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| 1 | 1694 | - 1694—1706: Parish Register Taxation
A short-lived Act was passed whereby a tax of 2/- was levied on each birth, 2/6 for a marriage and 4/- for a burial. In order to assure that tax was collected, the incumbent was to be notified of any births within 5 days whereupon he was to receive a fee of 6d for recording them in the parish register. Bachelors and widowers were also taxed. The tax was rescinded in 1706.
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| 2 | 1700 | - 1700: Non-conformists
Onset of many Baptist and Independent meeting houses. Roman Catholics still prohibited from worshipping, buying or inheriting land
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| 3 | 1702 | - 1702: Abjuration Oath
This Oath was required to be signed by all holders of public office pursuant to an "Act for the further Security of His Majesties Person, and the Succession of the Crown in the Protestant Line", declaring that "our Sovereign Lord King William is Lawful and Rightful King of this Realm" and abjuring "any Allegiance or Obedience" to the young James III. Following the death of William III a further Act was passed amending the text of the oath to account for the change of monarch.
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| 4 | 1707 | - 1707: Act of Union
United Scotland with England and Wales to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
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| 5 | 1710 | - 1710: Records of Apprentices
From the year 1710, whenever a boy was apprenticed to a trade a stamp duty had to be paid, and these records of the binding of apprentices survive to provide the name of the apprentice, that of his father or widowed mother, and his master, as well as his parents' abode. Churchwardens and overseers of the poor were empowered to apprentice to husbandry any child under the age of 16 whose parents they judged unable to maintain him. If a master could be found in a neighbouring parish, this form of apprenticeship was often a convenient way of getting rid of a pauper child, because the apprenticeship conferred settlement after a period of forty days. "Husbandry" for a boy and "Housewifery" for a girl, simply meant being a servant on the land or in the house: later, in the industrial revolution, it might mean life in the mill, or even down the mine.
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| 6 | 1711 | - 1711: Register Pages to be Ruled
An order was made to the effect that all register pages were to be ruled and numbered. The order was widely ignored and clerks continued to record in their registers without the benefit of guiding ruled lines while neglecting to number their entries.
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| 7 | 1715 | - 1715: Oath Act
"An act for the further security of his majesty's person" (1 George I, c. 13) required holders of certain public offices to take the oaths of allegiance, supremacy and abjuration as defined in that Act first binding the swearer to "be faithful, and bear true Allegiance to his Majesty King George" and the second, ostensibly an anti-Catholic oath, condemning as "impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and Position, That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope" could be deposed or murdered by their subjects or any foreign power.
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| 8 | 1720s | - 1720s: Moravians
Arrived in London and Oxford.
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