Francis MaKemie, Certificate to be a Dissenter

From Accomack Circuit Court, Order Book 1697-1705, page 74

At a Court held & continued for Accomack Count October ye 5th 1699.

Whereas Mr. Francis Mackemie made application by peticon to this Court that being ready to fulfill what ye Law enjoynes to dissenters that he might be qualified according to Law and prayed that his own dwelling house at Pocomk & also his own house at Onancok next to Capt Jonathon Livesleys might by the places recorded for meeting, and having taken ye oaths enjoyned by act of Parliamt instead of the oath of allegiance & Supremacy & subscribed the Test as likewise yt ye did in compliance wth what the sd Law enjoynes produced Certificate from Barbodoes of his quallificacons there & did declare in open Court of ye sd County & owne ye articles of religion mentioned in ye Statute made in ye 13th yre of Queen Elizabeth except ye 34th: 35th & 36th & those words for ye 20th & authoritys in Controversies of faith weh ye Court have ordered to be registred & recorded and yt ye Clk of ye Court give Certificat thereof to ye sd Mackemie according as ye Law enjoynes.