI>Three-Tun-Tavern,</HI> near <HI>Grayes-Inn</HI> in <HI>Holborn;</HI> which the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Hungerford</HI> did, being accompained with his Wife and two Friends; and the &s;aid Mr <HI>Monk</HI> came accordingly, and no way di&s;ordered by Drink, or otherwi&s;e, from whence they all went together: And the &s;aid Mr <HI>Monk,</HI> and <HI>Sarah</HI> his Wife, were legally Married and Bedded before credible Witne&s;&s;es, and have co-habited and bedded together &s;everal Nights &s;ince.</P>
<P>That neither at the time of the Marriage, or at any time &s;ince, hath the &s;aid Mr <HI>Hungerford,</HI> or the &s;aid <HI>Sarah</HI> been &s;atisfied of any E&s;tate what&s;oever, that the &s;aid Mr <HI>Monk</HI> was then po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of, or likely &s;o to be, otherwi&s;e than by common Fame and his own Di&s;cour&s;es, having never &s;een, or credibly been informed of any E&s;tate left him by the late Right Noble the Duke of <HI>Albemarle,</HI> or any other Per&s;on what&s;oever.</P>
<P>That at the time of the Marriage, the &s;aid Mr <HI>Monk</HI> did declare, he was near Sixteen Years of Age; and being reque&s;ted by Mr <HI>Callender</HI> to acquaint his Friends with the &s;aid intended Marriage, made this reply, That let who would or could oppo&s;e his &s;aid Marriage, with the &s;aid <HI>Sarah</HI> his now Wife, he was re&s;olved to Con&s;umate the &s;ame.</P>
<P>That the &s;aid Mr <HI>Hungerford</HI> never invited the &s;aid Mr <HI>Monk</HI> before the &s;aid Marriage to his Hou&s;e, nor ordered any body el&s;e &s;o to do. And that &s;ince the &s;aid Marriage, the &s;aid Mr <HI>Hungerford</HI> hath furni&s;hed the &s;aid Mr <HI>Monk</HI> with &s;everal &s;ums of Money to buy him Nece&s;&s;aries, he wanting the &s;ame. And that &s;everal Times &s;ince his Marriage, and in &s;everal Companies, he hath declared him&s;elf to be well Contented with his &s;aid Marriage.</P>
<P>That Mr <HI>Hungerford</HI>'s Wife never per&s;onated before, at, or after the Marriage, or pretended to any per&s;on what&s;oever to be Mr. <HI>Monk</HI>'s Mother, and is only Mother-in-Law to Mr <HI>Monk</HI>'s now Wife.</P>
<P>That Mr <HI>Matthew Hungerford</HI> is a Gentleman, being a Branch of the Antient Family of the <HI>Hungerfords,</HI> and the next Brother unto <HI>Edmund Hungerford</HI> of <HI>Chisbury,</HI> in the County of <HI>Wilts</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> and never was any Pa&s;try-Cook, but a Merchant, and a con&s;iderable Dealer for above twenty Years, as by the Cu&s;tom-Hou&s;e Books may appear.</P>
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