The Great advocate and oratour for women, or, The Arraignment, tryall and conviction of all such wicked husbands (or monsters) who held it lawfull to beate their wives or to demeane themselves severely and tyrannically towards them where their crafty pleas are fully heard and their objections plainly answered and confuted ...
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- The Great advocate and oratour for women, or, The Arraignment, tryall and conviction of all such wicked husbands (or monsters) who held it lawfull to beate their wives or to demeane themselves severely and tyrannically towards them where their crafty pleas are fully heard and their objections plainly answered and confuted ...
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- [S.l. :: s.n.],
- 1682.
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- Subject terms
- Wife abuse -- England -- Early works to 1800.
- Women's rights -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"The Great advocate and oratour for women, or, The Arraignment, tryall and conviction of all such wicked husbands (or monsters) who held it lawfull to beate their wives or to demeane themselves severely and tyrannically towards them where their crafty pleas are fully heard and their objections plainly answered and confuted ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41854.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2025.
Contents
- title page
- The Contents.
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To all married Women whose
usbands rule over them with rigour and severity; (And likewise a word to all such irrationall husbands) - CHAP. I. An Introduction to the following discourse.
- CHAP. II. That it is not Lawfull for a husband to beat his wife prooved by reasons drawn from Nature.
- CHAP. III. The same confirmed by the Rules of Morallity or Civill Pol∣licie.
- CHAP. IV. The same discusd by Civil and Canon Law.
- CHAP. V. The same evinced by the Law of God.
- CHAP. VI. The Conclusion.