Canterbury Marriage Licences

Author : Joseph Meadows Cowper
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656079599
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book Canterbury Marriage Licences written by Joseph Meadows Cowper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Canterbury Marriage Licences: Second Series, 1619-1660 The First Series of these Marriage Licences, issued two years ago, brought the work to the end of the year 1618; this Series closes on March 24, 1660-1. The two series thus cover a period of ninety-three years, and contain about Marriage Allegations. If the Allegations in this volume are compared with those in the former, it will be seen that they give much more information, and that they are, consequently, very much longer. I could, it is true, have made my entries shorter by eliminating many details, but every elimination would have meant the suppression of some useful or interesting matter. I might, for instance, have omitted all reference to wedding dinners, wedding drinkings, wedding courtesies; the foul ways which prevented the interested parties from getting to Canterbury; and the'reasons which induced persons, bent on matrimony, to prefer a particular church in which to be married. But then I should have left all the amusement out of the book, and deprived mv readers of the good (and bad) stories it contains, and so have reduced it to a proper and dry-as-dust condition. I might, too, have omitted thousands of the stray names; but instead, and notwithstanding the labour involved, I have endeavoured to give the whole of them, in the hope that they may add to the usefulness of the work; for they frequently give a clue to the parishes in which families bearing the same name may be looked for. It may also be noted that, whatever may be the value of the information here given, that information is not limited to the County of Kent. A reference to the third Index will show that places as far apart as Edinburgh and the Isle of Wight, Lincoln and Holland, and Bristol and Calais, are represented, while the references to London are numerous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.