WHere the Right Honorable William Marquess of Northampton , by lawful Sentence before Competent Judges , according to the Ecclesiasticall Laws used in this Realme , was and is most justly divorced from the Lady Anne Bowrgsher , one of the Daughters of Henry , late Earle 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 Vertuous Lady Elizabeth , Daughter to Sir George Brooke , Lord Cobham . The KINGS most Excellent Majesty tendring as well the honorable Estate and Fame of the said Marquess and Elizabeth his Wife , as the Continuance of the Family and Posterity of the said Marquess and Elizabeth in honorable and lawful Succession : And that such Issue as should come betwixt the said Marquess and Elizabeth should be counted , reputed and taken of all His Subjects for Lawfull , 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 solemnized and had betwixt the Marquess and Elizabeth , shall be adjudged , deemed , reputed and taken in all places of this Realme and else where , and in all his Highnesses 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 Marquess , as after his death , if she happen to overlive him , be inabled by the Authority of this Act , to demand , have and enjoy as well her Ioynture or Dower of , in , and to all the Mannours , Lands and Tenements which the said Marquess shall have of any State of Inheritance , whereof any his Lawful wife is , may , or ought to be Dowable , As also all such Honour , Place , Dignity , Preheminence , Profit and Commodity , as she might in any wise aske , Challenge or Demand , as if the said Lady Anne had been naturally dead before the Intermarriage of the said Marquess and Elizabeth , and in as large and ample manner as any other lawful Wife to any of the KINGS 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 Marquess 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 Marquess and Elizabeth , to all Intents , Constructions , and purposes in the Law , and otherwise . And for all manner Degrees , Dignities , Stiles or Preheminences belonging to any Child or Children lawfully begotten by such men and personages of Degree , as the said Marquess is or hereafter may be , And shall by the Authority of this Act , as well be inabled to claime , challenge and demand after the death of the said Marquess and Elizabeth , or either of them , as heire and heirs to the said Marquess and Elizabeth and either of them , all such Mannors , Lands , Tenements , Hereditaments and Rights , as they or either of them shall Dye Seised of , of any estate of Inheritance , as also be inabled as heir and heirs , and to be Inheritable to any of the Anceffors , Coliateral or Lineall of the said Marquess 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 Kings Subjects be , and ought to be : And that it shall be lawfull 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 Marquess and Elizabeth , or either of them , or of the Possession and Seisin of any Ancestor Coliateral or lineal to the said Marquess and Elizabeth , or to either and every of them , and to make their title as heire or heires to them or any of them , in as large and ample manner as any other of the Kings Subjects , born in lawful Matrimony , might or ought after the death of any their Ancestors ; The said former Marriage betwixt the said Marquess and Anne , or any Decretal Canon , Constitution . Ecclesiastical Law , Common Law , Statute , Vsage , Preseription or Custome of this Realme to the Contrary in any wise Notwithstanding .