The whole of the proceedings in the Arches-Court of Cantherbury : in a cause between the Hon. Mrs. Catherine Weld, daughter to the Lord Aston, and Edward Weld esquire, her husband ... to which is prefixed, a preface / by the author of the tryal of F. Girard and Miss Cadiere.

  • Weld, Catherine Elizabeth, 1708?-
Date:
1732
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Credit: The whole of the proceedings in the Arches-Court of Cantherbury : in a cause between the Hon. Mrs. Catherine Weld, daughter to the Lord Aston, and Edward Weld esquire, her husband ... to which is prefixed, a preface / by the author of the tryal of F. Girard and Miss Cadiere. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Qn t])efe Tejlimonies the Complainant refied. The\ being however Jlrevgtbeved and enforced in the following Terms. The Laws which indulge a Separation in Cafes where the Ends of Matrimony are im¬ peded; and which give Power to caffrlve us Contrail when there is a perpetual and lnlupe- rab'e Bar to its being confummated at all, nave already been very fully explained: but, as the Transitions of the Marriage-Bed are in their nature fecret, and the natural Modefty of toe Fair Sex fo great, as to lay ad poiuble: Re- ftraintson them in this refpedt, there s no f on¬ der that fo few Cafes are to be found to mied the judgment with refped to the l roots wmch are legally required to make out a Cnaige o this kind. Yet as far as Precedents are found as far as any Authority ever required, or Reason it.ei can dictate, the Evidence produced in tue pre- fent Cafe doth apparently reach : For, wit. refnea to the Anfwers made by Mr. V ell to t, e Interrogatory, it is plain, that endeavouring a Conformation, and that but twice in three Years, is all that he himfelf can pretmid. Lie Letters tho’ they fpeak not ad of tnem in fulled Terms, yet are fufficiently plain to Ihew his Uneafinefs, as to his Capacity in Love-Af¬ fairs- and their Obfcurity is yet a dearer Indi¬ cation of his Imbecility. From his Coniufion, there is a ftrong Prefumdtion, bnce it is a Point in which, where, if a Man were ca¬ pable, no Occafion can ever happen to indme his writing on it-, and where his Defecfs force D j£»'J s