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