The announcement of a forthcoming marriage (legally required for a church wedding in England and Wales and read on the three Sundays preceding the marriage).
Historically, any public announcement of a coming event. Example: The Banes which are reade beefore the beginninge of the playes of Chester, 4 June, 1600.
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