Note 1300 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE
Reading edition
Cardwell, Documentary Annals, II, 200-207, gives Bishop Wren's "Orders and Directions" for the diocese of Norwich, 1636:
"XI. That they go up to the holy table at marriages at such time thereof as the rubric so directeth, and that the new married persons do kneel without the rail, and do at their own charge, if the communion were not warned the Sunday before, receive the holy communion that day, or else to be presented by the minister and churchwardens at the next generals for not receiving.
"XII. That no minister presume to marry any persons, whereof one of the parties is not of his parish, unless it be otherwise expressly mentioned in the license; nor that he marry any by virtue of any faculties or license, wherein the authority of an archdeacon or official is mentioned, sub poena suspensionis."