For Witheridge 141 in the same hand, possibly the vicar and his clerk, recorded the names. The following nine people signed their names themselves. William Tyler, vicar, James Thomas, constable, Christopher Partridge, constable; Richard Thomas, churchwarden; John Bidgood, churchwarden; Richard Burne, overseer; Richard Cockram, overseer; Edward Phillips, overseer, William Parkhouse. No refusals were recorded. In August 1642 the Civil War began. A rough estimate of the size of the population of Witheridge at this time can be made by multiplying the number of names by four, giving a population of 600. Among the names in the list of Witheridge men are a number that are still in use to this day, such as Beare, Bidgood and Blackmore, Cockeram and Crooke. The Grindon/Grendon family took their name from the farms of that name. Greenslade has been one of the most commonly occurring names for over 340 years. There have been recent Heards and Hills, and the Hodges gave their name to Hodges Tenement, which came down to make way for the Mitre. The Lashbrooke name is still attached to a house in North Street, while the Melhuishes were prominent as vicars, landowners and founders of the Church School. Nott, Parker and Partridge are familiar to us and the Shortridges were also vicars and landowners. Southwood, Sowden and Thomas have made their mark, as have Tucker, Western and Whitfield.

Some men did not sign the Protestation themselves: (Westerne, John, Westerne, John and Westerne, Thomas) Richard Maunder being sick took and acknowledged the protestation the same day and year at home in his bed before Andrew Hosegood, constable and John Waterman, churchwarden. George Waterman being sick and within the compass of this order did acknowledge the protestation in the and in the presence of Andrew Hosegood, constable and John Waterman, churchwarden. Others signed it themselves: John Radford, parson; Andrew Hosegoode, constable; John Waterman, churchwarden; John Maunder, overseer.