fire and sword
letters of. These were an order to a sheriff by the Privy Council to muster the assistance of the men of his county to dispossess tenants who had illegally retained possession of lands; enforcing decrees of removing.
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firlot
a measure of capacity which depended on what it was being used to measure; as far as grain was concerned, it was the fourth part of a boll.