Marriage Licence: Charles Harper and Mary Curry (1811)

Know all Men by these Presents that We Charles Harper
of Taunton St James and James Bailey of
Taunton St Mary Magdalene, both in
the County of Somerset
are held and firmly bound to the Lord Bishop of
Bath and Wells
in five hundred
Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid to the said
Lord 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 twenty fourth
day of December in the fifty second 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 &c and in the Year
of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and eleven
The Condition of this Obligation is such That if hereafter there shall
not appear any lawful Let or Impediment by reason of any PreContract
entered into before the twenty fifth Day of March One Thousand Seven
Hundred and fifty four Consanguinity Affinity or any other lawful Means
whatsoever but that Charles Harper aforesaid and
Mary Curry of Taunton St James a Minor
with the free and full Consent of Samuel
Curry of Taunton St James her lawful
father
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 Charles Harper & James Bailey sworn to at the
same time respectively
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 Charles
Harper and James Bailey do save harmless the said
Lord 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
Sarah Oliver
Charles Harper
James Bailey