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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    The Perfonal Answers of Edward Wekf, Efsf, Party ki this Caufe, made to a Libel admitted on the Part and Behalf of the faid Catherine Elizabeth Weld, as folloiveth, viz. O the Fir ft and Second Articles of the faid Libel this Refpondent aniw-Crs, and be¬ lieves the fame to be true. To the Third Article of the faid Libel this Refpondent anfwers, that he believes the fame to be true. To the Fourth Article of the faid Libel this Refpondent anfwers, That from the time of the Marriage Libellate, this Refpondent and his Wile, the Articulate Catherine Elizabeth, lived together at the Rdpondent’s Seat, called Lul- worth Caftle, for a Year, or thereabouts, (to wit) ’till in or about the Month of June^ 1728. ex¬ cepting for about one Month within the Lid being then indiipofed in her time and Health came to London, for the Advice and Ai- fifiance of Phyficians, and never afterwards re¬ turned to the Refpondent’s laid Seat, and be¬ lieves that die then went to the Houfe of her Grandmother, the Lady Howard, in Ormond« Jireet, in the County of Middle/ex, and conti¬ nued there, or at the Houfe of her Father, the Lord at Standon in the County of Hert¬ ford^ ’till the Month of October following, and denies that he the Refpondent ever cohabited with her within the Lid time 3 and in the Lid Month of October, he the Refpondent went to . her