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Letters testimonial in favour of a poor weaver named Thomas Lett, who had lost his all in a fire
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4 Elizabeth I
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BRU15/12/18
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Date
1561-1562
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- BRU Stratford-upon-Avon Borough, 1370-1942
- BRU15 Volumes of miscellaneous documents, 1370-1886
- BRU15/12 'Miscellaneous Documents, Vol 12', [1550-1849]
- BRU15/12/1 Extract from Domesday Book relating to Stratford-upon-Avon, [1086]-(1558-1603)
- BRU15/12/2 Copy returns of the Commissioners on the dissolution of religious Houses, [1542-1552]-(1811)
- BRU15/12/3 Copy ecclesiastical survey taken 26 Henry VIII. in the office of First Fruits, [1534-1535]-(1849)
- BRU15/12/4 Rental of estates, [1542]
- BRU15/12/5 Account of the Stratford charities, [1785-1795]
- BRU15/12/6 Copy extract of Ministers' Accounts relating to the Guild of Stratford-on-Avon, [1549]-(1701-1800)
- BRU15/12/7 List of jurors at a court of Frankpledge of the Lord Bishop of Worcester held at Stratford before Sir George Throgmorton, knight, the steward, 7 Apr 1548
- BRU15/12/8 Copy extract of Ministers' Accounts relating to Stratford-upon-Avon Guild, [1550]-(1649-1750)
- BRU15/12/9 Memoranda, [1553-1558]
- BRU15/12/10 Acquittance in full by Thomas Shawe, clothier, of Worcester, to the Bailiff and Aldermen of Stratford for 10£ due to him under the will of Emot Lorde, late of Stratford deceased, they paying to him the sum of seven pounds, 1559-1560
- BRU15/12/11 Power of attorney by Thomas Rawlenes, of the county of Salop, yeoman, to Richard Sponer to receive of Christian Wynfield, the widow and administratrix of Rychard Wynfyld of Stratford, yeoman, the sum of xxx.li due upon a bill of obligation, 1559-1560
- BRU15/12/12 Acknowledgment of a debt of three pounds by Roger Bowld of Stratford, fuller, to Thomas Meryk, 1560-1561
- BRU15/12/13 Bond of obligation by Simon Biddull to Daniel Baker, [1553-1603]
- BRU15/12/14 Precept to the Serjeant-at-Mace for Henry Baylye of Crymscote to answer Robert Perott in a plea of debt, 1556-1567
- BRU15/12/15 Grant, 1 Jan 1555
- BRU15/12/16 Syndall v. Ranoldes, [1550-1649]
- BRU15/12/17 List of jurors in a view of frank-pledge with a Court and Sessions of the Peace held at Stratford, 14 Apr 1559
- BRU15/12/18 Letters testimonial in favour of a poor weaver named Thomas Lett, who had lost his all in a fire, 1561-1562
- BRU15/12/19 Licence by the High Bailiff and Aldermen of the Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon for Francis Haybaydge, one of the aldermen of the said town, to keep a tavern there, 1561-1562
- BRU15/12/20 Writ for removing a cause against John Henshawe into the Court of Chancery, 1560-1561
- BRU15/12/21 Power of attorney by Margaret Edgeworth of Preston Bagott, Warwickshire, widow, and Thomas Edgeworth her son, to Richard Sponer, to receive monies of John Jeffereys the elder of Stratford-upon-Avon, 1560-1561
- BRU15/12/22 Power of attorney by Thomas Symons of Bynton to Richard Sponer of Stratford-upon-Avon, painter, to receive monies etc of Robert Daniel, 1562-1563
- BRU15/12/23 Bond for due performance of office, [1558-1603]
- BRU15/12/24 Bond for performance of covenants, 1575-1576
- BRU15/12/25 The measure of the Towne land', 1573-1574
- BRU15/12/26 Memorandum about Mrs. Smyth's lease in Church Street etc, [?1558-1560]
- BRU15/12/27 Extract from the fines and amerciaments made before Mr. Danvers, deputy for Henry Wilcockes, Esquire, clerk of the market, 1571-1572
