Accordingly, messengers were sent posthaste to her babyhood home, and a new birth certificate was drawn up; also a certificate Attesting to her mother's legal marriage to a wholly mythical Monsieur de Gomard de Vaubernier and to several other statements that made Marie's legitimacy as solid as Gibraltar.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
He was followed by a train of six persons, all splendidly attired, and Attesting, by their costume and manner, the rank and importance of their chief.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
The signing of the register in the vestry is not an American custom, but it is now the fashion to have a highly illuminated parchment certificate signed by the newly married pair, with two or three witnesses, the bridesmaids, the best man, the father and mother, and so on, generally being the Attesting parties.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood