CXXIV. 28 December 1562

Know all men by these presents that I, William Edwardes, of the parish of S. John the Baptist, in the Isle of Thanet, in the county of Kent, yeoman, am held and firmly bound to Thomas Aflete, of the parish aforesaid, yeoman, for £40 of legal money of England, to be paid to the said Thomas Aflete, his executors or assigns, for the good and faithful payment of which I bind myself, my heirs, and executors, by the presents, my seal having been sealed. 

Given on the twenty-eighth day of December in the fifth year of the reign, etc. 

By me, William Edwardes. 

Witness:
Henry Pettit, 
Alexander Underwood, 
William Underwood

In dorso : 

The condycon of thys obligacon is suche that yf the within-bounden William Edwardes, hys executors, or assignes, do welle and trewly hold, observe, fulfille, and kepe alle singular covenauntes, grauntes, and agrements mensioned, declared, and conteyned in one indenture, bering date the day and yere of the date of the within-written obligacon, bytwene the said William Edwardes on the one part, and the within-named Thomas Aflete on the other part, thereof made, whyche covenaunts, graunts, and agrements on the behalf of the seid William Edwardes be to be holden, per forme, fulfill, and kepe as by the inspeccon of the seid indenture more at large it dothe appere, That then this present obligacon to be voyd and of none eff^ect, or ellse to stand in all fulle power, force, and vertue.