- BRU15/12/28 Schoolmaster's receipt for his half-year's salary, 21 Dec 1579
- BRU15/12/29 Memorandum of ?payment, 18 Jul 1580
- BRU15/12/30 Bond of obligation by Margery Astley, butcher, of Stratford, for the due administration to the effects of her late husband, 1584
- BRU15/12/31 Bond for the performance of the covenants, 1581-1582
- BRU15/12/32 Memoranda concerning the Hospital place in Warwick given by the Earl of Leicester, [1585-1603]
- BRU15/12/33 Bond of obligation by Nicholas Barnehurst alias Banester of Stratford to John Jefferies of Wolverdington, gentleman, in 20£, 1586-1587
- BRU15/12/34 The constable's byll for charges uppon our soldiars', 1588
- BRU15/12/35 Lease of tithes: Ryen Clifford, 1588-1589
- BRU15/12/36 Rental entitled "The colledge rentes dewe att Michaelmas, anno xxxij.", [Sep 1590]
- BRU15/12/37 Letter from W. Barnes, Clifford, to the Bailiff and Burgesses of the Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon, [1550-1649]
- BRU15/12/38 Petition of the Bailiff, Burgesses and parishioners of Stratford to Lord Treasurer Burleigh [Burley], [1585-1595]
- BRU15/12/39 Account of a parcel of lands in Stratford lately fallen into the King's hands by reason of the death of Ambrose Earl of Warwick without heir male, [1585-1595]
- BRU15/12/40 Schedule of propositions in twelve sections for the benefit of the town of Stratford, [1595-1605]
- BRU15/12/41 Fragment of a bond of obligation, [1558-1603]
- BRU15/12/42 John Edgeock and Richard Clerke v. the Bailiff and Burgesses of the Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon, 1590-1591
- BRU15/12/43 Bond of obligation, 1591
- BRU15/12/44 John Edgeock and Richard Clerk v. the Bailiff and Burgesses of the Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon, 1590-1591
- BRU15/12/45 Memorandum of a lease: Shottery, [1600-1610]
- BRU15/12/46 Accounts of ?Abraham Sturley, Chamberlain, Nov 1594
- BRU15/12/47 Bond, 1597
- BRU15/12/48 Bond, 1595-1596
- BRU15/12/49 Memoranda, May-Jun 1597
- BRU15/12/50 Apprenticeship indenture: Thomas Fynche, 1598
- BRU15/12/51 Letter from Robert Allen to his brother Ralph Allen, in Fleet Street, London, 'att the pompe', 8 Oct 1598
- BRU15/12/52 Copy memoranda and letter by Richard Clerke respecting the suit between Stratford-upon-Avon Borough and Sir John Conway in the matter of Luddington tithes, 1599
- BRU15/12/53 Minutes of the Halls and meetings of the Company of Fullers and Walkers, 1598-1601
- BRU15/12/54 Survey of the estates of the Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon, 1599
- BRU15/12/55 Receipts signed George Kempson for levies made for the King's Bench and Marshalsea, maimed soldiers etc, 1600
- BRU15/12/56 Instrument of the Peculiar Court of Stratford relative to Elizabeth, executrix of the last will of Humphry Brace of Stratford-upon-Avon, 1600
- BRU15/12/57 Apprenticeship indenture: Edward Walsall, 1599-1600
- BRU15/12/58 Instrument of the Peculiar Court of Stratford, relating to Richard Woodward of Stratford-upon-Avon, executor of the last will of Robert Perriott of Newton Quinton, Gloucestershire, 1600
- BRU15/12/59 Unsigned undated letter addressed to "Good Sir Edward", [1585-1595]
- BRU15/12/60 Letter from Thomas Greene to the Bailiff of Stratford-upon-Avon, Oct 1601
- BRU15/12/61 Copy report from the Court of Augmentation respecting the property of the Guild in Sheep Street and Bancroft, the great stone bridge, and the alms-people, 1548
- BRU15/12/62 Levy for the setting forth of soldiers into Ireland, 30 Jul 1601
- BRU15/12/63 Apprenticeship indenture: Mary Attwood, daughter of John Attwood, late of Stratford-upon-Avon, deceased, 1601-1602
- BRU15/12/64 Orders and minutes of the Chamber, 22 Dec 1602
