{"id":12250,"date":"2019-08-03T15:45:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T15:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/?post_type=kbe_knowledgebase&#038;p=12250"},"modified":"2019-08-04T16:14:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T16:14:42","slug":"first-cousin-marriage","status":"publish","type":"kbe_knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/?kbe_knowledgebase=first-cousin-marriage","title":{"rendered":"First Cousin Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Henry Churchyard writes that, &#8220;the brief\nanswer is that marrrying one&#8217;s first cousin has been legal in England since the\n16th-century (when England basically adopted the list of prohibited marriages\nin the book of Leviticus in the Old Testament, following the break with the\nCatholic church).&nbsp;Here&nbsp;is a Table of\nKindred and Affinity from The Book of Common Prayer, 1769, printed by John\nBaskerville for the Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/First-Cousin-Marriage.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/First-Cousin-Marriage.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pemberley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/First-Cousin-Marriage-176x300.jpg 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kindred-and-affinity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Churchyard writes that, &#8220;the brief answer is that marrrying one&#8217;s first cousin has been legal in England since the 16th-century (when England basically adopted the list of prohibited marriages in the book of Leviticus in the Old Testament, following &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/?kbe_knowledgebase=first-cousin-marriage\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","kbe_taxonomy":[257,269,273],"kbe_tags":[306],"class_list":["post-12250","kbe_knowledgebase","type-kbe_knowledgebase","status-publish","hentry","kbe_taxonomy-clergy","kbe_taxonomy-mansfield-park","kbe_taxonomy-marriage","kbe_tags-consanguinity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/kbe_knowledgebase\/12250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/kbe_knowledgebase"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/kbe_knowledgebase"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/kbe_knowledgebase\/12250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12252,"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/kbe_knowledgebase\/12250\/revisions\/12252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbe_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkbe_taxonomy&post=12250"},{"taxonomy":"kbe_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkbe_tags&post=12250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}