england-and-wales legal-history
What would have been the typical penalty for six counts of bigamy in 1604?
<p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigamy_Act_1603" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bigamy act of 1603</a> made it a specific crime to </p>

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  <p>marry any person or persons, the former husband or wife being alive</p>
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<p>With the penalty being made a </p>

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  <p>"capital felony"</p>
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<p>Were people typically <strong><em>executed</em></strong> for Bigamy after this act was passed? What would have been the <em>likely</em> penalty for 6 additional counts (e.g. if one were married to seven women)?</p>

<p>A recent law review article on the topic covers this question exhaustively.</p>

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  <p>Already in Anglo-Saxon times, England condemned polygamy as a serious
  moral offense. But until 1604, it was left to church courts to punish
  polygamists using spiritual punishments. In 1604, however, Parliament
  enacted the Polygamy Act that made polygamy a capital crime,
  punishable by secular courts. Both individual victims of desertion or
  double marriage as well as church or state officials could initiate
  indictment of parties for polygamy. Other interested parties also had
  standing to press polygamy claims. </p>
  
  <p>Thousands of polygamy cases came before the criminal tribunals of
  England, not least the famous Old Bailey, which heard more than 500
  such polygamy cases under the 1604 Act. </p>
  
  <p>Convicted parties faced punishments ranging from fines and short
  imprisonment, to transportation to a penal colony or execution orders,
  though almost all those convicted for a capital felony successfully
  pled benefit of clergy. The vast majority of polygamy cases were
  brought against men, and they were punished far more severely than
  women if convicted.  The 1604 Polygamy Act -- while eventually
  replaced by Acts of Parliament in 1828 and 1861 that made felony a
  non-capital crime -- was a model for the common law world.</p>
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<li>John Witte Jr., <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2897666" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Prosecuting Polygamy in Early Modern England</a> (2016). </li>
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