- BRU15/12/65 Memorandum of bail entered into for the appearance of William Slatter, carpenter, 4 Apr 1603
- BRU15/12/66 Warrant for the apprehension of John Crofftes of Tanworth, yeoman, and John Boyce of Stratford, shoemaker, on the affidavit of William Slater of Awston, carpenter, who has declared before William Combes Esquire, J. P., that he goes in bodily fear of the same, 25 Aug 1603
- BRU15/12/67 Undertaking by Thomas Ravens of Stratford, corviser, for a money consideration, to take and bring up Joan, the orphan child of John Atwood, late of Stratford, tailor, deceased, and instruct her in knitting, weaving of bone-lace and other honest trades, for the space of seven years, 1603
- BRU15/12/68 Instrument by John Lock of Stratford-upon-Avon, labourer, assigning over all the interest in a tenement in Yeely [Ely] Street to one Giles Bathway which he had acquired by marriage with Alice, widow of the late William Bathway, brother of the said Giles, 1603-1604
- BRU15/12/69 Warrant against Richard Nichols of Stratford on the oath of Thomas White, that he was in bodily fear etc, 1603-1604
- BRU15/12/70 Apprenticeship indenture: John Atwode, orphan child of John Atwode, deceased, 1603-1604
- BRU15/12/71 Presentments, 13 Jan 1604
- BRU15/12/72 Information of Antony Mylles, Joan Ange and Mrs. Nash's boy, concerning a seminary priest escaped, who was said to have gone into Mr. Reynoldes' house, 1603 - 1616
- BRU15/12/73 Extracts from an ancient book belonging to the Guild, 1406-1605
- BRU15/12/74 Apprenticeship indenture: Katherine Sumner, daughter of William Sumner, deceased, 1606-1607
- BRU15/12/75 List of men and women licensed to keep alehouses within the Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon by William Wyott, Bailiff and others, 1606
- BRU15/12/76 Paper relating to Robert Ingram drawing his dagger against Daniel Baker, 1603-1604
- BRU15/12/77 Presentment of the jury about Lewis Cawdrie, late of Stratford-upon-Avon, yeoman, 1603-1604
- BRU15/12/78 Presentment of the jury concerning John Fyefield alias Baker, late of Stratford-upon-Avon, tailor, 1603-1604
- BRU15/12/79 Justices' precept for impanelling jurors, 1605-1606
- BRU15/12/80 Recognizance entered into by Arthur Cawdry of Stratford-upon-Avon, yeoman, and Edward Ange of the same, shoemaker, for Charles Lee of Alston, miller, 1605-1606
- BRU15/12/81 Recognizance of William Berryon of Stoneley, gentleman, and George Merrell of Ayleston, yeoman, for Thomas Shrympton of Rodbrooke, yeoman, 1605-1606
- BRU15/12/82 Recognizance of John Wylkyns of Wymson and Charles Ley of Alston, for Thomas Ley of Wymson, 1605-1606
- BRU15/12/83 Recognizance of Thomas Ryland of Clifford, yeoman, and Thomas Hobday of Stratford-upon-Avon, glover, for Thomas Shrympton of Rodbrooke, gentleman, 1605-1606
- BRU15/12/84 List of jurors, Sep 1606
- BRU15/12/85 List of jurors, [1601-1700]
- BRU15/12/86 Recognizance of William Castle of Stratford-upon-Avon, glover, John Cox of the same, glover, and Humphry Clarke of the same, weaver, that the said William Castle do not keep a common alehouse or tippling house, 1605-1606
- BRU15/12/87 Recognizance by Francis Boyce, tailor, Richard Brookes, tailor, and William Ange, butcher, not to keep a common alehouse or tippling house, 1605-1606
- BRU15/12/88 Acknowledgment by Sir John Digbye of his having received of Mr. Humfrey Coles the sum of 191£ in part payment of his interest in the tithe of Stratford, 1606
- BRU15/12/89 Apprenticeship indenture: Elizabeth Balies, daughter of Thomas Balyes, 1606-1607
- BRU15/12/90 Letter from Sir John Digby to his "cosen Broome,", 20 Nov 1606
- BRU15/12/91 Apprenticeship indenture: Dorothy Mather, daughter of John Mather, 1606-1607
