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About the time above mentioned this deponent came to Chester being in the house of his brother Richard Wilson there William Tinsdale of Chester came to this deponent and his said brother and willed them to take the pains to come to his house to see a young man and a maid contracted together and when they came thither they found the plaintiff and defendant and then the defendant said they were welcome and the said defendant requested them to stay and hear a contract betwixt him and the plaintiff and when they had made merry a while the plaintiff and dependant were clipping and kissing together and the defendant asked them if any of them could say the words of matrimony and they said no why then said he I can repeat them myself and thereupon took the right hand of the said Margaret in his right hand and spoke the words libellated viz I Richard take thee Margaret to [be] my wedded wife to have and to hold from his day forward... and thereupon kissed and the said defendant said I would not have my father know I have twenty nobles which I would wish that some of you would take and set forth to ourselves to impress and go forward with us and the same Margaret said it is most fittest that you keep the same and bestow it and then they kissed and clipped and were very glad that they were contracted and this deponent heard not since of them since this suit.
About three years since as this deponent remembreth the time the plaintiff and defendant came to this deponent's house being abroad and asked for this deponent and finding of he was not within the house the said plaintiff went to look for him in the city abroad and found him and told that the defendant being at his house would speak with him... after some salutation the defendant told this deponent that he was willing to [be] contracted the plaintiff and willed this deponent to procure two or three witnesses and this deponent went presently to the house of Richard Wilson and saw with him his brother Robert Wilson and there requested them to take the pains to come to his house to hear a contract betwixt a couple there and at his request they went with him.