Download or read book Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640 written by Martin Ingram and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-03-29 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an in-depth, richly documented study of the sex and marriage business in ecclesiastical courts of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. This study is based on records of the courts in Wiltshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire and West Sussex in the period 1570-1640.