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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2008
Court Order 7 February 1566 REQ 1/11, fo. 590 49
Court Order 3 November 1585 REQ 1/14, p. 59 54
Copy of Letter 3 May 1587 REQ 1/14, p. 559 54
Court Note 17 June 1587 REQ 1/14, p. 618 57
Parchment Interrogatories [1591] REQ 2/256/75, m. 4 57
Paper Depositions 21 October 1591 REQ 2/256/75, m. 1 58
For Richard Puttenham, see Steven V. May, ‘Puttenham, George’, in Oxford DNB.
143 1560, although Richard was convicted of rape in 1561 before having the conviction quashed: see SP 12/66/53, fo. 145; SP 12/16/61, fo. 145.
144 28 February 1563; further details of this and subsequent letters mentioned in this order cannot be supplied as the privy council register for the period 23 January to August 1563 is lost.
145 1563. George Puttenham was the author of The Arte of English Poesie (1589).
146 The only entry for this date in the surviving Acts of the Privy Council makes no mention of this matter; APC 1558–70, pp. 292–293.
147 i.e. ‘eftsoons’ – again or repeatedly (OED).
148 i.e. ‘marks’.
149 i.e. ‘acknowledged’.
150 Or fo. 29.
151 The right hand edge of the page is damaged and faded.
152 Thomas Colby, adm. Gray's Inn 1549, bar 1553, purchased a moiety of the manor of Sherfield and became involved in long-running litigation over payment to Richard of an annuity. See P.W. Hasler, ‘Colby, Thomas’, in History Of Parliament 1558–1603; VCH Hants, vol. 4, p. 105; REQ 2/240/54.
153 See 6.1 above.
154 Or fo. 279.
155 A rent seck was similar to a rent charge, a rent reserved to an individual other than the owner by deed, but without any clause of distress in case of arrears.
156 A silver coin, the use of which had been prohibited by law since the reign of Henry V.
157 i.e. ‘escape’.
158 Or fo. 308v.
159 The page is damaged and faded.
160 ‘Depositions taken at Westminster on 21 October 1591 on the part of Mary Puttenham’.
161 Probably Michael Molyns, adm. Inner Temple 1561, MP for Wallingford 1589. He married Elizabeth, the widow of Thomas Colby, who in 1572 had purchased a moiety in the manor of Sherfield from Richard's daughter and son-in-law. Alan Harding, ‘Molyns, Michael’, in History of Parliament 1558–1603; and see n. 152 above. W.H. Cooke lists him as ‘Nicholas’ in Inner Temple Admissions, p. 45.
162 The prison over the gate of the Palace of Westminster.