0 a public announcement made in a church, especially in the UK, that two people are going to get married: --
She wanted to get married, so she had to come home for a certain period while the banns were being published.
The answer is to propose to allow a foreign clergyman to come in and publish the banns in these circumstances.
It is proposed to have them married by banns.
My meaning is to extend the power to the clergyman not merely to perform a service of marriage, but to proclaim the banns of marriage.
There is no right for a foreign incumbent to come into the church of another clergyman and publish banns in a particular case.
He wants it to be quite clear that the incumbent himself is not obliged to publish banns in cases of this kind.
On the other hand, is he suggesting that every case in which banns have been posted is necessarily, therefore, genuine?
While the discussion there was on the question of extending that practice, there was general agreement that the publication of banns served no useful purpose.
