Genealogy, Ecclesiastical records, Bishops' Transcripts, Marriage licences, Indexes, Bonds, Allegations, Local history 

This is a guide to the location of Bishops' Transcripts and of the records connected with the issue of marriage licences. It also describes any abstract, calendars and indexes to the latter, published or unpublished, and an indication of the arrangement of the surviving origonal documents. For Bishops' Transcripts, reference is given to any lists of parishes giving covering dates or more precise indication of exactly what years exist.

The location of the two classes of records can be conveniently described together as both were, like probate records, connected with ecclesiastical jurisdictions. As a result, both are usually though not always in the same diocesan record offices. However, apart from both being ecclesiastical records, they have no adminsitrative connection. The arrangement of this guide is by the pre-1974 historic English and Welsh counties, as it is with these administrative areas that hsitorians deal.