* Any one
of these
Causes is
sufficient.

    CHARLES, by the Grace of God, &c.  To our Sheriff, &c.  Forasmuch
as A. B. of, &c. Yeoman, hath personally come before Sir
John Charleton Baroner, one of our Justices of the peace within the said
County, and hath taken a corporal Oath, that he is afraid that one C. D.
of F.           in the said County, Yeoman, will * beat (wound, main,
or kill him, or burn his Houses;) and hath therewithal prayed Surety
of the Peace against the said C. D. therefore We command and charge
you joyntly and severally, that (immediately upon the receit hereof)
you cause the said C. D. to come before the said Sir John Charleton, or
some other of our Justices of the same County, to find sufficient Surety
and Main-prise, as well for his appearance at the next Quarter-Sessions
of our Peace to be holden at the Castle of Cambridge, or elsewhere, for
or in the said County, as also for our Peace to be kept towards us
and all our Liege People, and chiefly towards the said A. B. that is to
say, that he the said C. D. shall not do, nor by any means procure or
cause to be done, any of the said evils to any of the said People, and
especially to the said A. B.  And if the said C. D. shall refuse thus to do,
that then immediately (without expecting of any farther Warrant)
you him safely convey, or cause him to be conveyed safely, to our next
Prison in the said County, there to remain until he shall willingly do
the same:  (so that he may be before our said Justices, at the said next
general Sessions of the Peace to be holden at Cambridge aforesaid, then
and there to answer unto us for his contempt in his behalf.)  And see
that you certifie your doings in the Premisses to our said Justices at the
said Sessions, bringing then thither this Precept with you.  Witness
the said John Charleton, at        S.         aforesaid, the fourth day of
August, &c.
 

Cambr.

For the
Peace.

    THomas Jermy Knight, one of the Justices of the peace of our Sovereign
Lord the King within the said County, to the Sheriff, &c.
Greeting.  Forasmuch as A. B. &c. hath personally come before me, and
hath taken a corporal Oath, &c. ut supra.  These shall be therefore on
the behalf, and in the name of our said Sovereign Lord, to command you
joyntly, &c. that you cause the said C. to come before me, or some other
of his Majesties said Justices of peace, in the said County, &c. ut supra.
Given under my Seal at                aforesaid, &c.
 

Cambr.

    ' Quia A. B. coram sacramentum præstitit corporale, quod ipse sibi metuit
' dampnum de corpore suo per J. S. de facili posse venire.  Or thus; quod
' ipse de vita sua per J. S. graviter & manifeste comminat.  Or thus; quod
' ipse metuit de vita sua, sive de mutilatione membrorum suorum, sive de incendiis,
' domorum suarum per J. S. &c.