London Marriage Licences, 1521-1869. Edited by Joseph Foster. From excerpts by the late Colonel Chester

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Fully searchable Adobe Acrobat document gives details of marriages from the following sources:- Bishop of London's Office 1521 to 1828, Dean and Chapter of Westminster's Office 1599 to 1699, The Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury 1543 to 1869, Vicar General's Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury 1660 to 1679. This CD contains the transcriptions of Colonel Chester who saved these entries from obscurity when discovering a huge number of unindexed marriage records in Latin. This work was then published by Joseph Foster in alphabetic order in 1887, this book contains over 1,500 pages of entries . The record of these marriages often elude those tracing a family name because of the marriages being scattered geographically.