Note 171 — Chapter V
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Instances of the taking of it are numerous. In the Register Book of Wansted it is found with the names of the principal inhabitants.—Lyson's Environs of London, iv. 243.
Whitaker, in his History of Richmondshire, mentions an endorsement on the Return Roll for the parishes and townships of Bentham, Ingleton, Thornton, Sedberg, Dent, and Garsdale:—"The names of those persons who refused to make protestation within Garsdale parcell of the township of Dent, viz: George Heber Gent, Abraham Nelson, chapman, who publiquely refused before the whole Dale in the Church."—vol. ii. 363.