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Offline Isabel H

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1785 OPR marriage records
« on: Saturday 07 August 21 23:25 BST (UK) »
What are the words that I have marked on these 1785 OPR marriage records from Alva, Clackmannanshire, please?
"They paid the usual dues and ___ ____?" 
GRAY - Inveresk; Lanarkshire
LINDSAY - Lanarkshire
PURDIE - Lanarkshire; W. Lothian
POZZI - Elgin; Lancashire
MACKENZIE, MORISON - Stornoway
ARCHIBALD, HAY, HUNTER, SNADDON - Clackmannanshire
COXON, HALL, JACKSON, SHOTTON - Northumberland

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Re: 1785 OPR marriage records
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 07 August 21 23:48 BST (UK) »
'Kings duty'

The last one 'the kings duty'

Another payment to be made

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol7/pp403-405
Lane, Burgess: Cheshire. Finney, Rogers, Gilman:Derbys
Cochran, Nicol, Paton, Bruce:Scotland. Bertolle:London
Bainbridge, Christman, Jeffs: Staffs

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Re: 1785 OPR marriage records
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 08 August 21 08:01 BST (UK) »
Thank you, goldie61.
I haven't come across King's duty before, and since I was seeing the first letter as Th instead of K, it wasn't making any sense. 
GRAY - Inveresk; Lanarkshire
LINDSAY - Lanarkshire
PURDIE - Lanarkshire; W. Lothian
POZZI - Elgin; Lancashire
MACKENZIE, MORISON - Stornoway
ARCHIBALD, HAY, HUNTER, SNADDON - Clackmannanshire
COXON, HALL, JACKSON, SHOTTON - Northumberland
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