gentleman who is the victim of a too im tive, however, in this as in the preceding plicit confidence. instances, seems to have been merely the In this case, the complainant, John Auger, recovery of moneys actually expended, al states that he, " of the grett confydence and though the lady's distress of mind and the trust that he bare to one Anne Kent, syngle- consequent injury to her health form a mod woman, entendyng by the mediacion of her erate item in the schedule of expenses in friends to have married the said Anne," and curred by the unlucky doctor. In his bill of complaint, addressed to " The upon a full communication and agreement between himself and the friends of the said right reverend fader in God the Archbussop Anne that a marriage should take place be of York and Chancellor of England," the tween them, " sufferid the same Anne to come worthy doctor alleges that " one Maister and resort and abide in his house after re Richard Narborough, Doctor of Law Sivile, maining in which for the space of a month in the moneth of May in the IX. yere of the and more, she departed therefrom without rcigne of the Kyng oure Soveraigne Lord the knowledge of the plaintiff, taking with i (Edward IV.), att Cambrigge in the counher " dyvers evydences, mynyments, and tie of Cambrigge, in the presens of your chartres concernyng the seid house, and said oratour " affianced one Lucy Bramp also dyvers juells of the value of iiijli, of ton, the daughter-in-lawe of the said plaintiff, which, "although oftyntymes requyred " by to have her to wife, and the said Lucy the plaintiff, she refuses to make restitution; affianced the said Richard to have him to wherefore he prays a writ commanding her her husband; immediately after which af to appear on a certain day before the King fiance, the said Richard informed the plain in his Chancery, etc. Here the parties to tiff and the said Lucy that he would " depart the suit appear to have discounted the over the see unto Padowe, there to applie actual marriage by setting up an experi his stodye for the space of ij yeres," at the mental household immediately after the con end of which time he promised to return to elusion of the marriage contract. Appar England, and to " espouse the said Lucy ently some " incompatibility of temper," or according to the law of Holy Chirche," at perhaps the innate fickleness of the " said the same time especially desiring the plain Anne," induced her to bring the experiment tiff to maintain the said Lucy and a maid to an abrupt conclusion; in carrying her servant to attend upon her, providing them with meat, drink, clothing, and all things resolution into effect, however, she commit ted the mistake of endeavoring to indemnify necessary, until his return from beyond the herself for the error into which she had sea, when he promised faithfully to repay to fallen, or perhaps to vent her displeasure on the plaintiff all the costs and charges which her quasi-husband, by carrying off with her he had incurred in that behalf; to which the all the valuables she could lay her hands plaintiff agreed, " giffying full trust and con on. This the quasi-husband appears to fidence to the promises of the said Maister have strongly objected to, although he does Richard." The latter, however, departed to not make any sentimental grievance of her " Padowe," and there and in other places desertion, and, so long as he recovered his absented himself from England for the space property, was evidently prepared to consider of ten years, " to the full grete hurt and hevynes " both of the plaintiff and the said himself well rid of his bargain. The complaint of "Maister Walter Lein- Lucy, who, together with her maid, was provided by the plaintiff during the whole ster, Doctour of Phisik," which follows, dis closes a very curious story, and affords a of that time with meat, drink, clothing, and striking example of pertinacity in following all other necessaries. After the expiration of the ten years, " Maister Richard " returned up an absconding suitor. The primary mo