An essay concerning marriage. Shewing, I. The preference of marriage to a ſingle life. II. The arguments for and againſt a plurality of wives and concubines. III. The authority of parents and governors, in regulating or reſtraining marriages. IV. The power of husbands, and the privileges of wives. V. The nature of divorce, and in what caſes it is allowable. VI. The reaſons of prohibiting marriage within certain degrees. VII. The manner of contracting Eſpouſals, and what engagements and promiſes of marriage are binding. VIII. The penalties incurred by forcible and clandeſtine marriages, and the conſequences attending marriages ſolemnized by the diſſenters. To which is added, an hiſtorical account of the marriage rites and ceremonies of the Greeks and Romans, and our Saxon Anceſtors, and of moſt nations of the world at this day
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An essay concerning marriage. Shewing, I. The preference of marriage to a ſingle life. II. The arguments for and againſt a plurality of wives and concubines. III. The authority of parents and governors, in regulating or reſtraining marriages. IV. The power of husbands, and the privileges of wives. V. The nature of divorce, and in what caſes it is allowable. VI. The reaſons of prohibiting marriage within certain degrees. VII. The manner of contracting Eſpouſals, and what engagements and promiſes of marriage are binding. VIII. The penalties incurred by forcible and clandeſtine marriages, and the conſequences attending marriages ſolemnized by the diſſenters. To which is added, an hiſtorical account of the marriage rites and ceremonies of the Greeks and Romans, and our Saxon Anceſtors, and of moſt nations of the world at this day
Printed for Charles Rivington ..., 1724
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Signatures:A[8] a[2] B-Y[8] Z[6]
P. 102 misnumbered 202
Pp.342-343 misnumbered 109, 310 (printed as sig.a2, 3). --ESTC
"This ſhould have come under the head of concubinage, pag. 108."--On p. 109 [i.e. 342]
References: ESTC T109418
Two bookplates on front pastedown: Thomas Jeston White; From the Library of James M. Osborn
Bookplate on t.p. verso: George Lockhart of Carnwath