In an old Quaker record has the phrase "signed Epistle." What does that mean?

Question

I found this phrase  and then a date on Ancestry.com in "England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837-1915 for James Scriven (Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Vol. III). It looks like a marriage record; is it?

 

Answer 1

From Wikipedia         Quaker epistle: in the 17th century, the Quaker movement revived the Gospel use of the word "epistle" to mean an advisory or admonitory letter, ...

London Quakers in the Trans-Atlantic World: The Creation ...

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1137366699

Jordan Landes - 2015 - ‎History

This 1690 epistle recounted the events of the days before Fox's death, discussed ... whosigned various epistles to Quakers abroad such as George Whitehead, ... the earliestepistles to the colonial yearly meetings as a means of strengthening  ...

Glossary of Quaker Terms and Phrases. - Quaker Jane

www.quakerjane.com/spirit.friends/spirituality-glossary.html

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Phrases. "thee was favored"; "proper Quaker order" or "Gospel order"; "sense of .... for Friends to understand this phrase as having a deeper meaning and that it  ...

Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers)

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0810868571

Margery Post Abbott - 2012 - ‎Religion

Quaker Green Concern in Britain and Quaker Earthcare Witness (originally Friends ...By 1658, they began to reserve the term “epistle” for letters emanating from  ...

 

Comments

I enjoyed reading the "Glossary of Quaker Terms." Thanks.