[672] Acts of the Privy Council, New Series, vol. xiii. pp. 91–92. A letter to the Justices of the County of Lincoln: “If they thinke it agreeable with equitie and justice that the poore man should be put in possession of the said Landes, that they give commandment unto the said Lacy to admit him thereunto.”
[673] Ibid., vol. xiv. pp. 201–202.
[674] Ibid., vol. xv. pp. 394–395.
[675] See p. 373, n. 1, and Acts of the Privy Council, New Series, vol. xvii. p. 76. For a similar letter to the Council of the North, ibid., vol. xxvii. pp. 228–229.
[676] Ibid., vol. xxii. p. 379.
[677] Ibid., vol. xxii. pp. 360 and 370. Letters to the Master of the Rolls ordering retrial of case concerning enclosure of commons at Bath.
[678] Ibid., vol. xvi. pp. 366–367. A letter to the Solicitor: “Whereas divers poor men, tenants of the manor of Chilton, have exhibited very grievous complaints unto their lordships against William Darrell, Esq., of divers and sundry misdemeanors committed by him in breach of her majestie's peace" ... the solicitor is to “cause a byll to be drawn into the Court of Star Chamber against Darrel,” and Camden Society 1886, Cases in the Court of Star Chamber and High Commission, pp. 44–45.
[679] Holkham MSS., Sparham, Bdle. No. 5, 14th June, 34 Eliz: “In the matter in variance brought before the Queenes Majestie in her Majtie's honble Court of Requests at the suit of John Byrd against Christopher Saye and other defendants upon the motion of Mr. Edward Coke recorder of the City of London being of Councel with the said defendant.... For that it appeareth that the said Defendant hath had three verdicts and judgments at the Common Law, one of them against the said complainant himself."... The defendant is awarded costs, “and the said complainant shall from henceforth forbear to put any sheepe upon the said ground, and suffer his sheepe to feede there.”
[680] Prothero, Statutes and Constitutional Documents, 1558–1625, pp. 370–371.
[681] Prothero, Statutes and Constitutional Documents, 1558–1625, pp. 470–472, and Gay, Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., New Series, vol. xviii.