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A63501
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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