{"newspaper_name": "American watchman and Delaware advertiser.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
Female Jlages In the reign Of King Edward
III one Alice Pierce, actually sat, on more than
one occasion in the Kings bench, usurpiny hi roy
al prefogative Of !" Coram Nobs.o In Henry S,h's
time special commission was granted 10 lady An
ma Berkiy, by virtue Of which she the beach
at Gloucester sessions impannelled Jury and
ceived evidence on the trial Of Sir Nicholas po y.x
and others for riot and dlsordetly conduct who
were convicted of the same before her adyship
The English laugh at the oddities of the people of
other counties, and have indulg.d themselves at cur
expense. Il would br very easy TO sit down and
alter allowing all their deserved reputation in arts
and arms, to select such an overwhelming mass OF
Oddities ecceniticities. aosurdes, oliies and crimes
as would astonish the mind OF "us natiyes.'' We
never have. and probably can, on this day oi
illumination commit one hundreth part Of the ex
cesses, which crowd the history oi England And
yet England with all her faults is an object of ad-
miration and applause. .alb IL. .4dr.