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	The Canonical Form of Marriage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Such a marriage was possible in the Catholic Church because her authorities refused for centuries to require as a condition for the validity of the marital consent that its expression by the parties be witnessed.
		This was held to be a marriage "in the face of the Church", "Church" being understood as an assembly of the faithful.
		A public marriage was one undertaken with the consent of the parents, otherwise it was clandestine and invalid.
	www.interchurchfamilies.org /resource/marriage/can-marr.shtm (2804 words)

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		Clandestine marriages were often performed by clergymen who did not have an official position, in parishes other than those of the couple, or in such diverse locales as taverns, prisons, or even brothels.
		In his analysis of the clandestine marriage controversy, Lawrence Stone concluded that though the act contained some loopholes such as Scotland, most of the fears expressed by the opposition within parliament proved to be specious.
		Christopher Lasch believes that clandestine marriage became popular among the poor because by the middle of the eighteenth century, betrothal had lost its "binding character" through the disruption of village life, the growth of mobile laborers, and the increased amount of casual sexual activity.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/7023/clandestine.html (4582 words)

	Sarah Hanley \| "The Jurisprudence of the Arrêts": Marital Union, Civil Society, and State Formation in France, ...
		That arrêt declared the clandestine marriage (lacking parental consent) "illicit, against the law, and against the Arrêts of the said Court [Parlement of Paris] heretofore given," invoked a rapt charge, and then meted out to perpetrators and accomplices not the death penalty entailed but "public reparations for the crime of rapt" (that is, fines, banishment).
		Clandestine marriage cases (incurring the crime of rapt) must be heard in civil courts staffed by French judges, he insists, and church judges must not order parents (or relatives) disputing such marriages to assemble with couples for hearings in ecclesiastical courts.
		Now priests are forbidden to celebrate marriages for persons who do not live in their parishes, they must obtain in writing (prior to nuptials) proofs of age and parental consent from at least six witnesses (rather than the four cited in 1557) chosen from among closest relatives of both parties.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lhr/21.1/hanley.html (10834 words)

	marriage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the Catholic church, marriage is one of the seven sacraments (an 11th or 12th century developement), and the only sacrament not to require the assistance of a priest.
		Oten marriages would be arranged by families while the couple was to young; in that case, a "plight-troth" would be said, which was essentially a promise to marry (this was Mary's case when she discovered she war pregnant with Jesus).
		A marriage which was not public (or at least witnessed by someone other than the couple), could lead to claims on property by other relatives upon the couple's death....which, of course, meant that it was left to the heir to prove that the marriage was valid.
	www.geocities.com /tmw_life/marriage.html (976 words)

	Background - Marriage: Practices
		The first beginning of marriage (as in respect of contract and that which law taketh hold on) is when wedlock by words in the future tense is promised and vowed, and this is but sponsio or sponsalia [those things which are promised].
		At the age of twelve, a girl could consent to marriage herself, though the father or guardian’s consent was also required, but when she reached the age of fourteen, she was able to legally marry without her parents’ consent (33).
		A clandestine marriage was a ceremony conducted by a man who at least purported to be a clergyman (although often not one holding a cure) and which followed the ritual prescribed by the Book of Common Prayer.
	www.english.ilstu.edu /students/tltirit/Shakespeare/practices.htm (765 words)

	irregular marriages in the history of Leith
		This was a widely unpopular measure, and a clandestine marriage was a form of defiance of the parish minister.
		Irregular marriages stood at 25 in a year until about 1765, and this took no account of the marriages of Seceders or Episcopalians, all of which were, strictly speaking, irregular, the parish minister having no part in them.
		Clandestine marriage was generally discovered when the first child was born and the parents sought the privilege of baptism for their children.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /tom.paterson/marriage.htm (1007 words)

	A Problematic Solution :: Prologue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Not specifically addressed against clandestine marriage, his comments targeted unequal unions; the two phenomena were seen as going hand in hand by many leaders of the period.
		Clandestine marriage may not have been the only contemporary failure of the matrimonial state, but it was certainly a major failure.
		Gally, for example, cites clandestine marriages as a threat to normal commerce: “Women in Debt may, on Purpose to skreen themselves from their Creditors, be married to Men, who, they knew, are at that Time married to other Women.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~chri2057/z2002thesis1.htm (2133 words)

