William Whately

Plainely describing the Dvties common to both, and peculiar to each of them (London, 1619; republished 1623; Bristol, 1768; translated into Welsh, Llanrwst, 1834).

In it he propounded that "the sin of adultery or wilfull desertion dissolveth the bond and annihilateth the covenant of matrimonie"; and raised a storm of opposition in the church.

To the second edition (1623) he appended an address to the reader explain he had erred; and again in A Care Cloth he denied his earlier opinion.

[1] Whately was also author of:[1] A posthumous volume of sermons was issued by his executors, Henry Scudder and Edward Leigh.

Whately's library, catalogued by Edward Millington (London, 1683), was sold at Bridge's coffee-house in Pope's Head Alley on 23 April 1683.

[1] Whately married Martha, daughter of George Hunt, fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and for 51 years rector of Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire.