| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - For many in Britain, marriage was a private matter dealt with by a verbal contract, involving no one else at all, not even a priest. (It took the church centuries to get control of marriage, because most people thought it was none of their business.) And parents or other family who might have controlled or dictated a marriage were generally unavailable for rural workers who???d had to move away fr
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