PAVER's Marriage Licences
'^^ /J&' J 3 1404 00553 4463 ''1 , \ ' » O r^^ f^:^J qIVO^ Ms^ p.\^- Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Brigham Young University-Idaho http://www.archive.org/details/paversmarriageliOOchur THE FOUNDED 1863. INCORPORATED 1893. Record Series. VOL. XL. FOR THE YEAR 1908. PAVER'S Marriage Licences. EDITED BY JOHN WM. CLAY, F.S.A., Vice-President of the Yorkshire Archaological Society PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY. 1909. INTRODUCTION. PAVER'S Marriage Licences were begun to be printed by the Yorkshire Archccological Society in Volume VII. of their Journal. They were continued in Volumes IX., X., XL, XII., XIIL, XIV., XVI., XVIL, XX. The Council of the Society having considered that in that form the work would take many years to be finished, decided to transfer it to the ^' Record Series." The present volume takes it up where it was left off in the Journal, viz., from the year 1630, and continues it till the year 1644. Another volume will perhaps complete the work to 17 14, which is the end of the MS. in London. A full account of Paver's MSS. was given in the Journal, Vol. XX., p. 68, but it may be again stated that these licences, which were originally at York, were transcribed by William Paver, the Genealogist, in two volumes, which are at the British Museum, Add. MSS. 29667-8. The original MSS. at York are not believed to be in existence, at least the earlier parts. The entries have been transcribed by Miss Osier, a copyist at the British Museum, and the editor has himself examined most of the proofs with the MSS., so it is hoped that the work is as perfect as possible, though sometimes difficulties have arisen owing to the contractions used by Paver, and to his frequent queries as to the spelling of the names.
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