	Journal of Social History : Clandestine marriage in the Scottish cities 1660-1780. @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In early-modern western Europe the main definition was unspoken: the assumption that a marriage meant that a new and economically self-sustaining unit had been formed.
		Marriage was not considered available to those who could not expect to support children, and children were an unavoidable risk in a society where contraception was not available.
		Marriage was made by the free consent of the two parties, provided they were of age (12 for a girl and 14 for a boy), not already married and not within the bounds of kinship and affinity.
	static.elibrary.com /j/journalofsocialhistory/june221993/clandestinemarriageinthescottishcities16601780/index.html (234 words)

	Journal of Social History: Clandestine marriage in the Scottish cities 1660-1780 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Regular marriage, the law stated, meant 'proclamation' or the reading of banns on three successive Sundays followed by marriage by the minister in the parish church.
		The penalties on the conducting of clandestine marriage were heavy enough to put an end to almost all of it.
		Such marriages were often subsequently registered with the established church, on payment of a fine, and kirk sessions would also investigate cases of apparent illegal cohabitation, and thereby force admission of irregular marriage.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2005/is_n4_v26/ai_14125269 (1308 words)

	Leah Leneman \| The Scottish Case That Led to Hardwicke's Marriage Act \| Law and History Review, Volume 17 Number 1, ...
		From 1754 onwards a marriage, in order to be recognized as legal, had to be carried out in a very specific, circumscribed manner, ending a period during which "irregular" or clandestine marriages proliferated.
		A marriage could be established by verba de praesenti, that is, the statement of consent by both parties, or by verba de futuro, a promise of marriage in the future, followed by sexual intercourse.
		She was able to produce a certificate of the marriage and an extract from the minutes of the kirk session (the parish church court) of Roseneath revealing that John Campbell had acknowledged his irregular marriage to Jean and promised to adhere to her.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lhr/17.1/leneman.html (3063 words)

	Medieval and Renaissance Marriage:
		The main difference between concubinage and marriage seems to have been the social status of the woman in relation to the man. As was mentioned earlier, marriage serves to transfer wealth or property and to continue the family line.
		In a society where marriage was formed by a betrothal agreement (where the parties promised to be joined in the future) followed later by the removal of the wife to her husband’s house (and the attendant bedding of the two), this kind of hair-splitting bordered on incomprehensible.
		The Church of England, however, continued to recognize clandestine marriages as late as the eighteenth century (Brooke 250) and in Scotland it was possible to marry by the exchange of consent in the presence of witnesses until 1940 (Anton 99).
	www.drizzle.com /~celyn/mrwp/mrwed.html (7919 words)

	Theatre Production - The Clandestine Marriage
		Colman himself, that Garrick composed two acts of the "Clandestine Marriage," which he sent to Colman, desiring that he would put them together, or do what he would with them, and that the latter took Davy at his word, by putting them into the fire, and writing the play himself.
		Betty, in the " Clandestine Marriage," Act r., Scene I. Miss Betty, we have reason to know, was a shrewd if somewhat garrulous maid, and her young mistress soon found reason to agree with the common sense view of the business that her sympathetic abigail expressed.
		Amid such surroundings, and with a brilliant marriage for one daughter in prospect, the affection of Fanny and Lovewell could only appear preposterous, so that it is scarcely surprising that the young couple take matters into their own hands and get married secretly.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /stage2/produce/clanm/th-clanm.html (1316 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 95013102 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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 there was no unified marriage code, where a simple exchange of vows might constitute a valid marriage, and where unbeneficed priests were prepared to perform the ceremony in return for a drink.
		Clandestine marriage had represented a problem to the church and state, and to the rights of property, since the middle ages, eluding a variety of attempts to control it.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hol032/95013102.html (257 words)

