An account of Lady Elizabeth Dayrell's behaviour in Wales and London after leaving her husband, William Morgan of Tredegar, 1677 [page 1 of 3]

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On 19 November, Lady Dayrell burst into the house of Mr Hopegood, a merchant in Lothbury, and there challenged her husband's brother, Mr John Morgan, to meet with her in Southampton Fieldsy, 3 o'clock the next day, to fight with her there.

But about 6 o'clock in the morning she and two servants came to the house in her carriage with naked swords, and after much knocking, the servant rose and opened the gate. She and her servants entered the house with their naked swords in their hands and demanded whether Mr John Morgan was in the house, and being answered that he was in bed, she replied that she had him sure, and would kill him. She ran up the stairs to his chamber door, where she knocked, but thinking his chamber was higher, she and her two servants with the drawn swords went up the stairs, which gave Mr Morgan opportunity to rise. He enquiring what the disturbance was, the lady and the servants with the swords immediately came downstairs and followed him to the foot of the stairs, he getting into a room below the stairs and shut the door, which they for some time endeavoured to force. Failing, they broke all the windows they could come at.

Mr Hopegood, the master of the house, being in bed and hearing the disturbance, demanded what was the matter. She replied
'I be come to you [see?]'
and she and her two servants... with their swords followed him up the stairs to the garrett where he endeavoured to save himself, but she forced the door, and finding it was not Mr Morgan said
'You are not the person I looked for'
went down the stairs and fell to battering the windows again, and then departed.