Gillingwater's History of Lowestoft: a reprint: with a chapter of more recent eventsGillingwater, Edmund
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Gillingwater's History of Lowestoft: a reprint: with a chapter of more recent events
Gillingwater, Edmund
Lothingland (England); Lowestoft (England)
THO. MEADOWS,
JOSEPH BRAND.
22nd May, 1663.
In pursuance of this appointment, the order for the admeasurement was,
without any difficulty or interruption, immediately carried into
execution; and a certificate of the same was presented to the House of
Lords on the 19th of June, 1663, by the right honourable Earl Cornwallis,
attested by the sheriffs of Norfolk and Suffolk.
THE CERTIFICATE.
DIE 19TH JUIJ, 1663.
To the right honourable the LORDS Spiritual and Temporal assembled in
the High Court of Parliament.
We the several and respective sheriffs of the counties of Norfolk and
Suffolk, do humbly certify, to your Lordships, That, in obedience to
an order of your honourable House, bearing date on Monday the
fifteenth day of April last past, and of a former judgment of your
honours bearing date the six and twentieth day of February, in the
year of our Lord one thousand, six hundred and sixty-two, we have
measured from the crane key, in the haven of Great Yarmouth,
mentioned in your Lordships said last-mentioned judgement, seven
miles, extending towards Lowestoft, there likewise mentioned. And in
further pursuance of the said several orders and judgements, have, at
the end of the said seven miles, given orders to set up a new post
for the bounding of the limits, etc., according to your said orders
and judgements, this present Wednesday, being the tenth day of June,
in the fifteenth year of his Majesty’s reign.
JOSEPH BRAND, AND THOS. MEDOWES, Sheriffs.
Whereas James Wilde did declare, upon oath, at the bar, that the
handwritings wherewith the said certificate is subscribed, are the
hand-writings of the several sheriffs of the counties of Norfolk and
Suffolk, and that he, the said James Wilde, did see them write the
same.
JO. BROWNE, Cleric, Parliamenti.
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