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Personal Papers relating to official positions - Sir Edward Ferrers

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Memoranda relating to writs to be executed and other business of the sheriff in co. Leicester containing the following cases. The attachment of Thomas Hesand to reply to Gerard Danett for the injury done by the said Thomas to Robert Mayo, servant of the said Gerard Dannett. The attachment of Thomas Hesand to reply to Robert Mayo for the injury done by the said Thomas as in the writ. A writ of proclamation against William ?Turpin of Knaptofte [Knaptoft, co. Leicester] to reply to Robert Wilson upon a plea of debt for £30. The attachment of William Byller late of the town of Leicester gent. to reply to Randolf Pepsall' for £10. A writ of capias against William Fox late of Dalby super le Wold [Dalby on the Wold, co. Leicester] to reply to Gregory Henfrey for 4 marks. Undated: c. 1519. Sir Edward Ferrers knt. was sheriff of cos. Warwick and Leicester in 5 Henry VIII [1513-14] and again in 10 Henry VIII [1518-19] see Dugdale's Warwickshire, 1730 ed. 1151. These memoranda probably related to the year 1518-19 as the account on the other side of this document DR3/646 included dates from 8 Henry VIII [1516] to Michaelmas 11 Henry VIII [1519]. Underneath the memoranda are two practice openings to letters both beginning `My louyng Frend...' written in the same hand. [347b]