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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08648	The case of Susannah Smith. Humbly represented to the Right Honourable the Lords spiritual and temporal in Parliament assembled.		1699 (1699)	Wing C1007A; ESTC R236141	2,042	2

THE CASE of Susannah Smith Humbly Represented to the Right Honourable the LORDS Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled SVsannah Smith born in London of English Parents but now an Inhabitant of Suratt in the East Indies was at Fourteen Years of Age married on the 16th of November 1680. according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England to Henry Smith Accomptant to the Honourable the East India Company in the Island of Bombay where she then lived and afterwards cohabited with him as his Wife till the 27th of April 1684. at which Time the aforesaid Henry was sent over into England by President Child for some ill Practices there and left the said Susannah his Wife big with Child which died quickly after its Birth At the Time of his Departure from India the said Henry took not the least Care for the Maintenance of his said Wife nor has he ever since sent for her over into England to him or return'd her any money for her support And since the Year 1687. has neither written to her or given her the least Information of himself or his Concerns In the Year 1690. the aforesaid Henry Smith did in the Church of Dukes-Place London joyn himself in a pretended Marriage with one Susannah Wycher by whom he has had several Children and with whom he still cohabits as his Wife Susannah Smith having certain Information of the said pretended Marriage did on the 19th Day of February last past institute by her Proxy a Cause of Divorce by Reason of Adultery against the said Henry Smith in the Court of the Right Reverend Father in God Henry Lord Bishop of London in which Court upon full Proof of the Premises she did on the 18th Day of June following obtain a Sentence of Divorce from the aforesaid Henry Smith and accordingly now remains Divorced without any Appeal by him interposed Whereupon the aforesaid Susannah Smith doth most Humbly Request That a Bill may pass this most Honourable House for the Securing and Indempnifying her from all Pains Penalties c. which she or her Issue may incur in case she should happen to Contract Marriage with any person not otherwise by Law prohibited during the Life-time of the aforesaid Henry Smith Reasons Humbly Offered for the Passing the said Bill I. Having consulted several very Eminent and Learned Divines she has been assured by them That there is nothing in the Law of God prohibiting a Second Marriage the Lawfulness whereof as they inform her has been universally allowed by all Foreign Protestants since the Reformation II. She has been informed by her Council Learned in the Laws of this Realm that the Statute Primo Jacohi prohibiting Second Marriages during each others Life has a particular Exception as to Persons Legally divorc'd And likewise That the High Court of Parliament has pass'd Acts in Favour of such Second Marriages III. Having advised with Persons skill'd in the Civil Law they tell her that such Marriages have been all along allowed by that Law under Emperours that were Christians IV. As to the Canon Law She hath likewise been informed that till the Council of Trent which was never received even by Papists themselves on this side the Alps those Canons which have been made against such Marriages have been generally Advice and Counsel rather than Express Prohibitions And that the Canon of the Church of England is not Declaratory of any Unlawfulness in such Second marriages but only prohibits them upon Penalty of a Bond given at the time of passing the Sentence of Divorce And likewise That a book called Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum appointed to be made by Authority of Parliament in the Reign of K. Henry the 8th and actually compiled by the most Learned Persons in all Professions in the Time of K. Edward the 6th doth in the Title conterning Divorces Chap. 5. give leave to the innocent person Divorced by reason of Adultery to marry again affirming That such a Remarriage is allowed by our Saviour Cum alter Conjux Adulterii damnatus est alteri licebit innocenti novum ad Matrimonium si volet progredi Nec enim usque adeo debet integra persona crimine alieno premi celibatus ut invite possit obtrudi Quapropter integra persona non habebitur Adultera si novo se matrimonio devinxerit quoniam ipse Causam Adulterii Christus excepit And indeed the Reason not only of this but of all Laws seems to forbid the Compelling of an innocent person to suffer for another's Offence V. Besides these General Reasons she humbly conceives there are some peculiar and proper to her self which may not happen on any other Occasions As Her Age which was but Fourteen at her marriage and Eighteen when her Husband left her The Length of Time since she has been deserted which has been Twelve Years And she is inform'd That it is the General Opinion of Foreign Divines That a Re-marriage is lawful after a Desertion of a much shorter continuance and particularly as to her own Countrey That the foremention'd book in the Title of Divorces Chap. 9. does allow of it after Three Years Absence The Cruelty of such Desertion leaving her among Infidels big with Child without money and taking no care for her Relief afterwards His Second Marriage by which his Life is Forfeited to the Law His having several Children by that Second Marriage The Impossibility of any Reconciliation to be made between him and her not only on account of Cruelty Desertion and Adultery but of his present Wife and Children which he ought to maintain Her having no Issue by him who might otherwise be prejudiced by her Re-marriage And Lastly There being no Alimony assign'd her by the Sentence of Divorce So that she can have no prospect of any maintenance from him for ever Wherefore She Humbly hopes That in consideration of the Premises which are such in this Case as may never probably happen in another This Most Honourable House will be pleased to Relieve her by passing the Bill she now most humbly Offers to their Lordships