The certificate for John Harris of Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire, January 1683
To the Right Wor[shi]f[u]l his M[ajes]ties Justices of the Peace for the County of North[amp]ton[shire]
Wee Inhabitants of Whishton in the said County humbly Certify; That John Harris now of Cooknoe in the County afores[ai]d was pres’d for a souldier from Whiston afores[ai]d to serve his martyr’d M[ajes]tie, of blessed memory in his last Expedico[n] for Scotland, & so continu’d till that Campaign was disbanded.
John Cockerell
Samuell Stiles
Willam Wright
Francis Curtis
Wee whose names are vnderwritten doe certify & are ready to attest That John Harris of Cooknoe afores[ai]d serv’d his M[ajes]tie in the nature of a souldier at Banbury Castle vnder the Comand of the Hon[oura]ble S[i]r Will[iam] Compton, & there continu’d till the Castle was surrendered, & then w[i]th other his fellow souldiers, shifted as he could.
Richard Bates of Ashby
Thomas White of Yardley
fellow soldier with him
Alexsander Hadland of Grindon
fellow solgor with him
Widdow Palmer of Grindon
witness that he quartered in my hous in Banbury
The peticoner to have 2 li. 10 s. p[er] Ann[um] the First payment att this sessions