Family:Whitney, John (s1535-a1560)

John Whitney, parentage unknown, b. say 1535, d. after 1560.

He, listed as "John Whitney, of St. Faith the Virgin" obtained a marriage license 5 Feb 1559/60 from the Bishop of London to marry "Margaret Pyckeringe, Spinster, of St. Anne and St. Agnes, Aldersgate."

Notes

St. Anne and St. Agnes is now known as St. Anne's Lutheran Church and is just north of St. Paul's Cathedral.

St. Faith's the Virgin could refer to St. Faith under St Paul's. This parish was removed in 1255 when St. Paul's cathedral was expanded to the east. From then until the reign of Edward VI the parishioners worshiped at the end of the west crypt under St. Paul's Quire (literally UNDER St. Pauls). From the reign of Edward VI till the great fire, the parishioners, mostly booksellers in Paternoster Row, moved to the "Jesus Chapel". The marriage of John Whitney ad Margaret Pyckeringe took place after the reign of Edward VI, so if this was the same parish as where John Whitney was from, he was attending church in a parish which met in a chapel of St. Paul's, but which was not actually St Paul's, and a parish consisted mostly of booksellers. Also, Paternoster Row is the street near St. Pauls Cathedral where medieval clergy would walk and chant the Lord's Prayer (Pater Noster...)

References

1. ^  Sir George J. Armytage and Joseph Lemuel Chester, Allegations for Marriage Licences Issued by the Bishop of London, 1520 to [1828] (London: The Harleian Society, 1887), p. 20.

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