{"id":1805,"date":"2006-12-31T11:28:54","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T11:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2006-12-31T11:28:54","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T11:28:54","slug":"matrimonial-tangles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1805","title":{"rendered":"Matrimonial tangles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; are nothing new. From Ely in the early 17th century:<\/p>\n<p>A Matthew Maye was presented to the church court<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>suspected to lyve in fornication in the house of John Lemon with Dorothye Sutton, &#038; he hathe a wief and children in another place, &#038; she hathe a husband &#038; children alsoe in another place as it is reported, &#038; theise woulde marrye togither.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dorothye said in her defence &#8220;yt in ded she was &#038; is married to another husband wch said husband she saythe was married before to another woman, &#038; yt therefore she is not bound to tarrye with him&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>R. Adair, Courtship, <em>Illegitimacy and Marriage in Early Modern England<\/em>, Manchester Uni Press, 1996, p. 162-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; are nothing new. From Ely in the early 17th century: A Matthew Maye was presented to the church court suspected to lyve in fornication in the house of John Lemon with Dorothye Sutton, &#038; he hathe a wief and children in another place, &#038; she hathe a husband &#038; children alsoe in another place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-modern-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}