In the same column
Printed registers fix what gets recorded. Once a form has a column for occupation, occupation is recorded for everyone — and once it has none, that fact vanishes.
Entry1.1
SectionCeremony
What it isA practice
Read aloud three times
Banns: the intention read publicly on three separate occasions so that anyone with an objection had a chance to make it. A public-notice system that predates any central registry, and the reason so many marriages happened in one particular season.
Read the entry
Also enteredThe whole register — 22 entries
A band with no beginning
A plain circle chosen because it has no start and no end — a reading applied to the object long after people had been using rings for entirely practical reasons.
Who kept the accounts
Household accounting was frequently the wife's work regardless of who owned the property, and the surviving books are some of the best evidence of how houses ran.
Brought In
What the chest held
A dowry chest was an inventory as much as a container: linen counted, listed and sometimes valued, because it might have to be returned.
Names
Who changed, and who did not
Name change on marriage is a custom, not a universal, and several European traditions never adopted it at all.
Ceremony
The witnesses
Two people whose only job was to have been present, and whose names outlast them.
In some places the ring is worn on the right hand, in some on the left, and in a few the question has changed sides more than once without anyone recording why.
Six sectionsBrowse everything
Ceremony
The rite itself, and who was entitled to perform it.
Register
The document, its columns and what they were for.
Tokens
Rings and the other objects that stood for the thing.
Brought In
Dowry, chest and inventory — what each side arrived with.
Names
What people were called afterwards, and who decided.
Daily Round
The household as a working arrangement.