	Clandestine or 'secret' marriage certificate, 1753 :: Gathering the Jewels
		'Clandestine' marriages were secret events which enabled couples to marry legally without a formal church ceremony.
		These ceremonies were often conducted to avoid publicity or to allow a marriage without the consent of the parents if the husband and wife to be were under the age of 21.
		This is the clandestine marriage certificate of Samuel Edwards of the parish of Llanfihangel Ystrad and Margaret Jones of the parish of Cilie Aeron in Ceredigion.
	www.gtj.org.uk /en/item1/2930 (344 words)

	§25. Kelly. IV. The Drama and the Stage. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After The Clandestine Marriage, Colman’s theatrical record continues for more than a score of years, but without any notable contribution to original drama.
		The credit attaching to his Shakespearean revivals is lessened by his retention of a happy ending for King Lear, and the honour of having produced The Good-Natur’d Man and She Stoops to Conquer is clouded by the obstacles which he allowed to obstruct Goldsmith’s path.
		The success of occasional comedies like The Jealous Wife and The Clandestine Marriage did not, for the time being, seriously check the popularity of sentimental drama.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/220/0425.html (817 words)

	Marriage Customs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Often marriages would be arranged by families while the couple was too young; in that case, a "plight-troth" would be said, which was essentially a promise to marry (this was Mary's case when she discovered she was pregnant with Jesus).
		The following prohibited a marriage if known before, but would not be grounds for dissolution of an existing marriage: rape, adultery, a marriage performed during a prohibited fast period (Lent or Advent), incest, or marriage by someone who had killed a clergyman.
		In secular law, clandestine marriages were frowned upon because of the difficulties they could bring into determining inheritance.
	www.byu.edu /ipt/projects/middleages/LifeTimes/MarriageCustoms.html (996 words)

	Paul Nicholls Online - The Clandestine Marriage
		The Clandestine Marriage is a silly, slightly vapid, occasionally bizarre, but still quite amiable Restoration comedy starring Joan Collins, Nigel Hawthorne, and Timothy Spall.
		The scheduled marriage suffers a last-minute upset when the intended husband switches affections to the bride's sister without knowing of her clandestine betrothal, and Lord Ogleby in turn conceives a crush on the same girl.
		The play 'The Clandestine Marriage', by George Coleman the younger and David Garrick, was originally staged in 1766.
	www.paulnichollsonline.co.uk /rev_tcm.html (1202 words)

	Watermill - The Clandestine Marriage
		This is the improbable tale of Fanny Sterling and her secret marriage to her beloved Mr Lovewell, plus an interfering aunt, a jealous sister, a social climbing father, an ageing lothario and his nephew.
		This charming and frothy production, directed by Timothy Sheader, is set in 18th-century England, and revolves around a young girl, Fanny Sterling's boldly secret marriage to Mr Lovewell, and the scampering romps that ensue as she attempts to continue undetected.
		Written as a collaboration between George Colman and David Garrick in 1766, The Clandestine Marriage is a bridge between the Shakespearean comedies of misunderstanding and modern farces.
	www.newburytheatre.co.uk /archive/200108a.htm (596 words)

	Broadview Press: The Clandestine Marriage
		David Garrick, the leading actor of his time, was also one of its most accomplished dramatists, and The Clandestine Marriage is perhaps his finest play.
		It is up to Lovewell to persuade both men that marriage to Fanny is out of the question--without revealing to them that he has already married her.
		The action of the play and also its setting (a landscape garden designed after the fashion of the time to provide artificial wildness and 'commanding' views) give ample scope for Garrick and Coleman to satirize the mercantile mind--yet the play's comic spirit holds appeal to those on all points of the political compass.
	www.broadviewpress.com /bvbooks.asp?BookID=11 (348 words)

	A 'Marriage' Of Delightful Inconvenience (washingtonpost.com)
		The plot mechanics of "The Clandestine Marriage" are somewhat labored, but the cast capably gets us through the rougher patches and steers us back to enjoyment.
		The overarching complication, of course, is that Fanny already is married -- clandestinely -- to her real beau, Lovewell, played by Aubrey Deeker with all the pure-hearted ardor you could wish for.
		The Clandestine Marriage, by David Garrick and George Colman.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A3108-2005Apr19.html (863 words)

