(old shelfmark **A.44.3) 
Author:Francis Dickens (d. 1755)
Language:English, with Latin
Origin:England, Cambridge
Date:18th c., ca. 1705 -1755
Material:Paper. Watermark: Britannia, with wheat sheaf, within palisade, motto PRO P[ATRIA] [. . . .] to right (ca. 90 x 95 mm; this watermark occurs in other Trinity Hall MSS and in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.16.45)
Physical Description:i original flyleaf + 172 folios, 200 x 160 (unruled; ca. 190 x ca. 140) mm, ca. 25 long lines
Rubric:Of marriages prohibited on account of affinity
Incipit:Affinity is a relation arising from ye union between a man and his wife
2o folio:there are two
Explicit:even tho the woman denies yt he is the father
Contents:Fols. 1r – 165r, Tracts ‘On prohibited degrees of marriage etc.’
Script:Cursive mixed hand
Scribe:Francis Dickens
Decoration:None
Provenance:Francis Dickens, (Fellow 1705 – d. 1755); his gift (‘I do desire that the few manuscript books I shall leave behind me on the subject of marriage guardianship & the modes of acquiring property may find a place in some remote corner of ye College Library never to be taken out thence on any account whatever. F. D.’, inscription inside upper cover)
Binding:18th c., parchment over pasteboards, edges speckled red
Notes:Almost all text on rectos only.
Bibliography:C. Crawley, Trinity Hall : the history of a Cambridge college, 1350-1992. 2nd ed., expanded by G. Storey. (Cambridge, 1992), 124
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