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Clandestine Marriage in England, 1500-1850 (Hardcover)
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Clandestine Marriage in England, 1500-1850 (Hardcover)
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While marriages were supposed to be celebrated publicly by priests,
in churches where the parties were known, many couples had reasons
-- among them parental disapproval, religious nonconformity,
property considerations and previous entanglements -- to marry in
other ways. Nor was this difficult where there was no unified
marriage code, where a simple exchange of vows might constitute a
valid marriage, and where unbeneficed priests were prepared to
perform the ceremony in return for a drink.
Clandestine marriage had represented a problem to the church and
state, and to the rights of property, since the middle ages,
eluding a variety of attempts to control it. By the eighteenth
century it had become a scandal, with Fleet parsons marrying
thousands of couples a year. In 1753 Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act
nullified such irregular marriages, only to drive them to adopt
other guises until the introduction of civil marriage in 1836.
In this intriguing book Brian Outhwaite explores the nature and
scale of clandestine marriage. He describes why it attracted so
many customers and why it was so hard to suppress. "Clandestine
Marriage in England, 1500-1850" provides a new perspective on a
central social and religious institution.
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