The whole of the proceedings in the Arches-Court of Cantherbury : in a cause between the Hon. Mrs. Catherine Weld, daughter to the Lord Aston, and Edward Weld esquire, her husband ... to which is prefixed, a preface / by the author of the tryal of F. Girard and Miss Cadiere.

Weld, Catherine Elizabeth, 1708?-

Date:: 1732

Credit: The whole of the proceedings in the Arches-Court of Cantherbury : in a cause between the Hon. Mrs. Catherine Weld, daughter to the Lord Aston, and Edward Weld esquire, her husband ... to which is prefixed, a preface / by the author of the tryal of F. Girard and Miss Cadiere. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$/ A / A ; v { 48 ) Defen of providing for her Iffue. As to the Con- fequencc wnich may follow from this Precedent, we apprehend, properly fpeaking, there can be none, fince this is very far from being a fird Cafe; and therefore what follows mult be charged on thofe former Precedents on which our prefent Demand is grounded. - ■.'W ■■ / . • . cThe Arguments being ckfed on both Sides, v \ ' ' . \ \ 1 Vj ■ ' V ; . . . . , . ' ’ The Judge, after Deliberation thereon, pro- Bounced. .That in regard to the politive Depo- > fit ions of the Surgeons as to Mr. Well's prelent ' S fficiency, and refped had to the Confequences w ich follow in cafe of his having Children by a fecond Wife, his prefent Lady being living ; the Court could not diffolve the Marriage, but they mud dill cohabitate, in Hopes of Ilfue, a Proba^ bility of which is depofed as before. FINIS.$