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Documents found at Kingston House. 297 
(Elizabeth). A fragment containing notes of sales of land 
chiefly by the Colthursts (who had been great purchasers of 
Bath Abbey Estates at the Dissolution), viz.:— 
7. Eliz. Edmund Colthurst to Edw. Wynter, lands at Claverton 
near Bath. 
8. Eliz. Thomas Ludlow to John Clement, tenements at Lyn- 
combe. 
8. Eliz. Vicary to Jenings, the manor of Widcombe. 
15. Eliz. Edmund Colthurst, tenements in Bath, to the Mayor 
and Citizens. 
Do. to Franklyn, in do. 
19. Eliz. Edmund Colthurst, tenements at Charterhouse Hinton, 
to Walter Hungerford. 
27. Eliz. Do., tenements at Combe and Widcombe, to Richard Iles. 
Do., to Langford. 
30. Eliz. Edmund Colthurst to Edward Hungerford, lands at 
Claverton near Bath. 
31. Eliz. Do., Walcot Barton to Alex. Staples. 
(1607). A Letter, dated Dublin, 23 Sept., to John Hall, Esq., 
from James Ley, (afterwards Earl of Marlborough) then Chief 
Justice of the King’s Bench in Ireland, to John Hall of 
Bradford, Esq.: warning him and his brother magistrates 
to enforce the law against drunkards, especially in the town 
of Westbury, (for which he was sometime M.P.) 
“Our town of Westbury hath need of you, to see to the corruption that 
useth to grow in such places. I pray you take some care of our drinkers; 
and since the King hath made some good laws against that vice, I hope 
that you that be magistrates will not suffer it to encrease more than when 
there were no laws against it.” [He then rallies him about some ne- 
glected commission]. ‘‘ Because men break their promises ordinarily at 
home, it is no marvel if faith be broken abroad, and with those that are 
divided both by sea and land.” 
(1615). A letter from John Yewe to his “ Right worshipful and 
very good Landlord Mr. John Hall, Esq., in Bradford.” 
(1617). A letter to Sir James Ley of Westbury, from Mrs. 
Melior Bampfield, widow of John Bampfield of Hardington, 
Co. Som. Esq., commenced against her by Mr. Hall of Brad- 
ford, for the recovery of £100, lent by him to her late 
husband. [Mr. Hall had called her a “most unconscionable 
woman’”’ }. 
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