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From: "Stuart Raymond" <>
Subject: [GM] Guide to Lists of names (the Protestation) 1641
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 18:12:50 +0100

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, the Vow &
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; $US10.00. Surface & Australian dollar 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
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