Sir Matthew Hale, Kt, Chief Justice of the King's Bench Old Goat and Compasses Inn Monument to Sir Gilbert Talbot

Monument to Sir Gilbert Talbot

'Margaret of Anjou taken prisoner after the Battle of Tewkesbury'

Interior view of Holborn Theatre Royal

with figures and carriages

was still rural in the eighteenth century

Sir Matthew Hale, Kt, Chief Justice of the King's Bench Old Goat and Compasses Inn Monument to Sir Gilbert Talbot'Sir Matthew Hale, Kt, Chief Justice of the King's Bench', 1670. 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 law