Then, after the signing and Countersigning of the articles of marriage, the betrothal ceremony was solemnized according to the rites of the Church by Cardinal de Rochefoucault, Grand Almoner of the King of France.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes
It took several weeks and much signing and Countersigning.
"Molly Brown's Orchard Home"
Nell Speed
Every thing which met the eye spoke the language of elder ages; whilst the river on which the place was seated, its great fair, which still held the rank of the greatest in Christendom, and its connection with the throne of Caesar and his inauguration, by giving to Frankfort an interest and a public character in the eyes of all Germany, had the effect of Countersigning, as it were, by state authority, the importance which she otherwise challenged to her ancestral distinctions.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey