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Extract from the Beds Mercury 10 July 1866 concerning Religious bigotry. It cites the case of Archdeacon Rose of Houghton Conquest who met a couple coming from the dissenting chapel in Maulden where they had been married. He told them they were not truly married and offered that if they alowed him to marry them in the Church of England he would give them a 'good marriage dinner'. They agreed.

10 July 1866

From: 1866 To: 1866

old accession number 2568

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HOUGHTON CONQUEST, MAULDEN, parish churches, nonconformity, marriages