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.

Date:
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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    IT often happens that a Writer who thinks to divert his Readers fcandalizes them ; and a Cause fo important as This, for the Dig¬ nity of Marriage, which is the Subject of it ; for the Credit and Honour of the Families fo unfor¬ tunately concerned, and from the unaccountable Effe&s which may flow from, it, requires to be treated in a ferious Manner, becoming the Reverence of an Eccleflaftical Court, the Quality of the Parties, more dpecially on the Lady’s Side, and even the Refpedt which is due to public Decency, I fhall therefore allure my Read¬ er, that I will not lay before him any one Voucher but what has re¬ ceived the Stamp of Authority, viz.