[233] Jeaffreson, op. cit., II, 322.
[234] "Inter conjuges si capitales intercedant inimicitiae tamque vehementer exarserint, ut alter alterum aut insidiis aut venenis appellat, aut aliqua vel aperta vi, vel occulta peste, vitam velit eripere, quamprimum tam horribile crimen probatum fuerit, rite in juditio divortio volumus hujuscemodi personas distrahi."—Ref. leg. ecc.: ap. Jeaffreson, op. cit., II, 320, 321, note.
[235] "Parva contentiones, nisi perpetuae sint, divortium non inducunt."—Ref. leg. ecc.: ap. Jeaffreson, op. cit., II, 321.
[236] Jeaffreson, op. cit., II, 321.
[237] Ibid., 322, 323.
[238] Geary, Marriage and Family Relations, 8 n. 6.
[239] So by Sir John Stoddart in his evidence before the Lords' Select Committee, 1844: "Therefore I apprehend that the Reformatio legum having been published as a work of authority, although not of absolute legislative authority, it must have been, and in all probability was, followed: and for that reason in the Spiritual Courts there were dissolutions of marriage. Because I believe that from about the year 1550 to the year 1602 marriage was not held by the Church, and therefore was not held by the Law, to be indissoluble."—Minutes of Evidence, 27: Law Review (Eng.), I, 358, 359.
[240] Law Review (Eng.), I, 359. Cf. Jeaffreson, op. cit., II, 323.
[241] Jeaffreson, op. cit., II, 323, 324. Cranmer examined the Fathers and other authorities on divorce for adultery; and the material which he thus collected grew into a large book, which Burnet, who gives a summary, says he has seen: Hist. of Reformation, I, 330 ff. Burnet's summary is also given by Geary, Marriage and Family Relations, 577, 578. Cf. Macqueen, Practical Treatise, 468, 469.
[242] 5 and 6 Ed. VI., c. 4.