Note 1418 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE

In favor of the dissenters bills were introduced, either in the Commons or in the Lords, in 1782 (Hansard, Par. Debates, 2d series, 1825, XII, 1236 ff.), 1819 (ibid., XL, 1200 ff., 1504 ff.), 1823 (ibid., IX, 967 ff.), 1834 ("Bills, Public," 1834, II); and by Sir Robert Peel in 1835 ("Bills, Public," 1835, III). A bill for registration of marriages, births, and deaths was brought forward in 1834 ("Bills, Public," III); and already in 1833 a special committee to report on the state of the parochial registers and the necessary legislation was appointed by the Commons. This committee reported on Aug. 15 of the same year ("Reports, Committees," 1833, XIV). See the history of the attempts to grant relief to dissenters by Oppenheim, "Über Einführung der Civil-Ehe in England," ZKR., I, 8-33.