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Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
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If thou wilt demand,1 whither bonds or writings are required for the contracting of matrimony, we may answer, that they are not required. For the consent of either party is sufficient, as it is had in the Authentics, and in the Code, where entreaty is made of marriages. But that which Jerome writeth to Oceanus, that hereby a wife is discerned from a concubine, because a wife must have bonds and a dowry, which things concubines had not, this I say is not universally to be received. For his sentence is to be drawn unto the wife, which before was a concubine. As touching her she needed bonds, that she might no more be counted a concubine, & that the children which she had already, or afterward might have, might be legitimate. But a dowry is not required of necessity, because (as it is a common saying,) a dowry hath not place without matrimony,2 but matrimony may consist without a dowry. For a dowry is given for the easier sustaining of the hurthē of matrimony. The Cannons have added, and ye profitably, ye Matrimonies should not be contracted privily. For if the assent of the man and wife be secrete and without witnesses,3 Judges can pronounce nothing of such a matrimony contracted. Wherefore if their wills should he changed, and after those secret matrimonies, they should contract solemn and public marriages, the first marriages give place unto them, and the conscience is kept both perplex and also wounded.
If thou wilt demaund,1 whither bondes or writynges are required for the cō tracting of matrimonye, we maye au•swere, that they are not required. For the consent of eyther party is sufficiente, as it is had in the Authentikes, and in the Code, where entreaty is made of mariages. But that whiche Ierome writeth to Oceanus, that hereby a wife is discerned from a concubine, bycause a wyfe must haue bondes and a dowry, which thinges concubines had not, thys I say is not vniuersally to be receaued. For his sentence is to be drawen vnto ye wife, which before was a concubine. As touching her she neded bondes, that shee mighte no more be counted a concubine, & yt the children which she had alredy, or afterward might haue, might be legitimate. But a dowry is not required of necessitye, because (as it is a cōmon saying,) a dowry hath not place without matrymony,