Note 1320 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE
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The parish register of Boston, Lincolnshire, shows "that during the years 1656, 1657, and 1658 respectively the number of marriages proclaimed in the market-place were 102, 104, and 108, and of those announced in the church, 48, 31, 52."—Wood, The Wedding Day, 278, 279.