| 11. | They returned to court nine days later and pleaded " benefit of clergy " to avoid the death sentence.
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| 12. | Because the young couple had " kept company ", they were considered " married without benefit of clergy ".
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| 13. | However, his trial in February 1313 concluded that he was acting alone and he was hanged, despite benefit of clergy.
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| 14. | The Henry VIII to reform the law on mortuary fees and an attempt was made to extend laws against benefit of clergy.
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| 15. | Anyone who ignored such an order was to be found guilty of a felony without benefit of clergy and put to death.
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| 16. | Against Hale's wishes, the Commission called for the abolition of benefit of clergy, and the acquittal of those charged with justified homicide.
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| 17. | It seems probable that the Court applied the principle of benefit of clergy to allow the defendant to escape this one charge.
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| 18. | Alan and Kitty spend a night of love at a country inn " without benefit of clergy " and he sets off.
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| 19. | In 1515 Richard Kidderminster, Abbot of Winchcombe, attacked a 1512 Act of Parliament restricting the benefit of clergy, to those in major orders.
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| 20. | Shortly before her 18th birthday she reluctantly " married " Fanny Clark's brother Percy Faulkner in a private ceremony without benefit of clergy.
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