ABSTRACT
In February 1589, Sir Thomas Mildmay and Robert Clark examined suspected robbers in their native county of Essex. In March, Thomas Fanshawe settled a dispute over title to some property in the town of Barking. In May, Edmund Pirton compounded the claims of a bankrupt merchant's creditors. In August, Fanshawe joined Thomas Powle and former sheriff Robert Wroth in special watches occasioned by bands of wandering soldiers. In December, Thomas Gent investigated the “decay of trade” in the town of Halstead (Davies, 1956, p. 209).
