Posted by Cassia on July 19, 1997 at 16:04:38:

In reply to Cousins (was: Hey You Guys!!! A Great Source of Info) posted by The Mysterious H.C. on July 19, 1997 at 13:18:39

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] ] I found a great new referece for social history last week. It's called: The Prospect before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe Vol I 1500-1800 by Olwen Hufton; it begins with the Rennaissance and continues the three hundred years through to the Napoleanic/Regency period it give a great deal of background

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"Canon law forbade marriage within degress of consanguinity: parents could not marry their children, nor brothers sisters and cousins to the fourth degress were also excluded from the marriage pool"

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] Cassia -- "Canon Law" was Roman Catholic, and was junked as part of English law in the 16th century, when England became Protestant; at that time, it was decided to prohibit only those marriages prohibited in the Old Testament -- and marriage between 1st. cousins is not one of these.
Yes, I know. However, there was still a court of canon law un Britain until the mid-1800's (that's where most divorces were handled), so they made their own canon law after the split. I was addressing the anti-FannyandEdmund crowd. A few centuries earlier and it just couldn't have happened so they would have had to take the Crawfords ot look elsewhere. Nearly anybody would make a better couple than those to together. They characters are guarenteed to reinforce their priggishness.

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