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Allegation for marriage by licence of

William MALLET and Sarah LEE

Whitestone near Exeter 15 November 1797

Devon Records Office MBA 1797 box 91

Provided by Mike Mallett <mm-lists AT ntlworld.com>, by permission of the Diocese of Exeter

I, Sarah Mallet of Bow otherwise Nymet Tracey
in the county of Devon widow, the Mother and
only surviving Parent of William Mallet of
Whitstone in the County of Devon, Husbandsman
who is now under the Age of Twenty one Years
Do hereby testify my consent to the marriage of the said
William Mallet with Sarah Lee of Whitstone
aforesaid Spinster as witness my hand this
Fourteenth Day of November 1797.

Witness hereto     WB
The mark of William Lee
The Mark of
<signed> Sarah Mallet

William Honeywill of Whitstone in County
of Devon Yeoman appeared personally and
made oath he saw Sarah Mallet the
only surviving parent of William Mallet
of Whitstone in the County of Devon husbandman
subscribe or make her Mark to the writing
hereunto annexed testifying her Consent to the
Marriage of the said William Mallet with
Sarah Lee of Whitstone aforesaid Spinster
the said William Mallet being in his Minority
and the said William Honeywill further on his
Oath said that the said William Mallet and
Sarah Lee are not related within the forbidden
degrees to each other and that the said William
Mallet hath had his usual abode in the Parish
of Whitstone aforesaid for four Weeks and so
upwards immediately preceding the Date hereof
and William Lee of Silverton[?] in the County of
Devon aforesaid Husbandsman also appeared personally
and made Oath that he is the Father of said
Sarah Lee and that he doth hereby testify his
consent to the Marriage of the said Sarah Lee
with him the said William Mallet, who being likewise
in her Minority. William Honeywill

Sworn before me this
15 day of Novr 1797
<signed> George Long Jnr
W The mark of William Lee

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