Family talk:William Carpenter and Mary Batt (1)

This in a letter from Gene Zubrinsky re: William Carpenter and Mary Batt:

The William Carpenter – Mary Batt marriage occurred at St. Thomas the Martyr, Salisbury, 18 April 1605 (" Marriages at Salisbury, St. Thomas, 1570-1812," in W. P. W. Phillimore, ed., Wiltshire Parish Registers, Marriages, vol. 5 [London, 1907], pp. 1-134 at – [sorry]; FHL film #496691, item 4). Although a Christo-pher Batt was a fellow passenger of the Carpenters on the Bevis in 1638, Batt family records indicate that he and Mary "would be no more than distant cousins" (NEHG Register 14[1860]: 336; David Kendall Martin, FASG, citing NEHG Register, Vol. 51 [1897], in letter to me, dated 16 March 1998). While the possibility remains that William of Shalbourne and Wherwell was the man who wed Mary Batt, there is no evidence to confirm it—none. What 1605 date? The only documented 1605 marriage date of possible relevance is that of the Carpenter-Batt marriage at Salisbury. How, then, does Alice come to be William's wife that year?