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Reference Number496.5 BA9360/A6/Box 5/1
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/3/6/2/2
TitleFrankpledge
DescriptionVolume of Frankpledge, Orders of the Council of the Marches, written in English and Latin. Matters recorded included: trades; sanitary regulations; Assize of Bread and Ale; fishing and river trade; royal subsidies and proclamation; petitions and orders relating to the Privy Council and Council of the Marches; musters and pressing of soldiers; drill; cost of armour etc; fish in Lent; prevention of exporting corn; archery; charters of Bromsgrove, Coventry, Kinver etc; lists of freeholders; charitable bequeasts and distribution of aid to the poor; reception of the Lord of the Marches; famine of 1597; Gunpowder Plot; and building of new Tolsey and Shambles.

With a partial typed index, and contemporary index at the end of the volume fos 299-324 to end.

The volume also contains Lay Day Orders and copies of Lay Subsidy lists 1550s-1608.

This has been treated by a conservator and has been rebound into several smaller folios.
Date1569-1608
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