Dr. Hirsch Jakob Zimmels printed various decrees and responsa issued by the London Beth Din during the tenure of Chief Rabbi Solomon Hirschell. These accounts from the Beth Din's ledger were printed in the Jubilee Volume for Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie. Here is one that is particularly interesting, not so much for the situation as for the peculariarly Englishness of it.
Here's a somewhat free translation of an event which occurred in 1823 - I apologize for the salty language, but if it is written frankly in the record then I can write it frankly here. Zimmels was more circumspect than I:
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