Notice to all Justices re Suppression of Riots 1669
Anglia: Whereas Information hath bene given to me by Sir Henry North
Barronett that severall disorderly Persons have riottously and with force of
Armes cast downe severall inclosures in the parish of Mildenhall in the County
of Suffolk within the Levell called Bedford Levell, which Inclosures were made
by vertue of a late Act of Parliament and the said persons doe further threaten
to goe on in the same unlawfull designe Now for the preserveing of the peace of
the Kingdome and for the preventinge of such mischeifes as may happen by such
disorderly illegall and unwarrantable practices, These are <therefore> in
his Majesties name to will and require all Justices of Peace, High Constables,
Constables and all other persons being thereunto required by any of his said
Majesties Justices of Peace or officers aforesaid to doe their utmost endevour
for the apprehendinge and punishinge of such riotous and disorderly persons
accordinge to his Majesties Lawes, As they will aunswer the contrary Given under
my hand and seale this Eighteenth Day of May in the Seaventeenth yeare of his
Majesties Raigne etc.
To all Justices of the Peace High Constables, Constables and to all other
Persons to whom these presents doe or may concerne.
[Signed] John Kelynge [seal]
18 May 1669
A rough draft of letter to the King (Charles II) 1669
May it Please your most excellent Majestie In Obedience to an Order of your
Majestie in Counsell, bearing date the 16th day of June last past We sent for
Henry Warner of Mildenhall in the Country of Suffolk Esq & William Coe &
James Howlet of the same town Yeomen & Required them to give Sufficient
security to your Majestie in the Summe of £200 a peece to be of Good behaviour
Which they refuseing to <give do ... ..... ..... but for £100 peece> to
do or to give any security absolutely in a greater summe then £100 we thought
fitt to Dismiss them being unsatisfyd in our Judgements that a less summe than
what we require would be a sufficient security. Not only because their has two
very notorious Riotts been comitted in the said town since the Granting of your
Majesties Said Order, the product whereof was the pulling down of a new erected
house (in the night time) & the assaulting of the Servants of Henry North
Esq your Majesties Petitioner …… date hereof and ……. night before
<the execution of your Majesties said Order> by several persons in visards
armed with Swords & Gunns (to the number of 30. Or 40.) to the great Danger
of their lives, their being <several> shots made at them in their escape.
But allso because of the great influence we find that the carying on of this
affair with so high a hand has upon the whole Country even to the exposeing of
the peace thereof to a very great deal of danger & hazard Of which we
thought our selves bound in duty to Certify your Majestie To Bury St Eds July
the 7th 1669
Verso: In witness thereof we the said Commissioners have here unto put our
hands and seales
And we the said Commissioners doe humbly certify this our determination and
Judgment to our Soverayne Lord the King in his Court of Chancery[?] to be placed
in the office of the \ … / and there Kept on record according to the Act of
Parliament
Transcripts: Sandie Geddes 1995
