What the lawyer (in the Prologue) says professionally of Irish Marriages is also derived from the same source.

It is needless to encumber these pages with quotations.

But as a means of satisfying my readers that they may depend on me, I subjoin an extract from my list of references to the Report of the Marriage Commission, which any persons who may be so inclined can verify for themselves.
_Irish Marriages_ (In the Prologue) .-- See Report, pages XII., XIII., XXIV.
_Irregular Marriages in Scotland._--Statement of the law by Lord Deas.

Report, page XVI .-- Marriages of children of tender years.
Examination of Mr.Muirhead by Lord Chelmsford (Question 689) .-- Interchange of consent, established by inference.
Examination of Mr.Muirhead by the Lord Justice Clerk (Question 654)--Marriage where consent has never been interchanged.
Observations of Lord Deas.

Report, page XIX .-- Contradiction of opinions between authorities.