These are to certify, that on that twelfth day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty before us Thomas Thompson and Robert Brown, two of the perpetual Commissioner s appointed for the County of Durham for taking the deeds by married women pursuant to an act passed in the fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty KingWilliam the fourth, An Act for the Abolition of Fines and RecOveries, and for the substitution of more compromises of assurance, appeared personally Ann the wife of John Brough Ayre
And produced a certain indentured marked A bearing date the elementary of January One Thousand Eight Hundred and sixty four and made between John Brough Ayre and his wife Ann of the one part and William Tate Williams, William David??, Joseph Culliford??,George Hugall Rennisson, William Salisbury Harrison and Joseph Potts the younger of the other part
and acknowledge the same to be her act and deed and we do hereby certify that the said Ann Ayre was at the time of the said deed of full age and competent understanding and that she was examined by us apart from her husband, touching her knowledge of the contents of the said deed and that she feely consented to the same, aimed by Thompson and Brown,this is the first page, the second is entitles in the common pleas, thanks No x
