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The strange history of bigamy in England: fake tears, secret weddings and double lives

By Rebecca Probert, Professor of Law, University of Exeter

John Mase Smith probably holds the record for the briefest second marriage, heading back to his first wife at 5am the morning after his bigamous wedding in 1849.

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