1695 Episcopal Clergy Banned from Performing Marriages or Baptisms

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Title

1695 Episcopal Clergy Banned from Performing Marriages or Baptisms

Description

Many of Fife’s Episcopal clergymen were removed from their parishes by the restoration of Presbyterianism. In 1695 the Scottish Parliament passed a law forbidding displaced Episcopal clergy from performing marriages or baptisms under pain of ‘perpetual imprisonment or banishment’.

Source

timelineoffifesreli

Date

1695

Contributor

egsr@st-andrews.ac.uk

Type

Event

Identifier

181

Date Submitted

09/08/2021 12:55:54 pm

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Sacred Landscapes of Fife

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TEXT

Event Item Type Metadata

End Date

1695

Prim Media

376

Citation

“1695 Episcopal Clergy Banned from Performing Marriages or Baptisms,” Virtual Museum, accessed April 19, 2025, https://sacredlandscapes.org/omeka/items/show/377.

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