SIR PATRICK BLAKE
AGAINST

LADY BLAKE

LIBEL given in the 26th of November,
1777.

_THE. above- mentioned libel fets forth,
That in the-months of February,
March, and April, 1762, Sir Patrick Blake,
then Patrick Blake, Efg. a minor of the
age of twenty years, made his addrefies in
the way of marriage to Dame Annabella
Blake (then Annabella Bunbury, fpinfter) -
alfo a minor of feventeen years of age.
daughter of the Reverend Sir William
Bunbury, of Barton, in the county of Suf-
folk, Batonet, deceafed: and on or about
the fourteenth of April aforefaid, the faid
Patrick Blake, and Annabella Blake, were
lawfully joined together in holy matrimony.

That they confummated the faid marriage,
and lived and cohabited together as lawful
hufband. and wife, and have now five chil-
dren living, being the iffue of fuch mar-
riage.   That on or about the month of
October, 1772, Sir Patrick Blake, having
occafion to vifit his eftates in the Weft
Indies, went to the Ifland of St. Chrifto-
pher’s, accompanied by Dame Annabella
Blake, his wife; and they continued to
live and cohabit together as lawful hufband
and wife, till in or about the month of
May, 1775; when the faid- Annabella
Blake (the faid Sir Patrick Blake’s affairs
requiring a longer continuance abroad) em-
barked alone for England, with the con-
fent of her hufband, in order to take care
of their five children refident in England ;
- that they parted upon the beft terms, and
Sir Patrick Blake gave his lady a power of
attorney to act in all his affairs in England,
and ample credit upon the. merchant to 
whom his fugars were configned from the
Ifland of St. Chriftopher’s.   That the faid
Dame Annabella arrived in England in the
month of June following, and for about

three weeks refided in Sir Patrick Blake’s
houfe, in Queen Ann Street, Cavendith
Square, and from thence went to’his feat
at Langham in Suffolk, where his faid five
children then were, and fhe continued to
refide there till fhe cloped. That the faid
Sir Patrick Blake conftantly behaved to his
wife with the greateft love and affection ;
and the faid. Dame Annabella Blake, from
the time of her arrival in England, to the
month of April 1776, conftantly corref-
ponded with Sir Patrick Blake in terms of
the warmett affection:   That, in the months
of March, April, and May, 1776, the faid
Dame Annabella Blake, not having the fear
of God before her eyes, &c. did commence
and carry on a criminal intercourfe with
George Bofcawen, Efq. then -an officer in
the Horfe Grenadier Guards, and a mem-
ber in the prefent Houfe of Parliament for
the Borough of Truro, in the county of
Cornwall.   That, on Sunday the 12th of
May, 1776, about four o'clock in, the
morning, the faid Dame Annabella Blake
eloped from Sir Patrick Blake’s houfe

as Langham 3; and after a fhort time,
. : F 2                                         went

4          Sir Patrick Blake, againft

went with the faid George Bofcawen,
Efquire, in his chaife, to Shooter’s Hill,
in Kent, where they took freth horfes and
proceeded to Dover, and afterwards to
France, where they frequently lay together
in one and the fame bed, and committed
the crime of adultery together, &c.   The
party proponent therefore prays that right
and juftice may be duly and effectually done
in the premifes, &c. 

8th December, 1777.

SENTENCE.

Upon hearing the depofitions of the wit-
neffes in this caufe, a final fentence or de-
cree was promulged to the following ef-
fect  viz.   That Dame Annabella Blake,
after the folemnization and confummation
of the marriage, &c. did, in the years and
months libellate,  commit the crime of
adultery with George Bofcawen, Efg. and
did thereby violate her conjugal duty, &c.
her hufband, Sir Patrick Blake, Bart. is
therefore divorced from bed, board, and
mutual cohabitation with the faid Dame
Annabella Blake, &c.