KNOW all Men by the Presents that We Joseph Nokes of the Parish of Bromsgrove and John Parker of the Parish of St Martin in Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Brassfounder are held and firmly bound to Richard Smallbroke Doctor of Laws Vicar General of the Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry in the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid to the said Richard Smallbroke, or his certain Attorney Executors Administrators or Assigns for the true payment whereof We bind our selves and each of us by himself for the whole and every part thereof and the Heirs Executors Administrators of us and each of us firmly by these Presents Sealed with our Seals Dated the Twenty Second Day of November in the thirty second Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King defender of the Faith and in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and ninety one.

THE CONDITION of this obligation is such That if hereafter there shall not appear any lawful Let or Impediment by reason of any Precontract enetered into before the twenty fifth Day of March One Thousand Seven Hundred and fifty four Consanguinity Affinity or any other lawful Cause whatsoever but that the above bound on Joseph Nokes a Batchelor aged twenty one Years and upwards and Mary Kings, Widow of the Parish of St Martin's in Birmingham in the County of Warwick and Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry Aged twenty one Years and upwards 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 not that either of them be of any other Parish or of better Estate or Degree than to the Judge at granting of the License is suggested and by him sworn to before the Reverend Thomas Price Clerk, Master of the Arts Surrogate of the said Richard Smallbroke. And lastly is the same Marriage shall be openly solemnized in the Church or chapel in the License 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. An if the above bounden Joseph Nokes do save harmless the said Richard Smallbroke 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

Thos Price

Joseph Nokes [Seal]

John Parker [Seal]