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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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AN ACT Touching MARRIAGES And the Registring thereof And also touching Births and Burials Wednesday the 24th of August 1653. ORdered by the Parliament That this Act be forthwith Printed and Published Hen Scobell Clerk of the Parliament London Printed by Iohn Field Printer to the Parliament of England 1653. AN ACT Touching MARRIAGES And the Registring thereof And also touching Births and Burials BE it Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That whosoever shall agree to be married within the Commonwealth of England after the 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 hereafter appointed by this Act for the respective Parish where each party to be married liveth the Names Sirnames 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 Lords days then next following at the close of the Morning Exercise in the Publique Meeting place commonly called The Church or Chappel or if the parties so to be married shall desire it in the Market-place next to the said Church or Chappel on three Market days in three several weeks next following between the hours of eleven and two which being so performed the Register shall upon request of the parties concerned make a true Certificate of the due performance thereof without which Certificate the persons herein after Authorized shall not proceed in such Marriage And if any Exception shall be made against the said intended Marriage the Register shall also insert the same with the name of the person making such Exception and their place of abode in the said Certificate of Publication And it is further Enacted That all such persons so intending to be married shall come before some Iustice of Peace within and of the same County City or Town Corporate where Publication shall be made as aforesaid and shall bring a Certificate of the said Publication and shall make sufficient proof of the consent of their Parents or Guardians if either of the said parties shall be under the Age of One and twenty years And the said Iustice shall examine by Witnesses upon Oath or otherways as he shall see cause concerning the Truth of the Certificate and due performance of all the premises and also of any Exception made or arising And if there appear no reasonable cause to the contrary the Marriage shall proceed in this maner The Man to be married taking the Woman to be married by the hand shall plainly and distinctly pronounce these words I A. B. do here in the presence of God the Searcher of all Hearts take thee C. D. for my wedded VVife and do also in the presence of God and before these witnesses promise to be unto thee a loving and faithful Husband And then the Woman taking the Man by the hand shall plainly and distinctly pronounce these words I C. D. do here in the presence of God the Searcher of all Hearts take thee A. B. for my wedded Husband and do also in the presence of God and before these witnesses promise to be unto thee a loving faithful and obedient VVife And it is further Enacted That the Man and Woman having made sufficient proof of the Consent of their Parents or Guardians as aforesaid and expressed their consent unto Marriage in the maner and by the words aforesaid before such Iustice of Peace in the presence of two or more credible witnesses The said Iustice of Peace may and shall declare the said Man and Woman to be from thenceforth Husband and Wife and from and after such Consent so expressed and such Declaration made the same as to the form of Marriage shal be good and effectual in Law And no other Marriage whatsoever within the Commonwealth of England after the Twenty ninth day of September in the year One thousand six hundred fifty three shall be held or accompted a Marriage according to the Laws of England But the Iustice of Peace before whom a Marriage is solemnized in case of dumb persons may dispence with pronouncing the words aforesaid and with joyning hands in case of persons that have not hands And that a true and just Accompt may be always kept as well of Publications as of all such Marriages and also of the Births of Children and Deaths of all sorts of persons within this Commonwealth Be it further Enacted That a Book of good Vellum or Parchment shall be provided by every Parish for the Registring of all such Marriages and of all Births of Children and Burials of all sorts of people within every parish for the safe keeping of which Book the Inhabitants and Housholders of every parish chargeable to the relief of the Poor or the greater part of them present shall on or before the Two and twentieth day of September in the year One thousand six hundred fifty three make choice of some able and honest person such as shall be sworn and approved by one Iustice of the Peace in that parish Division or County and so signified under his hand in the said Register-Book to have the keeping of the said Book who shall therein fairly enter in writing all such Publications Marriages Births of Children and Burials of all sorts of persons and the Names of every of them and the Days of the moneth and year of Publications Marriages Births and Burials and the Parents Guardians or Overseers names And the Register in such parish shall attend the said Iustice of Peace to subscribe the Entry of every such Marriage And the person so elected approved and sworn shall be called The Parish-Register and shall continue three years in the said place of Register and longer until some other be chosen unless such Iustice of the Peace or the said Parish with consent of such Iustice shall think fit to remove him sooner And for such Publications and Certificate thereof Twelve pence and no more may be taken and for the Entry of every Marriage Twelve pence and no more and for every Birth of Childe Four pence and no more and for every Death Four pence and no more And for Publications Marriages Births or Burials of poor people who live upon Alms no●●ing shall be taken And the said Iustice of Peace if it be desired shall give unto the parties so married a Certificate in Parchment under his hand and seal of such Marriage and of the day of the Solemnization thereof and of two or more of the witnesses then present and the Iustices Clerk for this Certificate may receive Twelve pence and no more And if such Certificate shall be produced to the Clerk of the Peace for that County and request made to him to make an Entry thereof Then the said Clerk of the Peace is hereby required to enter the same in a Book of Parchment to