The certificate for Alice Clifton of Pilling, Lancashire, Midsummer 1651
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Knowe all men hereby that the bearer hereof Alice Clyfton had her husband pressed out of o[u]r hamlet of Pilling being of Garstang constablry who hath now kind of thing to live vpon no not so much as a hen and hath a Child about 3 yeres old not so much as a howse but as her poore father hath taken her in but is of noe ability to support her or himself but desires some maintenance by the honorable com[m]issioners or Justices of Peace. In testimony whereof we neighbors have subscribed
Richard [?Henry]
Jo[hn] Lumley cler[icus]
Edm[und] Thorntons [symbol: mark] marke