Definitions For Testificate

Noun

TESTIFICATE (plural TESTIFICATEs) {{label, en, historical, Scottish}} A certificate of good character that was required to allow travel between parishes in the 18th and early 19th centuries. 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. }}