I have taken advantage of the recent generous August offer to get many marriage allegation hardcopies at half-price from British Origins. One of them was of young couple where he was 21 and up (26 in fact) and she was a sweet sixteen. So the allegation had to consist of both his bit and consent by his intended's guardian, her widowed mother. The curious thing to me was that the two halves were obviously in rather different handwritings though both were countersigned by the same administrator (or whatever his job-title might have been). Didn't the administrator write the bits out himself? Or were there an army of clerks to fill the forms out for the various parties to countersign? Anyone got any ideas? I've put a copy here: http://southfarm.plus.com/p_l_marr/index.html -- Tim Powys-Lybbe                                          tim@powys.org              For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/