Jean Baptiste Brouault & Elizabeth Macdonald, York (24 Aug. 1811)

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FRANCIS GORE, Esquire, Lieutenant
Governor of the Province of Upper
Canada
, &c &c &c

WHEREAS His Majesty has been graciously pleased by
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
to authorize me to grant Licences for the due solemnization of Marriage, and whereas
Jean Baptiste Brouault Batchelor
and
Elizabeth Macdonald Spinster

are determined to enter into the Holy Banns of Matrimony, and are desirous of having their
Marriage publicly solemnized ; in order that such their honest desires may the more speedily have
their due effect, and that they may be able to procure the same to be lawfully solemnized without
Publication of Banns, I do hereby, for good causes, give and grant this Licence or Faculty, as
well to them the said parties contracting. as to all or every Parson or Minister, duly ordained,
and lawfully exercising his Ministry within the said Province of Upper Canada, to solemnize and
perform the same ; provided always, that by reason of any affinity, consanguinity, pre-contract, or
any other lawful cause, there be no legal impediment in this behalf ; otherwise, if any fraud shall
appear to bave been committed at the time of granting this Licence, either by false suggestions
or concealment of the truth, that then this Licence shall be nuil and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

GIVEN under my Hand and Privy Seal of Office, at York, this
Twenty first day of August in the
Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eleven
and of his Majesty’s Reign the Fifty First
named York
Lt Governor
25 August

By His Excellency's command,
Wm Halton
Secretary

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