Note 228 — Chapter XI · HISTORY OF SEPARATION AND DIVORCE UNDER ENGLISH AND ECCLESIASTICAL LAW (continued 2)
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By 32 H. VIII, c. 38. Cf. Reeves, Hist. of Eng. Law, IV, 333-36; Glasson, Hist. du droit, V, 89.
On Henry VIII.'s divorce see Pocock, Records of the Reformation: The Divorce, 1527-1553, containing the original documents; Burnet, Hist. of the Reformation, I, 26-123; Geary, Marriage and Family Relations, 596-602; Thwing, The Family, 87; Woolsey, Divorce, 168, 169; Jeaffreson, Brides and Bridals, I, 114, 124; II, 312 ff., who defends the king on the ground that the pope did not grant him the indulgence which private citizens constantly enjoyed, especially when they were able to pay for it. There is a valuable bibliography of Henry's divorce in Huth, Marriage of Near Kin, 404-11.