Order Taken by the Privy Council on the Aforesaid Request
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[Acts of the Privy Council, Vol. XIX. (1590), pp. 127-28. ] A letter to the Bailifes, &c, of the towne of Colchester. Wheras we wrote hertofore unto you abowt certeine Dutchmen that dyd inhabit in the towne of Halsted in Essex, and did use the trade of making of bayses there, and sithence conceaving some dislike ageainst some of that towne that offred them discortesie (thoughe generally the people of that contry did greatly affect them), did withdraw them selves from thence and went to inhabit within that towne of Colchester, and that you should deale with those strangers to retire them selves and inhabit ageaine in the said towne of Halstead, in which cawse we are enformed you have not yet performed any thing to the contentes and meaning of our former letters. Forasmuch as the said place is very convenient for that trade, and aswell the people there as the gentlemen of the contrie do greatly affect them and desire that the same trade being there begunne may ageaine be continued, these shalbe therfore to require you to take ordre for the sending of the parties hereundre named, or els to make choise of six other that do use that art and facultie of making baies,being now resident there, to be sent thither, to th'end that some suche nomber, if not the whole (which is rather desired) may repaire ageaine to the towne of Halsted to inhabit there. And by cawse they shall not doubt to have the like discortesies or any injury hereafter to be offred them, we have appointed certeine of the Justices of the Peace theraboutes not only to see that such of that contry people as shall inhabit there shalbe well intreated and used with all courtesie, but in likemanner if any variance shall arise betweene them and any of that towne, upon declaraccion made by them or any of them to the said Justices of the same, they are aucthorized and required by letters from us to call aswell the parties greeved as also the adverse parties before them, and to examen and decide the controversies that shall from tyme to tyme arise amongst themVOL. according to equitie and 21justice, or otherwise to make I.
report to us of the same, that such further ordre may be taken by us in that behalf as we shall thinck to be most fit and con- venient. Wherein praieng your Lordship to take ordre for th'accomplishment of this our request, we byd you hartely farewell. John de Roo Oliver van le Pette Michael Drybatter John Forgouer Francis Goye.
Jacob Goye
