The trial of John Hart, Esq., alderman of London [electronic resource] : for adultery with Hannah Hickman, his house-keeper and unparalleled cruelty to Mrs. Hart, his wife, having beat her head several times against the chimney-pieceاpulled a ribbon which she wore round her neck, with such violence as to break itاkicked and dragged her about the roomاpinched her in bedاstruck her on the face, &c., &c., &c., as proved in the Consistorial Court at Doctor's Commons, 1780.