End Notes

1.Stone, Lawrence. Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England 1660-1753. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992: 4.

2.Lemmings, David. "Marriage and the Law in the Eighteenth Century." The Historical Journal 39: 339-60, June 1996, 344.

3. Stone 24-25.

4. Lemmings 344.

5.Stone 22.

6.Tuberville, A.S. English Men and Manners in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1926, 228-229.

7. Stone 25.

8. Bannet, Eve Tavor. "The Marriage Act of 1753:  'A Most Cruel Law for the Fair Sex.'" Eighteenth-Century Studies 30: 233-254, Spring 1997, 234.

9.Lemmings 339.

10. Gally, Henry."Some Considerations on Marriage." London: 1750, 11.

11. Bannet 236.

12.Bannet 236.

13.Lemmings 350.

14. Stone 68-77.

15.Stone 147-152.

16. Gally 12.

17. Lemmings 345-346.

18. Stone 12.

19. Bannet 232.

20. Stone 12.

21. Bannet 233.

22. Bannet 239.

23. Bannet 242.

24. Bannet 235.

25. Bannet 234-235.

26. Stone 13.

27. Stone 12.

28.Gally 22.

29.Gally 33.

30.Gally 124.

31. Stebbing, Henry. "An Inquiry into the Force and Operation of the annulling Clauses of a late Act for the better Preventing of Clandestine Marriages." London, 1754, 18-19.

32.Stebbing 22.

33.Stebbing 22.

34. Gregory, John. "A Father's Legacy to His Daughters." London, 1774, 80.

35. Macfarlane, Alan. Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction 1300-1840. New York: Basil Blackwel, Inc., 1986, 161.

36. Macfarlane 122.

37. Macfarlane 160.

38. Macfarlane 160.

39. Macfarlane 151.

40. Bannet 235.

41.Macfarlane 152.

42. Sharpe, J.A. Early Modern England: A Social History, 1550-1760. Baltimore, MD: Edward Arnold, 1987, 62.

43. Macfarlane 157.

44. Macfarlane 160.

45. Gregory 80.

46. Gregory 67.

47. Gregory 81-82.

48. Botsford, Jay. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. New York: the Macmillan Co., 1924, 67.

49. Booth, George, Earl of Warrington. Considerations upon the Institution of Marriage. New York: Garland Pub., 1985, 66.

50. Gallery of English Costume. Weddings: Wedding Costume, 1735-1970. Manchester: The Gallery for the City of Manchester Cultural Committee, 1977, 3.

51. Gallery 3.

52. Booth 33.

53. Booth 17.

54. Olsen, Kirstin. Daily Life in 18th-Century England. London: Greenwood Press, 1999, 35.

55. Olsen, 35.

56. Olsen, 36.

57. Olsen, 37.

58. Olsen, 38.

59. Macfarlane, Alan. Marriage and Love in England. Oxford: Oxford Publishing Press, 1986, 315.

60. Macfarlane, 316.