Description:The image above shows a warrant from the Earl of Leicester and Sir Francis Walsingham dated June 1588. The warrant, which was found amongst the official papers of Sir John Leveson of Halling, is for the arrest of a man named Thomas Tressell. The warrant demands that Leveson and his men ‘make carefull and diligent serche for one Thomas Tressell late of Billesley in the Couty of Warwyke gentleman’. The warrant instructs the authorities in Kent ‘the same Tressell to apprehend and bringe in your safe custody to the next Justice of Peace that shall reside to the place of his apprehension’.