Note 1388 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE

Burn, Fleet Marriages, 16; Tegg, The Knot Tied, 206. For the debates in the Commons see Cobbett, Parliamentary History, XV, 2-86; and compare the excellent analysis by Friedberg, Eheschliessung, 350-52; also Horace Walpole, Letters, II, 334-36; idem, Memoirs of George II., I, 336-49; Burn, Parish Registers, 32, 33; idem, Fleet Marriages, 16 ff., 22-31 (entire account of Lord Orford quoted); Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., I, 539; idem, Democracy and Liberty, II, 174-77; Spencer Walpole, Hist. of Eng., IV, 69, 70; Knight, Hist. of Eng., V, 585; Lord Mahon, Hist. of Eng., II, 280-82; Hammick, Marriage Law, 12, 13; and Oppenheim, "Die Verhandlungen des Eng. Parliaments über Einführung der Civil-Ehe," ZKR., I, 9 ff., 14, 15, 20-22.