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"AMAZING" MARRIAGES GRETNA GREEN MANŒUVRES,

ALTARS IN TAVERNS AND ABDUCTED BRIDES.

While marriage is a state very difficult ---in some countries imposible to get out of, it is very easy to get into and at one time it was easier still

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH,

These easy methods, most of which are abolished, and some of the disastrous consequences arising out of them, form an amazing chapter of social history, most entertainingly set forth by Mr. Arthur S. May, Surrogate in Doctors' Commons, which remains to this day England's nearest approach to the go-as-you-please manœuvres of Gretna Green:

In the eighteenth century, however, it was quite unnecessary to go gallivanting off in dashing post chaises to Gretos, All you had to do was to pop down to the strip of territory. roundths. Fleet Prison, known as the Liberty of the Fleet, where you could wander for a considera. tion, and there you could find plenty of prisoner parsons to marry you for a thill ing and a glass of brandy.

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One of the most successful marriage mongers was William Dare, who did sucl a roaring trade that he had to employ a curate to help him to tie up, the hundred and fifty or two hundred couples who came to him every month

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Another notorious practitioner, Dr. Gaynai, was known as the Bishop of Hell" He was quite shameless, for once, when asked in court if he were not ashamed of his calling he replied Latin: "My poverty, but not my

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The altar" was usually a tavern the landlord acting as clerk. One parsas ran a public-bouse for a season himself, but more often the practitioners were simply paid a salary, the "tavern-keeper seizing the fees, which were anything from a shill, ing and a glass of brandy upwards, according to the status of the clergyman.

Lords and Ladies in a hurry constantly went there, and so did the poor, for

Nothing was wrong with her mother, but financial difficulty bad overtaken tho father, who wished to see her in secret at Huddersfield. When they got there, he said the father had gone to Halifax and the same trick was played from stage to stage till Gretna was reached and there she married Wakeleld, on his telling her that the marriage would save her father.

Wakefield took her to Calais, where he was spotted He quietly returned home, and got three years in Newgate for his trouble, while the marriage was dissolved by special Act of Parliament.

At the end of the three years Ellen married 4 country squire-and sank into oblivion Wakefield, on the other hand, emerged about the same time to become famous, far he will always be remembered as the man who secured us Now Zealand, which the French were on the point of aanering, and his bust is one of the proudest possesions of the Colonial Office.

HEARTLESS SCOUNDREL Another Manchester giri, Maris Thera Longworth, the daughter of a silk manu Facturer, had a far sadder experience, for she was married in the Scots fashion at Edinburgh, in 1857, to a heartless Trish rascal, Major Taherton, afterwards Vir- count. Avonmore, when she had got to know when she was nursing in the Crimea.

The major wanted to keep the core- many secret but as she was a Roman Catholic and was not happy about mar ringe minus sacrament, she got Yelverton to remarry her before a priest at Rostre- vor, though he saw to it that no entry was made in the register.

Soon after, she heard that he had mar ried the widow of a learned Soota pro- fessor, and immediately took proceedings for bigamy. The case, tried now in Edin- burgh, now in Dublin, which decided en- thusiastically in her favour, and last of all (with the help of subscriptions raised in Manchester) 'before the House of Lords, dragged on for ten weary years, but in the end the poor lady lost it.

The majer, who on his own confession, was a heartless scoundrel, duly succeeded to the paternal viscountcy, living to see several of his family go to min, while poor Miss Longworth picked up a pre- carious living by writing novels about her experiences. When she died-st Pieter- maritzburg, in 1881, she seemed glad to leave this world."

There was an Earl of Portsmouth at the beginning of last century who was suf aciently irresponsible to be in the con- stant company of a medical attendant On one occasion he was brought to Lon- don and handed over to his trustee, a solicitor, who, within a week, had mar Fried him to his elderly ugly daughter; bus

the courts cancelled the affair.

