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John Smith, ed., History Anthology, 2 vols. (Place: Publisher, date), 2: 221-2.

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EXTRACTS FROM ECCLESIASTICAL ORDINANCES OF 1561. J. Calvin: Opera , VoL X. pp. 107-108. French. How soon marriage mu8t be consummated after the promise is made. After the promise is made the marriage shall not be deferred more than six weeks ; otherwise the parties shall be called before the consistory in order that they may be admonished. If they do not obey they shall be remanded to the council and be constrained to celebrate the marriage. Banns and Conditions. That the banns shall be published three Sundays in the Church prior to the marriage, having first received the signature of the chief syndic as a certificate of recognition of the parties; in such a way, how-ever, that the marriage may take place at the third publication, and if one of the parties be resident in another parish there shall be also a certificate from the said place. Concerning the Celebration of the Marriage That the parties at the time when they are to be married shall go modestly to the church, without drummers and minstrels, preserving an order and gravity becoming to Christians; and this before the last stroke of the bell, in order that the marriage blessing may he given before the sermon. If they are negligent and come too late they shall be sent away. Of the Common Residence of Husband and Wife. That the husband shall have his wife with him and they shall live in the same house, maintaining a common household, and if it should happen that one should leave the other to live apart they shall be sum-moned in order that they may be remonstrated with and constrained to return, the one to the other.



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