Marriage
On 13 January 1409, he married Millicent, widow of Sir Stephen Scrope of Castle Combe in Wiltshire. This marriage brought him an income of £240 per annum, a considerable sum.
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Famous quotes containing the word marriage:
“A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.”
—Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)
“What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“We lov’d, and we lov’d, as long as we could,
Till our love was lov’d out in us both;
But our marriage is dead, when the pleasure is fled:
‘Twas pleasure first made it an oath.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)