Many of them lived in the “Rules” or “Liberties,” which were areas around the prison where prisoners could pay for the privilege of living outside the gates.In an effort to crack down on clandestine marriages, legislation in 1711 attempted to coerce prison keepers to require banns or licenses before performing marriages. The Fleet Registers This site uses cookies. This was widely ignored.1751– Calendar reform.
This data collection contains marriage records and marriage banns dating from 1754-1932 from more than 10,000 Church of England parish registers (including Bishop’s Transcripts) from parishes in the greater London area that have been deposited at London Metropolitan Archives and those formerly held by Guildhall Library Manuscripts section. St James Duke’s Place and Holy Trinity Minories gratefully took up the slack, claiming exemption from the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London. This data will be updated every 24 hours. The civil registration of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales was first introduced in 1837. In practice, those clergymen fortunate enough to have a ‘living’ (i.e.
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