STRANGE AFFAIR.
To auppy a missing link in the chain of evidence by which he seeks to establish a claim to the title of Viscount St Vincent, the Rev W. H. E. R. Jervis, lately vicar of St Paul’s, Colchester, and now vicar of Cranford, Middlesex, offered a reward of £SOO for the discovery of the register of th-- marriage of his paternal grandf dlicr, W H. R. Ricketts, with Jane Cecilia Vinet, in the year 1800. After the lapse of some time, the rector of a parish in Dorsetshire wrote that he had found the entry of the marriage in ex-mining the registers of his church to see wl.at damage they had sustained by the memorable storm of 18th January last, and Mr Jervis gave him a security for the amount of the reward. The services of AI. Chabot have since been in, and it is now stated that he has unhesitatingly pronounced ihe entry to be a forgery, and that Mr Jervis, who for a time assumed the title of Count St Vincent, has demanded a full investigation into the alleged fraud, and has obtained a return of the security from the clergyman in question.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 704, 1 December 1881, Page 3
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197STRANGE AFFAIR. Temuka Leader, Issue 704, 1 December 1881, Page 3
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