Lawrence Stone
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202530
- eISBN:
- 9780191675386
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202530.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter presents a case study on valid clandestine marriage in England, focusing on the court case Elmes v. Elmes which was filed in 1706. The case involved poor widower Henry Elmes who took the ...
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This chapter presents a case study on valid clandestine marriage in England, focusing on the court case Elmes v. Elmes which was filed in 1706. The case involved poor widower Henry Elmes who took the twenty-year-old Mary Wise as his mistress in 1706 and claimed that they were married in May 1706. He said that they were married within the Rules of the Queen's Bench Prison in Southwark. However, in 1708, Elmes claimed that he was never married to Mary and later married a certain Anne Ordway. The secular and ecclesiastical courts had different positions on which marriage the was valid.Less
This chapter presents a case study on valid clandestine marriage in England, focusing on the court case Elmes v. Elmes which was filed in 1706. The case involved poor widower Henry Elmes who took the twenty-year-old Mary Wise as his mistress in 1706 and claimed that they were married in May 1706. He said that they were married within the Rules of the Queen's Bench Prison in Southwark. However, in 1708, Elmes claimed that he was never married to Mary and later married a certain Anne Ordway. The secular and ecclesiastical courts had different positions on which marriage the was valid.
