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ters thereof accompanied with the quarter maſters and others the officers of the ſaid Towne, ſuch as haue bene vſually accuſtomed to make the ſaide ſearches, to the end by their countenaunce to authoꝛize and aſſiſt them in the ſame, as hath ſundꝛy times bin pꝛactized. Wherof alſo we haue notice to the ſaid Duke, and all the enhabitantes of the ſaide Towne, leaſte any thereof ſhoulde take allarom oꝛ any whit doubt of our entent in this point, which oꝛder at the beginning the Burgeſes and dwellers ſeemed to take quietly and in good part: Howbeit within a while after matters grewe ſo whot and that the rather thꝛough the induction of diuers who wandering vp and downe enfoꝛmed the ſaid enhabitāts that we had not bꝛoughtin
