Note 535 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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Ibid. (1752-53), fol. 190. The MSS. Early Court Files of Suffolk, No. 29,729, show that on this conviction without further proof "George Rainer [Raynord]," Mary's husband, got a complete divorce. The statutory limit of forty stripes was originally fixed according to the "law of God": Winthrop, Hist. of N. E., II, (ed. 1825-26), 250.