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mentioned, do hereby Certify that I have perused the within Written Estimate and the two Certificates above Written and beleive the same to be True but do not of my own Knowledge know the facts or the Persons so well as my Curate being from the Parish when the Flood happened and not having resided much within the Parish since I became the Minister thereof As Witness my Hand this Thirtieth Day of December 1771 Thomas Rotheram
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