 | John Southerden Burn - Church records and registers - 1862 - 316 pages
...intituled, "An Act for granting to his Majesty certain Rates and Duties upon Marriages, Births, and Burials, and upon Bachelors and Widowers, for the...for carrying on the War against France with vigour." £. s. d For the Burial of every person : 040 „ of a Duke (above the 4s.) 50 0 0 „ of a Marques,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Great Britain - 1866 - 690 pages
...purposes, as in the Act of 6 and 7 William IIL, c. 6, when duties were levied "on births, marriages, and burials, and upon bachelors and widowers, for the...years, for carrying on the war against France with rigor." ' The most recent legislation upon the subject had chiefly provided for the security of the... | |
 | Edward J. Wood - Marriage customs and rites - 1869 - 344 pages
...Majesty certain rates and duties upon marriages, births, and burials, and upon bachelors and widows, for the term of five years, for carrying on the war against France with vigour." In 1784 a similar charge was imposed on persons who entered the nuptial state. Evelyn, writing in the... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1870 - 1186 pages
...entitulad " An Act for granting to his Majesty certain rates and duties upon marriages, births, and burials, and upon bachelors and widowers, for the term of five years, for carrying on the war againat France with vigour." Bachelors above the Bge of 25, and widowers without children, paid 1*.... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - Marriage - 1873 - 388 pages
...Entituled, 'An Act for Granting to His Majesty certain Rates and Duties upon Marriages, Births, and Burials, and upon Bachelors and Widowers, for the...for carrying on the War against France with vigour.' Again the Fleet clergy declared ironically that the bishops and other members of parliament were their... | |
 | Great Britain - 1903 - 448 pages
...intituled, " An Act for granting to his Majesty certain Rates and Duties upon Marriages, Births, and Burials, and upon Bachelors and Widowers, for the...for carrying on the War against France with Vigour." It enacts that all persons in Holy Orders do take an exact and true account and keep a Register in... | |
 | Joseph Yelloly Watson - Tendring Hundred, Eng - 1877 - 274 pages
...to his Majesty certain Rights and Duties upon Marriages, Births, and Burials, and upon Batchellors and Widowers, for the term of five years, for carrying on the War against France with vigour), the sum of twelve shillings. I say received the said sum of 12/. By me, N. RICH, Jun. Morant says that... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Great Britain - 1877 - 548 pages
...c. 6, when duties were levied ' on births, marriages, and burials, and upon bachelors and widowei-s, for the term of five years, for carrying on the war against France with vigour.' The most recent legislation upon the subject had chiefly provided for the security of the records —... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1879 - 806 pages
...was called " An Act for granting to his Majesty certain rates and duties upon marriages, births, and burials, and upon bachelors and widowers, for the...for carrying on the war against France with vigour." The duty on marriage under this Act ranged from 2s. 6d. to 501., in proportion to the rank of the bridegroom;... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 702 pages
...certain rates and duties upon marriages, births, and burials, and upon bachelors and widower*, fur the term of five years, for carrying on the war against France with vigour.' Bachelors above the nge of twenty-five, and widows without children, paid la. yearly, and further according... | |
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An Act for granting to his Majesty certain Rates and Duties upon Marriages, Births, and Burials, and upon Bachelors and Widowers, for the term of five years, for carrying on the war against France with vigour. 
