Noverint Universi per prasentes nos Jacobum Fernihough de Marton in Comitatu Cestriae Yeom: et Thomam Fernihough de Congleton in Comitatu Cestriae praedict Chirurgion teneri & firmiter obligari Rev[eren]do in Xto Patri et Domino Dno. Gulielmo permissione dina. Cestriens Epispcopo in Centum libris bona & legalis Moneta Angliae, solvend' eidem Reverendo Patri aut suo certo Attornato, Executoribus, Successoribus, vel Assignatis suis: Ad quam quidem Solutionem bene & fiedliter faciend Obligamus nos & utrumque nostrum per se pro toto & in solido Haeredes, Executores, & Administratores nostros & utriusque nostrum firmiter per praesentes. Sigillis nostris Sigillat Dat tertio Die Mensis Novembris Anno Regni Dom nostrae Annae Dei Gratia Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Reginae Fidei Defensor, &c. 12o. Annoq; Dom. 1713o.
[Know all by these presents that we James Fernihough of Marton in the County of Chester yeoman and Thomas Fernihough of Congleton in the County of Chester aforesaid surgeon are held and firmly bound to Reverend Father in Christ William by divine permission Lord Bishop of Chester in the sum of one hundred pounds of good and lawful money of England... Signed and sealed the third day of November in the 12th year of the reign of Anne by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Queen, Defender of Faith etc. Anno Domini 1713]
THE Condition of this Obligation is such, That if there shall not hereafter appear any Lawful Lett or Impediment, by Reason of any Precontract Consanguinity, Affinity, or any other just Cause whatsoever; but that James Fernihough of Marton within the parish of Prestbury above-named and Mary Hibbert of Ranoe of the parish of Prestbury aforesaid Spinst[e]r may lawfully Marry together; And that there is not any Suit depending before any Judge, Ecclesiastical or Civil, for or concerning any such Precontract; And that the Consent of the Parents, or other the Governours of the said Parties be thereunto first had and obtain[e]d: And that they cause the said Marriage to be openly solmniz[e]d in the Face of the Parish-Church of Astbury or Chappel of Sydington between the Hours of Eight and Twelve of the Clock in the Forenoon: And do and shall save harmless, and keep indeminfied the above-named Reverend Father in God William Lord B[isho]p of Chester his Surrogates, and all other his Officers and Successors in Office, for and concerning the Premises. That then this Obligation to be void and of none Effect, or else to remain in full Force and Virtue.
Signat' Sigillat' & Deliberat'
[Signed Sealed and Delivered]
James Ferniough
Tho[mas] Fernihough
in Praesentia
[in the presence of]
sign~
Johannis Harrison
Rich[ar]d Jebb
[Although this bond stipulates that the marriage was to be held at either Siddington or Astbury, no record of the marriage has been found at either. The Astbury register for 1713 is very difficult to read. Siddington was a chapelry within Prestbury parish at the time, but the earliest surviving separate registers for Siddington begin in the 1722. The Prestbury registers do not include an entry for James and Mary's marriage later in 1713 or 1714. It is therefore not clear whether James and Mary married somewhere other than either of the places specified in this bond, or are one of the illegible entries in the Astbury register, or were married at Siddington but not recorded or recorded in some since lost early Siddington register.]
