Note 1007 — Chapter VII · RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH ACCEPTS THE LAY CONTRACT AND CEREMONIAL

In general, for the canons relating to the priestly benediction and the ecclesiastical celebration see Johnson, Collection of the Laws and Canons of the Church of England, I, 202; II, 19, 27, 64, 89, 91, 340, 395, 410; Pemberton's historical summary in 10 Clark and Finnelly, 616 ff.; and the summaries of Maskell, Monumenta ritualia, I, cclxiv-ix; and Makower, Const. Hist. of Church of England, 213, 214 n. 5. For the early period see the collections of Thorpe, Schmid, Haddan and Stubbs, and Wilkins. An excellent discussion of the subject is given by Pollock and Maitland, Hist. Eng. Law, II, 364 ff.; and a very detailed treatment in Friedberg's Eheschliessung, 33 ff., 309 ff.