PROTESTANT DISSENTERS (as PRESBYTERIANS were disparagingly termed) were, like their Catholic neighbours, barred from holding public office because of their beliefs. In 1777 Presbyterian congregations across Ireland petitioned the parliament in Dublin for repeal of the Test Act which required all office holders, i.e. magistrates, burgesses, etc. to be communicant members of the Established Church (Church of Ireland). Clearly, not all members of the numerous congregations signed: some may have been beholden to a landlord belonging to the Established Church. Very few of these petitions have survived the destruction of the Public Record Office, Dublin in 1922.
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ARMAGH PARISH
| Name | Name |
| ADAMS David | ADAMS John |
| ALLEN John | ANDERSON Saml. |
| BALLANTINE Alex. | BALLANTINE Robert |
| BALLANTINE Thomas | BALLANTINE Thomas |
| BARNES George | BELL Jas. |
| BLACKWOOD John | BLEAKLEY William |
| BLEAKNEY Robt. | BOYD James |
| BOYD Jas. | BOYD Robert |
| BRIERS Charles | BRIERS Jas. |
| BROWN Jno. | BROWN John |
| BROWN Samuel | BRUCKS Will. |
| BURCH George | BURCH James |
| BURCH Samuel | BURRELL Geo. |
| BURRELL James | BURRELL Wm. |
| CALLEN David | CALLEN James |
| CALLEN John | CALLEN William |
| CAMPBELL John | CAMPBELL Thomas |
| CAMPBELL Will., Minister | CARR Harnord |
| CARSON John | CARSON Thomas |
| CHRISTY Peter | COCHRAN John |
| COLVIN Saml. | CRAFORD [CRAWFORD] Mathew |
| CRAIGE Willm. | CUMING John Jun. |
| CUMING Joseph | CUMING Wm. |
| CUMINGS Jno. | DAVEY John |
| DOBBIN Jno., Junior | DOBBIN John |
| DOBBIN Nathl. | DOBBIN Thomas |
| DOBBIN William | DONALDSON James |
| FEEUSTER [FEWSTER?]William | FERGUSON Geo. |
| FRAME Thos. | FRAZER Henry |
| GELLY William | GEOUGH William |
| GIFFEN Alexr. | GIFFEN John |
| GILLESPIE Leonard | GILLESPIE Thomas |
| GILLESPIE Thomas | GLASS James |
| GLASS James | GLASS John |
| GLASS Matthew | GLASS Matthew, Junior |
| GLASS Samuel | GRAHAM Sam. |
| GRAY William | HAMILTON David |
| HANDCOCK John | HENDERSON John |
| HENERY John | HENRY James |
| HENRY Oliver | HERRAN Samuel |
| HOUSTON John | HUMPHRIS Robt. |
| IRELAND Alexander | JACKSON Robt. |
| JOHNSTON Alex. | JOHNSTON George |
| JOHNSTON Graham | JOHNSTON James |
| JOHNSTON James | JOHNSTON John |
| JOHNSTON John | JOHNSTON John |
| JOHNSTON John | JOHNSTON John, Junior |
| JOHNSTON Jos. | JOHNSTON Samuel |
| JOHNSTON Thomas | JOHNSTON William |
| JOHNSTON Wm. | JONES John |
| JONES William | KANE David |
| KANE John | KEARNEY John |
| KENEDY John | KENEDY John |
| KILPATRICK Willm. | KING Gabriel, M.D. |
| KING Gabriel, Junior | KING Tobias |
| KNOX Robert | LEEMAN Robert |
| LISTER Wm. | LONG William |
| LOWRY James | MACARTNEY James |
| MARSHALL Jno., Junior | MARSHALL John Senr. |
| MARTIN William | MARTON William |
| MAXWELL James | MAXWELL Jas. |
| MAXWELL Saml. | MCBRIDE Geo. |
| MCBRIDE James | MCBRIDE James |
| MCBRIDE Moses | MCBRIDE Robert |
| MCBRIDE Wm. | MCCLEANE Arthur |
| MCCLURE Saml. | MCCRAKEN Jas. |
| MCCULLAGH Jno. | MCCULLAGH William |
| MCDOWEL James | MCDOWELL James Jun. |
| MCKAIN Wm. | MCKEAN Henry |
| MCKENNALL Thomas | MCKEWEN Robert |
| MCKINSTRY Lee | MCLANE James |
| MCMASTER Robert | MCWILLIAM James |
| MCWILLIAM William | MOORE James |
| MOORE James | MOORE Robert |
| MOORE William | MORRISON John |
| MURRAY Geo. | MURRAY George |
| MURRAY Jas. | MURRAY Jno. |
| MURRAY Robert | MURRAY Samuel |
| MURRAY Samuel | NELSON Joseph |
| NESBIT Steven | NIBLO William |
| OLIVER Andrew | OLIVER Arthur |
| OLIVER Josh. | OLIVER Will. |
| ORR John | OSBURN John |
| OSBURN Thomas | PALMER David |
| PATTERSON Alexr. | PRENTICE Andrew |
| PRENTICE James | PRENTICE Jas. Junior |
| PRENTICE John | PRENTICE Thos. |
| PURVIS Willm. | REED Thos. |
| ROSS Hugh | ROWAN John |
| RUSSELL James | RUSSELL Willm. |
| SCOTT Nicholas | SCOTT William |
| SIMERAL [SOMERVILLE] George | SIMPSON Jon. |
| SIMPSON Thos. | SLATER Montgomery |
| SLEATOR John | SLOAN Robert |
| SLOANE George | SLOANE James |
| SLOANE Thos. | SLOANE William |
| STARR Archy | STEPHENSON John |
| STUART Will. | TAMSON Hugh |
| TATE Hugh | TEAT Thomas |
| THOMPSON Henry | TWINEN David |
| WATT Samuel | WATT Wm. |
| WAUGH Alexr. | WAUGH James |
| WEBSTER James | WEBSTER James |
| WEBSTER Jas. | WILKIN John |
| WILLIAMSON Andw. | WILLIAMSON David |
| WILLIAMSON John | WILLIAMSON John |
| WILLSON Alexr. | WILSON James |
| WILSON John | WRIGHT John |