its all a bit squashed

[pompey welsh]

hello, can i please have some help with deciphering this, i can read that its for william and sarah frances walters, but does that say she is a minor? also the squashed up writing after the word by....ive got the word license and joseph walters....any help with the rest please would be very helpful Thank you.

[Crumblie]

I think it does say minor and some of the squashed up writing seems to say that the mother and father consented.

[arthurk]

A bigger scan would have helped, and one where the right hand end wasn't obscured by the zoom control. Anyway, I've found the entry at Ancestry, and it reads:

...by Licence with Consent of Ann Hunt Widow and of ^ (ie continues on line above, but I've put it below for ease of reading)
Joseph Walters The respective Mother & Father of the Minors