Note 1259 — Chapter IX · THE PROTESTANT CONCEPTION OF MARRIAGE

See the "Articles of Queen Mary, 4th March, 1553," in Cardwell, Doc. Ann., I, 112, 113; also Makower, op. cit., 222 n. 26. Such married priests, "after deprivation of their benefice, or ecclesiastical promotion," are to "be also divorced every one from his said woman, and due punishment otherwise taken for the offence therein." But the bishops are to "use more lenity and clemency with such as have married, whose wives be dead, than with others whose women do yet remain alive;" as also with those who, with their wife's consent, in the bishop's presence, promise to "abstain." Cf. Burnet, Hist. of Reformation, I, 490, who says "many were set to write against the marriage of the clergy."