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Fleet-books. These books contain the original entries of marriages solemnized in the Old Fleet Prison from 1686 to 1754, but are not, it is said, admissible in evidence to prove a marriage, for they were not made under public authority. But perhaps on a question of pedigree, they ae evidence to show the name by which a woman passed when she was married there. The books are now deposited in the office of the Registrar-General, pursuant to the (English) Non-Parochial Registers Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 92), ss. 6, 23, Taylor on Evid., s. 1430; Hubback on Succession, p. 510.