There is a very simple answer to this: any Commonwealth legislation was passed
under "usurping powers" and was void at the Restoration. Some of the
Commonwealth legislation was reenacted after the Restoration, for example
replacement of feudal incidents by Excise. The Judicial Proceedings
Confirmation Act ratified judicial proceedsings, which included land titles
where the owner could make title without relying on the acts of usurping powers.
The 1653 ordnance will thus have disappeared at the Restoration.
Peter King
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> From: "Woollard, Matthew" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: 29 November 2017 at 18:01
> Subject: Re: H E L P !
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> According to John Southerden Burn (in his Registrum Eccleasiae Parochialis:
> The History of Parish Registers in England) fees were introduced in September
> 1653, and, in his words “was not in force many years; and at the Restoration,
> the business devolved to the parochial clergy again…” (p. 30).
>
> Part of this book is available at Google Books.
> (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1wF-kH_ZFPkC)
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> Matthew Woollard
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> From: From: Local-History list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of David Alan Gatley
> Sent: 29 November 2017 16:55
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> Subject: [LOCAL-HISTORY] H E L P !
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> Does anyone know over what time periods duties were payable on baptisms nd
> burials?
>
> I know that in 1653 during the Commonwealth Period a duty was payable for
> births (or baptisms) but does anyone know when this ended?
>
> Also what other years were duties payable?
>
> A source would also be handy!
>
> David
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