The Life of Mr. Richard Savage / Who was Condemn'd with Mr. James Gregory, the last Sessions / at the Old Baily, for the Murder of Mr. James Sinclair, / at Robinson's Coffee-house at Charing-Cross.
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Excerpt from The Life of Mr. Richard Savage / Who was Condemn'd with Mr. James Gregory, the last Sessions / at the Old Baily, for the Murder of Mr. James Sinclair, / at Robinson's Coffee-house at Charing-Cross.:
...Gentleman, who is the
melancholy Subject of the following Sheets; his Misfortunes may be said
to be begun, if not strictly before he had a Being, yet, before his
Birth; for when his Mother, the late Countess of _M----d_, was big with
Child of him, she publickly declared, That the Infant then in her Womb,
did not in the least appertain to her Husband, but to another noble
Earl, upon which a Trial was commenced in the House of Lords,...