THERE MERRIAGE OF DIVORCED PERSONS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3121, 18 February 1879, Page 3

THERE MERRIAGE OF DIVORCED PERSONS.

On Monday evening 1; at the council meeting of the Church of England Working Men's Society, the secretary reported that.be had received letters from no fewer thatf 15 Biihops (including the two Primates) as to a statement that their lordships had come to a resolution not to grant licenses for the re-marriage of divorced persons. Most of their lordships said they were not aware of any joint resolution. The Bishop of Wincheater wrote, however, more explicitly. His Lordship said:—"Dear Sir,—My impression ia that nbformal resolution Ton the subject of t tb.e marriage of,divorced persons was passed by the Bishops, but that the general sentiment was expressed to the following effect:—The renular form of marriage is-by banns. A license is a kind of indulgence or relaxation of this law ; and in the case of divorced persons, or, at all eTentSi of the guilty parties, it is not desirable to give the exceptional facility, of a license, but to leave them to themore regular" 1 and legal form of marriage by banns. —I am, dear Sity your faithful sertant, E. 1 H^ Wmifoif.^Mlc .X£ Powell." A resolution was adopted to memorialise both Convocations "against such marriages being. r^co^Use^. V J ,