resented by the author

2.

ON THE

SCRIPTURE DOCTRINES

OF

ADULTERY AND DIVORCE,

AND ON THE

CRIMINAL CHARACTER

AND

PUNISHMENT OF ADULTERY,

BY THE

ANCIENT LAWS OF ENGLAND AND OTHER COUNTRIES;"

BEING A SUBJECT PROPOSED FOR INVESTIGATION BY THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE IN THE diocese of sT. DAVID'S;

AND TO WHICH THAT SOCIETY AWARDED ITS PREMIUM OF FIFTY POUNDS IN DECEMBER, 1821.

BY

H. V. TEBBS,

PROCTOR IN DOCTORS' COMMONS.

Quid trista querimonia

Si non supplicio culpa reciditur?

Quid leges sine moribus

Vanæ proficiunt?"

HOR. CARM. lib. iii. 24. v. 33.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD,

AND WATERLOO PLACE; AND SOLD BY HATCHARD & SON, PICCADILLY; AND HURST, ROBINSON, & CO., CHEAPSIDE.

See 5423.37

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
FROM

THE BEQUEST OF
EVERT JANSEN WENDELL
1918

LONDON:

PRINTED BY J. S. HUGHES, 66, PATERNOSTER ROW.

WHICH ARE EQUALLY THE FOUNDATION OF THE RITES OF THE CHURCH,

AND THE BASIS OF ECCLESIASTICAL LAW,

IS, WITH THE GREATEST RESPECT,

DEDICATED,

BY A PRACTITIONER IN HIS GRACE'S

ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS,

AND BY HIS GRACE'S

MOST OBEDIENT

AND VERY HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

DOCTORS' COMMONS,
APRIL 10, 1822.