Note 1021 — Chapter VII · RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH ACCEPTS THE LAY CONTRACT AND CEREMONIAL

See the cases mentioned in the Bibliographical Note at the head of this chapter. Of course, most of the decisions are cited and elaborately discussed by the counsel and judges in Queen v. Millis and Beamish v. Beamish. An important case is given in Harvard Law Review, VI, 11. Cf. Swinburne, Of Spousals, 13, 104, 193, passim; and especially Hale's Precedents and Proceedings in Criminal Laws, 1475-1640, taken from the act-books of ecclesiastical courts in the diocese of London, and containing a mass of most interesting and convincing evidence relating to the subject (see the Index at "Matrimonial Causes").