books.google.co.uk - While marriages were supposed to be celebrated publicly by priests, in churches where the parties were known, many couples had reasons -- among them parental disapproval, religious nonconformity, property considerations and previous entanglements -- to marry in other ways. Nor was this difficult where...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Clandestine_Marriage_in_England_1500_185.html?id=dmZ14qiH-T0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareClandestine Marriage in England, 1500-1850
