The last instance of open disaffection to the church service which is worth a place in this record occurs in 1692, when an information was laid against Michael Bisset, of Feckenham. It appeared that Richard Bond and one Foster having publicly praised a sermon delivered in Feckenham church by a parson named Millard, Bissett swore by God's wounds (a common oath in those days) "That there was never a true word in the same sermon, and that it was all nought and false, and that it would have been a good deede to have sett him downe out of the pulpit with a bowe and bolte (meaning the said preacher), and that he could go down in the meadows and hear as good a sermon under a hedge." Bolt is a short arrow shot from a cross-bow. Hence the saying, "A fool's bolt is soon shot." There are several specimens of these bows and bolts at Goodrich Castle. The Toleration Act of William III gave immunity to all Protestant Dissenters, except those who denied the Trinity, from the penal laws to which they had been subjected. In the Sessions' order book, date 1696, is a "Mem. That the persons under-named in open Court of Sessions did take the oaths mentioned and appointed to be taken in and by an Act made _Anno primo Willi et Marie_, entitled 'An Act for abrogating of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and appointing other oaths;' and also made and subscribed the declaration appointed to be made and subscribed in and by an Act made _Anno 25 Caroli Secundi_, entitled 'An Act for preventing dangers which may happen from Popish recusants,' according to an Act made _Annis 7 et Willi tertii Regis_, entitled 'An Act requiring the practicers of the law to take the oaths and subscribe the declarations therein mentioned.'" The following are the names of the subscribers in this county: John Soley, Esq. Charles Cocks, Esq. Richard Nanfan, } Henry Toye, } Thomas Parker, } Joshua Bradley, } Richard Cowcher, } John Yarranton, } Richard Teynton, } John Ffownes, } Edwyn Eyre, } Robert Bird, } Thomas Partington, } Gent. Samuel Grove, } Thomas Hayward, } Thomas Hart, } William Cardale, } Epaphroditus Bagnall, } William Hart, } Richard Norbury, } Henry Hodges, } Richard Herbert, } Thomas Oliver, } Edmund Rose, } 22 Maii, 1696.