Love, hate, and the law in Tudor England : the three wives of Ralph Rishton /

Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England reconstructs the life of Ralph Rishton, a member of the sixteenth-century Lancashire gentry who was a child bridegroom and a serial wife-discarder, who bribed church officials to obtain a forged annulment, defrauded a kinsman out of his inheritance, and manip...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Poos, Lawrence R. (Lawrence Raymond) (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	England > Social life and customs > 16th century. Gentry > England > Lancashire > Biography. Marriage law > England > History > 16th century. Divorce settlements > England > History. Great Britain > History > Tudors, 1485-1603. Angleterre > Mœurs et coutumes > 16e siècle. Conventions de divorce > Angleterre > Histoire. Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1485-1603 (Tudors) Europe. HISTORY. Renaissance. Social History. Legal History. LAW. Divorce settlements Gentry Manners and customs Marriage law England England > Lancashire Great Britain 1485-1603 Electronic books. Biographies History Biographies.
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Table of Contents:

`Set all things in a perfect order'
`His own father was the cause of his trouble'
`God have mercy of thy soul, wife of Ralph Rishton'
'In fancy and love with Ann Stanley'
`I will keep him in suit'
'It would be a pity not to complete the history.'