Know all men by these presents that we ..William Pitham of the Parish

of Silverstone in the County of Northampton Labourer & William Holdick of the Parish of Marston in the County of Northampton Farmer

are held and firmly bound to John by Divine Permission

Bishop of Peterborough in ..the sum of 200

Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid to the said ...Bishop or his certain Attorney Executors Administrators or Assigns for the true payment whereof We bind ourselves and ..each of us by himself for the whole and every part thereof and the Heirs Executors and Administrators of us and ..each of us firmly by these

Presents Sealed with our Seals Dated the ...third

day of December in the fifty fifth year of the

Reign of our Sovereign Lord George

by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King Defender of the Faith & in the Year

of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and fourteen

The Condition of this Obligation if such that if hereafter there shall

not appear any lawful Let or Impediment by reason of any Pre -Contract entered into before the twenty fifth Day of March One Thousand Seven Hundred and fifty four Consanguity Affinity or any other lawful Means whatsoever but that ..William Pitham of the Parish of Silverstone aged thirty two years a Widower Mary Darlow of the Parish of Marston

in the County of Northampton aged

twenty two years a spinster

may lawfully solemnize Marriage together and in the same afterwards lawfully remain and continue for Man and Wife according to the Laws in that behalf provided And moreover if there be not at this present Time any Action Suit Plaint Quarrel or Demand moved or depending before any Judge Ecclesiastical or Temporal for or concerning any such lawful Impediment between the said Parties nor that either of them be of any other Parish or of better Estate or Degree than to the Judge at granting of the Licence is suggested and by sworn to by William Pitham 

And lastly if the same Marriage shall be openly solemnized in the Church or Chapel in the Licence specified between the Hours appointed in the Constitutions Ecclesiastical confirmed and according to the Form of the Book of Common Prayer now by Law established And if the above bounden William Pitham

William Holdick do save harmless of the said

Bishop his Surrogates and others his Officers whatsoever by Reason of the Premises Then this Obligation to be void or else to remain in full force and Virtue

Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of

The mark of ... William Pitham SEAL

William Holdick SEAL