Protestation return Bloxworth, Dorset

[LizzieL]

Please can anyone decipher the Christian name of the man with surname Derham (3rd from bottom. It looks the same as the christian name for Mr Gregory and Mr Melmo(u)th, but it isn't the same as the J for Job at the bottom.

[arthurk]

Looks like Rob[er]te.

[LizzieL]

Thank you, Robert is a possibility. there is a burial record for a Robert in Bloxworth in 1646

[goldie61]

I'd say definitely Robert. 

[LizzieL]

Thank you both. Now convinced it is Robert. I have since found marriage records for a Robert Gregory and a Robert Melmoth around the time of the protestation return, so they were definitely adults.