At first, the issuing of licenses, mainly for marriages but occasionally for other purposes, formed only a small part of routine business, and are found interspersed with other routine business in the first section. However, by the issuing of licenses had become sufficiently common to warrant its separate listing.
This list of licenses begins on folio 34 and subsequent entries, up to the middle of December , fill folios v. As the ordination section, begun in , occupied folio 44 and several further leaves, the list of licenses was continued on folio 51 with entries added until the end of up to folio The bond is an original document, and is more likely to be correct.
The discrepancy might therefore simply be explained as a clerical error made by the man entering the note in the register shown here. Although this may seem unlikely at first, we need to be clear about when the entry was actually made.
The list of licenses covering the years to , now occupying folios v, folios , is in the same neat hand, and certainly does not have the appearance of being made up day-by-day, or even week-by-week.
In other words, the clerk must have been writing up the entries at least in blocks from either notes made at the time the licenses were issued, or from one of the series of original documents which would have been produced in the process of securing a license. In any event, this process of retrospective copying, or even re-copying, could have well led to errors.
In fact, comparison of other register entries with surviving bonds does reveal several other discrepancies. To discuss the controversy properly we should look at the documents in question.
The first entry in the register is the following record of the issue of a marriage license to one Wm Shakespeare: Anno Domini The next entry in the episcopal register records the marriage bond granted to one Wm Shakespeare: Noverint universi per praesentes nos Fulconem Sandells de Stratford in comitatu Warwici agricolam et Johannem Rychardson ibidem agricolam, teneri et firmiter obligari Ricardo Cosin generoso et Roberto Warmstry notario publico in quadraginta libris bonae et legalis monetae Angliae solvend.
Anno regni dominae nostrae Eliz. Dei gratia Angliae Franc. Three possible conclusions can be reached from the above records: 1 The Anne Whateley in the first record and the Anne Hathwey in the second record are the same woman.
Some scholars believe that the name Whateley was substituted accidentally for Hathwey into the register by the careless clerk.
A lot of ingenious ink has been spilt over this error, but it is surely a simple one: the name Whateley occurs in a tithe appeal by a vicar on the same page of the register; the clerk could not follow his own notes, or he was distracted" Levi, Moreover, some believe that the couple selected Temple Grafton as the place for the wedding for reasons of privacy and that is why it is recorded in the register instead of Stratford.
This argument relies on the assumption that there was a relative of Shakespeare's living in Temple Grafton, or a man unrelated but sharing Shakespeare's name which would be extremely unlikely , and that there is no trace of this relative after the issue of his marriage license.
Not many critics support this hypothesis, but those that do use it to portray Shakespeare as a young man torn between the love he felt for Anne Whateley and the obligation he felt toward Anne Hathwey and the child she was carrying, which was surely his.
If Banns were not read, that marriage would not be considered as legal. This was time-consuming. However the faster alternative was to obtain permission from the Bishop. Hence they presented a sworn statement which confirmed that there were no pre contacts and their marriage was legal and lawful. This was presented before the Bishop of Worcester. He then issued a marriage bond, which confirmed that William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway.
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