A critical essay concerning marriage
Subtitle: shewing, I., The preference of marriage to a single life. II., The arguments for and against a plurality of wives and concubines. III., The authority of parents and governors, in regulating or restraining marriages. IV., The power of husbands, and the privileges of wives. V., The nature of divorce, and in what cases it is allowable. VI., The reasons of prohibiting marriage within certain degrees. VII., The manner of contracting espousals, and what engagements and promises of marriage are binding. VIII., The penalties incurred by forcible and clandestine marriages, and the consequences attending marriages solemnized by the dissenters : to which is added, an historical account of the marriage rites and ceremonies of the Greeks and Romans, and our Saxon ancestors, and of most nations of the world at this day
By: by a Gentleman [Thomas Salmon]
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Publisher: C. Rivington
Published: 1724
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Divorce; Early works to 1800; Marriage customs and rites
Notes: Gentleman = Thomas Salmon.

Pp.[342] and [343], misnumbered 109 and 310, carry text which was intended to follow p.108.

Reproduction of the original from the Smith College Library.