Footnotes.

[5] Speech of Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P. Wood. p. 5.

[7] Against profane dealing with Holy Matrimony, by the Rev. John Keble, pp. 12, 13. J. H. Parker. 1849.

[8] Ibid. pp. 13, 14.

[9] Letter to Rev. W. H. Lyall, by Rev. A. M’Caul, D.D., pp. 1–4. Wertheim, Mackintosh, and Hunt. 1859.

[10] Speech of Sir W. P. Wood, pp. 5, 6.

[11] Dr. M’Caul’s Letter to Sir W. P. Wood, 1860, p. 55.

[12] See Note at the end of Appendix.

[13a] Appendix A.

[13b] Canon 99.—“None to marry within the degrees prohibited.” “And all such marriages so made shall be judged incestuous and unlawful.”

A Table of kindred and affinity, wherein whosoever are related are forbidden in Scripture and our laws to marry together.—Book of Common Prayer.

[14] Letter, p. 55.

[15] St. Matt. xxii. 24.

[16] It may be useful just to state that the law termed the law of the Levirate is that law laid down in Deut. xxv. 5–10, that in case a Jew dying childless, his brother should take his wife and raise up seed unto his brother.

[18] Letter to Rev. W. H. Lyall, p. 14.

[20] Letter to Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood, p. 29–31.

[21] Appendix B.

[23] Lev. xviii., 20–30.

[24] See Dr. Pusey’s Evidence before the Royal Commission, First Report, p. 37, questions 431–3.

[30] It is, moreover, evident that something of the kind of the law of the Levirate was a usage of the Patriarchal times, from the history recorded as to the sons of Judah in the book of Genesis.

[32] St. Luke xxiv. 27.

[36] Appendix C.

[40] Second Letter of Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood, pp. 47–63.