Provincial Court Proceedings, 1669.     433

       In the name of the most High & mighty Jahovah everlasting Liber FF
     Glorious & Blessed to all eternity: To the be all Honour & praise [r. 778 ]
     Ascribed who by thy devine Wisdom hath Created the heavens &
     earth and all that in them is according to thy Blessed Will & hath
     framed mankind in the Likenesse of thy Owne Image & placed him
     Cheife aboue all Other Creatures Therefore to the that art that
     Great & mighty Judge of heaven & earth unto whom all flesh shall come
     to be Judged by the and to Give the accounts of all Our Deeds done
     Or Comitted in the Body whether good Or evill & to answere before
     thy devine majesty for every Idle Word much more for every
     Solemne vow Or protestacon Contracted in thy Glorious presence
       Therefore in the presents of the most Great & Glorious god & as
     I hall Hope and ever expect mercie & salvacon from hini by the mer-
     ritts of my Deane Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ: I Edeth Bayne doe
     freely & Fully dedicate and Contract my selfe unto the Jonathan
     Marler to be thy true & Law full Wife & to Loue the Cherrish the
     and Comfort the as my true and Lawfull husband by a free and
     mutuall Consent of my hart in Lone to the, aboue all Others & never
     shall nor Will Yeild to Loue Or Like of any Other but the alone
     dureing each Others Life But Will remaine thy firme faithfull &
     Constant wife untill death shall Seperate us therefore haueing thus
     Solemnized my selfe unto the in the presents of Almighty God Craue-
     ing his assistance in the performance hereof and that as he hath
     by his Devine providence Knitt & tyed Our harts in the perfect bond
     of unyty here: Soe he may Seale up Our Soules in Everlasting
     happynesse hereafter In testimony whereof before the Great & Glori-
     ous God doe Subscribe my selfe, unto the Jonathan marler to be
     thy true and Lawfull Lyall & Constant & ever Loueing Wife till
     Death Death Death Edeth Bayne (Sealed)
     Sealed Signed & Delivered
       in the presents of Ailmighty
       God this 27th of October 1665
     Testis Signum
          William WW Ward
             Signum
          Henry X Thompson

       To all xpian People to whom these prsents shall Come Greeting in [p. 779]
     Our Lord God everlasting Know yee that I John Vanhack of the
     County of Baltemore in the province of maryland Gent for & in Con-
     sideracon of Seaven thousand pounds of tobacco to him in hand paid
     by Leaven Denwood & Thomas Denwood of the County of Somer-
     sett in the Pvince aforesaid the receipt whereof I doe hereby accknowl-
     idge & thereof & of every part & parcell thereof I doe hereby Clearely
     & Absolutely Exonerate accquitt & discharge them the said Leaven
     Denwood & Thomas Denwood their & every of their heires execu