Statistical and population tables, relative to the city of Glasgow, with an abstract of the conversion of weights and measures for the counties of Edinburgh, Lanark, Renfrew, Dumbarton, Ayr, Bute, Stirling, and Perth / By James Cleland.

  • Cleland, James, 1770-1840.
Date:
1828
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Credit: Statistical and population tables, relative to the city of Glasgow, with an abstract of the conversion of weights and measures for the counties of Edinburgh, Lanark, Renfrew, Dumbarton, Ayr, Bute, Stirling, and Perth / By James Cleland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    IS Concerning the Registry of Marriages. In Scotland there is no Marriage Act, as in England, restricting the solemnization of Marriages to Clergymen of the Established Church, nor is it required that the ce- remony be performed within the walls of a Church, or limited to canonical hours, and Special Licenses are, of course, unknown. Although the solemnization of Mar- riage is not restricted to a particular class of Clergymen, it can only be lawfully administered by persons duly called to the Pastoral office; and these cannot legally perform the duty until an Extract of the regular proclamation of Banns be produced. Although these'forms are requisite to constitute a regular Marriage, it is well known that by the law of Scotland, simple consent, without the interfer- ence of the Church, or the observance of the usual forms,. constitute a binding Marriage. Sometimes the couple interchange the Matrimonial Contract, in presence of a Magistrate, but he is merely a reputable witness of a civil contract, and is not punishable unless he act as a Clergyman by prayer, pronouncing benediction, or the hkQ.—Hu7ne ii. 325, 7. From the Parochial Register. The following is a List of Marriages registered in the Roijalttj, during the periods that are specified, I, VIZ. In the year 1700 HO Average from 170i to 1710 inclilsive 120 171] to 1720 is7 .1721 to 1730 147 1731 to 174.0 ......... 139 174.1 to 1750 ]r)3 1751 to 1760 258 1761 to 1770 1771 to 1780 324, 1781 to 17!)0 .... 4.i« 1790 4,^?