Testificate

Quick meaning: Testificate is a noun meaning (historical, Scotland) A certificate of good character that was required to allow travel between parishes in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Meaning

(historical, Scotland) A certificate of good character that was required to allow travel between parishes in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Example Sentences

The statutory part is, " that no tenant or servant be received without testificate of their carriage, agreeable to the bond annexed," upon the pain of arbitrary punishment ;

In the eighteenth century there was a system of interparish testificates that was very similar to the internal passport system imposed upon serfs in Czarist Russia up to the late nineteenth century.

... there seems no reason why a certificate should not have been written and signed by the same person but, in any event, the woman who presented it was ordered to leave the parish, a decision which may have had something to do with the fact that she was presenting a child for baptism on her own, the father being dead according to the testificate and so there was no one to support mother and child apart from kirk funds.

Roger Hastie, parochiner of Keithe, compeired, desireing mariage of a woman in the forsaid parishe, and being demanded concerning a testificate from Irland, quher he had resided of late, as he alleadged, answered ingenuouslie that he had brought none over with him from thence, being forced to omitt it throghe the troubles of the countrie, but was able to give his oathe, and qualifie otherwise, that he was nether maried as yet, nor scandelous in his cariage in the place quher he had liued.

Word Forms

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