View source for Letter from Sir John Popham to Robert Redmayne, copy, 1599 June 20, L.d.477

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This article features a transcription of a [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] [[Manuscripts (disambiguation)|manuscript]], Letter from Sir John Popham to Robert Redmayne, L.d.477, (June 20 1599) featured in the ''[[Age of Lawyers]]''  Exhibition, September 12, 2015-January 3, 2016.

More manuscripts from this collection can be found in [http://findingaids.folger.edu/dfobacontownshend.xml#anchorref604 Guide to the Bacon-Townshend collection, 1550-1640]

Law and religion mixed closely in the early modern age. This letter from John Popham, the chief justice of King's Bench, orders justices of the peace in Norfolk to imprison a list of "dangerous recusants" at Wisbech Castle until the next assizes—the county-level courts held twice a year. Recusants were Catholics, or non-conforming Protestants like Puritans, who did not attend Church of England services, as required by law.

== Transcription ==
Below is a semi-diplomatic transcription of Folger manuscript L.d.477. 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://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/scn55o L.d.477, 1r] ===
With my very harty com''m''endac''i''ons I haue herinclosed 

sent you ''the'' names of diuerse very dangerous recusant''es''

<nowiki> </nowiki>dwelling neare vnto wisbitch castell whome I praie you 

to take some course for either by your self or some other 

Iustic''es'' of the peace thereabowt''es'' That they maie be bownde 

over to appeare at ''the'' next assizes to be holden for the  

Cowntie of Norff''olk'' to answere vnto such matters as shalbe 

obiected against them on her maiesties behalf And even 

so I bid you very hartely farewell; At Sergeant''es'' Inn 

this xx<sup>th</sup> of Iune 1599 

Your very loving frende

Io''hn'' Popham 

Theise are ''the'' names I ment 

Henry Bedingfeild of wearham gent''leman ''

Martin Moundeford of ''the'' same gent''leman ''

<nowiki> </nowiki>Guiles Townshend of westdereham gent''leman ''

Thomas Lovell of Bich''a''m west gent''leman''

Henrye Lawes of the same yeoman 

Richard Atkyns of Owtwell yeoman 

John ffyncham of Martyn 

Rowland Twaytes of Bodney 

John Paynter of Holme hall 

Evans ffludd of Breckles gent''leman''

<nowiki> </nowiki>Thomas Harman of Oxburrough  

Richard Browne of Easton 

Thom''a''s Bromull of St Maries 

Raphaell Willowghby of Mawdelyn gent''leman ''

George Norton of Hindringham

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