English Domestic Relations 1487 1653

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE ATTEMPTED REFORM OF DIVORCE I. Legal Situation When England under Henry VIII broke away from the Church of Rome, the canon laws of Catholicism in regard to divorce remained in operation; indeed, the English Protestant church never has drawn up a code of laws to supersede them. The first movement towards any actual reform of the Roman Catholic doctrines or church government was the appointment of a committee, in accordance with the act of 25 Henry VIII, ca. 19 (1534), to draw up a new platform for the ecclesiastical doctrine and discipline of England. In the meantime, however, it was provided that " suche canons constitucions ordynaunces and Synodals provynciall being allredy made, which be not contraryant nor repugnant to the lawes statutes and customes of this Realme nor to the damage or h