Gardiner optimistically supposes one “‘it might hit all of them which they can be more economically, no matter if less expeditiously, married in London area, compared to Scotland’” (312)

Before the enactment into the 1753 away from A work for the Most useful Preventing out-of Clandestine Matrimony, often called “Lord Hardwicke’s Operate,” people you will definitely wed off societal scrutiny when they might discover an ordained clergyman to perform the service. Bigamous and you may incestuous marriage ceremonies had been invalid but caused immense harm to ladies in sort of weiterlesen →