Sir Matthew Hale, 17th century Lord Chief Justice of England mb-height 2319 Mary Wilson

Mary Wilson

novelist and eclectic scholar

English stage actress Ellen Terry as Catherine of Aragon in Shakespeare's Henry VIII

A view of the entrance to the Green Park

Sir Matthew Hale, 17th century Lord Chief Justice of England mb-height 2319 Mary WilsonSir Matthew Hale, 17th century Lord Chief Justice of England, (1808). It was Hale's (1609 1676) opinion that The husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife, for by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract, the wife hath given herself in kind unto the husband which she cannot retract. His statement was partly responsible for the fact that, until recently, spousal rape was not recognized as a crime in most common