| Few'have any idea thafa in Elizabethan i times the custom of child -marriages pre- | vailed in Englaud, yet the dilapidated j I volume of Depositions in the Ecclesiastical j j Court of Chester, a.d. 1561-6, proves that! ( these marriages muab have been frequonfc ! in Cheshire and Lancashire, and no dcubt j other like records in the rest of our dioceses * ' will, when looked up, establish the fact fchifc i such marriages wore common all over Eagi land. The birth of a child in the Berkeley i family, when the father and mother were I each thirteen and a half years aid, shows what was eoing on elsewhere a century I earlier.—' The Alderney.' Nobhwithstandine cheap pales, etc., we continue to please our enstomera and give | them aa good value an can be got in the j city. Note the address—Now Zealand j Clothing Factory, 158 and 160, Queen--1 street. —(Advt.) i
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 30, 3 February 1894, Page 5
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