A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 2 of 3

by George Elliott Howard

[718] Ibid., X, 362.

[719] Ibid., III, 442. Cf. the act of 1748: ibid., VI, 82.

[720] Act of 1657-58: ibid., I, 433.

[721] Hening, op. cit., II, 54, 55; cf. 28 (1660-61). Only the clerk of the county in which the woman, her parents, or guardians dwell may act: ibid., 281.

[722] Ibid., III, 150 (1696).

[723] Ibid., 442, 443.

[724] Beverley, Hist. of Va., 211, 212; also 1 Mass. Hist. Coll., V, 136; and Hening, op. cit., III, 445; VI, 84, 85; II, 55.

[725] Ibid., II, 28.

[726] Ibid., IX, 66 (1775). The tax was raised to ten pounds in 1780: ibid., X, 245.

[727] Ibid., 225.