[1433] The act of 4 Geo. IV., c. 76, may be found in Hammick, op. cit., 269-80; and Burn, Ecclesiastical Laws, II, 433d-h; as also in the Statutes at Large for that year. Cf. Hansard, Debates, 2d series, VIII, 80, 87, 123, 235, 623; IX, 540, 649; Annual Register, LXV, 89-93.
[1434] 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 85: Statutes at Large, 510-25; Burn, op. cit., II, 433u ff.; Hammick, op. cit., 282-96.
[1435] 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 86: Statutes at Large, 526-44; Hammick, op. cit., 297-306.
[1436] For the debates on the acts of Will. IV. see Hansard, Debates, 3d series, XXXI, 367-86; XXXII, 1093; XXXIV, 490-94, 539, 1021-39, 1309. Cf. the Quarterly Review, LVII, 248-53, for an article praising the conservative course of the Lords.
[1437] For summary and discussion of the registration laws see Bohn, Political Cyclopædia, IV, 625-28; Smith, The Parish, 187-89, 457-60; Friedberg, Eheschliessung, 413-19; Robertson, in Britannica, XV, 566; Hammick, Marriage Law, 106 ff., 166-90, passim; Geary, Mar. and Fam. Rel., 133-37, passim as per index; Moore, How to be Married, 60 ff.; Ernst, Treatise of Mar. and Div., 10 ff.
[1438] The appointment of the district registrars of marriages is provided for, not by the registration act, but by the marriage act of 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 85, sec. 17.
[1439] By 19 and 20 Vict., c. 119, sec. 15; Hammick, op. cit., 327.
[1440] "With the consent of the patron and the incumbent."—4 Geo. IV., c. 76, sec. 3: Hammick, op. cit., 270. See further details as to the places licensed, in 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 85, secs. 26 ff.
[1441] By 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 85, sec. 1. But by 19 and 20 Vict., c. 119, sec. 11, celebration by a clergyman of the Church of England on certificate of the superintendent registrar is not obligatory: cf. Hammick, op. cit., 87, 282, 313; Geary, Mar. and Fam. Rel., 58, 80, 85, 88, 94.
"In the year 1884, out of 144,344 marriages according to the rites of the Established Church, 128,107, or 89 per cent., were by banns, 12,188, or 8.5 per cent., by ordinary licence, 68, or .05 per cent., by special licence (of the archbishop), and 3,523, or 2.4 per cent., on superintendent registrar's certificate."—Hammick, op. cit., 63, note. In 1889, 698 marriages in every 1,000 were according to the rites of the English church; and of these only sixteen were by certificate: Geary, op. cit., 58, note. See the discussion and the tables of statistics of marriages, 1841-88, in Moore, How to be Married, 111-17, 166, 167.