Why did Miss Lydia Cooke and Mr Thomas Hughes have to elope? Find out as Elizabeth pulls apart the Clandestine Marriage Act and explains why you probably didn’t need a ‘special licence’. Also, why Gretna Green? And why the blacksmith’s forge as the place to elope to? A romantic tale of successul elopement!

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