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This article features a transcription of a [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] [[Manuscripts (disambiguation)|manuscript]], An Ephemeris of the Certifiable Causes of the Commission of the Peace, [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=193261 X.d.249], (1580-1588) featured in the ''[[Age of Lawyers]]''  Exhibition, September 12, 2015-January 3, 2016.

This is William Lambarde's signed journal of eight years of his work as justice of the peace in Kent, a note-taking project that he apparently continued in a second volume. This one covers the years from June 1580 to September 1588. The page at left mentions closing an unlicensed alehouse.

== Transcription ==
Below is a semi-diplomatic transcription of Folger manuscript X.d.249. The transcription below was created by the [[Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO)]] project. To access an image of the original leaf, click on each transcription's heading.

=== [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=193261 X.d.249]  ===
My father & I ioyned inCertifying o''u''r knowledge to ''the'' bishop  

concerning the good behaviour of margaret Tebold, to be maryed or 

Likewise bounde, and w''i''th them Will''ia''m page of 

shorne gent''leman'', and Stephen Colte of the same yeoman, 

as suerties, in the Like sum''m''es, and under the Like 

condicions. 

The saied L''ord'' and I, bounde Richard Williams of. 

Higham yeoma''n'' in .100. marc''es'' to his good behavior,  

but that was released. 

''Octob[e]r''.  The .3. of Octob[er]. my father in Law & I, bound 

Walter pelsot aforsaid fro''m'' keaping an Alehouse 

any more: his suerties weare ^<sup>Reignold</sup> pelsot, <s>Aastelyn</s> and 

Nicholas Miller, of Wrotha''m'' yeome''n''. 

The .4. octob[er] I certified at the Quarter Sessions

the said recognusances of Walter pelsot, Thomas 

Chambers, Will''ia''m Cosine, and Thomas Norha''m'', for  

not keeping Alehouses: and the said recognusances 

of Iames hawkes, Thomas phigion, and George Colte, 

for the keeping of good rule in theire Alehouses: and

the said recognusance of Iho''n'' Sone, for his apparance 

aforsaid: the said Walter pelsot, and Iho''n'' Vsiner, of  

Wrotha''m'' butchers being his suerties: w''hi''ch recognusance  

was the''n'' forfait by his defalt of apparance. 

The 25.Octob[er]. I delyvered to the L''ord'' cheif Baron, 

the  said Examinatio''n'' of Ihon Sone aforsaid. 

My father in law and I intreated Nordashe 

of Kemsyng  to give over Ale selling, by cause no alehous 

had bene kept theare w''i''thin the memorie of any man. 

November The 25. Of Nove''m''b[er ]. I and my father in Lawe took 

ordre for the punishme''n''t of Ioane pitchefoord of 

Seale widow, and Alice Hylles of the same towne, 

for the bearing of two bastardes: and for the puni 

sheme''n''t of Thomas Byrd of the said towne Turner, 

a Thomas pigeon late of the same towne Turner,

the reputed fathers of the said Bastardes: and accor 

ding to that ordre the said Thomas & Alice Weare 

sett in a cart at Sennock the next day, and the said 

Joane skourged at the same cartes tayle theare: as 

for pigeon he was fledd long before: wee then also 

tooke .2. obligac''i''ons for the releif of ''tha''t parishe, afor 

the keeping of those Bastards. All w''hi''ch appeareth 

in the Order or obligac''i''ons aforsaid. 

The .29. Nove''m''b''er''. my father in law & I, took ordre 

for the punisheme''n''t of Ihon Manser  (al''ia''s Butcher) 

late of Seale, and Ioane pierse of ''the'' same, for the 

begetting & bearing of a Bastarde mayde''n'' chylde: accord 

ding to w''hi''ch order the said Ioane was skourged at seale 

the said day. as for Iho''n'' he was fledd before, wee  

the''n'' also tooke an obligac''i''o''n'' ofher for the keaping of ''tha''t 

bastarde. 

The same day we wrote our Le''tt''res to S''i''r Thomas Walsing 

ham, for the staying of mr Reig[nold] peckam, who was arre= 

sted and brought to him by the name of Thom[as] Clarke. 

The .30. of Nov[ember] . I ioyned w''i''th S''i''r Thomas Wals= 

Ingham, in sending Reignold peckham aboue na= 

med to the Lord cheif Baro''n'' to london, who 

was apprehended in the Watche at footeseray 

about .x. of the clock in the morning vpo''n'' the 

monday before : the partes of this doing appearth 

in my papiers of Notes therof. 

The .s[ame]. day I served vnder the L''ord'' Cobham, in some smalle 

[mat]te[r] of [the] peace, whereof theare is no recorde. I sent '''(Torn in the left hand corner. Sentence continues on to the next page.)       '''

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