ANTIQUITY OF BREACH OF PROMISE CASES.
Actions for breach of promise of marriage are not usually supposed to be of any great antiquity, but actions for breach of cantract ”of marriage can really be traced back to the middle of the fifteenth century. Mr J. E. Bird, P.S.A. has lately been investigating some of these cases, and he has written an article on the subject. The first case referred to is a complaint preferred to the Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor of England,between the year 1452 and 1454, by Margaret Gardyner and Alice Gardyner, presumably her daughter, against one “ John Yache, of Uppeswych,” who after receiving ten marks from Margaret and twelve marks from Alice, on the condition that he married the latter, took to wife Joan Bloys, “to the great deceyt of the said suppliants, and agayne all good reason and conscience.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2737, 29 December 1881, Page 2
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143ANTIQUITY OF BREACH OF PROMISE CASES. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2737, 29 December 1881, Page 2
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