The spouse of an accused party is not generally compellable to give evidence against him.

It will be found, when the Myſterie of iniquitie ſhall be unriddled, that, as they were their ſpawn the Anabaptiſts, the obſtructers of our Doctrinal Reformation, ſo, they are by their Miſſionaries ſent unto Corners and Hillie Countreys the obſtructers of our practical.

I with my distaffe will reache hym one rappe, Tib. Talk.

The document was written in the Middle Ages, c. 1250.