We the undersigned voluntarily agree to abstain from all intoxicating liquors except for medicinal purposes & Religious Ordinances.

In January 1841 they invited the Rev J Jenkinson then of Kettering to preach and after the sermon to explain the principles of total abstinence from all Intoxicating drinks, he spoke of the great sum of money expended, the waste of time, poverty, wickedness & crime connected with the drinking customs of the country and to illustrate his remarks, showed the Length, Breadth & Depth of a River it would take to contain the liquor drank in one Year in the United Kingdom which made the ears of those that heard it to tingle & to open the eyes of some to see it their duty & privilege to abstain and at the close added their names to the pledge and by the goodness of God are living epistles read and known of all men, soon after this Mr Bearn and other friends from Wellingboro came over & addressed a meeting in the above named place and burnt the spirit in liquor before the face of the people. In the same year a Mr Millington [ends abruptly here]