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    hardship n&& iirijp 6 * d by the £ et& feioiiite of irtarrtage , to which success cm be # W « 6 i » bIy . expected ; and while they duly appreciate the Fed ings of those who would desire a complete separation of the marriage contract from the place as well as the officers

    of the Established Church , they conceive that objections may be raised to such a proposal , u * hich would , kttoge * ther defeat the hopes they entertain of a virtual relief from the chief , if not the whole , of the difficulties which at present exist . "

    The bill referred to in the above resolutions is as follows : <* An Act to relieve certain Persons dissenting from the Church of England , from some parts of the Ceremony required by Law in the Celehration of Marriages ,

    € i Whereas several persons dissenting from the Church of England , as by law established , entertain conscientious objections to the use of certain parts of the ofiice of Matrimony in the Book of Common Prayer , and it Is thought expedient to

    grant some ease to scrupulous consciences in that respect , tviihont infringing upon the wholesome policy of the Act passed in the 26 th year of the reign of his late Majesty King * George the Secortd , intituled , i An Act for the better preventing of Clandestine Marr rages .

    " Be it therefore enacted ty the Ki ng * s most excellent Majesty , by and with tne advice find consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , and Coimnofrs , m this preseirt pAdiament As ^ tnbted , and by the authority of the same , that f mtn and after the day of , 1819 , it shall arid may

    he lawful to and for every parson , Vi car , minister ^ or curate , ettffcHIed by law to soleumize fn&rriag-eg , and sflcl > p * rso « > vicar , minister or curate ^ i » hereby authorized and required from time to time , upon deceiving a written declaration lirthe form ibeefnea

    in the schedule to this Act , signed by ifie persons proposing to lie married , to proceed to ceUhtnte ifce trmrri ^ e of the pB rtfe * * i ^ nrn ^ ftnd ^ erFTeriitg stick declar * - tt ^ n , by using itfch part ottfy of tlie dftxia of matritnotiy , contained . in the Book of Comraoti Pray <; r >» begins with the Word * [ I require tkikd charge you hothj an 4

    ends with the words [ and ^ thereto I ffiye thee my trotfe ] accordiaff to th « direction 6 « t the Kubrick relative thereto \ and thereupon to cause an entry of such marriage t <* be niiafe in ( he parOcliial regteter , and s J t ] b ? # i ^ tto ¦>' < & $ mm pr ^ crtbeti by tfr € ? ?^ M . lUt * df the » th year of hi * late Ma-J ^*«^; und tu % m nt * trikgi ** 9 u > + * s ^• tebrWed te Hfdf ^ W , itofl b » m T ^ Hd ,

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    binding atrd effectual in the latr to a ( J iriteaU and purposeb , as if the whole of tbe s « id office 6 Frnati : imony had be > en e ^ ciploy ^ d in the celebration thereof , and no further or otherwise ; and that it shall not be ne ^ cessary thereafter to give in evidence tae delivery of such written declaration in support of the validity of any sucih in ^ il ri * ife u p 6 n any oceasirtn tvhats < tete k

    ' ** ' Prbrided nevertheless , and be it fnrtber emtcted , that nothing- hereinbefare contained shal 1 operate Or bfe construed HO * & to annul , defeat , of alter the pro visions of the last-rrientioned Act , or any other etistitig * law relative to the previous eelebra *

    tiou of banns , or the obtain in gr of liceitceg , or any other qualifications , cerettioniea , forms or proceedings whatsoever , requisite to the validity of maniag-es , except so fatas the same are expfessty aftered or drtpen ^ ed with by this Act , rn trie cfitfe £ aforesaid .

    *• Provided - attfo ^ and be if fdriher « fc ^ acted , that nothing in this Aet c * ntato £ d shall be construed so as to defettt ^ preju ^ dice , alter ox affect Xht ? i % h \ . of Ihe oiftciating * parson , vicar , minister , or . curate and clerk respectively , to therr acciutomed fees , duties or emolumeBts ,, payable upo ^ the celebration of marriages in any of the titfeft provided for by this Act . ' *

    The Schedule to tehieh this Art tefenx « W ^ , me undemg ^ d A . B . and O . U . ^ do hereby declare \ A \^ t we are Dii ^ nt ^ ri [ or thaft th& under&igtw ' d , A < 6 . or < 2 , J > j , as the case may reifuire , fe a Dlsaentevl from

    the Church of England as hf l $ w established , and that we are desirous <> f taking the benefit of a certain Act passed in the 59 th year of his present Majesty ^ s reicrn % intituled , An Act to relieve certain Pertfons diMfdCiti ^ fidin Ifli ^ CnuYcih of * !

    Kftgfland , from sdnie p ^ trts << Certftioriy required by law fri thte CefehrHtidn of Marriages / As witness our handtf ^ - ¦ ¦ * ¦ « A ^ B > m-:

    We give as correct an accJcwiB ^ of trbat pfisaed in lite Mdvse of G&m + metis on the l 6 tk of J « ne ^ as thetiom aod mconveniencie aristagfrom an « flt ^ ces ^ tvely crowded gallery would pe «* m ^ assisted t > y the reports of th < j

    newfspftfiers * ^ ? , , After the prgsentntettt by Letd Milton ^ Sir . Jsnueir Maofeintb » b r : arid Mr * Stftfth * of some potitimifrtprrftyiag fc * relief from ihe op ^ ri ^ iimi , of th © Marriage , Law , Mr . , & « toerv « 4 that , io bringing Ibrwalrd thit prcMM wubject ^ of Ytliieftt / he bad gvrenHottct ?

    he frtmd hirtlwM gwefcJy fortit ^ teji theco ^ teato ^ scmvtfptttdtibmwlMeh hAd been |> t « iente ( i » in wdttb try * te

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/39/