Meaning of "incloth" day

[Katarzyna]

I have googled but cannot find any reference to it - all I can find is ref to nappies!

I am transcribing marriages and I have two on the same page.

Married in this church by Banns this Incloth Day of Febry 1807

and the other - by licence this Incloth Day of July 1807

Never seen that before.

incloth.jpg

[Anne in Carlisle]

How odd. At first glance I thought it said twelfth .... Perhaps it does? It certainly looks like Incloth though!
Anne

[Katarzyna]

You could well be right Anne. The date is between the 1st and 17th Feb. The other more difficult - between 31 Mar and 27th July.
The vicar's writing is abominable. he uses an e for an a all the time - as in Mery (Mary), Perish (Parish) Benns (Banns). and it's always Banjemin! I shall be glad when he is replaced

[dermotdjt]

Could this be some local regional term. Where are the marriages?

[Katarzyna]

These are Tollesbury in Essex.

[Olde Crone Holden]

I read it as Twelfth, too.

Actually, I read it as Tweloth, lol, which might fit with his idiosyncratic spelling.

OC

[Janet in Yorkshire]

I'm another who thinks it could be 12th.

Is anyone transcribing the corresponding BT/ATs? (Would be interesting to see if that had a numeric entry.)

Jay

[SmallTownGirl]

Another vote for 12th.

STG

[Katarzyna]

Yes, thanks all. I do agree but as the vicar normally wrote the date as a numeral Incloth hit me straight away and then I couldn't see it any other way lol. The SEAX images are all parish records - no B or AT's (For Tollesbury that is. It does for some other parishes). Family search doesn't have Tollesbury either.