Welsh Journals

A DISSENTING MINISTER'S CERTIFICATE. I, Charles Jones Clerk of the Peace for the County of Montgomery do hereby Certify that Robert Griffiths of Llanwyddyn in the County aforesaid Dissenting Preacher or Teacher did at a General Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden and kept in the Guildhall at Montgomery in and for the said County in the fiist week after the translation of Saint Thomas the Martyr (to wit) on Thursday the thirteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine in open Court take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and make and subscribe the Declaration against popery, And also the declaration that he is a Christian and a protestant and as such that he believed the Scriptures of the old and new Testament and received the same as the rule of his doctrine and practice. (Signature of) JONES, Clerk of the Peace. The Parchment Certificate, 3lin. by 12!in., of which the above is a copy, was given some years ago by the daughter of the above named Robert Griffiths, to the Rev. John Williams, Vicar of Llanwddyn, who has deposited it for safety in the Library at St. Asaph.