“….For they judge it a great point of Cruelty, that anybody in their most need of help and comfort should be cast off and forsaken, and that old age, which both bringeth sickness with it, and is a sickness itself, should unkindly and unfaithfully be dealt withal.
But now and then it chanceth, whereas the man and the woman cannot well agree between themselves, both of them finding other, with whom they hope to live more quietly and merrily, that they by the full consent of them both be divorced asunder and married again to others.
But that not without The Authority of The Council, which agreeth to no divorces, before they and their wives have diligently tried and examined the matter. Yea…”
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