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have nott kept them, theye wch breake thatt fast maye securelye doe it, wthout yor Lps leave, under pretence of an Auncient Custome Whither 2'ye neede enquire after Mr Chiddiock Tytchborne, whoe was one of those wch sufferde abought the busines of the Queene of Scotts , of whome knowe noe moore yett but thatt hee & his father beefore him weare Cauled Tytchbornes of Porchester in Hampeshire. Mr John Addams p : and a brother of his a laye man , whoe sufferd for iustice, weare Dorsettshire men , and soe was accounted to bee Mr Mundaye a seminarie p. Mr Kennion knoweth nothinge of Mr Miles Ger ard ] hisgood vnckle, but thatt he was a lankyshire man . The Shreaves Bayleffs, wthin a weeke after thatt a jurye of enquirie was impaniled abought Recusants landes and goods, seased vppon 4 kyne & to Calues of one Ant : Williamsons of Estborne : theye tooke a Cow awaye from John Beale of Estborne . 20 hedd of Cattell from widdowe Richardson of Ledsworthe; and slippinge wthin the doors of Mr D. Bullaker of Chichester , as one shut owte, went into the kitchin & tooke 5 ' for [th] the vessell wch hee founde theare . But those thatt keepe there doors closeshutt have hitherto done well enough .
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Upon the fasting and abstinence observed at this time in England see Douay Diaries, 354, 355 ; C.R.S. , iv , 104 ; A treatise with a Kalendar concerning Holy-daies and Fasting-daies in England, the preface signed I.B. 1598 ; J. Morris , Kalendarand Rite used by the Catholics since the time of Elizabeth, in Archaeologia, lii , 120. Challoner says of the Martyr, John Bullaker , that he was born at Chichester in Sussex about the year 1604, of pious and Catholic parents. His father was a noted
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Cf. Mrs. Bullacre, of Warblington , pp. 31 , 34, above.