Also, since the Church forbade marrying within a given degree of kinship, the common people were probably further discouraged from keeping elaborate kinship networks; Britain only had so many people and virtually everybody on the island was related to some degree and possibly the distant relations had to be forgotten or nearly all marriages would be within the prohibited degrees.
Samuti, kui kirik keelas abiellumise liiga lähedaste sugulaste vahel, oli lihtrahvas arvatavasti veelgi heidutatum kindlate sugulussidemete hoidmisel; Britannias oli vaid nii palju rahvast ja praktiliselt kõik saarel olid mingil määral suguluses ja võib-olla kauged sugulussidemed tuli unustada või peaaegu kõik abielud oleksid keelatud olnud.