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Writ of In∣quiry.

THe Keepers, &c.

Greeting.

Whereas A: B. lately in the Court before us in the Upper Bench at Westminster by a Bili without our Writ, and by judgment of the said Court had impleaded C. D. of E. in the County of F. Yeo∣man for that, (that is to say) that wherea•• one J. H. the 19th day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand six hundred and fifty, at L. in the County aforesaid, had demised, granted, and to farm, let, &c. (And so recite the Declarat') And thereupon, then produced the Suit, &c. Such like processe thereupon, is taken before us in the same Court, that the said A. B. ought to recover his da∣mages against the said C. D. by reason of the premises, but because now it is unknown what damage the said A. B. in that behalf sustained; Therefore we command you, that by the Oath of honest and lawfull men of your Bayli∣wick, you diligently enquire what damages, the said A. B. aswell by reason of the premises, as for his costs and char∣ges by him about that Suit, in that behalf disbursed And the inquisition which you shall thereby take, you make manifest before us in the Upper Bench at Westminster, on, &c. under your Seal, and the Seals of them by the Oath, of whom you take tha•• inquisition, together with this Writ:

Witnes, &c.