Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/law-and-history-review/article/redefinition-of-clandestine-marriage-by-sixteenthcentury-lutheran-theologians-and-jurists/451D0189A6ECB3EFB00F21EED98C85EF
Description: WEBMay 8, 2023 · A clandestine marriage was a marriage that breached the divine order. In this sense it was not clandestine because of the location, but because of the manner: it was contracted in violation of divine law and civil law.
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_marriage
Description: WEBFleet Prison. Marriage Act 1753. See also. References. Sources. External links. Fleet marriage. Caricature of a Fleet marriage. A Fleet marriage was a common example of an irregular or a clandestine marriage [1] taking place in England before the Marriage Act 1753 came into force on March 25, 1754.
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Link: https://www.britannica.com/topic/clandestine-marriage
Description: WEBIn family law: The public interest. …to combat the danger of clandestine marriages, which were possible under the old law in Europe and England by some form of mutual consent. In addition to direct proof of consent, a clandestine marriage could be established by engagement followed by sexual intercourse ( matrimonium subsequente copula) or by ...
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestine_Marriages_Act_1753
Description: WEBIn 1753, in an unprecedented and controversial use of state power, Lord Chancellor Hardwicke mandated Anglican church weddings as marriage's only legal form. Resistance to his Marriage Act would fuel a new kind of realist marriage plot in England and help to produce political radicalism as we know it.
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Link: https://academic.oup.com/book/4787/chapter/147055464
Description: WEBA clandestine marriage was a legally binding marriage, but one conducted in a manner which broke canon law. It was binding since it was conducted by a man who at least purported to be a clergyman (although often one not holding a cure) and since it followed the ritual prescribed by the Book of Common Prayer.
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Link: https://historycooperative.org/journal/control-over-marriage-in-england-and-wales-1753-1823-the-clandestine-marriages-act-of-1753-in-context/
Description: WEBThe prevalence of clandestine marriages in London in the 1730s and 1740s illustrated that existing controls—whether through property or through requiring parental consent to marriage—were insufficient, leading to the passage of the 1753 Act.
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Link: https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/marriage-secret-and-clandestine-unions
Description: WEBClandestine marriages might occur at home, with friends and family gathered round, or even in the local tavern or at other public venues. Secret marriages, on the other hand, occurred without the knowledge and presence of others. Because of the absence of witnesses, these unions were the most difficult to prove in court. Exchanging Consent.
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Link: https://www.worldhistory.org/review/354/irregular-unions-clandestine-marriage-in-early-mod/
Description: WEBMay 22, 2023 · This book discusses how clandestine marriage related to the conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism at that time. Due to its vocabulary and scholarly tone, "Irregular Unions" suits university faculties and graduate students the best. This book is the first literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England.
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Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/marriage-law-and-practice-in-the-long-eighteenth-century/unacknowledged-regularity-of-clandestine-marriages/E6943D1E47C17D4859CA0999EC680453
Description: WEBAs noted in the opening chapter, the term ‘clandestine marriage’ bore a specific meaning in the period before the 1753 Act, denoting a marriage that was celebrated before an ordained clergyman of the Church of England otherwise than in accordance with the prescriptions of the canon law.
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Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv310vjhb
Description: WEB978-1-5017-5349-7. Language & Literature, British Studies, European Studies. Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controve...
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