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Excerpt from Sketches of English Church History in South Africa: From 1795 to 1848
When the Cape capitulated to the English arms in September, 1795, it was agreed that the privileges of the Dutch Reformed Church should be preserved, and during the seven years of occupation that body continued to be called the Established Church. The only services of the English Church were held, probably in the Castle, by the Military Chaplains, but no traces of any registers kept at that time are to be found. The Governor was the Ordinary, and his consent was necessary to marriages, and even to baptisms - fat least in the case of adults. The first clergyman with whose name we meet is the Rev. J. E. Attwood, Chaplain of h.m.s. Stately, and one of his earliest ministerial acts in the settlement led to a legal controversy with the authorities of the Dutch Church. At that time all persons about to be married were obliged to appear before a Lay Matrimonial Court in Capetown to prove that there were no legal impediments to the marriage. On the 2nd October, 1795, Mr. Attwood solemnized a marriage without this preliminary form being Observed. When the bridegroom applied to the Dutch Church to have his marriage registered, he was refused on the ground that the marriage was illegal. He then petitioned the Governor. 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.
