Note 1403 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE

Haldane, in Cobbett, loc. cit., 39. He continues: "In my opinion the certain consequence will be that of rendering common whoring as frequent among the lower sort of people, as it is now among those of the better sort; and multitudes of wenches in all parts of the country, when they find they cannot get husbands according to law, will set up the trade; so that the Bill ought really to be called a Bill for the increase of fornication in this kingdom."—Ibid., 39. Cf. the similar arguments of Nugent (ibid., 17, 18), Townshend (ibid., 55, 58), Fox (ibid., 68-70), and Beckford (ibid., 80-82).