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Bmm OF Y. a gallant little exchange of courtesies that it is pleasing to visualize. They were well received by the saucy widow, and the Rev. Mr. Pooley immediately suggested a dram," whatever that may have been; it was probably wine.

Cecily agreed, and a servant was sent to fetch it. At that point the amorous clergyman became unclerically roguish and declared he would not accept the draught unless it were prepared and "fetched" by the widow's own fair hand. She agreed to this also, and Madison reports that he and Pooley followed her into the room "possibly the kitchen, for all we now know about the episode. There a number of healths were drunk, according to the assisting captain, and the Rev. Mr.

Pooley took the widow's hand in his and said: Greville Pooley, take thee, Sysley, to my wedded wife, to have and to hold till death us do part, and thereto I plight thee my troth." Then, without releasing her hand, he continued the form, as if she were speaking the By Vincent Starrett WHEN AND WHERE, and in what intemperate circumstances, the first breach of promise suit was instituted on this oversubscribed planet may or may not be a matter of record; but-it appears certain that the first action of the kind in America was in colonial Virginia, in that very Jamestown where 350 years of vivacious human relationships were recently celebrated. And its most notable feature (aside from its unique firstness) is that it was brought by a man against a woman an example that has not been widely followed. Cecily (or Cicely) Jordan was the woman, the charming widow of one Samuel Jordan, who came to Virginia in sixteen hundred and something, survived an Indian massacre in 1622, and died in 1623. The Rev. Greville Pooley was the other' principal in the case, a clergyman of whom it may safely She Spurned the Parson's Love, and He Sued Her! Get that "like-new" look with the Exclusive penetrating action of Linif Starch! Whether you prefer liquid in the bottle or pure crystals in the convenient box, Unit Starch assures you of perfect results every time you starch The exclusive penetrating action of Linit Starch restores that "like-new" look makes your cottons feel crisper, look fresher.

Even your most delicate fabrics iron easier, faster no white streaks or dull film. be said that, like other men of his time, he had an eye for a pretty woman. It is an allowable inference that the Rev. Mr. Pooley had been a secret, altho respectful, admirer of Mistress Cecily she is also called Sysley in some of the old records before she was widowed.

Possibly the circumstance that Jordan left her comfortably provided with the goods of this world had something to do with her attraction; but other charms are of record. At any rate, the clergyman's wooing began only three or four days after the death of Jordan, and it might appear that he was trying to beat the time of another admirer, Capt. William Farrar. Cecily was clearly a lively lass, and coquettish, who practiced her wiles on both men whether before or after the death of Samuel is uncertain. The parson opened his cautious campaign in the presence of a witness, Capt.

Isaac Madison, whom he persuaded to accompany him to the widow's home "to assist him in broaching the subject," as one historian put it. He was rejected at once, as of course he should have been; but a second attempt, without Madison's assistance, was successful. Mistress Jordan "contracted herself," or so he told Madison, and the captain was persuaded to accompany him again to witness the lady's pledge. What followed, according to Madison, was words: Sysley, take thee, Greville, to my wedded husband, to have and to hold till death us do part." Madison asserts that she did not actually speak the words herself, but that thereafter they drank to each other and the Rev. Mr.

Pooley kissed her, exclaiming, I am thine and thou art mine until death us separate." Immediately, however, Mistress Jordan swore them both to silence, explaining that otherwise gossip would make light of her, acceptance so soon after her husband's death. To which Pooley rapturously replied that before God, he would not reveal it (the secret) till she thought the time fitting." After this daft assurance, the infatuated parson went forth and informed all Virginia, in effect, of his good fortune; and Cecily, incensed, declared the. whole thing off and engaged herself to William Farrar. Thereupon Pooley, on June 14, 1623 the date should be historic instituted the first breach of promise suit in English America. The case was argued before a court consisting of Governor Wyatt, Sir George Yeard-ley, George Sandys, Ralph Hamor, John Pountis, and Roger Smith, sitting as a council of state; and the trial was continued until the November term.

At the second hearing the council, "not knowing how to decide so nice a difference," referred the case to the Virginia company Chicago Sunday Tribune MAGAZINE CORN PRODUCTS REFINING COMPANY 5 22.