- BRU15/12/92 List of petitioners for the Serjeant's place, 1607
- BRU15/12/93 List of presentments, 1607
- BRU15/12/94 Paper headed, "23 Februarij, 1608, taken out of a note of Mr. Antony Nashe's [Nash] at Welcome.", 23 Feb 1609
- BRU15/12/95 Presentments made before Mr. Henry Walker and Mr. William Wiatte, Justices of the Peace, 1608-1608
- BRU15/12/96 The particulars of an inquest upon the murder of one Thomas Waterman alias Dixon by Lewes Gilberte, butcher, 1608
- BRU15/12/97 Examination of William Twynnynge, gardener, Richard Holtam, yeoman, Robert Perrett, carpenter, all of Stratford-upon-Avon, and Johanna Robbyns, touching the death of William Robbyns, husband of the last named, and servant to one Hornby a blacksmith, alledged to have been killed by Thomas Hill of Stratford, tailor, in a quarrel respecting a jug of beer, 1608-1608
- BRU15/12/98 Presentments at the Quarter Sessions, 1608
- BRU15/12/99 Notice by Thomas Greene of Stratford, Esquire, that the sum of 300£ shall be paid to Humfrey Colles, Esquire, in the north porch of the parish Church upon the feast of the Annunciation, 1613
- BRU15/12/100 Bond, 1609-1610
- BRU15/12/101 Humfrey Acton's evidence about the murder of Thomas Waterman by Lewis Gilbert, 1608
- BRU15/12/102 Letter from John Nashe [Nash], [1601-1639]
- BRU15/12/103 Memoranda in the hand-writing of Thomas Greene respecting the obtaining the possession of a house now tenanted by one George Browne, 1609
- BRU15/12/104 Extract from letters patents, 24 May 1609
- BRU15/12/105 Paper of memoranda one of which is headed "the names of those that doe contribute to the subsidie.", 1610
- BRU15/12/106 Petition to the Bailiff and Burgesses of the Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon of Henry Kightley, 1610
- BRU15/12/107 Paper relating to Luddington tithes, 1609
- BRU15/12/108 Company's answer to Mr. High Sheriff concerning the intended inclosure at Welcombe, 1616
- BRU15/12/109 Entries of apprentices enrolled and made free, 1603-1611
- BRU15/12/110 Warrants for a levy, 1610
- BRU15/12/111 Account of the 'lead of the Chappell that was to be cast, weighed the iiij.th of June in the presence of Mr. John Gibbes, alderman, and Mr. Henrie [Henry] Wilson', [1590-1610]
- BRU15/12/112 Mandate to the constables of Stratford-upon-Avon to bring to Southampton twenty-five pounds of butter, 1611
- BRU15/12/113 Warrant for persons to appear at the house of Elizabeth Quyney [Quiney] to be examined under a Chancery Commission in the suit of the Bailiff and Burgesses of the Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon v. Sir Edward Conway, knight, and Francis Cawdrye, 1612
- BRU15/12/114 Petition of Richard Mayowe to have four pounds of the charity money, 1612
- BRU15/12/115 Acknowledgment by Thomas Greene, Esquire, of his being indebted to Thomas Rawlyns of Marston Sicca in the sum of 10£, 1612
- BRU15/12/116 Apprenticeship indenture: Margaret Getley, daughter of Thomas Getley of Stratford-upon-Avon, 1612-1613
- BRU15/12/117 Note of a final concord: Henry Wilson gentleman with Margaret Lord, widow, and Richard Smith alias Courte are the parties, concerning a messuage in Stratford, 1611
- BRU15/12/118 Memorandum by the Chamberlains of their having demanded a certain rent at the dwelling houses of John Wright and others in a tenement wherein Lord Carewe hath interest etc, 1612
- BRU15/12/119 Portion of a terrier giving the measurement of premises in the High Street ward, 7 Jul 1613
- BRU15/12/120 General release of Humfrey Colles of the Middle Temple London to Sir Richard Verney, Sir Edward Conway and Thomas Greene, 1613-1614
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