1818. Oct. 28

Parl. Reform Bill

Reasons

'.2. Electors Who

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III. Females

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2. Suppose /Follow/ her sins[?] in the married state /wedded and bedded/. More inconsistencies, more spots /points/ /marks/ for the shafts of ridicule to fasten on /shoot at/. As a sovereign she is mistress over her husband: as a wife she is subject to his will. Suppose a disagreement - and unless a right be gained to the flitch of bacon disagreements there must be - suppose a disagreement - how by whom, in what manner shall it be terminated The characteristic right suppose it exercised by force, will this be treason? treason in the principal, treason in all accomplices? /aiders and abetters?/

In any imaginable shape suppose personal cruelty on his part, what /where/ shall be the remedy at what hands shall it be sought? The late Princess suppose her Queen and thus unfortunate would she have had to sue before /become suitor to/ Sir William Scot?

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Suppose her - for though royal she is not only human but female suppose her unfaithful to his bed. Where now is to be his remedy. First come divorce from bed and board. Must he now be suitor to Sir William? Then comes the action for damages, for damages to be assessed by a Jury, suppose /say/ the Court of King's Bench. All this done /concluded/ still it is but the beginning of sorrows. For completion comes the Act of Parliament. But the royal assent by whom shall it be given? By the royal offender herself or else by nobody. Degraded /Dragged/ through the Spiritual Court, dragged through the Common Law Court now comes the last seal to be put by herself to her own shame.