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Thanks for the suggestion!

In the end, I emailed The Keep, and they've helped me out with the info I needed.

But I am really grateful to everyone for pitching in to help.

Thanks for pointing that out - unfortunately it doesn't give the witnesses names either!

Regarding the Tiffins, I've just checked what I've got in my tree. The 1741/2 will of Thomas Tiffin of Layer-de-la-Haye led me to Earls Colne, and the mighty Earls Colne Database has the baptisms of Thomas' children by his wife Anne. Amongst those children was John Tiffin, baptised 1690, buried 1752. His wife was Sarah (maiden name currently unknown as I haven't found their marriage yet).

There were eight children of John and Sarah. There's a baptism for a son John in 1720, but he'd be too old to be Sarah Whittaker's husband (he's 30 on the marriage licence in 1762. Of course, the age on the marriage licence might not be accurate). There is a gap though in the baptisms of John & Sarah's children in Earls Colne, about 1732, which might mean that Sarah Whittaker's husband is their son.

One of their sons was Charles Tiffin, baptised Feb 1736 according to the ECD (I suppose they mean 1735/6), and I think he's the husband of Mary Rayner, and was the witness of Edward Wade and Elizabeth Cardinall's marriage. But the very fact that he's connected in that way, makes me wonder if John Tiffin is his brother (or cousin? After all all Charles was the grandson of Thomas Tiffin of Layer-de-la-Haye).

I've made a little mistake - John and Mary Whittaker married in 1729 in Tendring. They had a son John in 1730 who was buried a few months after his baptism. Then a daughter called Mary in 1731 - baptised in St Osyth and buried a few months later in Tendring. Then another daughter called Mary in 1733 (which would match up with the age at death of Mary Cooper in Fingringhoe, without the numbers being weathered) in Tendring, and then a daughter called Susan in 1735 (who could be the Susannah Whittaker buried in Fingringhoe in 1738? There's nothing necessarily to tie John and Mary to St Osyth or Tendring after Susan's 1735 baptism).

Something else to point out - William and Sarah Whitaker's last child was baptised in St Osyth in 1711. I can't see a burial for any Sarah Whitakers there, however, in 1717, Mary Davall's mother Priscilla married a man called William Whitaker. It's not a completely bananas idea that Priscilla's new husband was William Whitaker of St Osyth, and that in marrying John Whittaker, Mary Davall had married her stepbrother.

ANYWAY. Here's a simplified family tree that illustrates what I've been waffling on about..... and an explanation here.

In other words, that last post of mine there answers the question that I came to ask on this forum several years ago!!!! Thank goodness for ERO scanning all their wills and making it so easy and quick to do this sort of lucky dip research.