Excerpt from Observations on the Act for Preventing Clandestine Marriages Ihave been in Newgate and the Flete upwards of ten years, and my cafe of which [have given away upwards of fixty thoufands lhcws the buffetings and firipes Ihave undergone, for the true and real fervice of my country. 8 I live in one or more houfes Good God! Did ever our forefathers judge it a neceffary quali fication for matrimony that either they, their fons or their daughters lived in houfes, {hall in capacity in this refpe???t, hinder them of ...
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Excerpt from Observations on the Act for Preventing Clandestine Marriages Ihave been in Newgate and the Flete upwards of ten years, and my cafe of which [have given away upwards of fixty thoufands lhcws the buffetings and firipes Ihave undergone, for the true and real fervice of my country. 8 I live in one or more houfes Good God! Did ever our forefathers judge it a neceffary quali fication for matrimony that either they, their fons or their daughters lived in houfes, {hall in capacity in this refpe???t, hinder them of that divine privilege, which the law of nature has not denied them. The man who lives in a hut, cave, hole, or on the face of the earth, in the open field, or'under a hedge, has as much a right to propagate his fpecies as'the richeft houlholder, or greatef't nobleman yea, more efpecially if it be confidered, as things go now, thatthe grand'ee is generally by his vices dehili tated for propagation before he, takes on him (what he ufually calls), the yoke of marriage, into which he enters to repair a rotten con i turion, and a ruinatedaeflate'. OF the fame tenor is the following claufe which like'wife is calculated to procra inate matrimony, -viz 'that no parfon, vicar, minifter or curate-fhall marry perfons both or one of whom {hall be under'the age of twenty-one years, if the parents or guar dians, or one of them, {hall Openly in the church or chapel, where the Banns iball be fo publiihed, declare, Or caufe to be declared their diffent. This will prevent the marriage of'thoufands of his majefty's good and liege fubjec'ts.' Bat though I am not now fo converfant with the'fcriptures as I once was, 36 yet I will 'now take on me to prove. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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