Note 1294 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE

See secs. xx-xxii of the commission of James I. to the High Commission, in Prothero's Statutes and Const. Docs., 431-33. The signers of the "Millenary Petition," 1603, likewise pray for the restraint of the "longsomeness of suits in ecclesiastical courts (which hang sometimes two, three, four, five, six, or seven years)": Prothero, op. cit., 415.