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Was there a significant increase in freedom of choice of marriage partner in England between 1500-1750? Marriage is defined in the English dictionary as "the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a legal, consensual, and contractual relationship recognized and sanctioned by and dissolvable only by law.1"However, this definition had changed over time, and historians have different opinion on whether it has changed or have not. The dates given to study must have significance, unlike the ritual of marriage in the twenty first century; common marriages in the 1500's was one without witnesses or a ceremony, and soon after 1750, a new law was passed which stated the only legally valid form of marriage was in conducted in a church. Other changed must have occurred during 1500-1750, and it is this that will be investigated with consideration on the freedom of choice...

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