Note 1341 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE
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12 C. II., c. 33: Statutes at Large, III, 24. Cf. Friedberg, op. cit., 330. It is curious to see Ashton, The Fleet: Its River, Prison, and Marriages (London, 1889), 332, referring to this act as designed merely to legalize common law or private marriages before witnesses, making no mention whatever of the act of 1653.