By Stephen Parker
By the writer of "Cohabitees", this booklet lines the bounds of felony marriage because the commercial Revolution, from casual marriage practices to fashionable cohabitation. adjustments are put of their fiscal, political and social contexts, visible to be the manufactured from classification and gender conflict.
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Disturbances were increasingly seen in the eighteenth century as the product of concerted collective action and the squirearchy was well aware that focal points for local solidarity, such as customs, had to be eroded. Storch notes that popular culture was conceived by the middle classes as a set of beliefs and behaviour which could be threatening to public order; the most obvious one being local wakes (Storch, 1982, p. 1). So custom was seen as an impediment to the effective exercise of power. Economically, village festivities, involving (as they did) heavy drinking, hindered the establishment of new norms of work and social conduct.
48). It is estimated that on that last day 217 Fleet marriages were conducted in all (Haw, 1952, p. 147). One should remember that these irregular marriages were not only valid for ecclesiastical purposes, the civil authorities regarded the presence of a clergyman sufficient for property and legitimacy consequences (Brown, 1981, p. 118), although there is a suggestion that laymen may have dressed up as priests (Howard, 1904, vol. 1, p. 438). Despite the fact that clandestine marriages had been of concern to the authorities for so long (and long before the Fleet episode the Tower of London chaplains conducted a similar trade [Brown, 1981, p.
First, the interests of the merchant class were less threatened by the idea of companionate marriage. Second, it provided opportunities to add social status to their wealth by enabling them to marry into a title (although the Stones' research, 1984, indicates that the opportunities might have been scarcer than they believed). Third, the way they made their money was through contractual, arm's length bargaining. They may therefore have been more likely to see the world as 44 lnforn1alAianiage comprising autonomous, free-willing, individuals and the marriage contract was not to be distinguished from any other form of contract.