As a house is a weighty concern, every member is obliged to produce two Bondsmen for the performance of covenants.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
Thus the cup which they had made their slaves to drink was put in larger measure to their own lips at last, and not infants only were snatched away, but sons around whom years of tenderness had woven stronger ties; and the loss of their Bondsmen, from which they feared so much national weakness, had to be endured along with a far deadlier drain of their own life-blood.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
He had given a different set of Bondsmen for each term, and the question arose which of these sets was responsible.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs