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Staffordshire Historical Collections
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 421/E 5, letters patent 1640; cf. ibid. D 2026/X 14, s.v. purprestures within Lord Protector's waste. P.R.O., MR 691 …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I
… Chigwell. With query, whether he shall be dealt with for purprestures or for encroachments in the latter case, as he …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 13th centuries. In 1210 the Crown received more from new purprestures than from the farm of the manor. 18 Newly …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Times, 17 Oct. 1895, p. 12. Gibbs, op. cit. 647. Among the purprestures in the 16th century was a forge (Rentals and …
A History of the County of Northampton
… 'fee farmers to the King within this town.' 428 When purprestures were presented, it was not uncommon for the …
Chamber Accounts of the Sixteenth Century
… Smith for search and other travail touching the matter of purprestures to maintain the city's title thereunto 10s.; 1 … by him laid out for search and copies of inquisitions of purprestures remaining in Sir Thomas Hennage's office in the … 11 Aug. to Mr Daniell for his pains taken touching purprestures and the city's perambulations 10s.; 21 Jan. to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… In 1502 266 persons were charged with nuisances or purprestures; and in the spring leet of 1561 59 apprentices …
Report on the Records of the City of Exeter
… after the day of the election of the Mayor. (VIII) All purprestures made in the City and suburbs to be …
The Manuscripts of Lincoln, Bury St. Edmunds etc.
… subject to a fee-farm rent of 111 l.; saving the King's purprestures and rents, if any. The seal is gone, but the … 27 [1256].Charter confirming the grant of the town, with purprestures, and reducing the fee-farm rent to 50 l., but …