What is written after John Lark's name?

Question

This snippet comes from Family Search and the parish of Trunch, Norfolk, England.

I started looking at this record because I believe John Larke was married twice, once to an Elizabeth Vial, and a second time to an Elizabeth Buttle (I guess he had a thing for girls named Elizabeth...). I have two questions from this record that are attempting to prove this theory:

1. What is written after John Larke's name? It looks to me like Single Mem, but that doesn't make any sense to me.
2. Does the Number 2 in the lower left hand corner indicate a second marriage? Or is there any clue that would indicate this is a second marriage?

Answer 1

The words after John Larke's name are "Single Man" it's just the top of the a doesn't go all the way over. Compare to "Single Woman" after Elizabeth's name. I would interpret it as meaning he was a bachelor rather than a widower.

The "No 2" is I suspect just the number of that entry, but you would need to compare it to the records before and after to be sure.