medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
You would appear to be forgetting Civil Marriage (in a Registry Office),
introduced in 1837 (Marriage Act 1836).
John Briggs
On 28/12/2011 01:25, Ms B M Cook wrote:
>
> Until 1857 the Marriage Service in the BCP was the only legal form of
> marriage for everyone except Quakers and Jews who were granted
> permission to marry members of their own sect by their own rite. A mixed
> marriage would have to use the BCP. I think many Roman Catholics (and
> Dissenters ?) went through two marriage services: the legally binding
> one in a parish church using the BCP and a second rite in their own
> conventacle to satisfy their consciences. Until the Catholic
> Emancipation Act of 1832 (?) Catholics in London could only have a
> Nuptial Mass at the Chapel of one of the Embassies of a Catholic Country.
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