Matrimony Analysed. Wherein is proposed a Free and Candid Inquiry into the Force of the Objections against the late Act of Parliament for the better preventing Clandestine Marriages. Addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Holdernesse. By Sir Tanfield Leman, Baronet
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London: Printed for H. Whitridge, at the Royal Exchange; R. Griffiths, in Pater-Noster Row, and G. Woodfall, at Charing-Cross, 1755. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 180 x 111 mms.,pp. [iv], 72, 65 - 72, 81-112, 19th century quarter calf, rebacked, marbled boards (worn); lacking half-title, ex-library sticker on verso of title-page, inner margin of title-page defective, and title-page soiled, stab-holes visible inner margin; a so-so copy. Leman's objections to the Marriage Act stem from his contention that many houses in the Fleet Street area were devoted to clandestine marriages, and a "Priest was already for the Sacrifice. The incautious Youth, inflamed with Lust and Liquor, incentives to both, being readily furnished in the same Places, might there in all Seasons, and at all Hours, seal his final Ruin: Here the inexperienced Virgin [as distinct from the experienced Virgin?] might surrender her Honour and Fortune to the abandoned Libertine, or infamous Sharper, under the appeance of Marriage...."
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- Matrimony Analysed. Wherein is proposed a Free and Candid Inquiry into the Force of the Objections against the late Act of Parliament for the better preventing Clandestine Marriages. Addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Holdernesse. By Sir Tanfield Leman, Baronet
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- LEMAN (Tanfield):
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- Hardcover
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- London: Printed for H. Whitridge, at the Royal Exchange; R. Griffiths, in Pater-Noster Row, and G. Woodfall, at Charing-Cross, 1
- Keywords
- marriage law prose
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