The certificate for Christopher Cleeter of Broad Hinton, Wiltshire, Michaelmas 1661

These are to Certify That this bearer Christopher Cleeter was divers yeeres Leiu[tenan]t to S[i]r Richard Norton in the Regim[en]t Comanded by Coll[one]l [sic.] S[i]r Humphry Bennet in the service of his late Royall Ma]jes]ty of ever blessed Memory wherein he received severall wounds, & is disabled by his labour to mainteyne himselfe & family And that for his Constancy & Loyalty to his Ma[jes]t[y’]s interest all along he hath bin a great sufferer by imprisonm[en]t & otherwise to his vtter vndoeing And therefore doe humbly reco[m]mend him to whom it may Concerne in order to his releife In Testimony whereof we haue herevnto subscribed
J: [?Phillips]
W[illia]m Colnett
Antho[ny] Burley
John Druatt
Humphrey Benet
Ge[orge] Wroughton
Tho[mas] [?Heath]
Henry Tooker
Jo: Deane
Jo: Sadler
John Webb