Volume 1

Thelyphthora; or, a treatise on female ruin, in its causes, effects, consequences, prevention, and remedy; considered on the basis of the divine law under the following heads, viz. marriage, whoredom and fornication, adultery, polygamy, divorce, with many other incidental matters, particularly including an examination of the principles and tendency of Stat. 26 Geo. II. c. 33, commonly called The marriage act / [Anon].

  • Martin Madan
Date:
1780-1781
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Credit: Thelyphthora; or, a treatise on female ruin, in its causes, effects, consequences, prevention, and remedy; considered on the basis of the divine law under the following heads, viz. marriage, whoredom and fornication, adultery, polygamy, divorce, with many other incidental matters, particularly including an examination of the principles and tendency of Stat. 26 Geo. II. c. 33, commonly called The marriage act / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    yQYy J'ceble y for wHicli I 3,π(1 cvcry free Proteilant ought to be thankful. This fort of imperium in mpenoy which excludes trials by juvies in criminal matters, and fubilitutes paper depoiitions in the place of vivd voce evidence, is too abhorrent from every principle of our free conftitu- tion to be endured; and Γ am aftoniihed, that at the Reformation, their very being was not annihilated, as that of the βαΓ- was afterwards, 16 Car. I. Thefe * courtsy however, have cognizance of the crime of adulteryy for which they can fet the offender on a jointβοοί in a white peety under title Penance; unlefs, under title ·ין׳* C0?ntnutaii071y he or ihe can buy off their lin by C. D. a ftngle man. The cafe was, that the man had promifed her marriagey not only privately to her- felf, but alfo before the Jupicey when ihe fwore C. D. to be the father of the child. He foon after married another woman. They])/V//«i?/court proceeded againit ־ the poor girly thus abandoned by the man, and with- out ever citing her, fent an excommunication down, which was red and returned accordingly. Another was cited on fuch an account, but Could not take out her penancey becaufe ihe could not pay a certain furn of money which was demanded. * In antient times, the King^s courts, and efpecial- ly the LeetSy had power to enquire of and punilby^r- nication and adultery ^ but by 13 Ed. I. Stat. 4. called the ftatute of circumfpetie agaiisy thefe matters were turned over to the ecclefiafical courts. See i Buruy 662, 663. Alfo 2 Burny 144, 145· t All this wicked traihe of ρίηαηςξ and commutation P o was