450 A List of Briefs from, the Register Books of Langley Burrell. 



The first Brief given under the Great Seal of England and 

 authorised by both Houses of Parliament, was that for the town of 

 Marlborough. Canon Maddock notes in the register of Humbleton 

 (Yorks), the following entry : — 



Collected in the parish of Humbledon according to an order from 

 the Council of State dated May 16th, 1653, for ye relief of the Town of 

 Marlborough, wherein were consumed by fire 224 houses, one of the 

 churches and the Market House April 28th. The whole loss amounting 

 to Three score and ten Thousand pounds and upwards. The sume of 

 nineteen shillings and two pence." Under this brief £18,000 was 

 collected. Trans. East Riding Ant. Soc, vii., 86. 



Collections for Briefs, anno 1661. 



Ap. 7 for Milton Abbas in Dorset, by virtue of a brief 3 4 

 28 for Watchet in Somerset ; towards their relief ace. 



to the intent of the brief 3 5 



May 19 for Walter Hughes late of Whatley in Oxon, inn- 

 holder 

 June 2 for East Hackbourne in Berks [Hagbourne] 

 9 for Ilminster in Somerset 



16 for Henry Harrison for a ship ? cald 1 the Patience 

 for a fire in Fleet St. 

 July 7 for Oxford city 

 Aug. 11 for Drayton in Salop 



18 for Fakenham in Norfolk 

 25 for the Church of Pontefract in Co. of York 

 Sep. 8 for the Church of Rypon in the County of York 

 8 for David Long of Norrington in the County of 



Wilts 

 15 for Fremington in the County of Devon 

 Nov. 10 for the Protestants in Lythuania 1 

 Dec. 22 for Bridgnorth in Salop 



for Southwold als (or atte ?) Soulby 



for Elmsly Castle in Worcestershire 



for Bolnbrooke in Lincolnshire 



for Isabell Davie of Hereford 



for Stephen Edmonds of Bayden in Wilts 



for Hungerford in Wilts 



1 For the relief of the Protestants in Lithuania. " This was more 

 especially to defray the cost of translating and printing the Bible in Polish 

 Lithuanian for the use of 100 Protestant Churches in Lithuania. The 

 translation was made by Chilinski, and was published in London in 1660, 

 and is still recognised as one of the standard works in that language. This 

 collection on behalf of the Lithuanian Protestants was followed by other 

 Briefs on behalf of the Protestants in Polish or Russian provinces." 

 Trans. E. Riding Ant. Soc, vii., 91. 



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