Note 1402 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE

According to Mr. Haldane, banns are required by the bill "in order to render licenses necessary; and the only use of a license I take to be that of putting money into the pockets of our clergymen or some of their officers."—Cobbett, op. cit., XV, 40. On the too high cost of licenses cf. Townshend, ibid., 57, 58; and Fox, ibid., 70.