Hello, Many thanks for help with the first half. I'm afraid the text wrap round on my email caused the url to break in two -- this should work: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/message/5538/localities.britisles.englan d.lnd.london/7400 otherwise the second half can be copied and pasted on. To give some background: equity cases in Chancery show that Elizabeth How's brother Samuel was working at the Boreshead Brewhouse by Fleet Street in the early 1620s. He would go into partnership with John Cock in 1649, running the Black Swan brewhouse on Thames Street. 1 w[hi]ch daie appeared Wm Brittayne of Christ 2 churche p[ar]ishe London m[er]chantayler and desiered 3 license for a marriage intended betweene John 4 Cocke of St Botulphes Algeate purishe brewer 5 and a batcheler aged 30 yeres or thereabout 6 and one Elizabeth How singlewoman aged 7 xxiij ty yeres or thereabou-- & both shervant[es] 8 to Wm Lawe of the same parishe bierebrewer 9 & w[i]th his consent as is testefied by him the said 10 Brittaine & George Lowndes? of St Sepulchre 11 tallow chandler And ... 12 13 or .. by reason of .. contract or 14 15 And prays ... for them to be married 16 together in the parish of St Botolph as 17 aforesaid thanks, Michael -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.14/548 - Release Date: 23/11/2006