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Subject: Re: Re: [HWE] Nonconformist Registers, Dr William's Library
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:19:51 -0400


Thanks, Andrew & Marc

I assume that requirement to solemnize marriages extended to Christenings as well?

I may have assumed too much about "Non-conformity". I thought it included the Calvinists from abroad
as well.


Shane


> From: Andrew Sellon <>
> Date: 2005/08/10 Wed AM 11:53:53 EDT
> To:
> Subject: Re: [HWE] Nonconformist Registers, Dr William's Library
>
> wrote:
>
> ><snip> It is interesting that some of the people
> >in this register are also shown in seperate documents as Christened in the Church of England. I
guess this is evidence that these peoples need to fit in. But why would they still be listed as
Nonconfomist? Was this just a front to make them seem less like "strangers"? And why did this doctor
feel the need to list them in the first place?
> >
> Shane -
>
> Up until a comparatively recent time all marriages in England were
> solemnized in Anglican churches, even 'though those being married who
> were dissenters did not believe in the Trinity.
>
> Yours Aye A ndrew Sellon
> A certain class of Dissenters beg they may not be compelled to say that
> they marry in the name of the Trinity, because they do not believe in
> the Trinity. Never mind, say the corruptionists, you must go on saying
> you marry in the name of the Trinity, whether you believe it or not. We
> know that such a protestation from you shall be false; but, unless you
> make it, your wives shall be concubines and your children illegitimate.
> Rev. Sydney Smith 1771-1854, Canon of St. Paul's
>
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