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That there had been a precontract or marriage between Edward the Fourth and lady Eleanor Talbot; and that Richard's claim to the crown was founded on the illegitimacy of Edward's children. That a convention of the nobility, clergy, and people invited him to accept the crown on that title.
If the lad can break the marriage by pleading precontract, you may lay your reckoning on it that so he will." When they came home to the attempt at a marriage-feast which Lady Whitburn had improvised, they found that this was much her opinion. "He will get the knot untied," she said.
"The condition of this obligation is suche, that if hereafter there shall not appere any lawfull lett or impediment, by reason of any precontract, &c., but that Willm. And, moreover, if the said Willm. What are we to think of this document? Trepidation and anxiety are written upon its face.
The religious duties of the morning performed, it was the Constable's intention to visit the Lady Abbess, and communicate, with the necessary precautions and qualifications, the altered relations in which he was placed towards her niece, by the resolution he had been compelled to adopt, of departing for the Crusade before accomplishing his marriage, in the terms of the precontract already entered into.
The Presbyterian nonjurors have scarcely been heard of out of Scotland; and perhaps it may not now be generally known, even in Scotland, how long they continued to form a distinct class. They held that their country was under a precontract to the Most High, and could never, while the world lasted, enter into any engagement inconsistent with that precontract.
The Abbess, it is true, remained silent for a moment after his arguments had been exhausted, but it was only to consider how she should intimate in a suitable and reverent manner, that children, the usual attendants of a happy union, and the existence of which she looked to for the continuation of the house of her father and brother, could not be hoped for with any probability, unless the precontract was followed by marriage, and the residence of the married parties in the same country.
"Interstate commerce, so to speak?" suggested Tutt mischievously. "Condonation, collusion and connivance," continued Mr. Tutt, brushing him aside, "reinstitution of conjugal rights, the law of feme sole, The Married Woman's Act, separation a mensa et thoro, abandonment, jurisdiction, alimony, custody of children, precontract " "Help! You're breaking my heart!" cried Tutt.
Ay, more I vouch it on my soul that she will say yes, for I have sure information of her mind; and for her precontract, a word from Henry to his Holiness, now that they are in the heyday of their reconciliation, will obliterate the name Hugh from the parchment, and insert Damian in its stead."
The first sounds she there heard were, "Sir, I have given my faith to the Lady Eleanor of Audley, whom I love." "What is that to me? 'Twas a precontract to my daughter." "Not made by me nor her." "By your parents, with myself. You went near to being her death outright, marred her face for life, so that none other will wed her. What say you? Not hurt by your own will? Who said it was?
In the impassioned reply which followed this address it was noticed for the first time by the spectators that Maggie scarcely did herself justice. Her exclamation "I wed with thee! I, bound by precontract Your bride, your bondslave!" was scarcely uttered with the scorn which such a girl would throw into the words if her heart went with them.
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