Digamias adikia, or, The first marriage of Katherine Fitzgerald (now Lady Decies) contracted in facie ecclesiæ with John Power, now Lord of Decies / asserted by Dudley Loftus ...
- Title
- Digamias adikia, or, The first marriage of Katherine Fitzgerald (now Lady Decies) contracted in facie ecclesiæ with John Power, now Lord of Decies / asserted by Dudley Loftus ...
- Author
- Loftus, Dudley, 1619-1695.
- Publication
- London :: [s.n.],
- MDCLXXVII [1677]
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- Subject terms
- Marriage law -- England.
- Age of consent.
- Link to this Item
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https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A48953.0001.001
- Cite this Item
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"Digamias adikia, or, The first marriage of Katherine Fitzgerald (now Lady Decies) contracted in facie ecclesiæ with John Power, now Lord of Decies / asserted by Dudley Loftus ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A48953.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- To the Right Honourable ARTHUR Earl of Anglesey, Lord Keeper of His Majesties Privy-Seal, &c.
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JOHN LordDECIES of the Age of eight Years, was married by the Arch-Bishop ofCanterbury toKatherine Fitz-Gerald, (with the consent of her then Guardian) ha∣ving compleated twelve years and a half of her Age; She about one and twenty months after the said Marriage, disagreed to the same, and onEaster -Eve last took to her pretended HusbandEdward Vil∣liers, Esq the said LordDecies be∣ing yet alive, notwithstanding the Inhibitions of the Court ofArches.