So recently as 1892, a seventeen-year- old girl was driven to Kensington church by her mother, who told her she was simply to be "betrothed."AS I

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matter of fact she was properly married, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, in the Britain and are annually correcte though she did not grasp the fact, and course of an anecdotal history of Gounod's threw away her ring, while the brides Faust," which he broadenst from SLO groom, whom she scarcely know, vanished

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Loved her story and pronounced a nullity, for the publishing rights of his score, and Fees, Hongkong Stampa : red:"

One of the most extraordinary series be stipulated for a fee of £20 for every of marriages in girlhood was that of Lady performance in Paris, & fee which con- Elizabeth Percy, who was a great heiress.

If you did not like the Fleet you could go to Mayfair Chape at Hyde Park Corner, until its, parzon Dr, Keith, was sent to the Fleet, or to the Savoy Chapel, where the two parsons did not oven tie the knot-thereby bastardising scores of children-ard were transported to the plantations.

At the age of twelve she was married (in tinues to be paid to his descendants. 1878) to the fifteen-year-old Earl of Ogle Reckoning the number of performances a poor weed, who was then sent abroad.

to travel. As he never lived to come already given in France, and they run to back, she was married to Thomas Thynne, thousands and considering the amounts of Long-leat, a potorious profligate from

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When Fleet and the chapels were pat down, the Scotch marriage remained, whom she ran for on her wedding-day demanded for permission to stage the And, of course, still exists; and, as the He might have given her a great deal of opera in Great Britain, America, Italy, nearest spot scross the Border, Gretna trouble if he had not been murdered. Germany, and elsewhere, I estimate about Green did & roaring trade, although the She was only seen when the contracted £60,000 having been paid to the composer quite a satisfactory return for what was of Somerset.

hardly three years labor. blackemiths, but more adventurers

DOCTORS COMMONS,

Gounod visited. London in 1863. for the Three Lord Chancellors took advantage of Scotch marriages. Lord Erskine mar Doctora Commons, where Mr. May has production of Faust,” which was first ried his housekeeper, Mary Buck, at had to do with more marriages than any heard at Her Majesty's Theatre. Col Gretna; Lord Eldon ran off with a New-one ever had before, or will, does not Mapleson, the manager, thought so little castle banker's daughter, letting her down make marriage-in fact, you may go there of its possibilities that he insisted on a from an upper storey window by a rope before you pop the question it only ex substantial contribution towards the stage indder; while Lord Brougham made for pedites it. Though it is naturally full of expenses PHONE C

would warn intending debutantes at Coldstream to marry the lady of his romance Mr. May, as an official, does Covent Garden that the period of the

not permit himself to tell it: choice

story of Faust precludes a Marguerite wear the conventional, though artistic, PPacing with bobbed hair; she must pigtails 1

EXCITING BOLT.

The most exciting of all the Gretna bolts was that of the Earl of Westmor land; when he ran away, one starlit night in May 1752, with Sarah, the only daugh ter of Robert Child, the wealthy banker, who had refused the young man permis

sion to court her.

No one ever knows what happens in Doctors' Commons. A young friend of mine came once for a licence, and when he recovered from the unexpected shock of meeting me there, begged me to 8 nothing to his father. The next day the father arrived on a similar errand him self and begged me on no account to tell his son, der hoc

The girl's duenna was dragged, a car- riage was in waiting at midnight, and the During the war it was kept very busy, couple were well on their way before the for soldiers were in a hurry. One Scott old watchman in Berkeley square had man wanted his money back, because time to think It avec The infuriated the marriage had turned out a failure. banker's servant overtook them at Hes The Sunday Chronicle. keth-in-the-Forest. Shoot my lord, shoot I cried Miss Child, and the Earl promptly shot at the horse and brought it down Bo they reached Gretna, where Old Joe Parsley married them. C

The old banker never forgave the pair, leaving his fortune to their daughter: But the girl had Gretna in her blood, for

it was there twenty-two years later that

was married to the Earl of Jersey.

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Sometimes the brides were not willing; certainly not Ellen Turner, whose father bad an estate near Manchester and who was abducted in lead by the great Edward. Gibbon Wakéheid. Ten years before, at the age of twenty he had eloped with a ward in Chancery-

ABDUCTED BRIDE.

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