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so celebrating it , and it might be safely left to their own feelings on that head . With the present countless variety of Dissenters it was next to impossible to leave the matter entirely to them , or to have any hope that they would duly attend to registration . But if any plan could be devised providiug for regularity iu registration , through a notary or otherwise , he saw no objection to leaving all Dissenters to celebrate their own
marriages . LordTENTERDEN ( the Lord Chief Justice ) was oue of those who voted in the minority against this Bill . He at any rate should suggest an amend id en t in the declaration requiring it to be shewn
that the parties were actually metnbevs of a Unitarian congregation . He also objected to making it imperative on the magistrate . He thought he should only be authorized , not required . In populous places there would be no difficulty in finding a magistrate who would act .
Lord Rosslyn . If the parties were previously married at their own places , they need only declare before the magistrate that they had so been , which would take away all appearance of his performing the ceremony . He was friendly to the Bill in any way .
Lord Redes dale thought that making the office optional with the magistrate would remove many difficulties . He still objected to the form as not being , even according to the parties * own views , of a binding character . The Lord Chancellor referred to
the clause which made it binding . He read the Irish statute permitting Dissenters to celebrate marriage . All the principles objected to in this Bill had been recognized , and were the law of Ireland without any complaint . No religious ceremonial was by our own law considered
necessary . The consent of the parties gave marriages validity . In some countries of Europe where it was acknowledged that no religious ceremony was necessary , yet marriage was binding , as it would be declared to be by this act . The question was not what the parties considered binding .
Lord Redjesdale explained that his observations were only addressed to the supposed desirableness of giving such a sanction to marriage , as , according to tjie religious views of the parties , was likely to have that effect .
The Bishop of Chester ' s amendment as to " Clerks in holy orders , " was then agreed to , and several others proposed by him . At the clause as to payment of fees he observed , that he had not expected to hear the observations which had been made . In many cases they
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constituted a considerable source of the minister ' s income . It was their sacred duty to provide for the interests of these persons , and not the less so because they themselves were silent on the subject .
Lord Ellenborough and LordTENterden made some observations as to the possibility of improving and rendering more certain the transmission of the magistrate ' s certificate , by his sending it himself , or by some person authorized by him .
Lord Redesdale observed , that some better and more general register was very desirable ; perhaps nothing more required attention . Greater publicity was very desirable . The parochial returns to the bishops were he believed very imperfect . It was of great importance to consider whether a better general register of marriages , baptisms , and burials , could not be established .
The Report was then ordered to be takeu iuto consideration the next day . Friday , June 29 th . The Report of the Committee was takeu into consideration . Lord Tenterden made his proposed amendment in
the declaration , and the Bill was ordered to be printed and read a third time that day fortnight . By which means it goes over to next Session , according to the arrangement of the day before .
We subjoin the Bill as amended by the Lords . We refer to our observations at the commencement of our Report of the proceedings , and would only add , that any practical suggestions upon it may be usefully addressed to the Solicitor of the Association .
A Bill [ as Amended ] by the Lords * Committee , intituled an Act for granting Relief to certain Persons dissenting from the Church England , in respect of the Mode of celebrating marriage . The words printed in * Italics * were added by the Lords * Committee ; and the Words at the Bottom of the Pages , are those which stood in the Bill as passed by the Commons , but were left out by the Lords * Committee .
Whereas * it is expedient to make Pro-* in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third an Act was passed , intituled * An Act for the further Relief of Protestant Dissenting Ministers and Schoolmasters , * and iu the Fifty-third Year of His said late Majesty an Act was passed , inti-
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698 Intelligence . — Unitarian Marriage BUI
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1827, page 698, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1800/page/66/
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