I was hoping that someone with more experience in early 1800s marriage log translation could help me out with some terminology/abbreviation.

I was hoping that someone with more experience in early 1800s marriage log translation could help me out with some terminology/abbreviation.

In the margin of the church log it states the name of the couple to be married, followed by the abbreviation “esp.” in lower case cursive. What does that mean?

Also in the body of the text it reads “Para el matrimonio… (then it looks like a lower case q with a lower case e or l above it) the next word looks like conmq (& again the lower case q has what looks to be an n above it.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks.
Monica