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Our sovereign lord, with advice of the estates of this present parliament, declares all marriages to be contracted hereafter by any persons divorced for their own crime and fact of adultery from their lawful spouses with the persons with whom they are declared by sentence of the ordinary judge to have committed the said crime and fact of adultery, to be in all time coming null and unlawful in themselves and the succession to be procreated by such unlawful conjunctions to be unable to succeed as heirs to their said parents.