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From: "Stuart A Raymond" <>
Subject: The Protestation Returns 1641-42.
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 19:55:28 -0000


The Protestation Returns 1641-42, & other contemporary listings
/ by
Jeremy Gibson & Alan Dell

Lists of names are genealogists' stock in trade - especially
when they cover whole counties, or, even better, the whole country. One
such list, covering perhaps one-third of England, is the Protestation
Return of 1641/2. As the clouds of civil war threatened on the horizon in
1641,
Parliament passed an ordinance requiring everyone - in practice, all adult
males -
to sign an oath of allegiance. Many of the surviving returns are still in
the House of Lords Record Office, and most have been published. Genealogists
can use these returns to discover the location of family names in many parts
of England at this date.This volume in the Gibson Guide series lists all
surviving returns - including those which have strayed to other
repositories - and
provides publication details of those which are in print (most of them).
In addition, it also lists a number of other contemporary sources which are
similarly useful to genealogists: the Collection in aid of distressed
Protestants
in Ireland, subsidy returns, poll tax returns, theVow & Covenant, and the
Solemn League & Covenant. Published by the Federation of Family History
Societies, price £4.50 (including 2nd class postage). Overseas (airmail):
£5.75;
$A13.25; $US10.00. Surface prices on application.

Email orders welcome; please give your postal address when
ordering. Books will be sent with an invoice for payment on receipt, by
personal cheque in one of the currencies mentioned.
--

Stuart Raymond, Genealogical Bibliographer, Publisher & Bookseller
P.O.Box 35, Exeter, EX1 3YZ, U.K. Ph.
(01392) 252193
Visit http://www.soft.net.uk/samjraymond/igb.htm for British genealogical
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