London . und himself so impatient, that he sent for a parson. The doctor refused to performthe ceremony Avithout license or ring : the Duke swore he would send for theArchbishop. At last they were married with a ring of the hed-curtain, athalf-an-hour after twelve at night, at May Fair chapel.* The people of rank at last grew frightened at their own practices. The Actagainst Clandestine Marriages came into operation on the 2Gth of March, the 25th there were two hundred and seventeen marriages at the Fleet enteredin one register; and on the same day sixty-one ceremonies of the like agre
London . und himself so impatient, that he sent for a parson. The doctor refused to performthe ceremony Avithout license or ring : the Duke swore he would send for theArchbishop. At last they were married with a ring of the hed-curtain, athalf-an-hour after twelve at night, at May Fair chapel.* The people of rank at last grew frightened at their own practices. The Actagainst Clandestine Marriages came into operation on the 2Gth of March, the 25th there were two hundred and seventeen marriages at the Fleet enteredin one register; and on the same day sixty-one ceremonies of the like agree-able nature took place at May Fair. After the Act was passed in 1753 therewas to be an interval of some months before its enactments were to be says, The Duchess of Argyle harangues against the Marriage Bill nottaking ])lace immediately, and is persuaded that all the girls will go off beforenext Lady Day. f * Horace Walpole to Maun, Feli. 27, Horace Walpole to Montagu, July 17, [The Gallery, Strawberry IIilIJ I To be conclmled in anothi^r Aww&fr.]
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