	The Clandestine Marriage Synopsis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		FANNY, becoming desperate in her own plight and painfully aware of her husband's inability to handle the situation begs LORD OGLEBY on bended knee to intervene on her behalf, which he misinterprets as aa declaration of love for himself.
		Meanwhile, the marriage plans for Sir John and Betsy's wedding proceed on resolute tracks, forced on by Mrs Heidleberg's blunt fefusal to contemplate an alternative at any price.
		However, with the whole family at loggerheads and cross purposes, the evening goes wildely and soggily wrong - Fanny's secret marriage is revealed and both she and Lovewell are expelled from the house.
	www.miriam.co.uk /images/cm1.htm (571 words)

	Amherst Magazine Winter 2005: College Row
		Folger Theatre is producing The Clandestine Marriage, a funny and frank comedy of manners co-written in 1766 by David Garrick and George Colman and performed to great success in London’s Drury Lane Theatre.
		But The Clandestine Marriage is well worth seeing even without the additional attraction of the dramatic manuscript, as it offers not only sharp portraits of such comic types as the aging suitor Lord Ogleby and the ancient harridan Mrs.
		It was the Folgers—not a later benefactor—who bought the Garrick manuscript of The Clandestine Marriage in 1912 from London bookseller Bertram Dobell as part of their expanding collection of theatrical material.
	www.amherst.edu /magazine/issues/05winter/college_row/folger.html (665 words)

	The Clandestine Marriage - Wedding Direct (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Clandestine Marriage … It is centred around the intended merging of two families through marriage; the STERLINGS and the OGLEBYS - the first, …
		Clandestine Marriage (2001): find the latest news, photos and trailers, as well as local showtimes/dvd info at Yahoo!
		The 1753 Marriage Act can be considered as a first step in the struggle of the rising middle classes in Britain to impose their norm of marriage on the rest of society.
	www.emeraldtransport.ca /the-clandestine-marriage.html (392 words)

	The English Bride: Secret Unions
		Such marriages are referred to as "Fleet Marriages." 6 Ladies, the secrecy of clandestine marriages may appear romantic to you, but do not be fooled!
		11 But even if this second marriage was performed publicly in a church, it was not considered official, since the man's verbal vows to the first woman legally bound him to her as her husband.
		A quote from Henry Gally from his "Considerations on Clandestine Marriage" will serve to summarize the foolishness of weakening under the weight of desire: "Clandestine Marriages are generally rash Marriages; made without any calm Thoughts or Deliberation; and are the Effects of some sudden Passions, and perhaps the Heat of Wine.
	www.umich.edu /~ece/student_projects/wedding_bride/secretunions.html (1004 words)

	Chapter Clack-Dish <i>to</i> Clarke of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Clamades, son of king Crampart, who mounted his father’s wooden horse, and was conveyed through the air at the rate of 100 miles an hour.—Alkman: Reynard the Fox (1498).
		Sir John prefers Fanny to her elder sister, and not knowing of her marriage, proposes to her, but is rejected.
		Matters being thus involved, Lovewell goes to consult with Fanny about declaring their marriage, and the sister, convinced that sir John is shut up in her sister’s room, rouses the house with a cry of “Thieves!” Fanny and Lovewell now make their appearance.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1113/14613/1.html (485 words)

	Indecent Proposal: 'Clandestine Marriage' yields a tart treat, while 'Gender' is a provocatively powerful exploration ...
		Indecent Proposal: 'Clandestine Marriage' yields a tart treat, while 'Gender' is a provocatively powerful exploration of identity: Metro Weekly magazine: Theater Reviews at gay Washington DC newspaper for theatre, on stage productions, performances.
		'Clandestine Marriage' yields a tart treat, while 'Gender' is a provocatively powerful exploration of identity
		Tony Cisek’s pastel scenic design is washed in all the pinks and peaches and mint greens that denote the English countryside, while Kate Turner-Walker presents her finest work to date with elaborate period costumes.
	www.metroweekly.com /arts_entertainment/stage.php?ak=1556 (1059 words)

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