The cases of impotency and virginity fully discuss'd : being, the genuine proceedings, in the Arches-Court of Canterbury, between the Honourable Catherine Elizabeth Weld, alias Aston, and her husband Edward Weld, Esq; of Lulworth-Castle in Dorsetshire / Published by John Crawfurd, L.L.D.

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1732
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Credit: The cases of impotency and virginity fully discuss'd : being, the genuine proceedings, in the Arches-Court of Canterbury, between the Honourable Catherine Elizabeth Weld, alias Aston, and her husband Edward Weld, Esq; of Lulworth-Castle in Dorsetshire / Published by John Crawfurd, L.L.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cc thors he cites, that he is oblig’d to marry “ her, if (he can prove her Virginity, u fine ermine & ejus infamia: ” Thus the Queftion is not concerning Virginity, as a Proof of the Impotency of her Husband. M. de S. Beanie, a very fkiiful DoCtor in Morality, Cafe 83. Tome 1. of his Refolutions, printed after his Death: What I Jay of the Vifitation of the Wife, and the Congrefs, [The Congrefs was performing the AB of Generation in the Prefence of Ec- clefiaftical Courts, but this obfeene Cuftom was abolilh’d in France, Ann. 1677.] It is my Opinion, in which I am fo well fix’d, that I do not think it in the Power of a fudge to aB contrary to it, and to fupport upon two Proofs, as uncertain as they are fameful and indecent, a Judgment in De¬ claration of Nullity of Marriage-- It cannot be judg'd by the InfpeBion (of the Wife) whether the Marriage has been con- fum mated or no. Befides, the Phyficians and Canonifts agree, that there are a great many made- Virginities, and that in iis plurima fiunt commenta: They bring a hundred Ex¬ amples of this. Ambrofe Pareius relates, that a Woman, at the 2d Time of her being with Child, had fo contracted her Parts by Aftringents, that