Mary Fermor , 1696. ' dpril 8. Durham. Licence under the hand and seals of Robert Ellison, Jo Gordon, mayor, Geo Morland, and Jo Sedgwick, for Thomas Maire of the city of Durham, gentleman, being a popish recusant convict, with his servant John Joppling, also a papist, who by lawes and statutes are restrained from travelling above five miles from their place of abode. Maire had informed them, four of his Majesty's justices of the peace, that he had occasion to travel into the county of Oxford to court a young lady in order to a marriage, and had taken an oath that this was the true cause. They give licence to him and his servant to go to Oxford, and to be absent three months, and then he is to return to Durham.
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