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_Mr. Cresswell and Miss Warneford_.--At p. 157. of the "NOTES AND
QUERIES," your correspondent "B." inquires about a pamphlet relating
to the marriage, many years ago, of Mr. Cresswell and Miss
Warneford. "P.C.S.S." cannot give the precise title of that pamphlet
in question; but he is enabled to state, on the authority of Watts
(_Biblioth. Brit._), and on that of his old friend Sylvanus Urban
(_Gent. Mag._ vol. xvii. p. 543.), that it was published in London,
towards the end of the year 1747, and that the very remarkable and
very disgraceful transactions to which it refers were afterwards (in
1749) made the subject of a novel, called _Dalinda_, or _The Double
Marriage_. Lond. 12mo. Price threepence.
The gentleman who was the hero of this scandalous affair was Mr.
Thomas Estcourt Cresswell, of Pinkney Park, Wilts, M.P. for Wootton
Bassett. He married Anne, the sole and very wealthy heiress of
Edward Warneford, Esq. As it cannot be the object of the "NOTES AND
QUERIES" to revive a tale of antiquated scandal, "P.C.S.S." will not
place upon its pages the details of this painful affair--the cruel
injury inflicted upon Miss Scrope (the lady to whom Mr. Cresswell
was said to have been secretly married before his union with Miss
Warneford)--and the base and unmanly contrivance by which, it was
stated, that he endeavoured to keep possession of both wives at the
same time. Miss Scrope appears to have retained, for a considerable
time, a deep sense of her injuries; for in 1749 she published a
pamphlet, in her own name, called _Miss Scrope's Answer to Mr.
Cresswell's Narrative_. (Lond. Baldwin. Price 2s. 6d.)
If "B." should be desirous of further information, he is referred,
by "P.C.S.S.," to the _General Evening Post_ of Oct. 3. and 31.
1747, to the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for that month and year, and to
the same work, vol. xix. pp. 192. 288.