Protestation Returns 1641
Transcribed from microfilm of original returns by Tony Higgins
(Note: Ornate letters and unusual spellings introduce uncertainties.)
Besides the officers of Lanston within the Hundred of Pimperne in the County of Dorset .... (on the 18th of ffebuary 1641) before ye Thomas Trenchard Knt, & ye Francis Fulforde Knt, tooke the Protestation made on the 5th of May 1641. All the Inhabitants of Lanston aforesaid from the age of 18 years & upwards tooke the same Protestation:
Mr William Rideout |
Henry Smart |
Stephen Young Junior |
That all these persons have taken the Protestation before mencioned wee testify
Stephen Young – Guardian
John Frampton – Guardian
Richard Russell – buus supbiforum
Ita etium Testor Henricus Martin Vicarius Eccliesiae Parochialis De Tarrant Monkton Cum Caprella de Lanston eidem annexa fibe ab eadum dependente