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A care-cloth
A care-cloth: or a treatise of the cumbers and troubles of marriage intended to advise them that may, to shun them; that may not, well and patiently to bear them. By William Whately, preacher of the word of God in Banbury, in Oxfordshire.A care-cloth: or a treatise of the cumbers and troubles of marriage intended to aduise them that may, to shun them; that may not, well and patiently to beare them. By William Whately, preacher of the word of God in Banbury, in Oxfordshire.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1624
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fourthly, What man is so near in blood to the husband, that he might not lawfully marry him, if the sex did serve; him neither may the wife marry after her husbands death; and so contrarily. So I might not marry mine uncle (if I were a woman;) therefore if I were dead, my wife might not lawfully be married to mine uncle: so my wife, if she were a man, might not lawfully marry her sister; therefore if my wife were dead, I might not lawfully marry her sister, of which the reason is plain, husband and wife are one flesh, and therefore with what persons kindred would not suffer one of them to marry, neither will affinity suffer the other. But whatsoever persons are not by these four rules debarred from matrimony each with other, they may lawfully marry together without scruple, so far as I can discern. Only for this matter, I refer every man, to the table of degrees authorized by our Church, and publicly set up in every of our Churches. And so much of the first thing required in the persons that shall be linked in wedlock.
Fourthly, What man is so neere in blood to the husband, that he might not lawfully marry him, if the sex did serue; him neither may the wife marry after her husbands death; and so contrarily. So I might not marrie mine vncle (if I were a woman;) therfore if I were dead, my wife might not lawfully bee married to mine vncle: so my wife, if she were a man, might not lawfully marrie her sister; therefore if my wife were dead, I might not lawfully marrie her sister, of which the reason is plaine, husband and wife are one flesh, and therefore with what persons kindred would not suffer one of them to marrie, neither will affinitie suffer the other. But whatsoeuer persons are not by these foure rules debarred from matrimony each with other, they may lawfully marry together without scruple, so farre as I can discerne. Onely for this matter, I referre euery man, to the table of degrees authorized by our Church, and publikely set vp in euerie of our Churches. And so much of the first thing required in the persons that shall bee linked in wedlocke.
The second is likewise to be spoken of,1 and it is the freedom of both parties from any other: for if any man take a woman, who is either espoused, or wedded to another man, is it not plain, that