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Official papers - Feodaryship of Warwickshire

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Draft of an ?order in the Court of Wards, reciting that the feodary had exhibited a bill of complaint against the corporation of Coventr',alleging that on the death of one Dudley,he had sued forth a commission to have the tenure of the manors of Shortely and Pynneley, but that the Corporation had refused to hear the evidence and had not appeared on the appointed day. Unfinished. Endorsed with copious notes by Arthur Gregory concerning the case.