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Middlesex county records
… crossed swords with a sudden assailant. Sometimes these affrays were preceded by cartel of defiance and formal … seldom came to the cognizance of the magistrates. That the affrays, to escape the vigilance of the constables, were … of the year, may be inferred from the frequency of the affrays in which life was taken. In the Middlesex Records one …
Middlesex county records
… By reason of which unlawful assembling of the people great affrays assaults tumults and quasi-insurrections and divers …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… they should not be released on account of the evils and affrays commenced at that time, which have ceased at present. …