The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments

by E. E. Holmes

[[9]] See a most helpful paper read by Father Puller at the E.C.U. Anniversary Meeting, and reported in "The Church Times" of 17 June, 1910.

[[10]] There seems to be no legal definition of the word "reside". The law would probably require more than leaving a bag in a room, hired for twenty-one days, as is often done. It must be remembered that the object of the law is publicity—that is, the avoidance of a clandestine marriage, which marriage at a Registry Office now frequently makes so fatally easy.

[[11]] 25 Hen. VIII, cap. 21.

[[12]] Such as, for example, Royal Chapels, St. Paul's Cathedral, Eton College Chapel, etc.

[[13]] Cf. Blunt's "Church Law," p. 133; 4 Geo. IV, c. 76, s. 21.

[[14]] It will be remembered that runaway marriages were, in former days, frequently celebrated at Gretna Green, a Scotch village in Dumfriesshire, near the English border.