A letter to a new member of the new parliament, on church-rates, registration, tithes, &c |
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abler and better act and deed allow the minds altogether useless annual copy baptisms Barebone's believe benefice birth and burial births of children burden canon cavils Church of England church or chapel Church-rates Churchwardens clergy clergyman commutation concur conscience convocation corn-rent country parishes dence diffi Dissenters doubts and misgivings efficiently conducted entered entry established church expressing my decided fees ful doubts inasmuch irritation JOHN'S SQUARE justice latter seems lege discipline levied marriage ment mutation nate refusal oath obey the statutes objecting parishes observe the statutes opinion an opinion opinion seems parish registers parishioners Parliament penalty permit their social Petty Sessions plea posed powers need punished question the power quire real property Register Act Registrar religion requiring subscription respect RIVINGTON scription self-reproach social meet space given system of requiring think differently thirty-nine Articles tinues tion tithes towns University of Oxford vestries word worship young
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Page 3 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness, and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Page 11 - Church or Chappel ; or (if the parties so to be married shall desire it) in the Marketplace next to the said Church or Chappel, on three Market-days in three several weeks next following...
Page 11 - Parish where each party to be married liveth, the names, surnames, additions, and places of aboad of the parties so to be married, and of their Parents, Guardians or Overseers...
Page 11 - Lord's Days then next following, at the close of the morning exercise, in 'the public meeting-place, commonly called the church or chapel, or (if the parties desired it) in the market-place next to the said church or chapel...
Page 12 - One thousand six hundred fifty three, shall be held or accompted a Marriage according to the Laws of England ; But the Justice of Peace (before whom a Marriage is solemnized) in case of dumb persons, may dispense with pronouncing the words aforesaid ; and with joyning hands in case of persons that have not hands.
Page 7 - ... concluded by the majority of those that are present, who, in construction of law, are the whole parish. And if no parishioners at all appear, after convenient notice given, the churchwardens alone may make the rate, and recover it in the ecclesiastical court. — p. 26. If the parishioners refuse to assemble in vestry, for the purpose of considering and agreeing upon a rate, or having met, refuse to impose one, the churchwardens may impose one of their own authority ; for, in case of neglect,...