A clause about marriages in the heads of a bill to prevent the further growth of popery.
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- Manuscript. Clause proposed for insertion into a bill to prevent the further 'growth of popery'. The clause proposes that persons conducting marriages 'after any other manner or form than the laws and canons of force and the office of matrimony set forth in Ye Book of Comon Prayer &c' be penalised.