Petition of the Bailiff, Burgesses and parishioners of Stratford to Lord Treasurer Burleigh [Burley]

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Showing that by letters patent of King Edward VI. there should be a perpetual vicar in the Church of Stratford, with a pension of twenty pounds paid by the said Bailiff and Burgesses, and that hitherto the incumbents have enjoyed the same without the payment of any first fruits, but that now process from the Exchequer has gone forth against the now minister, Mr. Bramhall, the stipend being so small, and the cure so large (not less than 3000 souls) they fear that no able and learned minister will undertake the office ; they pray therefore that he may be discharged from the same with twenty-five signatures, c1590

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BRU15/12/38
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[1585-1595]
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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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Petition of the Bailiff, Burgesses and parishioners of Stratford to Lord Treasurer Burleigh [Burley]

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