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Vagrants

whereby he or any of his family whom he is bound to maintain shall become chargeable to any parish. (2) Every person returning to and becoming chargeable in any parish, etc., whence he, etc., shall have been

Banns of marriage

related to the publication of banns, enacting that they should be published in an audible manner in the parish church of the parish wherein the persons to be married should dwell, according to the form of words

Poor laws

Eliz. c. 2), frequently called 'The Act of Elizabeth,' overseers of the poor were annually appointed in every parish; the churchwardens of every parish being also ex-officio overseers, except in rural parishes, in which the churchwardens ceased

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Births, Marriages, and Deaths

records available as evidence. Canonical Registers and Act of 1812.--The 70th Canon of 1603 prescribed that-- In every parish church and chapel within this realm shall be provided one parchment book, at the charge of the parish,

Local Government

from the Imperial Government, is conducted the bodies appointed or elected to conduct it within limited areas, as parishes, boroughs, local government districts, poor law unions, petty sessional districts, county boroughs, and counties. See these titles respectively,

Bills of mortality

Great Fire, when the deaths of two or three weeks were given in one bill. In 1605, the parishes comprised within the bills of mortality included the 97 parishes within the walls, 16 parishes without the walls,

Quoad sacra

sacred things; for religious purposes. This term often referred to property that was located so far from the parish to which it belonged that it was annexed quoad sacra to another parish, allowing the inhabitants to attend

Local Improvements

Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 30), a majority of two-thirds of the rate payers of any parish or district may, by 'adopting' that Act rate their district in aid of certain public improvements (e.g., public

Vestry, or vestiary

vestments of the minister are kept; also, a parochial assembly commonly convened in the vestry, to transact the parish business. By custom in some parishes, and by the (adoptive) Vestries Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4

Burial authority

Burial authority, includes the council of district, Londonborough, Parish community, the Common Council of City of London, and the Parish meeting of a Parish having no Parish

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