Note 838 — Chapter XIV · OPTIONAL CIVIL OR ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES
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Duke of Yorke's Book of Laws: in Charter and Laws, 19, 36; Col. Laws of N. Y., I, 45, 46. In at least one case this provision was carried out: on Oct. 5, 1672, Dan Sutton, for perjury and bigamy was sentenced to have his tongue bored through with a red-hot iron: Law Reports, X, 733 (Lauderdale Peerage Case); for the text of the duke's marriage law of 1664/65 see ibid., X, 730, 731.