Peculiar marriage licence?????

[suziq]

Hi
Is there anyone out there who can explain what a peculiar marriage licence is please?
On the marriage index it says that Francis Comber and Ann Neale had a South Malling peculiar marriage licence.  They married the following day 18/12/1722 in Lindfield.
Many thanks
Suziq 

[Necromancer]

I think its to do with the peculiar ie particular Diocese involved ....

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[Suttonrog]

Marriage was normally by Banns which required the forthcomming marriage to be announced in the church for 3? weeks prior to the marriage.

Well off people could apply for marriage by licence from the archbishops court, which avoided the banns having to be read.

Some parishes had the authority to issue their own licences and they were known as "peculiar"

Sutton Rog

[Chris in 1066Land]

Hi Suziq

as Newfly said earlier, it is to do with the parish not the actual marriage licence

According to my Oracle:

Peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury
‘Peculiars’ were those parishes or places which were exempt from the jurisdiction of the bishop in whose diocese they were physically located, and were answerable directly to another. In the case of the archbishop, he exercised episcopal jurisdiction over a number of parishes in various parts of southern England outside the diocese of Canterbury. For administrative purposes, these parishes were formed into eight deaneries: the Arches (city of London parishes); Bocking (Essex and Suffolk), Croydon (Middlesex and Surrey); Monks Risborough (Bucks., and Oxon.), Pagham, South Malling, and Tarring (Sussex), and Shoreham (Kent).

Chris in 1066

[suziq]

Thank you all for that info.  You learn something new everyday..........
Merry Christmas all!
Suziq 

[DJFRENCH]

 

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