[To the Editor of Me SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—In his article upon page 950 of your issue of March 27th, an anonymous writer asserts : (1) " The facts (sic) may be briefly stated. . . . For twenty-five years the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough lived together." This is notoriously untrue. (2) " The sons in the eyes of Rome are bastardized." This, equally, is untrue. (3) " We can only be thankful that this country is governed under the Act of Supremacy . . and a marriage law which bastardized the heirs of the Earls of Berkeley, Egremont, and Strathmore' a hundred years ago and has never yet been reformed.
As a Scotsman, I " can only be thankful " that my country, in spite of anything that may have occurred at the Reformation, has preserved and upholds the Canon Law of Marriage, in common with mostof the other civilized countries of the world, and " can only " hope that the Marriage Law of England may, in the course of another century or two, be similarly civilized.
In conclusion, may I remind your contributor of all that he owes to the Rota's refusal to annul the first marriage of King Henry VIII ?—I am, Sir, &c.,
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