{"id":849,"date":"2010-04-18T15:49:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T19:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/?p=849"},"modified":"2010-04-19T11:44:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:44:56","slug":"simon-taylors-marriage-bond-1641","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/849","title":{"rendered":"Simon Taylor&#8217;s marriage bond, 1641"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the second half of my article on the possible English origin of my Taylor family has come to my mailbox in the latest issue of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americangenealogist.com\/\">The American Genealogist<\/a><\/i>, so having duly waited I&#8217;m happy to trot out the speculation that lies at the heart of it.  My earliest known male ancestor, Richard<sup>1<\/sup> Taylor (d. 1679), left three minor children when he died in Virginia in 1679: Constance, Richard and Simon \u2014 Constance and Simon being rather uncommon given names.  As a young man, in 1662-1663, he first appeared as a servant to Colonel Moore Fauntleroy, at a large plantation on the Rappahannock.  Colonel Fauntleroy had patented much of this tract back in 1650, based on 107 headrights including another Simon Taylor, who might be reasonably conjectured to be connected to the later Richard who named a son Simon\u2014perhaps his father.  Looking at the IGI to gauge the number of people named &#8216;Simon Taylor&#8217; in England in the early 17th century turned up a tantalizing coincidence, the record of a marriage license between a Simon Taylor and a Constance Berryson (<i>recte<\/i> Berrington, as it turns out) in Stanford-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, in 1641.  My article explores the possibility that this Simon &#038; Constance Taylor might be parents of Richard Taylor of Virginia, and reviews the genealogy of the family in Virginia.  But here on my blog I will share Simon and Constance&#8217;s original marriage license (Diocese of York: Archdeaconry of Nottingham: Marriage Allegations, 1641-1665, FHL film 0592745), which I have transcribed (leaving the bond in Latin) below.  Click the document to get a full-sized blowup.  Anyone who can fill in the two uncertain words, and the name \/ title of the scribe at the bottom, please let me know!<\/p>\n<div align = 'center'><a href=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bond.gif\" target = '_blank'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bondsm.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nov<i>er<\/i>int univ<i>er<\/i>si per p<i>re<\/i>sentes nos Symonem Taylor par<i>ochie<\/i> de Stanford<br \/>\nin com<i>itatu<\/i> Nott<i>inghamie<\/i> yeoman <!--more-->et Thoma<i>m<\/i> Bradford pa<i>rochie<\/i> Sancte<br \/>\nMarie in villa Nottingham [&#8230;.? an occupational term I cannot recognize] <br \/>\nteneri et firmiter obligari ven<i>erabil<\/i>i viro Will<i>el<\/i>mo Robinson sacre <br \/>\ntheologie p<i>ro<\/i>fessori A[&#8230;.?] Archidiaconatus Nott<i>inghamie<\/i> in centu<i>m<\/i> libros<br \/>\nbone et legal<i>is<\/i> monete Angl<i>iae<\/i> solvendi eide<i>m<\/i> ven<i>erabili<\/i> viro aut suo<br \/>\ncerto attornato executori heredibus sive ass<i>ignatis<\/i> suis aliqua<i>m<\/i><br \/>\nquide<i>m<\/i> solutionem bene et fidel<i>ite<\/i>r faciendi obligamus nos et per<br \/>\nutrumque n<i>ost<\/i>r<i>u<\/i>m per se pro toto et in solid<i>um<\/i> heredes execut<i>ores<\/i> et adm<i>inistratores<\/i><br \/>\nn<i>ost<\/i>ros firmiter per p<i>rese<\/i>ntes sigillis n<i>ost<\/i>ris sigillat. Dat<i>um<\/i> xiiii <sup>mo<\/sup> die<br \/>\nmensis Junii anno regni domini nostri Caroli Dei gratia et<br \/>\nAnglie Scotie Ffrancie et Hibernie Regis Fidei Defensor etc<br \/>\ndecimo septimo Annoque domini 1641.<\/p>\n<p>The Condic<i>i<\/i>on of this present obligac<i>i<\/i>on is suche that if hereafter there <br \/>\nshall not appeare any lawfull let or impediment by reason of any <br \/>\np<i>re<\/i>contract consanguinity affinity or any other lawfull let or impediment <br \/>\nwhatsoev<i>er<\/i> but that the abovebounden Symon Taylor and Constance<br \/>\nBerryson of the same parishe of Stanforde spinster<br \/>\nmay lawfully be joyned together in wedlocke &amp; in the same afterwards <br \/>\nlawfully remaine &amp; continue like man &amp; wife, and if there bee not at <br \/>\nthis p<i>re<\/i>sent time any action suit <i>com<\/i>plaint querell or demand moved or <br \/>\ndepending before any judge Eccl<i>esiast<\/i>icall or Civil for or concerninge any <br \/>\nsuche let or impediment betweene the said p<i>ar<\/i>ties, moreover if they <br \/>\nshall not p<i>ro<\/i>ceede to the solemnizac<i>i<\/i>on of their marriage without the <br \/>\nconsente of their parents or governors, and lastly if the said marriage bee <br \/>\nopenly solemnized in the p<i>ar<\/i>ishe churche in the licence specific betweene <br \/>\nthe houres of eight &amp; twelve in the forenoone &amp; accordinge to the Booke of <br \/>\nCommon Prayers, then this obligac<i>i<\/i>on to bee voyd &amp; of none effect or else <br \/>\nto remaine &amp; abyde in full force strength &amp; virtue.<\/p>\n<p>Sigillat et deliberat <br \/>\nin presentia mei <\/p>\n<p>Coombe [?] Reg[&#8230;] [?]<\/p>\n<p>Simon Tailer [autograph]<\/p>\n<p>Signum dicti<br \/>\nThome ( T ) Bradforde<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One fascinating thing is that Simon Taylor here signed his own name, which I give here blown up a bit (Thomas Bradford, below him, just signed by mark, a &#8216;T&#8217;):<\/p>\n<div align = 'center'> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Signature.gif\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the second half of my article on the possible English origin of my Taylor family has come to my mailbox in the latest issue of The American Genealogist, so having duly waited I&#8217;m happy to trot out the speculation that lies at the heart of it. My earliest known male ancestor, Richard1 Taylor (d. 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