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and woman ia a 'place registered far { that purpose under this Act , unless it shall plainly appear to him or them , by the exhibition © f such certificate or ceartifi * catea , Abat the said baaos have been duly
published according to law in some church CHvchapel within five statute miles of the said registered place of marriage , and that no just impediment to the said intended marriage liath been declared ; or unless a licence for the solemnization of such mar *
riage without previous publication of banns , from some person having authority to grant the same , shall have been exnibited to him . or them ; nor shall any such marriage be proceeded in , if at the time of solemnization any person present shall declare a just and lawful impediment to the same , and shall be bound
with sufficient sureties to prove the same . And he it further enacted . That from and after the expiration of [ one year ] from the registration of any place as a place for the solemnization of marriages under this Act , it shall and may be lawful to and for any person to pray a Kcence from the ordinary in whose court
the registration , has been made , to solemnize a marriage in such registered place , without previous publication of banns , provided that the party so applying do and shall sign a written declaration that 1 ? he parties proposing to be married are Dissenters , or that one of them is a Dissenter from the Church of England as by
law established , and that they are desirous of taking the benefit of this Ad ; and provided also £ hat the party so applying do and shall truly declare upon oath the Mate and degree of himself ( or herself ) and of the person with whom he ( or she ) iotendeth to marry , and likewise the parish or parishes to which they respec ~
tavely belong , and whether either of them , not being a widower of widow , is under the age of twenty-one years , and that he ( or » he ) the said applicant knoweth of no lawful impediment by reason of any pire-eoitfract , consanguinity , affinity , or any other means whatsoever , to hinder the said intended marriage ; and that the
usual place of abode of him ( or her ) the said applicant ( or of the other party to the intended marriage , or of bath , as the case may be ) has been within five statute miles of the registered place where the marriage is prayed to be solemnized , for the space of four weeks next preceding the date of such affidavit . And that it
shall and may he lawful to and for any archbishop , bishop , or oilier ordinary ,, or person having authority for die granting of riiarriage licences , and he is hereby authorized , < upon the exhibition to him of such a written declaration , and abo of such an affidavit as iq hereinbefore d&-tciibed , and iipom sat&fytog himself ai
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the truth of tadb a £ | d&irit , at * 4 t * ko xtpoa due proof of the ecmsejat of every permit or parents , guardian er guardians , whose consent may be required fbgrdaw to the validity of the intended narrfage , to grant a licence 6 > f nfce solemnization of the sanae at the piaee desired , on miy day
within three calendar nraaths from and after the date of the said licence , without any previous publication of baJEwas , and without requiring that the said marriage shall be solemnized t > y a fiamisjter cf the Church of England , or according to the rites of the Book of Common Prayer : Prodded always , tkat if any fraud shall
have been staggered or truth suppressed at the time of obtaining the licence , then such licence to be void and of no effect in the law , as if the same had never been granted : And that it shall and may be lawful for the person granting the licence to take bond from the person praying the same , for the due execution thereof , in the sum of two hundred pounds of good
and lawful money of Great Britain ; and that no greater fee or reward shall be demanded or received from any person on account of the said affidavit , licence , or bond , than now is , or hereafter may be , legally demanded and taken from a person of the like degree or estate , in the case of a licence to marry in a parish church , and according to the rites of the Book of Common Prayer .
And whereas , in order to preserve the evidence of marriages , and to make the proof thereof more certain and easy , it is among other things enacted by the aforesaid Act of his late Majesty King George the Second , " That on or before the 25 th day of March 1754 , and from time to
time afterwards , as there shall be occasion , the ehurch-wardens aad chapel-war * dens of every parish or chapeby shall provide proper books of vellum , or good and durable paper , in which all marri * ages and banns of marriage respectively there published or solemnized shall be
registered ; and every page thereof shall foe marked at the top with the figure of the number of every such page , beginning at the second leaf with number one ; and every leaf or page so numbered shall be ruled with lines at proper and equal distances from each other , or as near as may be ; and all banns and marriages published or celebrated in any church &r
ch&pel , or within any such parish or ejbapeliyt shall < foe respectively eatered , registered , printed , or written upon , or fas near a « conveniently may be , to such ruled lines ; and shall be signed by the parson , vicar , minister , cw curate , or |> y some other perr « onk Ms presence aod by < his direction r " and certain other directions for the making such entities aaw given : in the said Act : And whereas the toes * irotfyii *> f the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1822, page 440, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2514/page/48/
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