Reference
HY830
Title
Copy letter, apparently from the Privy Council, to Earl Bolingbroke as Custos Rotulorum for Bedfordshire
Date free text
26 February 1700-1
Production date
From: 1700 To: 1701
Scope and Content
- requiring him to direct the justices of the peace for Bedfordshire to issue warrants to constables, tithingmen and headboroughs to make diligent search for straggling seamen and watermen for the manning of the fleet,and to deliver them to the sheriff, who is to send them under guard to the sheriff of the next county towards the sea; and so to the nearest maritime county. A list showing names and ages of the men is to be receipted by each sheriff. “From the Councell chamber in Kensington.” Copy signatures of Norfolk, Earl Marshall, and 7 others.
Level of description
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