Saturday, July 27, 2013

Hanniball Corbyn Loyalty Oath at Restoration of Monarchy, 1662

Declaration of Loyalty at the Restoration of the Monarchy. 1662.

"I Hanniball Corbyn doe willingly subscribe and consent to the declaration aforesaid and to all the contents thereof.

            Han: Corbyn, schoolmaster of Ilsington."

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[Hanniball Corbyn had been the schoolmaster when the old schoolroom collapsed in Ilsington in 1639, according to the parish register.  During the Commonwealth he was made a Deacon in the Puritan-run Ilsington Parish Church.  -- R. N. Wills]

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[Typed by G.J.R. on 1 January 1990 from R. N. Wills' transcription from the original record.]

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