Note 1186 — Chapter IX · THE PROTESTANT CONCEPTION OF MARRIAGE
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It is proved by the celebrated case of Bunting v. Lepingwell, 1585-86: Coke's Reports, II, 355-59. See Friedberg's analysis of this case and other proofs collected by him: Eheschliessung, 313-18; also Swinburne, Of Spousals, 13, 15, 74-108, especially 193 ff., 222 ff., 236-39, who shows the canon-law theory to be in full force in the reign of Elizabeth; and Cranmer, Misc. Writings, 359, 360. Hale's Precedents, 120, 136, 137, 146, 147, 169, 170, 185, 192, affords several interesting illustrations for the Reformation period.