1677 whereas Dan Wallis of Yeldom in the county of Essex and Susannah Clarke of Grate Coggeshall in the county aforesaid having declared their intentions of marriage at several public meetings of the people of god called quakers in Essex which was approved of by the said meetings now these are to certify all people whom it may concern that for the full determining of the intentions aforesaid this 24.6.1677 in an assembly of the people of god called quakers at their meeting place in Greate Coggeshall the said Dan Wallis did solemnly in the fear of god according to the example of the holy men of god recorded in the scriptures of truth take the said Susanna Clarke to be his wife and likewise she the said Susannah Clarke did then and there take the said Dan Wallis to be her husband each of them promising to be faithful one unto the other as long as they should live and we who were then present at their taking each other have set our hands witnesses unto the day and year aforesaid Robt Ludgater sen Geo Harvey Thos Purcas Robt Ludgater jun Jn Radly Sarah Clarke Jane Clarke Mary Ludgater Mary Bowman Eliz Bowman Hannah Ludgater Eliz Pierce Kath Stow Pheby Child Jn Fryitt Thos Perry Thos Stamers Jn Ludgater Geo Guyon Wm Ashpoole Math Dillow Jn Garritt Robt Clarke Sam Jaye Joseph Baily Jn Stammers Sarah Lawrence