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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… offence need be punished. That story of the woman taken in adultery, sets forth no punishment at all to be done to her. … Theft,—punished by them with restitution; it is death. 5. Adultery. Till of late not punished with death, 8 and that … because of the general neglect. The like, in cases of adultery, have varied. The like, in cases of idolatry, have …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… children might not inherit his lands, being begotten in adultery. The Committee were a long time in debate before …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of the Hale Bank, were reputed to live together in adultery. It appeared that the man had confessed his fault …
Staffordshire Historical Collections
… the cure of the parish church; that whoever was guilty of adultery, incest, perjury, sacrilege, robbery, after penance …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), x, 189. The offences named are adultery and like sins; marriage without banns; playing cards …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… were addressed. After Sidney's death she lived in open adultery with Lord Mountjoy, whom she married after she had …
Yorkshire Lay Subsidy
… was living near Ripon, in her husband's lifetime, in adultery with a certain Simon, most probably Simon Ward of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in Monton, but on the abbot showing that she had lived in adultery with Elias de Whittleswick and then with William le … Richard de Hulton was defendant, and charged Margaret with adultery, but she alleged that she had been reconciled to her …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… she left her first husband Adam de Billington and lived in adultery with Hopwood her second husband; De Banco R. 179, m. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Adam de Bispham, and the defence was that she had lived in adultery with Richard at Lunt in Sefton; De Banco R. 252, m. …