Note 1358 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE
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Lecky, op. cit., I, 532. See the examples in Friedberg, op. cit., 343, extracted from Burn, Fleet Marriages, 94 ff.; Jeaffreson, op. cit., II, 174, 175; and Ashton, op. cit., 381, 361, 387. Even Lord Chancellor Ellesmere and Sir Edward Coke, Chief Justice of England, had contracted secret marriages: Friedberg, op. cit., 344; citing Macqueen, Treatise of Marriage, Divorce, &c. (London, 1860), 6.