Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640Adultery, fornication, breach of marriage contract, sexual slander these, along with religious offences of various kinds, were typical of the cases dealt with by the ecclesiastical courts in Elizabethan and early Stuart England. What was it like to live in a society in which personal morality was regulated by law in this fashion? How far reaching was such surveillance in actual practice? How did ordinary people view the courts as useful institutions