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With other abuses went the infamous Fleet marriages marriages performed by broken-down and disreputable clergymen whose headquarters were very commonly the Fleet prison "couple-beggars" who would perform the marriage ceremony between any man and woman without asking questions, sometimes not even asking their names, provided they got a fee for the performance.
"His wife taken from him " "But a 'couple-beggar' " "The laws violated " "But my dues, Squire think o' that! what would become o' them, if 'couple-beggars' is allowed to show their audacious faces in the parish. "I'll beg God's pardon and your Reverence's pardon," she said, "but I won't beg the congregation's pardon." "You won't?" says the priest. "I won't," says she.
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