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Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Ancient Charters: Belonging to the Twelve Capital Burgesses Common of the Town and Parish of Sheffield, Usually Known as the Church Burgesses, With Abstracts of All Sheffield Wills Proved at York Prior to 1554
In cataloguing each document (other than subsidy rolls) after giving the date, I have stated the purport of the docu ment, using modern English, unless otherwise indicated by quota tion marks; and the translations follow the originals, as closely as legibility permits; but under the headings Names of Persons, Witnesses, Place-names, and Field-names, the original spelling is used, with, when necessary, the English equivalent, or modern name. The bracketed numbers in the margin refer to thenumbers attached to the charters of the Burgesses, as now arranged in their muniment room at the Parish Church. My thanks are due to the Twelve Capital Burgesses for granting me permission to prepare this catalogue; and to their law clerk, Mr. John Bristow Wheat, for the facilities he has given me for examining, at my leisure, this most interesting collection of local land charters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
