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Abduction of Women Act 1487

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The Second Parliament, holden in Third Year of KingHen . VII The Penalty for carrying a Woman away against her Will that hath Lands or Goods.

(3 Hen. 7) C A P. II.

'ITEM, Where Women, as well Maidens, as Widows, and Wives, having Substances, some in Goodsmoveable, and some in Lands and Tenements, and some being Heirs apparent unto their Ancestors, for the Lucre of such Substances been oftentimes taken by Mis-doers, contrary to their Will, and after married to such Mis-doers, or to other by their Assent, or defoiled, to the great Displeasure of God , and contrary to the King's Laws, and Disparagements of the said Women, and utter Heaviness and Discomfort of their Friends, and to the evil Ensample of all other:' (2)It is therefore ordained, established, and enacted, by our Sovereign Lord the King, by the Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in the said Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That what Person or Persons from henceforth that taketh any Woman so against her Will unlawfully, that is to say, Maid, Widow, or Wife, that such taking, procuring, and abetting to the same, and also receiving wittingly the same Woman so taken against her Will, and knowing the same, be Felony; (3) and that such Mis-doers, Takers, and Procurators to the same, and Receitors...

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