Rebecca's surname?

[Treetotal]

I see Hare too.
Carol

[Bookbox]

Late to the party, but my vote would be for Rebecca ffane de Desford.

I don’t think it starts with H. Looking at the following bond – the body of which is in the same hand – the groom is Henry Sikes, and the H for Henry/Henricum is very different; the verticals are straight and not looped. So I do think this is ff = F.

The third letter is not r but n – compare with the letter n in Singlewo(ma)n (both in the middle and at the end). The letter r is more open in this hand.

Looking at the whole image, the top part of the bond is in Latin, where Joseph is de Newbold Verdon. The de matches well, and I’m confident that Rebecca is de Desford.

How the surname could possibly have been read originally as Clarke defeats me.

[Westy11]

Based on Bookbox's post I went searching and located the attached.

Thank you so much.

Now to locate Rebecca's parents and baptism.

Westy