Hitchin Oct[obe]r 2 1778
ON which Day appeared Personally John Stokes of the Parish of Hitchin in the County of Hertford and Diocess of Lincoln and being Sworn on the Holy Evangelist Alledged and made Oath as follows: That he is of the Age of Twenty one years & a Batchelor & intends to marry with Elizabeth Thrussell of the same Place spinster aged Twenty one years
Not knowing or believing any lawful Let or Impediment by reason of any Precontract entered into before the 25th Day of March 1754, Consanguinity, Affinity or any other Cause whatsoever, to hinder the said intended Marriage AND he prayed a Licence to Solemnize the said Marriage in the Church of Hitchin aforesaid, in which said Parish of Hitchin the said Elizabeth Thrussell hath had her usual Abode for the space of four Weeks last past.
THE said John Stokes was sworn the Day and Year first above written before me J.P. Morgan Surrogate} John Stokes his X mark
Witness Sam[ue]l James
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Know all Men by these presents that We John Stokes of Hitchin in the County of Hertford Labourer and Samuel James of the said Place Gentleman are held and firmly bound to Tho[ma]s Bewer L.L.D. Commissary in & throughout the whole Archdeconry of Huntingdon Lawfully constituted in one hundred pounds of Lawful Money of Great Britain... [legal bond continues with no further genealogically useful information apparent]
