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By Rebecca Probert

ISBN-10: 0521516153

ISBN-13: 9780521516150

This booklet makes use of quite a lot of fundamental assets - criminal, literary and demographic - to supply an intensive reassessment of eighteenth-century marriage. It disproves the common assumption that married just by changing consent, demonstrating that such exchanges have been looked purely as contracts to marry and that marriage in church used to be virtually common outdoor London. It indicates how the Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 used to be basically meant to avoid priests working out of London's Fleet legal from undertaking marriages, and that it was once winning in so doing. It additionally refutes the concept that the 1753 Act used to be harsh or strictly interpreted, illustrating the courts' pragmatic process. eventually, it establishes that very few non-Anglicans married in response to their very own rites sooner than the Act; whereas afterwards so much - shop the exempted Quakers and Jews - equally married in church. briefly, eighteenth-century complied with regardless of the legislations required for a sound marriage.

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