The wanderings of a pen and pencil . ayd to the said Robert Acton, that if he would not suffer themto doe as they had done in tyme past, they would raise Bayard of Walsalewith his thousand colts!! and sett and appoint 400 men to revenge theirquarrel upon him; and that they woulde ring Bayards belle ! soe that all the towne of Walsale shouldeaiise forthwith bye the meanesthereof, whether the matter wererishte or wronge ! And shewedthat the inhabitants of the saydetowne were light persones! sud-dcnlie moved to affrays and in-surrections (as was well knowne).And the rather, because Bayardand his
The wanderings of a pen and pencil . ayd to the said Robert Acton, that if he would not suffer themto doe as they had done in tyme past, they would raise Bayard of Walsalewith his thousand colts!! and sett and appoint 400 men to revenge theirquarrel upon him; and that they woulde ring Bayards belle ! soe that all the towne of Walsale shouldeaiise forthwith bye the meanesthereof, whether the matter wererishte or wronge ! And shewedthat the inhabitants of the saydetowne were light persones! sud-dcnlie moved to affrays and in-surrections (as was well knowne).And the rather, because Bayardand his thousand colts beinggreate clubbes, and have bene oflonge tyme set and hanged uppein the towne halle of AValsale ;and there beene taken and re-puted in as much honor andworshippe as if they were sainctsin the churche! and bee at cer-tain times in the yere solemnlybore about the town in gretereverence, which thing to be suf-fered is a grete abomination andthe worst example for the maintenance of evyll rule within the sayd town that K. Walsall Colts. 6G WANDERINGS OF A PEN AND PENCIL. can be devised. Ande for that the sayd evyll and disordered persons intendto be borne and mayntayned in their ungracious acte and quarrels by themdaylie done, they have a certayne box called Bayards Box, in the which begreate sums of money, purposely from the same box gathered, to mayntaintheir evyll doings, &c. &c. These staves of late years were carried beforethe mayor at the proclamation of the fairs and other public processions, buttheir number annually fell short, and for preservation the remainder werehoused in this public hall. There are many valuable deeds and records relating to this township,worthy of the perusal of the antiquary. The seal bearing the mutilatedequestrian figure, is from an original in wax, attached to a slender docu-ment given in the first year of the reign of Henry IV., and confirmingan ancient release to the Walsall men from market tolls, de bonis etrebus. The second is
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