Abstract
Part 1 Introduction: purpose, structure and evidence the courts and the law separation and divorce in a pre-modern society the methods of making a marriage the methods of breaking a marriage - desertion and elopement, wife-sale, separation by private deed, judicial separation from bed and board, Crim Co litigation, Parliamentary divorce marriage and property marriage and moral values. Part 2 Case studies: Boteler v Boteler - the battered wife 1664-75 Blood v Blood - separation for cruelty 1686-1704 Calvert v Calvert - multiple adultary and bigamy 1698-1710 Turst v Turst - cruelty and a wife's separate estate, 1725-38 Dinely v Dinely - cruelty, adultery and murder, 1725-41 Beaufort v Beaufort - the impotent Duke and the adulterous Duchess 1729-42 Grafton v Grafton - private separation and public divorce 1756-69 Middleton v Middleton - the lady and the groom 1781-96 Loveden v Loveden - the lady and the don 1794-1811 Cadogan v Cadogan - the lady and the parson 1777-94 Otway v Otway - private and public separation 1790-1811 Westmeath v Westmeath - the wars between the Westmeaths 1812-57.
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