Wm Ingate of Great Coggeshall yeoman bound to Jn Brazier and Sam Parkinson overseers and Jas Robinson and Jn Newton churchwardens of the parish of Earls Colne in the sum of 50li to be paid to them or their assigns etc 18.11.1756 the condition is such that whereas Sarah Stowers of Earls Colne spinster before me one of his majesties justices of the peace for the said county of Essex hath sworn that the male child whereof she was delivered on or about the 3.10.last past and that the above named Wm Ingate is the father of the said child and the condition of this obligation is such that if the above bounden Wm Ingate indemnifies etc then this be void Wm Ingate witnesses Rich Wale Jn Unwin