Showing posts with label Protectorate. Show all posts
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Saturday, 18 July 2015

Double Dutch Mystery Document

We have this wonderful document* from September 1659, which we believe was written in Dutch. But we have no idea what it is about.  Can anyone help? Have we any Dutch followers who can also read 17th century documents?
 
We can identify two words which are repeated a lot "Looft God" which means "God Bless" , so perhaps it is a religious document, or connected in some way with St Magnus Cathedral?
 
September 1659 was mid-way between the resignation of Richard Cromwell, son of Oliver Cromwell,ending the Protectorate in May 1659 and the Restoration of the monarchy with Charles II in 1660.
 
*Archive reference: D14/8/8 part of the Walter Traill Dennison papers.
 
After receiving such wonderfully quick responses to the appeal above, I enclose the second page of the document here below: