BANNS OF MARRIAGE
Tertnllian, who died A.D. 240, states that the Primitive Church was forewarned of marriages. The practice was probably introduced into France in the ninth century. The Bishop of Paris enjoined it in 1176, and it was regularly established in the Latin Church by the fourth Lateran Council in 1215. The earliest enactment on the subject in the English Church is the 11th Canon of the Synod of Westminster, in 1200, which decrees that no marriage shall be contracted without banns thrice published in the Church. The 62nd Canon of the Synod of London (1603-4) forbids the celebration of marirage unless the banns have been first published three several Sundays,- or holy days, during divine: service, in the parish churches or chapels where, file parties dwell.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 21 February 1931, Page 4
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128BANNS OF MARRIAGE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 21 February 1931, Page 4
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