human
Though in pleading of his case, one John Hales argued they were lawful man and wife _by virtue of their own bare consent, without any ecclesiastical ceremony_.
gpt
The validity of this marriage being afterwards tried at Common Law, the minister who married them being present, and other circumstances agreeing, the jury (whereof John Digby, Esq., was foreman) found it a good marriage.
human
Stamford,