Shropshire Routes to Roots

Cromwell's letter: Source and transcript

Source

Cromwell's letter [Shropshire Archive reference: LB11/4/76/43]

Transcription

These are to require you to suffer and permit the bearer here of James Smith to have a horse and a pass from Constable to Constable from the City of Chester to the City of Bristol he behaving himself timely being a soldier for the states has orders for to quarter for 21 hours, and if any doth resist him, the Constables of that liberty are assist him and to press him a horse for 4 miles span forward for the special business that he goes about,

Chester
July 16th

Olivier Crumwel

1649