Note 1386 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE
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"Lord Bath invented this Bill, but had drawn it so ill, that the Chancellor was forced to draw a new one—and then grew so fond of his own creature, that he has crammed it down the throats of both Houses, though they gave many a gulp before they could swallow it."—Walpole to Conway, May 24, 1753: Horace Walpole's Letters, II, 334-36; also in Cobbett, Parliamentary History, XV, 33.