
Children in Tudor England
Not Just the Tudors
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Sex Outside Marriage
Sex was something that interested me. There are a lot of cases of sex outside marriage coming up in the church court record, the 16th century. I don't think anybody was going around policing this to any great extent. But it's very difficult to find out except that my experience of history is that laws are always very poorly applied or poorly observed as we know from our own times.
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