This is a transcription of the original license granted in 1738 to Daniel Ralph, of Woodbridge, in Suffolk. It was copied from what appears to be a newspaper cutting. Original spellings have been preserved. M L Astbury, May 2007. These are to certifye whom it may concern that the dwellyng house of Daniel Ralph, in Woodbridge, in the County of Suffolk, is designed to be used as a place of religious worship for His Majesty's Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England as witness my hand this Fifteenth day of April, in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the Grace of God of Great Brittain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith and so forth in the year of our Lord 1738. Daniel Ralph. On the back is: This is a true Copy of the Originale delivered to Mr. Wm Collett, Clerk of ye Peace, in ye Open Sessions at Ipswich, the day and year within mentioned by me. Stephen Abbote, of Woodbridge. April 15th, 1738.

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