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The true Countess of Banbury's case relating to her marriage rightly stated in a letter to the Lord Banbury.
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Price, Elizabeth, 17th cent.
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1696
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Wing T2667; ESTC R12414
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between the Articulated Charles Knolls Earl and Elizabeth Price or Preis in the Face of the Church rite recte as the said Father Gasparino In English Lawfully and Rightly and Donati can assert who were present as Witnesses required and besides the two Fathers there were present the Reverend Nicholas Picolati my Cousin and Joseph Tonnato my Servant and there were no others there for I caused the Door to be shut Being interrogated to the Second Article if the said Parties contracting did obtain a Licence from the most Illustrious and most Reverend the Bishop or any other Judge c. to contract the said Marriage and if they did declare upon Oath that they were free Persons he answered I do very well know that they did obtain a Licence for that Father Decio Gasparino delivered me the Order to marry them granted the Day before being the Sixth of April 1692. and directed to me as if I had been their proper Parish-Priest and as to the said Charles Knolls Earl of Banbury and Elizabeth Price having sworn that they were free I know that the most Reverend the Vicar of the Bishop on the Day following when I went to acquaint him with the Celebration of the said Marriage told me That he had caused them to be examined and that they did swear that they were free and he granted them the Licence or Order In English as Travellers and in manner as is usual to Travellers as vagi more vagorum Being interrogated if he did make any Note of the said Marriage celebrated as above is said in writing in any Book he answered Yes That the Marriage being done I registered the Memorandum thereof in the Book of Marriages of my Parish-Church all written with my own Hand as now it is But I do remember that I had registered in my Book the Note of the said Marriage Note How very careful they were in making true Entries in their Books only in the Name of Charles Earl of Banbury according to the Episcopal Order or Licence And in the same manner I gave out an Order or Certificate which Father Gasparino required of me and by reason I had not written the Surname of Knolls Father Gasparino in the Name of the said Earl applied himself to the Vicar praying that his Surname Knolls in regard the same was known to the Vicar might be added Whereupon the said Vicar sent me the Attestation back again with his Order with his own Hand That I should add in the Register the Surname of Knolls Earl of Banbury Son of Nicholas Knolls Earl of Banbury and make him another Attestation with his Surname in the manner aforesaid which I did and delivered it to Father Gasparino who desired it of me Being interrogated if he this Witness made many Attestations in Writing at any other times of the Celebration of the Marriage for any other Person and how c. when and in what place he answered I know that several Attestations were desired of me of this Marriage and I made them all in manner above-written that is to say Twice I was desired by Father Gasparino once by him in Person which I delivered to him at the same time corrected as above and another time he desired me by Letters he being at Faenza and I answered him it was superfluous for that I had made several others that is to say one I made by Order of this Bishop to send to Venice which he commanded me to make another I made at the Request of Mr. Francis Gella Merchant in this City who told me he had Orders to send it to London and another for the most Reverend the Vicar-general for that they were all desired by several Hands He further saith being interrogated The Place where I made them is my House the exact Time I do not remember Being interrogated if he this Witness doth know that he made an Attestation of the said Marriage in Writing in the Month of September in the Year 1693. he answered this I do not exactly remember the Month but that will be seen by the Attestation there being the Day Month and Year in it Then he said Now I remember that the Attestation I made by Order of the Bishop was in the Month of September in the Year 1693. Being interrogated where the Book of Matrimony of his said Parish Church is out of which it appeareth that the Note of the Marriage set down in the said Attestation was taken He answered I have the Book of Marriage constantly by me in my Study and this Day upon this Occasion of my Examination I caused my Servant to bring it with me for what Occasion there might be of it and I have it here now Being desired to produce the Book before the Bishop he did immediately produce a certain Book in Folio covered with Parchment Intituled MDCL MATRIMONIA in which in the Folio In English Marriages of the Seventh Day of April 1692. were found written these Words taken thence by me Notary by Order of the said Bishop viz. The Seventh Day of April Die Septimo Aprilis 1692. Omnibus publicationibus All Publications being omitted by Licence of the most Reverend Victor Gera Vicar-general as appeareth by an Order made the Sixth Day of the said Month in the Year 1692. a Marriage was actually contracted according to the Rites of the Holy Roman Church Each Party upon Interrogations made having first given their Consent celebrated by me John Baptist Picolati Arch-priest of the Parish-Church of St. Quirico and Julica between the Noble Lord Charles Knolls Earl of Banbury Son of Nicholas Knolls Deceased Earl of Banbury English-man of Oxford and the Noble Lady Elizabeth Preis of England both Travellers having lived at Verona three Days and in the Words following subscribes his Deposition with his own Hand viz. I John Baptist Picolati Doctor of both Laws Arch-priest do affirm That I have deposed for truth as above upon Oath Peter Bishop of Verona the Judge by whom the Witnesses were to be Examined and Subscribed with his own Hand All this was done before the Lord Bishop and Judge aforesaid by me Under-written Notary the Day Month and Year as above So it is Petrus Episcopus Veronensis Judex Remissorialis The next Witness is 2 The Reverend Victor Gera Vicar-general of the Diocess The most Reverend Victor Gera Doctor of both Laws and Divinity Arch-Dean of the Cathedral Church of Verona and Vicar-general of the Bishoprick in Spirituals and Temporals who actually Swears upon the Holy Evangelists in the Hand of the most Reverend Lord Bishop in these words following That he knew Charles Earl of Banbury and Mrs. Elizabeth Price and gives the Reason of his Knowledge and that two Years and a half before his Examination they came to him in Company with one Father Gasparino Rector of the College of Jesuits for a Licence to Celebrate a Marriage between them in Verona That he told them that they being Strangers
I am not easie to forget but being an abandoned Prisoner I had no body to send to my Love but wait your Company with impatience Just as yours came I was fallen asleep but awaked soon with Satisfaction expecting you Adieu AFter my Love was gone I reflected that you went away dissatisfied which gave me great uneasiness I have been imployed all this Morning in dispersing Letters amongst the Lords or I had wrote to you sooner and this is all the Paper I have left therefore hope you will Pardon it My Head Akes with the illness of the Weather and pains taking If I make no long Epistle I know you will forgive me and let me see you as soon as you dare venture out Adieu I Have not been less impatient than you seem to have been for ever since Candle-light I have expected at every Knock of the Door it was you and ran thither as if I had been turned Porter Lady Katharine I have not heard of since But pretty Ladies you know have short Memories Therefore it is pardonable in them to forget I shall the less forgive what has prevented me of your Company The Night proved very ill and tho' it may have deprived me of your Conversation yet will I please my self to think it may have prevented your taking Cold. Was I not Vain enough to think you did not want an Invitation I would have robbed my Landlord's Book of all its Cupids to have sent you to me In the interim Rest as in Obedience to my Love and your Will Adieu I 'M very sorry to hear my Love past her Night so indifferently but think you did very well to be let Blood and hope you will find great Relief from it I made also a very uneasy Night 't is but reasonable I should sympathize with my Dear Our Major was very ill in the Night and I was alarmed to give him some Hungary-Water I hope this will find my Love much better yet I would advise you by all means to take Care you don't get cold after your Bleeding This Day has seemed longer than any yet since I knew my Dear's Illness Pray make much of your self that you may be well against I make you a Visit My love will forgive my so often giving her the trouble of sending my Footman bringing me word that you was very ill this Morning and could not write makes me very uneasie till I know how you are Pray let me beg you if you find your self continue ill that you will send for Doctor Ratcliff or some able Physician and don 't delay it till it be too late for fear of Expences for the latter may be of worse Consequence than the first I hope you have Somebody to divert you for the Weather is sufficient to make those Melancholy that are well Adieu my Life make much of your self and me I have given my Man Coach-hire to make haste For Mrs. Brownsworth Madam I Do not write to your Sister for disturbing her with answering it but rather chuse to be inform'd of her Health by you We must endeavour to flatter her with the Name of _____ to Morrow for coming to me and then disswade her till next Day and then put her off till it be proper for her For should she venture out too early and get new Cold a Relapse might be worse than the former With my Love presented to her this is all from Madam Your Humble Servant I Am glad to hear my Love 's something better but of all means I would not have her think of coming abroad as yet for that would fright me out of my Wits My Life I hope will rest well to Night and then I doubt not to hear she 's much better I 'm sure if she loves me she will be careful not to take Cold nor let any thing disquiet her I wish my Love good Rest and that will make me happy I Shall not say much to disswade my Love from coming since she is so resolved but I fear coming abroad too early may be prejudicial to her 'T is an ugly stormy windy Day besides I dreamed an odd Dream To Morrow is Childermas-Day and I should not approve of your coming till Thursday but if ye will wear the Breaches pray lap your self warm and let the Chair bring you to the Steps of the House and take you up within your own House for it is very Cold and you must needs be very sensible of the Air. Adieu Yours I Am concerned to hear you have past your Night so ill but I in some measure have sympathized and had I possest you within my wonted Arms I soon would have rockt you to more quiet Slumbers I have sent you Two prayer-Prayer-Books that you may be sure of being in the Right I shall expect you early Adieu I Had wrote to my Love Yesterday in the Afternoon but that I was afraid she would take the trouble to answer it which I feared might disturb her too much nothing at present being so beneficial for her Recovery as Rest and keeping her self quiet I therefore writ to your Sister which my Man found at her own House and she forbid him coming to you for fear he should disturb you but I was very angry with him I hope to hear of my Love's Amendment daily though by no means I would have her think of coming abroad as yet for a Relapse might be far more dangerous than at first and detain me a longer time from seeing you which would be a far greater concern to me Therefore pray my Dear be ruled and don 't be too venturesom at first Adieu Mea Cara fiole I Am in hopes my Love found a Confirmation of her better Health at her Up-rising and am satisfied she need not many Invitations to come to see me I shall attend that Satisfaction with Impatience The Company I expected we had but the real Mirth fell short my Love being not a Partaker I shall not inlarge much to Night being late But that I will Dream of my Love and Fancy the rest Adieu Sunday Morning IT has been such excessive bad Weather since I saw my Love that I have sat in fear lest you should adventure to make me a Visit nor durst I send to forbid lest you might have suspected I had some Design in it Yet I confess I should not have taken it ill if my Love had favoured me with a Line or two to have assured me of her Health and that she got well home being she was alone made me the more Impatient to hear from you I won't tell you it disturbed my Nights sleep or that I feared your Company might be better diverted than in dull Thoughts of me However I hope this will find my Love in perfect Health to which a good Fire renders much Comfort at present I have ordered them to bring you a Bottle of sweet Wine to drink my Health and I will do you reason in the same who tho' Confined in Person my