the licence has been fraudulently obtained; and it is not his business to ascertain that one of the parties has actually resided within the parish.[250] The requirement as to correctness of the names of the parties is not so strict in the case of a licence as in the case of banns; and the suppression in the affidavit leading to the licence of part of the name of one of the parties for the purpose of concealment has been held not to invalidate the marriage.[251] The grant of a marriage licence is a matter of favour and not of right.[252] 13. The marriage must be solemnised in the church or chapel, or one of the churches or chapels, in which the banns have been published, or in the church or chapel named in the registrar's certificate or in the marriage licence, within due time after the requisite preliminary formalities have been gone through. It should not be solemnised on the same day as the last publication of the banns; but if it does not take place within three months after the complete publication of banns or grant of the licence (as the case may be), it is not to be solemnised until after the banns have been duly republished on three Sundays, or a new licence has been duly obtained.[253] Similarly if a marriage intended to be sanctioned by a registrar's certificate does not take place within three calendar months after notice has been entered by the superintendent registrar, it is not to be solemnised until a new notice has been given and the entry duly made, and a certificate thereof given, as required by the Marriage Act, 1836.[254] Except under the authority of a special licence, it must be solemnised between the hours of eight in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, but the incumbent may appoint his own time for it within those hours.[255] It may be solemnised by either a priest or a deacon,[256] but a clergyman cannot solemnise his own marriage.[257] By canon and statute it must not take place in a private place, but in a church or chapel, and in time of Divine service, and before at least two witnesses. But the canonical regulation as to marriages being solemnised during Divine service is now, by custom, universally disregarded; and even a marriage celebrated in the vestry of a church and in the presence of one witness only has been held to be valid, though such a precedent ought not to be followed.[258] A clergyman who knowingly and wilfully solemnises a marriage elsewhere than in a church or chapel where banns may be lawfully published, or at any other time than between eight in the forenoon and three in the afternoon (unless by special licence from the Archbishop of Canterbury), or without due publication of banns, unless under a marriage licence or on a registrar's certificate, is guilty of felony and punishable accordingly.[259]