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A37602 An act touching marriages and the registring thereof, and also touching births and burials England and Wales. 1653 (1653) Wing E1157; ESTC R209401 4,075 12

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be provided for that purpose and kept amongst the Records of the said Sessions and to restore the said Certificate for which Entry the Clerk of the Peace may receive Four pence and no more And be it further Enacted That if any person by violence or fraud shall steal and take away or cause to be stolen or taken away any person whatsoeve under the age of One and twenty years with intent to marry the said person in this Commonwealth or in any other place such person and persons so stealing and taking away or causing to be stolen and taken away shall forfeit his and their whole Estate real and personal one half thereof to the Commonwealth and the other half to the use of the party so taken away to be recovered by any Suit on behalf of the Commonwealth or by any Action in a Court of Record brought by their Parent Guardian or Overseer and shall farther suffer strict and close Imprisonment and be kept to hard labor in some House of Correction or other publique Working house during life and every person that shall be convicted upon Indictment Presentment or by any due course of Law for aiding or abetting any such violence or fraud shall be Imprisoned and kept at hard labor as aforesaid during the space of seven whole years next after such conviction and any pretended Marriage that at any time hereafter shall be obtained by any such violence or fraud is hereby declared null and void And it is further Enacted That where any Guardian or Overseer shal betray any Trust touching any childe by seducing selling or otherways wilfully putting such Childe into the hands or power of any person who shall marry such Childe without his or her free consent such Guardian or Overseer shall forf●iet double the portion which of right did belong to such Childe one moyety thereof to go to the Commonwealth and the other to the Childe so married as aforesaid to be recovered by any Action Bill Plaint or Suit in any Court of Record by the party wronged or any other person on his or her behalf And it is hereby Declared and Enacted That from and after the Nine and twentieth day of September One thousand six hundred fifty and three the Age for a Man to consent unto Marriage shall be Sixteen years and the age of a Woman Fourteen years and not before and any Contract or Marriage had or made before the respective Ages aforesaid shall be void and of none effect And it is further Enacted That the hearing and determining of all Matters and Controversies touching Contracts and Marriages and the lawfulness and unlawfulness thereof and all exceptions against Contracts and Marriages and the distribution of Forfeitures within this Act shall be in the power and referred to the determination of the Iustices of Peace in each County City or Town Corporate at the General Quarter Sessions or of such other persons to hear and determine the same as the Parliament shall hereafter appoint And be it further Enacted That all and every Offence and Offences at any time or times hereafter committed or done upon or beyond the Sea contrary to the Tenor and true intent and meaning of this Act shall and may be tryed in any City Town Corporate or County where the person or persons so offending shall be apprehended or attached for the Offence or Offences aforesaid And it is also Enacted That where there are small Parishes or places not within any parish or no usual Morning-Exercise on the Lords day in the aforesaid Meeting-place the Iustices of Peace at their general-General-Sessions or any three or more of them may unite two or more such parishes or such places to other parishes at their Discretions which shall be accompted one Parish as to the matters onely within this Act And one Register to serve for such parishes and places so united And be it Enacted That all and every the persons in this Act mentioned may and shall in their several places by vertue hereof put in execution all and every the Powers and Authorities respectively to them limitted by this Act Any Law Statute Custom or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding And all Register-Books for Marriages Births and Burials already past shall be delivered ●n to the Hands of the respective Registers appointed by this Act to be kept as Records And it is lastly Enacted by this present Parliament and the Authority thereof That this present Act shall be in force in Ireland from and after the First day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty and three Wednesday the 24th of August 1653. ORdered by the Parliament That this Act be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Clerk of the Parliament