Excerpt from The Oath Book, or Red Parchment Book of ColchesterThis volume and its companion, the Red Paper Book of Colchester, -transcribed and published in 1902 - give a tolerably complete series of pictures of local government in this town from the time of Richard H. To the days of Henry VIII with some amount of light on earlier and later centuries.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.