Child-Marriages Chester 1561a6

by Frederick J. Furnivall (Editor)

Excerpt from Child-Marriages, Divorces, and Ratifications, &C., In the Diocese of Chester, A. D. 1561-6: Depositions in Trials in the Bishop's Court, Chester; Concerning, 1. Child-Marriages, Divorces, and Ratifications; 2. Trothplights; 3. Adulteries; 4. Affiliations; 5. Libels; 6. Wills; 7. Miscellaneous Matters; 8. Clandestine MarriagesThen I went across to the Diocesan Registry, and askt for their earliest English books. A grand folio of Wills was shown me but as 1. How I came across these child-marriage Depositions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Frederick James Furnivall was an English philologist. He one of the co-creators of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

He founded a number of learned societies on early English Literature, and made pioneering and massive editorial contributions to the subject, of which the most notable was his parallel text edition of the Canterbury Tales. He was one of the founders of and teachers at the London Working Men's College and a lifelong campaigner against what he perceived as injustice.