Note 1276 — Chapter IX · THE PROTESTANT CONCEPTION OF MARRIAGE
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Ibid., xv-xliii, 1-55, 183, 184. In addition to these Chester cases Furnivall (xxi-xliii) presents very interesting material regarding child-marriages, some of which were before or after the age of Elizabeth. Two cases under Henry VII. and Henry VIII., respectively, are mentioned in Reports of the Hist. Manuscripts Commission, III, 247. Sometimes such marriages were secured by abduction or conspiracy: see ibid., III, 55, 59, 61 (three cases in the reign of James I.).