Note 1359 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE
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There seems to have been much dislike for the publicity of banns even on the part of the aristocracy: see the letter of Horace Walpole to Henry Seymour Conway, May 24, 1753, Letters, II, 334-36; Friedberg, Eheschliessung, 342; idem, Geschichte der Civilehe, 15; Fry, Considerations on ... Clandestine Marriages, 8.