[364] Bishop, Marriage, Divorce, and Sep., I, 176, 178; Friedberg, Eheschliessung, 471, 472.
[365] Hutchinson, Hist. of Mass., I, 392. Compare Cook, "Mar. Celebration in the Colonies," Atlantic Monthly, LXI, 351, who, following Hutchinson, thinks that the colonists instituted "a form of marriage celebration unique in modern times."
[366] On this marriage see also Goodwin, Pilgrim Republic, 181; Shirley, "Early Jurisprudence of New Hampshire," Procds. New Hamp. Hist. Soc. (1876-84), 309; Bacon, Genesis of the New England Churches, 339-41; Young, Chronicles of the Pilgrims, 201.
[367] Bradford, Hist. of Plymouth, 101. The work mentioned by Bradford, according to Mr. Deane, "is probably La grande Chronique ancienne et moderne de Holland, Zélande, Westfrise, Utrecht, &c., by Jean-François le Petit, 1601, and 1611."—Bradford, op. cit., 101, note by the editor.
[368] See chap. x, sec. i.
[369] The evidence for the influence of Holland upon English and American institutions is presented in Campbell, The Puritan in Holland, England, and America (New York, 1892), an able and timely work, calling attention to many facts strangely neglected by previous writers, but too sweeping in its general conclusion that American law and institutions, in their essential characteristics, are not Anglo-Saxon, but Dutch. For the interrelations of the Puritans in England and Holland see especially op. cit., I, 485 ff.; II, 44 ff.
[370] At a very early day the English Separatists are found advocating civil marriage: see Bacon, Genesis of the New England Churches, 107, who states Greenwood's view (1587).
[371] See sec. iv, below.
[372] Ellis, Puritan Age, 185.
[373] See chap. xi, sec. ii.