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Document-specific information
Date: August 17, 1608
Repository: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
Call number and opening: BRU15/5/139
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Modernized/Translated transcription

[verso: endorsed]

By virtue of this precept I have arrested the said John whose body I hold ready as I was ordered within that I do. Mainpernor for the defendant, Thomas Honby
[signed] Gilbert Charnock serjeant 

Semi-diplomatic transcription

[verso: endorsed]

Virtute istius
precepti cepi
infranominatum
Iohannem cuius
corpus paratum
habeo prout
interius mihi
precipitur
Manucaptor pro defendente
Thomas Hornebye
Gilbertus Charnock serviens

 

Item Date
August 17, 1608
Repository
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
Call Number
BRU15/5/139