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    APPENDIX I

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    A BILL INTITULED

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    An Act for granting Relief to His Majest...

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    Appendix I

    APPENDIX I

    A Bill Intituled

    A BILL INTITULED

    An Act For Granting Relief To His Majest...

    An Act for granting Relief to His Majesty ' s Subjects , not being _Mem- ' her 8 of the Church of England , in relation to the Solemnization of Matrimony .

    WHEitEAS many of his Majesty ' s good and faithful _subjects , who conscientiously [* declme conformity to ] the doctrine _and-f discipline of the Church of England as by law established _, regard the necessity of solemnizing matrimony in a Parish Church or Chapel , and according to the rules prescribed by the rubric in the Book of Common Prayer , as a grievance ,

    repugnant to their religious feelings , and have at various times petitioned Parliament to be relieved therefrom : and whereas it is expedient to grant ease to scrupulous consciences in this respect , without infringing on the general policy of the law relative to clandestine marriages : be it therefore enacted by the King _' s most excellent Majesty , by and with the advice and

    consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , and Commons , in this present Parliament assembled , and by the authority of the same , that at any time after the passing of this Act , it shall be lawful for the occupier or occupiers of any place which now is or hereafter may be registered or recorded according to law as and for a place of religious worship , to cause the same to

    be registered in the Court of the Archbishop , Bishop , or other Ordinary having authority to grant marrriage licences , within whose local jurisdiction the said place may be situated , as and for a place for the solemnization of

    marriages under this Act ; and the registrar of such court is hereby required to register and record the same accordingly , and to give a certificate of such registry to the person or persons requesting the same _; and that such certificate shall be given upon parchment or vellum , and shall or may be in the

    • The Bill was originally drawn " conscientiously dissent from ; " the phrase Id th _* _te _$ jL was _adopted to _ioclude more properly the case erf the Roman Catholics .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 12, 1823, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/smrp_12061823/page/22/