Note 3 — INTRODUCTION
Reading edition
On 24 January, 1704/5, a marriage licence was issued from the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury for:—“Woodes Rogers, of the City of Bristol, Merchant, bachelor, about 25, and Mrs. Sarah Whetstone, spinster, 18, with consent of her father the Hon. Rear-Admiral William Whetstone ... at St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, London” (Harleian Soc, xxiv, 247).