@ DEMOS P.94: {may not be related to this Thomas/Elizabeth}

Shared note	@ DEMOS P.94: {may not be related to this Thomas/Elizabeth} Only once did the Court have to recognize that the situation (marriage) might be so bad as to make a final reconciliation impossible. This happened in 1665 when John Williams, Jr., of Scituate, was charged with a long series of "abusive andharsh carriages" toward his wife Elizabeth, "in speciall his sequestration of himselfe from the marriage bed, and his accusation of her to bee a whore, and that especially in reference unto a child lately borne of his said wife by him denied tobe legittimate." ref. Plymouth Colony Records, IV, 93. The case was frequently before the Court during the next two years, and eventually all hope of a settlement was abandoned. When Williams persisted in his 'abuses," and when too he hadhimself... (declareld) his insufficiency for converse with weomen," (ref. ibid., 125) a formal separation was allowed--though not a full divorce. In fact, it may be that his impotence, not his habitual cruelty, was the decisive factor infinally persuading the Court to go this far. REFERENCE: Demos, John "A LITTLE COMMONWEALTH" 1970; p.94. /

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@ DEMOS P.94: {may not be related to this Thomas/Elizabeth}
Only once did the Court have to recognize that the situation (marriage) might be so bad as to make a final reconciliation impossible. This happened in 1665 when John Williams, Jr., of Scituate, was charged with a long series of "abusive andharsh carriages" toward his wife Elizabeth, "in speciall his sequestration of himselfe from the marriage bed, and his accusation of her to bee a whore, and that especially in reference unto a child lately borne of his said wife by him denied tobe legittimate." ref. Plymouth Colony Records, IV, 93. The case was frequently before the Court during the next two years, and eventually all hope of a settlement was abandoned. When Williams persisted in his 'abuses," and when too he hadhimself... (declareld) his insufficiency for converse with weomen," (ref. ibid., 125) a formal separation was allowed--though not a full divorce. In fact, it may be that his impotence, not his habitual cruelty, was the decisive factor infinally persuading the Court to go this far.

REFERENCE:
Demos, John "A LITTLE COMMONWEALTH" 1970; p.94. /

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