ECR 27 410
ECR 27 410
Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire: Letter concerning holding court
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27 May 1722
John Billing, bailiff, Wedon Beck [Weedon Bec], to Mr John Sawyer, attorney at law at his lodgings at Blew Ball in Arundall Street in the Strand, asking him to pass an enclosed letter to Henry Proctor, esquire, the steward. The enclosed letter asks for a deputation to keep a petty court to admit one Thomas Gare, also there is one Watson who "hath had great deale of sickness and would morgage his tenement that his mother hath left him to redeeme his clothes that he hath been foarst to pawne for bread in ye time of his sickness."
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