The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 87

Dr. Vaughan, Master of the Temple

Dr. Vaughan, Master of the Temple.

"I am decidedly in favour of a change in the Law regarding Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister. The argument against them from Scripture has always appeared to me to break down utterly. And my experience of social life, among the poor in a Northern town, leads me to lament the existence of any arbitrary hindrance to the legal union of two persons whose illegal union is the certain alternative."