Green’s Dictionary of Slang

priest-linked adj.

married.

[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Priest-link’d Marriage [sic].
[UK]New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: priest linked married.
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.