 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1879 - 634 psl.
...to celebrate clandestine marriages in or near the Fleet. They performed the ceremony without license or question, sometimes without even knowing the names...no ecclesiastical superior. Almost every tavern or brandy shop in the neighbourhood had a Fleet parson in its pay. Notices were placed in the windows,... | |
 | Richard Eddy - 1887 - 492 psl.
...performed the ceremony without license or question, sometimes without even knowing tho names of tho persons they united, in public-houses, brothels, or...no ecclesiastical superior. Almost every tavern or brandy shop in the neighborhood had a Fleet parson in its pay. Notices were placed in the windows,... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1888 - 658 psl.
...notoriously infamous lives, made it their business to celebrate clandestine marriages in or near the Fleet. They performed the ceremony without licence or question,...even knowing the names of the persons they united, in publie-houses, brothels, or garrets. They acknowledged no ecclesiastical superior. Almost every tavern... | |
 | R. W. Dale - 1907 - 812 psl.
...notoriously infamous lives, made it their business to celebrate clandestine marriages in or near the Fleet." They performed the ceremony without licence or question,...even knowing the names of the persons they united, 38 31 and 32 Vic. cap. 109, §§ 2, 3. 39 Ibid., § 8. According to Sir Robert Phillimore, Ecclesiastical... | |
 | R. W. Dale - 1907 - 808 psl.
...notoriously infamous lives, made it their business to celebrate clandestine marriages in or near the Fleet." They performed the ceremony without licence or question,...even knowing the names of the persons they united, » 31 and 32 Vic. cap. 109, §§ 2, 3. 39 Ibid., § 8. According to Sir Robert Phillimore, Ecclesiastical... | |
 | James Keatinge - 1920 - 364 psl.
...notoriously infamous lives, made it their business to celebrate clandestine marriages in or near the Fleet They performed the ceremony without licence or question,...no ecclesiastical superior. Almost every tavern or brandy shop in the neighbourhood had a Fleet parson in its pay. ... It was proved before Parliament... | |
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A multitude of clergymen, usually prisoners for debt and almost always men of notoriously infamous lives, made it their business to celebrate clandestine marriages in or near the Fleet. They performed the ceremony without licence or question, sometimes... 