11. They returned to court nine days later and pleaded " benefit of clergy " to avoid the death sentence. 12. Because the young couple had " kept company ", they were considered " married without benefit of clergy ". 13. However, his trial in February 1313 concluded that he was acting alone and he was hanged, despite benefit of clergy . 14. The Henry VIII to reform the law on mortuary fees and an attempt was made to extend laws against benefit of clergy . 15. Anyone who ignored such an order was to be found guilty of a felony without benefit of clergy and put to death. 16. Against Hale's wishes, the Commission called for the abolition of benefit of clergy , and the acquittal of those charged with justified homicide. 17. It seems probable that the Court applied the principle of benefit of clergy to allow the defendant to escape this one charge. 18. Alan and Kitty spend a night of love at a country inn " without benefit of clergy " and he sets off. 19. In 1515 Richard Kidderminster, Abbot of Winchcombe, attacked a 1512 Act of Parliament restricting the benefit of clergy , to those in major orders. 20. Shortly before her 18th birthday she reluctantly " married " Fanny Clark's brother Percy Faulkner in a private ceremony without benefit of clergy .
