The certificate for Thomas Anstie of Keymer, Sussex, 6 October 1645
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are to signifie vnto your Worships yt ye bearer hereof Thomas Anstie alias Hocombe was pressed for a souldier to serue ye state out of ye parish of Keimer, and went vnder Captaine Huxfoord first to Arundel; fro[m] thence to Baseing house where he remained vnder his Colours during ye siege w[hi]ch was ye last sum[m]er before this, yt is now past: bearing his part faithfully with his fellowes, till they drew off: fro[m] hence he marched vnder his colours to ye releife of Weimouth; fro[m] thence [also marching] in ye attempt to take ye island of Portland, he had one of his arms shott off with a Cannon; soe yt being made vnfitt for service he is returned home agayne to ye place where he was pressed; therefore our humble desire to your Worsh[i]ps is, yt you would take his iust case into your favourable concideratio[n] to procure him some maintenance fro[m] ye state; ye man is poore haueing a wife and three children and our poore doe lye very heavy upo[n] us allreadye; yet wee are willing to contribute to his releife: and wee hope you will be well satisfied with this our relation and willing to ease vs something if it may be: and wee shall rest your worships [illegible] all willing and readie service, as wee ought [to be] to be:
Oct[ober]: 6: 1645:
Edmund Attree Magnus Byne
John Lunsford
William Lashmer Thomas Turner
John Hurst James Michell
Thomas Hart Nicholas Jenner
Roger Verye
Thomas Jenner
Richard [?Drabell] William [?Tomset]
Stephen Anste
Edmund Alexander
Thomas Rensell