BIB_ID
459510
Accession number
MA 14897
Creator
Clere, Edward, 1536-1606, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 pages) ; 23.1 x 20.5 cm
Notes
Edward Clere served as justice of the peace for Norfolk in 1583; Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey in Norfolk, was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament
Transcription (courtesy of Sara Schliep, January 20, 2026): Touching certen thinges dealt in when my coosen Barnty [Barney?] / and Mr Nathannell Bacon &; I were at Aylesham / togither: ffor that in the Maner of the proceding in / somme cases it is thought good, that some of vs should / shortly meete and resolue therof to some soche purpose / as we haue synce consydered of; I haue ther fore thought / thought that meete to advertise thus muche and ther with / move you that you do bring to me the Warrantes deliuer ed / concerning T. Rumpe and Charles Haste or ane of them / and surcrease the molestacion of either of theim in the / meane tyme / And that You allso eftsoones put in / myend Robert Reyners and Henry Some that they / with their sureties comme to enter Recognizaunce not to / occupye vytailing and alehouse keping according to that / in this part was prescribed to theim. And touching / these other that yet haue not lycenses and yet be / thought meete to be admitted, let theim comme to me / betwene this and sonday to obteyne dew warrant or / lycense, bringing persons of habilitiye. be. bound for / theim as the statute requireth, that thinges ordered of / may uderly be obserued And if you shall thinke it / good to take the travaile to comme over with other my / loving Tenauntes that dwelle in Aylesham vpon sonday / next, or when your selfes will betwene this and New / Yere day You shall be wellcomme hither. this xxiiii th / of december. 1585 / Your loving neighbor / Edward Clere / To my loving neighbors the Constables of the / towne of Aylesham and / [...] of theim [bottom of sheet torn away with loss to text].
Transcription (courtesy of Sara Schliep, January 20, 2026): Touching certen thinges dealt in when my coosen Barnty [Barney?] / and Mr Nathannell Bacon &; I were at Aylesham / togither: ffor that in the Maner of the proceding in / somme cases it is thought good, that some of vs should / shortly meete and resolue therof to some soche purpose / as we haue synce consydered of; I haue ther fore thought / thought that meete to advertise thus muche and ther with / move you that you do bring to me the Warrantes deliuer ed / concerning T. Rumpe and Charles Haste or ane of them / and surcrease the molestacion of either of theim in the / meane tyme / And that You allso eftsoones put in / myend Robert Reyners and Henry Some that they / with their sureties comme to enter Recognizaunce not to / occupye vytailing and alehouse keping according to that / in this part was prescribed to theim. And touching / these other that yet haue not lycenses and yet be / thought meete to be admitted, let theim comme to me / betwene this and sonday to obteyne dew warrant or / lycense, bringing persons of habilitiye. be. bound for / theim as the statute requireth, that thinges ordered of / may uderly be obserued And if you shall thinke it / good to take the travaile to comme over with other my / loving Tenauntes that dwelle in Aylesham vpon sonday / next, or when your selfes will betwene this and New / Yere day You shall be wellcomme hither. this xxiiii th / of december. 1585 / Your loving neighbor / Edward Clere / To my loving neighbors the Constables of the / towne of Aylesham and / [...] of theim [bottom of sheet torn away with loss to text].
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Requesting the delivery of warrants concerning Thomas Rumpe and Charles Haste, calling for Robert Reyners and Henry to enter recognizance not to engage in victualing and alehouse keeping, and specifying that those who do not possess licenses (for victualing and keeping an alehouse) "and yet thought meete to be admitted" should come to him between that day and Sunday to obtain licenses.
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