10 Marriage agreements of Nicholas Wheeler (yeoman) and Isabel Wright, 1649, Ms., HAMPRO; for parallels in 17th-century Virginia, see Bruce, Social Life of Virginia, 230-31.

11 Marriage agreement of Nicholas Hasted, Thomas Jaynes, Richard Shaloff, Edward Rooks and Elizabeth Hasted, 1676, HAMPRO.

12 Francis Carew to Sir Nicholas Carew, n.d., Ms. S/EL1/C1/81 BERKRO.

13“My eldest sister Alice [Wilbraham] changed her condition but not her name, being married in Wrenbury [sic] Church to Cousin Ralph Wilbraham,” Wilbraham Diary, 26 May 1709, Ms. DDX 230/2, CHESRO.