Note 1349 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE
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For full details as to the history of the Fleet, see Ashton, The Fleet: Its River, Prison, and Marriages, especially 233 ff., 237 ff., 331 ff. "The rules of liberties of this comprehend all Ludgate-Hill to the Old Bailey on the north side, and to the Cock-alley on the south; both sides of the Old Bailey to Fleet-lane; all Fleet-lane and the east-side of the marcket, from Fleet-lane to Ludgate Hill."—Harrison, New and Universal Hist. of London (London, 1776), II, 447; Friedberg, 336 n. 4. Cf. also Jeaffreson, op. cit., II, 122 ff.