Sir Matthew Hale, Kt, Chief Justice of the King's Bench Old Goat and Compasses Inn with railway stations marked and

with railway stations marked and the cemeteries coloured in grey

Monument to Sir Gilbert Talbot

Tottenham High Road

Interior view of Holborn Theatre Royal

Sir Matthew Hale, Kt, Chief Justice of the King's Bench Old Goat and Compasses Inn with railway stations marked and'Sir Matthew Hale, Kt, Chief Justice of the King's Bench', 1670. It was Hale's (1609 1676) opinion that The husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife, for by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract, the wife hath given herself in kind unto the husband which she cannot retract. His statement was partly responsible for the fact that, until recently, spousal rape was not recognized as a crime in most common law