Note 1253 — Chapter IX · THE PROTESTANT CONCEPTION OF MARRIAGE
Reading edition
This statute (31 Hen. VIII., c. 14) may be found in Gee and Hardy, Documents, 303-19; an abstract in Makower, op. cit., 221 n. 19; and a summary in Statutes at Large, II, 149. Compare the comments on the act as showing matrimony "to have been a more grievous offence than concubinage," in New Monthly Review, XXIX (1763), 270.