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Excerpt from Allegations for Marriage Licences Issued by the Commissary Court of Surrey Between 1673-1770: With an Appendix of Allegations Disovered Whilst the Ms. Was Passing Through the Press
After the passing of Lord Hardwick's Act to prevent clandestine marriages, it was enacted that no Licence of Marriage is to be granted after 25 March, 1754, in any other Church or Chapel than in the Parish Church or Publick Chapel of or belonging to the Parish or Chapelry within which the usual place of abode of one of the persons to be married shall have been for the space of four weeks immediately before the granting of such licence. No mention of the length of residence, nor indeed of any time is found in the earlier allegations, but the requisite period was reduced to fifteen days by 4 Geo. IV. C. 76, section 10. The preparation of this work has occupied the Editor during such time as he has been able to spare from other and pressing engagements for several years: every care has been exercised to prevent errors, but in a book containing between nine and ten thousand Allegations, and including the Bonds, involving the examination of nearly twice that number of documents, it is probably impossible to prevent some few errors creeping in. It is hoped, however, these are very few. Concerning the social position of the parties married, there are several Peers, sundry Esquires, many Clergymen, Gentlemen, Merchants, and Yeomen, but the most part belong to the trading and working classes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
