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Draft petition by Bailiff and Burgesses of the Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon to Queen Elizabeth I

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Commencing, "the humble peticion of the Bailiff and Burgesses of Stratford," c., apparently the fly leaf of BRU15/5/17, containing an abstract of the petition, dated from the Court at Richmond, 27 October, 1598, by Sir Julius Cæsar to Sir John Fortescue, Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose report is also inscribed. Certificates of the amount of subsidies payable by the town are also appended