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    uadet the Act for an Assessment , ( p . 286 , ) was one of the seven members for the city of London , though not an Alderman . Being a very active member , his name , corrupted to Barebone or J&arebones , was given to the Parliament . His name , Praise-God , has , I

    apprehend , been not tmfrequentjy considered as a name fanatically assumed by himself whereas there can scarcely be a doubt that it was the choice of his parents , just as Frewen , Archbishop of York , was named Accepted . It appears also from the last Classical Journal , ( p . 137 , ) that in the name of the late celebrated scholar , Christian

    Gottlob Heyne , u Gottlob means praise God , and is frequently used as a Christian name in that part of Germany where Heyne was born . " Auother instance , among many which might be mentioned , is Deodatus converted into the weji-known Italian name , Diodati .

    Mr . Granger , in his Biographical History , ( Ed . % III . 68 , ) caJls this senator , Barebone , arid commences a curious note , with the following gossip ' s tale , unauthenticated and unworthy of such a writer . " I have been

    informed that there were three brothers of this family , each of whom had a sentence to his name ; namely , Praise-God Barebone ; Christ came into the world to save Barebone ; and , If Christ had not died , thou hadst

    been damned Barebone . Some are said to have omitted the former part of the sentence , and to have called him only Damned Barebone . " The senator is then described by Mr .

    Ch anger as a " furious zealot , " on the authority of Roger Coke . In his Detection , ( II . 8 ft , ) speaking of the interval * while Monk was maturing his treachery , that Author says , that " . Praise-God Barebones . with a

    multitude of watermen and others , ( who , it may-be , could neither write nor read , ) presented a petition to the Rumpf for the excluding the King and Royal Family . 11 * In the next page he denounces " tfiat Jeering heretic Barebanes , and ajl his rabble . " The time * however , is arrived when

    we Ioqk back , not without respect , upon watermen and others ^ even areputed r « && /

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    deep disgrace of the Restoration . But I return to the Acts of the SJiortParliament , from a digression into which I have insensibly wandered . Among several of a useful public tendency , is that to which I referred *

    and which you will probably wish to preserve entire , as now become ap historical curiosity . It not only respects the contract ' and registry of marriage , but also the registry of births and burials . Much ia the niau * ner of this Act , marriage is recognized

    and regulated as a civil contract by the ^ Code Napoleon , ( Nos . 75 , 105 , ) and happily for France , it has been adopted , with whatever reluctance , in the Code ~ Royale of that legitimate race , with whose government she has been again blessed by the bayonets of Britain and the Holy Alliance . J . T . RUTT . u An Act touching Marriages wnd the Registring thereof ; and also touching Births and Burials . Wednesday the 2 , &th of August , 1653 . Ordered by the Parliament , that this Act be forthwith printed and published . Hen . Scobell , Clerk of the Parliament . London , printed by John

    Field , Printer to the Parliament of England . 1653 . ** Be it enacted , by the authority of this present Parliament , that whosoever shall agree to be married within the Commonwealth of England , after tlie nine and twentieth day of September ^ in the year one thousand six hundred fifty * three , shall

    ( one and twenty days at least . before such intended marriage ) deliver in writing , or cause to be so delivered unto the register , ( herea ' fter appointed by this Act , ) , for the respective parish where eacti party to be married liveth , the names , si in am es , additions and place of abode of the parties so to be married , and of their parents ,

    guardians or overseers ; all which the said register shall publish or cause to be published , three several Lord ' s days , then next following at the close of the morning exercise , in the public mjeetjag' -place , commonly called The Chw < th or Cftapel , or ( if the parties so to be married shall

    desire it ) in the market-place next to the said church or chape ) , on three market days , in three several weeks next Following , between the hours of el « ven and two ; which being so performed , the register shall fiipon request of the parties concerned } make a true certificate of the da *) performance thereof ; without which per * tifipate , ike persons hereinafter authorized

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    3 £ 8 ^ Commonwealth Marriage Act .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 358, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/14/