The Scandalous Lady W Page #5

She'll not be attending, will she?

No, sir, of course not.

All rise.

The Right Honourable Lord

Chief Justice Mansfield.

Order! Order! Silence in court!

Do you consent to her attending?

I have no objection, my lord.

Very well, then. We may proceed.

Sir Richard Worsley is

a selfless, God-fearing

and dutiful public servant

of the highest order.

A doting father, a loving

and dutiful husband

who has been wronged and subject

to an outrageous plot.

Sir Richard has a seat

in the House of Commons,

he is a privy counsellor and

governor of the Isle of Wight.

Mr Bisset, as he was commonly known,

became friends with the plaintiff

at the time of his election

to the House of Commons

and the greatest intimacy grew

between them there after.

Indeed, Sir Richard gave the defendant

a commission in his regiment.

The defendant had the confidence

and trust of the plaintiff,

both in friendship, as neighbours

and in military matters

until, that is, the unhappy

event took place.

The court calls Hannah Commander.

'Did they desire you to

prepare any bedchamber?'

'Yes, as near to the dining room

as possibly could be, sir. '

And what else do you recall?

Captain Bisset

as I didn't know him then for I took

him for her ladyship's husband.

- He was a scoundrel, sir.

- A scoundrel you say?

A proper mutton monger. He give

me a crown for my silence, sir.

- A mutton monger?

- Yes, sir. A mutton monger.

Will you kindly endeavour to

speak in respectful English?

I've kept the crown, my lord.

And how long did they stay?

For four or five days, sir.

And how did they pass?

As man and wife, sir.

But they was not a man and wife, sir,

and the state of the bedchamber,

sir, and the bedding, sir.

- Had they only one bed?

- Yes, my lord.

And they was at it under the sheets

when I came into the bedchamber

and they was naked, my lord, at one

o'clock in the afternoon as well.

How do you know who they were?

Because she answered to the

name of Lady Worsley, sir.

It was her.

The court calls Mary Sotheby.

Do you solemnly swear by almighty

God that the evidence

you shall give to the

court will be the truth,

the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

I was awoken at midnight, sir,

and asked to do my lady's bidding.

That is all.

You were privy and party

to this debauchery, madam.

Yes, you were privy and party to

the desertion of Sir Richard Worsley

- and his infant daughter.

- I was not, sir.

Pray tell me,

how old was the infant Jane

at the time of this most

heartless desertion?

She was four months old.

And yet you conspired to abduct the

infant from her father and her home.

Oh, you appear entirely

deficient of any morality.

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