Catalogue description Complaints against Martin Lory, curate at West Horsley, including wearing expensive finery such as 'a pair of Venetian hose with five [?guards] of velvet upon every flop and four silk laces upon every [?guard] and cut between'; frequenting 'houses where dwell suspected women as for example Dorys in Guildford'; planning to elope with a married woman in Merrow to the West country where he has two benefices; singing and dancing at his wedding and being a 'filthy talker'.

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Reference: LM/768
Title: Complaints against Martin Lory, curate at West Horsley, including wearing expensive finery such as 'a pair of Venetian hose with five [?guards] of velvet upon every flop and four silk laces upon every [?guard] and cut between'; frequenting 'houses where dwell suspected women as for example Dorys in Guildford'; planning to elope with a married woman in Merrow to the West country where he has two benefices; singing and dancing at his wedding and being a 'filthy talker'.
Date: nd [late 16th cent]
Held by: Surrey History Centre, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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