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ZQ - Chester Quarter Sessions
- SPT - Petitions mainly for poor relief or for exemption from poor rate, 16th century. - 1563-1594

Repository	Cheshire Record Office
Level	Item
Reference	ZQSPT/1
Title	To Sir Thomas Smyth, Mayor, and Randle Maynwaringe from ( ? ); asking them to authorize that he may have collections in the churches of Chester on the next Sabbath day.
Date	n.d.
Description	Sir T. Smyth was Mayor 1535-6, but the document appears to be of a somewhat later date in the 16th century. Possibly temp. Sir Laurence Smyth's mayoralties?

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