WORCESTER LICENCE RECORDS 225 Bishop Pates. Register No. XXXI., folio 236. 5th January 1556-7. Quinto die mensis January anno domini &c. supradicto emanavit mandatum vicario ecclesie parochialis de Stratfordsuper-Avonam Wigorniensis dioc. ad solemnizandum matrimonium in facie ecclesie inter Margaretam Philippes ibidem viduam et Edwardum Walford parochie de Evenlode cum una edicione bannorum ante diem solemnizacionis &c. more solito edito nullo in ea parte canonico interveniente impedimento quum ad hoc congrue fuerit requisitum. Bishop Bullingham. Register No. XXXII., folio 3a. 15th May 1571. xv die mensis Maij anno domini prescripto concessa fuit licencia sive mandatum solemnizandi matrimonium in facie ecclesie cum una edicione bannorum tempore solemnizacionis hujusmodi matrimonii in ostio sive navi ecclesie dumtaxat faciendum inter Magistrum Henricum Heycroft vicarium ecclesie parochialis de Stratford-super-Avonam et Emmam Careles1 ibidem ceterisque aliis concurrentibus de jure in hac parte requisitis dummodo aliud canonicum in ea parte nullo obstiterit impedimentum. Bullingham. Folio 4b. 9th September 1571. Item septimo die ejusdem mensis emanavit consimile mandatum solemnizandi matrimonium inter Thomam Elson et Annam Willoughby de Cropthorne vicario ibidem. In the bond Elson is described as of Preston-on-Stour. Bullingham. Folio 6a. 18th March 1571-2. xviij die Martij eodem anno emanavit curato Sancti Andree civitatis Wigorn. solemnizandi matrimonium cum una edicione bannorum inter Thomam Wollasson et Margeriam Baker de Elmley Lovet. 1 Married at Stratford-upon-Avon, June 18th, 1571. Bullingham. Folio 9a. 11th December 1573. Eiisdem die et anno emanavit licencia solemnizandi matrimonium in navi vel ostio alicujus ecclesie capelle seu oratorij intra dioces. Wigorn. inter Thomam Lucy armigerum et Dorotheam Arnold generosam parochie de Charlcote Wigorn. dioces. per eos eligendi &c. cum una edicione bannorum dummodo aliud canonicum &c. Bishop Whitgift. Register No. XXXII., folio 14a. 23rd July 1577. Item xxiij die mensis et anno domini predicto emanavit licencia solemnizandi matrimonium inter Christoferum Cartewight et Elizabetham Emmes de Salford. In the bond Cartewight is described as of Cleeve Prior. The preceding entries have been selected from the series which terminated in 1577. Those which follow are from the lists of licences commencing in 1579. Whitgift. Folio 39a. 4th April 1581. Item quarto die mensis Aprilis anno domini 1581 emanavit licencia matrimonij inter Johannem Poet de Grimley et Margeriam Jones. In the bond Poet is described as of the parish of Pirton, yeoman. The residence of the bride is given as Grimley. The name of a parish usually entered at the end of the paragraphs in the lists is omitted. Whitgift. Folio 436. 27th November 1582. Item eodem die similis emanavit licencia inter Wm. Shaxpere et Annam Whateley de Temple Grafton. Other erroneous and defective entries are described on p. 26 and in Nos. XIV. and XVIII. of this Appendix. THE TERMINAL PARISH. IN searching for records of the marriages in the parishes named in the bishop's registers the following results were obtained. Out of the 188 licences granted at Worcester during the years 1582 and 1583, it was found that in 46 cases, representing 28 parishes, the marriage registers are not in existence. 64 of the remaining licences were sought for and 40 were found,1 these probably exemplifying cases in which the ceremony was performed in the bride's parish according to the general custom. I have learned, accidentally, that one of these marriages, for which a licence was issued on June 21st, 1583, to John Coombes and Elizabeth Kinnersley of Stratford,2 was celebrated on June 23rd at Crowle, of which parish William Whateley, one of the sureties to the bond, was vicar.3 If the theory that the parish in the bishop's register was entered as the place of marriage were correct, most of the twenty-four entries not discovered would represent marriages elsewhere than in the church named in the licence-an explanation I hold to be very improbable for reasons already discussed. It would be interesting to ascertain where the missing marriages are registered; but this might necessitate a search in most of the surviving parish registers in the old diocese of Worcester. 1 The registers of twenty-six parishes were included in my search. There is no reason to suppose that the result already obtained would be materially affected by extending it. Bishop Whitgift's Register, No. XXXII., fo. 52a. He was the plaintiff in the tithe case mentioned on p. 27. |