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The Bailiff and Burgesses of Stratford upon Avon to Sir Henry Yelverton, Attorney General, in behalf of divers poor men oppressed by one William Slatter, late of Stratford, carpenter, by a bill in the court of Star Chamber, the said Slatter being `a fellowe of verrye lewde behaviour, a stirrer upp of suites, a contentious person, a contemner of authoritye and of orders made by His Mat supi; supe; sups; Justices of Assise... for which misdemeanors he standeth indicted within the saide Borroughe for a common Barrater, and refform not him self, but groweth worse and worse' etc. Dated at Stratford, 26 April 1619. Folio 109.