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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 S. V. AUG., 1919.

the relief of their wives and children." Prior to this time, it seems, " wherrymen " claimed and roughly exerted the sole right of rowing on the river, and were in the habit of molesting the private boats of both English and foreign vessels. For this was a period, as the Trinity official historian more than hints, when there was a sort of Eliza- bethan mariners " of which the proper designation should probably have been pirates and the most fitting destination the nearest yardarm who infested the high seas, being pests to the trading shipping of both friend and foe alike." And there is much evidence discoverable that to this " fitting destination " the Trinity captains faithfully remitted many rovers, native and foreign, in the North Sea, in due pursuance of their multifarious national duties.

It will be noticed' that when, on Aug. 5, The Prime Minister was asked : " whether, in view of the fact that the East End of London has always, since the Armistice, been left out of official Peace Celebrations, Processions, Triumphal Marches, and land and -water Pageants, a reason could be given why the Great Pageant of the 4th August could not have started opposite Greenwich and Poplar, arid finished at Chelsea, and thus have afforded a larger number of wounded and war w r orkers an opportunity of viewing the Royal Progress ; and, considering the amount of war service done by the residents of the Eastern portion of the Metropolis quite apart from purely historical associations would the right honourable gentleman see that the East End has its share in any future official rejoicing?"

Mr. Bonar Law replied that the River Pageant was

44 not part of the official Peace Celebrations, although the Admiralty rendered every assistance

possible The factors governing the length of the

course were time, tide, land facilities, and the fact that the principal boats were pulling boats, which rendered any extension impracticable."

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MARRIAGE ENTRIES IN DUPLICATE.

(See 11 S. viii. 410, 455.)

THE question of the reason for entries in parish registers of marriages performed elsewhere is a somewhat difficult one to solve. In ths Clithsroe Registers there are the following entries of this character : 1692.

M r Thomas Hooke of East Bradford and M rs Rebecca Pratt of Clitherowe were marryed att Griadleton Chappell, Octob. 4 th. 1695.

Edmund Taylor and Margarett Chapman, both within the Chapelry of Waddington, were marryed att Mitton, Novemb. 14.

1696.

Will Noblett of Mitton and Sarah Sorebutts of the P'ish of Ribchester were marryed att Grindleton Chappel, Octob. I 8t.

These three entries are in the handwriting of William Bankes, who was incumbent of Clitheroe from 1672 to 1696. They are in proper order of date among the marriages, and would appear to have been entered at or about the time the marriages were con- tracted. It is possible that Bankes himself performed the ceremony on each occasion, as the churches of Grindleton and Mitton are both near Clitheroe, and that he made the entries in the Clitheroe Register as a record of his own doings. I think this is the more probable, because Bankes left Clitheroe for the Vicarage of Mitton, and his last entry in the Clitheroe Registers is in December, 1696.

On a blank page of the Registers, between the end of the burials and the commencement of the marriages (the latter of which in that volume commence in 1681), there are the following entries :

M r Will Bankes, Minisf of Chit hero we, and Mrs. Elizab. Webster of Clitherowe, marryed by Mr. Tho Slacke, Rector of Bolton juxta Bowland, October y 4 th, 1686.

John King and Margarett Scott marryed June 25, 1695.

M r John Lister of Clitherowe and Anne Swingle- hurst of Clitherowe were marryed Octob. 2, 1682.

M r John Taylor of Chatborn and Ann Fountain of Linton married July y c 4 th, 1717-

It should be noted that Chatburn is in the parochial chapelry of Clitheroe.

The first three of these entries are in the handwriting of Bankes. The last entry is in that of Thomas Taylor, who was incumbent of Clitheroe from 1701 to 1737. The first entry, singularly enough, is that of the marriage of Bankes himself. There is no entry of this marriage in the Bolton-by- Bowland register, so that it apparently did not take place there. The entries were cer- tainly not made contemporaneously with the marriages themselves, as they are not in order of date. It is hard to think they were marriages performed at Clitheroe, and for- gotten to be entered at the proper time, and then recollected arid entered years after- wards. Surely Bankes, as the incumbent of Clitheroe, would have taken care that his own marriage was entered in due course among the other marriages of the year in its proper place ; and we can hardly imagine that Lister's marriage in 1682 (which is entered after King's marriage of 1695), if it took place at Clitheroe, was only entered in the register thirteen years at least after the event. Moreover, if these marriages had