"Darnley Portrait" of Elizabeth I of England; 1575

Calendar of Patent Rolls; 16 Elizabeth I: Part XIV

3 April 1574. Gorhambury.

Licence for 21 years to John Collins of Ipeswiche, co. Suffolk, Richard his brother and such as have been their apprentices to make medrinacks, poldavies and other sail-cloth. None other to intermeddle on pain of imprisonment without bail or mainprise until he shall have entered into bond before the next justice of the peace to the place of his imprisonment that he will not act contrary to the tenor hereof. Since, as the Crown is informed, the towns of Ippeswiche and Woodbridge, co. Suffolk, are the fittest places for making of Continue reading →