Annals of the Lord of Warrington for the First Five Centuries After the Conquest, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from Annals of the Lord of Warrington for the First Five Centuries After the Conquest, Vol. 2: With Historical Notices of the Place and NeighbourhoodMeanwhile the fever of abduction Of women had not only not died out but had reached the height of an epidemic in the year 1437. On the 4th December in that year writs were issued to the sheriffs Of London and Of twenty-four English counties, setting forth that the king had been informed Of the gathering of great routs and divers conventicles of misgoverned men, by whom divers and great robberies, rapes Of women, burnings Of houses, manslaughter, and many other great riots and inconveniences had been committed, the which assemblies chie¿y consisted Of such persons as would not labour for their sustenance, but rather desired to live in idleness, and go well arrayed and fare delicately, withouten they have any possessions wherewith to maintain such estate as they show. For suppressing which disturbances copies Of the statute Of Winchester were furnished to the sheriffs, and they were enjoined to see its provisions strictly carried out. (privy Council Proceedings, vol. Xxvi.) But ill manners proved too inveterate to be eradicated by a royal proclamation and an Obsolete statute, and, notwithstanding both, outrages such as that which lady Boteler had suffered from still continued to be perpetrated in defiance of the laws. In 1439 dame Margaret Malefaut was forcibly carried Off and com pelled by threats to marry Lewis Leyson. (a rc/zdol. Camorensis, 1852, pp. 210.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.