Quethiock Parish
PROTESTATION RETURNS 1641
The English Revolution
(1640-60) began in November 1640 when Charles 1st. summoned Parliament
to help him out of a financial crisis. Charles was very unpopular and
was forced to agree to radical reforms which gave Parliament a more
prominent roll in the constitution.
The political crisis escalated
and the "Long Parliament" split into two opposing parties in
the Autumn of 1641, forming the King's party of Royalists (Cavaliers)
and the Parliamentarians (Roundheads), who demanded further political
and religious reforms. The events of 1640/41 led to the Civil War
which began in August 1642.
It was agreed and ordered on the
3rd May 1641, that every Member of the House of Commons should make a
protestation (declaration of loyalty), which the House of Lords also
agreed to the following day.
The Commons ordered the printing
of the protestation and preamble on the 5th May 1641 and this was
distributed by the Members to their counties. The Protestation was to
be made by everyone and the Rectors, Churchwardens and Overseers of
the Poor had to appear before the Justices of the Peace in their
Hundred to make their protestation and, on returning to their
parishes, any two of them were to witness the taking of the
Protestation Oath by all males over the age of 18 years. All names
were listed and anyone who refused was to be noted.
The protestation itself reads:-
I,-------- do, in the presence
of Almighty God, promise, vow, and protest to maintain, and defend as
farr as lawfully I maye, with my Life, Power and Estate, the true
Reformed Protestant religion, expressed in the Doctrine of the Church
of England, against all Popery and Popish Innovations, within this
Realme, contrary to the same Doctrine, and according to the duty of my
Allegiance, His Majesties Royal Person, Honour and Estate, as alsoe
the Power and Privileges of Parliament, the lawful Rights and
Liberties of the Subjects, and any person that maketh this
Protestation, in whatsoever he shall do in the lawful Pursuance of the
same; and to my power, and as farr as lawfully I may, I will appose
and by all good Ways and Means endeavour to bring to condign
Punishment all such as shall, either by Force, Practice, Councels,
Plots, Conspiracies, or otherwise, doe any Thing to the contrary of
any Thing in this present Protestation contained: and further, that I
shall, in all just and honourable ways, endeavour to preserve the
Union and Peace betwixt the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and
Ireland: and neither for Hope, Feare, nor other Respect, shell
relinquish this Promise, Vow and Protestation.
Richard CHIVERTON Esq.
Nicholas LEIGH gent
William BOND gent
Gawen MOORE gent
Hugh VASHMENT gent
Anthony DOIDGE gent
Edward SANDRY gent
Frauncis MOORE gent
William JUELL
Richard SCOBLE
Hugh HAWKYN
Richard LEANE
Richard JENKEN
William WENMOTH
Thomas DEEBLE
Mychaell SHEERE
Henry LITTCOTT
Peter JUELL
John EUSTACE
Robert WEBB
Andrew OLLIVER
Richard HOSKEN
John GILBERTT
Petter REED
Degory HEARE
Hugh STEPHENS
John Stephens TREBROUNE
Edward BANNT
James JENKEN
William MYNARD
Petter DYNNER
Wm BANNT
William JENKEN
John POPE
Edward HADDY
John DEEBLE
Hugh CARNE
Edward KERSWILL
Thomas KERSWILL
John SMALY
John COLLIN
Olliver POPE
Stephen COOD
Thomas REEOE
Charles MASTERS
John TEALDER
Richard BICKTON
John OLLIVER
John HAWKEN
William ROSSETTER
Nathan PHILPE
John HOLMAN
John WHITINGE
Thomas BLUNT
John STEPHENS
William JUELL
John COLLEN
Thomas DONY
John DONY
Leonard STEPHENS
Frauncis WENMOTH
William COLLEN
Richard COLLEN
Nathaniell WEBB
Andrew WEBB
Thomas BANNT
Thomas BRYANT
Will DYNNER
John DYNNER
Hugh HAWKEN
Thomas JOSE
John MOONE
Henry LEE
John GADGCOMB
John GADGCOMB jun
Abraham OLLIVER
Gregorie HUETT
Thomas DAVIE
Robert ROWE
Nicholas GRIGGE
Edward ALLIN
Mychaell ALLINE
Thomas THURLBY
Richard REEDE
Henry PEDLER
William HEARE
Frauncis MOONE
Stephen HEARE
Sampson CONDYE
Humphry ELLES
Peter WILLIAMS
William GARLAND
William GARLAND jun
Thomas NYNNIS [erased]
Martyn NYNNIS
Thomas SCOBLE
William HORWILL
Will CARNE
Nicholas SPILLER
Thomas DEEBLE jun
Thomas HOSKEN
Olliver REEPE
John WADLON
Walter LEANE
Charles KNIGHT
Pascho GARLAND
Richard HOBB
Thomas COLLEN
John POPE
Thomas HANCOCKE
William HADDY
John SYMMONS
Francis HAWKYN
Thomas LUCAS
John WHYTING
John ROSSETER
Robert CARNE
William STEPHENS
William DEEBLE
Edward DEEBLE
John MOORE
Anthony REEPE
Jeremy BONDS
Pascho ROGERS
Edward HAWKYN
Nicholas PELYNE
John STEPHENS
John STEPHENS jun
Abraham BYNNICKE
William BYNNICKE
Charles CLOKE
Walter LEE
William STEPHENS
Henry SHILLSON
Henry NEWCOMB
Charles HAWKYN
Nicholas JENKYN
James HODGE
John COOME
Thomas HOBBE
Stephen LANDREY
James VASHMENT
George TAYLOR
John LAWES
Henry CLOKE
Richard HAWKYN
Richard BAKE
Henry ROBERTTS
James LEE
Edward HOBB
Nicholas GILBERT
Peter HELLAND
Olliver CHUBB
Michael GRUCE
John LITTLE-JOHN
Thomas PEARSE
John NILE
John HANCOCK
Olliver HANDCOCKE
James SYMONS
Digory GADGCOMBE
John ROBERS
John SOUTHER
Andrew GADGCOMBE
Thomas STEPHENS
Humphery DYNNER
Thomas JERMANS
Mathew JOSLINGE
Peter HAWKIN
Robert JERMANS
William GADCOMB
Isacke HEAMAN
John REED
John HARVEY
Hugh THORNE
William BENNETT
William HUDDYE
John RICH
John FRETHY
Henry HOBB
John OLVER
Richard LYNAM vicar
John DEEBLE constable
Henry LITCOTT constable
William PADDY [before Justices only]
Charles MASTERS churchwardens
John STEPHEN [before Justices only]
Richard SCOBBEL overseers