THE CASE of my Lord ROOS.  
THe Lord Roos did in the Court of Arches Cant. London, sue his Lady in a Cause of Separation and Divorce propter Adulterium.  
The Lady his wife appeared to that suit in the Arches.  
The Lord Roos libelled against her in that Court.  
Witnesses were in that Court examined.  
There was Publication.  
The Cause was afterwards in that Court concluded and assigned for sentence.  
Information upon the whole matter was had.  
And the Dean of the Arches after such Information had upon the merits of the Cause, gave Sentence of Divorce against the Lady propter Adulterium.  
Anno v. Edw. vj. An Act touching the Marriage of the Lord Marquis of Northampton, and the Lady Elizabeth his Wife.  
WHere the Right Honourable William Marquis of Northampton, by lawful Sentence before Competent Judges, according to the Ecclesiastical Laws used in this Realm, was and is most justly divorced from the Lady Anne Bowrgsher, one of the Daughters of Henry, late Earl of Essex, sometime his Wife, for her dissolute living and manifest Adultery, And so being Separate, Divorced, and at Liberty, by the Laws of God to marry, about Four years past, Solemnly and Lawfully did Marry the good and Virtuous Lady Elizabeth, Daughter to Sir George Brooke, Lord Cobham. The KING'S most Excellent Majesty tendering as well the honourable Estate and Fame of the said Marquis and Elizabeth his Wife, as the Continuance of the Family and Posterity of the said Marquis and Elizabeth in honourable and lawful Succession: And that such Issue as should come betwixt the said Marquis and Elizabeth should be counted, reputed and taken of all His Subjects for Lawful, as by the Law of God they be in very deed, is pleased and contented, That it be enacted by the Assent of His Highness, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said Marriage solemnised and had betwixt the Marquis and Elizabeth, shall be adjudged, deemed, reputed and taken in all places of this Realm and else where, and in all his Highness' Courts Ecclesiastical and Temporal for Lawful, to all Intents, Constructions and purposes; and that the said Elizabeth shall, as well in the Life of the said Marquis, as after his death, if she happen to overlive him, be enabled by the Authority of this Act, to demand, have and enjoy as well her jointure or Dower of, in, and to all the Manors, Lands and Tenements which the said Marquis shall have of any State of Inheritance, whereof any his Lawful wife is, may, or aught to be Dowable, As also all such Honour, Place, Dignity, Pre-eminence, Profit and Commodity, as she might in any wise ask, Challenge or Demand, as if the said Lady Anne had been naturally dead before the Intermarriage of the said Marquis and Elizabeth, and in as large and ample manner as any other lawful Wife to any of the KING'S Subjects ought, should or might, either in the Life of her Husband, or after his Death claim, challenge, demand or have: And that such Issue as shall happen to be betwixt the said Marquis and Elizabeth, shall by th' Authority of this Act be adjudged, deemed, reputed, and taken for Legitimate and Lawfully begotten of the Bodies of the said Marquis and Elizabeth, to all Intents, Constructions, and purposes in the Law, and otherwise. And for all manner Degrees, Dignities, Styles or Preeminences belonging to any Child or Children lawfully begotten by such men and personages of Degree, as the said Marquis is or hereafter may be, And shall by the Authority of this Act, as well be enabled to claim, challenge and demand after the death of the said Marquis and Elizabeth, or either of them, as heir and heirs to the said Marquis and Elizabeth and either of them, all such Manors, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments and Rights, as they or either of them shall Die Seized of, of any estate of Inheritance, as also be enabled as heir and heirs, and to be Inheritable to any of the Anceffors, Coliateral or Lineal of the said Marquis and Elizabeth, or either of them, in as large and ample manner to all Intents, Constructions and Purposes, as the Children born in lawful Matrimony betwixt any other of the King's Subjects be, and aught to be: And that it shall be lawful for such Issue as is aforesaid to use for the Recovery of any Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments and Rights, all and every such Action either of his and their own Possession and Seisin, or of the Possession and Seisin of the said Marquis and Elizabeth, or either of them, or of the Possession and Seisin of any Ancestor Coliateral or lineal to the said Marquis and Elizabeth, or to either and every of them, and to make their title as heir or heirs to them or any of them, in as large and ample manner as any other of the King's Subjects, born in lawful Matrimony, might or ought after the death of any their Ancestors; The said former Marriage betwixt the said Marquis and Anne, or any Decretal Canon, Constitution. Ecclesiastical Law, Common Law, Statute, Usage, Preseription or Custom of this Realm to the Contrary in any wise Notwithstanding.  
Copia vera. Jo. Browne, Cleric. Parliamentorum.