In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon" id="mwPw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Stratford-upon-Avon">Stratford-upon-Avon</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" id="mwQA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hathaway_(Shakespeare's_wife)" id="mwQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife)">Anne Hathaway</a> pay a <span about="#mwt43" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"GBP","href":"./Template:GBP"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"40"},"2":{"wt":"1582"},"long":{"wt":"no"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mwQg" style="white-space: nowrap" typeof="mw:Transclusion">£40</span><span about="#mwt43" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><span about="#mwt43">(equivalent to £14,557 in 2023)</span> bond in lieu of posting <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_banns" id="mwQw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wedding banns">wedding banns</a>, which enables them to marry immediately.<sup about="#mwt47" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_28#cite_note-6" id="mwRA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwRQ">[6]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"><cite about="#mwt44" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFWells2005">Wells, Stanley (2005). "Hathaway, Anne (?1555-1623)". In Dobson, Michael; Wells, Stanley (eds.). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=2nQYCgAAQBAJ" id="mwB5I" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB5M">The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare</i></a>. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press. p.<span id="mwB5Q" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>160. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB5U" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB5Y" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780192806147" id="mwB5c" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780192806147"><bdi id="mwB5g">9780192806147</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt44" class="Z3988" id="mwB5k" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=Hathaway%2C+Anne+%28%3F1555-1623%29&amp;rft.btitle=The+Oxford+Companion+to+Shakespeare&amp;rft.place=Oxford%2C+U.K.&amp;rft.pages=160&amp;rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2005&amp;rft.isbn=9780192806147&amp;rft.aulast=Wells&amp;rft.aufirst=Stanley&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D2nQYCgAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANovember+28"></span></span>