Volume 1

Hertford County records.

  • Hertfordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1905-
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Credit: Hertford County records. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    come the said Mr. Browne asked if there had not beene a wedding there lately, answer was made, “ Yea,’^ and he then asked who was the bridegroom, and Mr. William Yeamans answered that he was, whereupon the said Browne drew his sword and ran at Mr. Yeamans saying they should not enjoy their marriage long, for he would be the death of one of them. John Browne, being examined the same day, says that the information of Christopher Sutton is all true “only as to the part where it is said he would be the death of one of them.’^ He denies that he meant Mrs. Yeamans, but says that he meant “ that he would kill Mr. William Yeamans or Mr. William Yeamans should kill him.’' 305. The examination of John Harding, of Tring, yeoman, and of Peter Boughton, of the same, taken the 30th September:— John Harding, being examined, said that in August last he heard Thomas Atkins, of Tring, say that being in the church porch at Tring on the day on which Mr. Pyott and Mr. Buncombe differed in the church, he heard Mr. Pyott bid Mr. Buncombe come down ; whereupon Mr. Buncombe replying that he had more to do there than hee, he saw the said Mr. Pyott lift up his stafl’e. Peter Broughton being examined said that he was with John Harding when Thomas Atkins told him the above. 306. Conviction of Thomas Goodman, of Hadham, for engrossing grain contrary to the statute. Fined the value thereof, namely ^18. 309. William Atwood, suspected of stealing two hundred pounds from a chest in the chamber of Mr. William Bulmer, at the Earl of Bridgwater’s house at Ashridge, being examined “ confesseth that he was at Ashridge, the Earl of Bridg- water’s house, on Sunday last, and that he went thither about the time it chimed in to church in the forenoon, which he supposed to be about 9 of the clock.” He says that he came in at the back gate a little after 10 o’clock, and “ that my lord and a great part of his family were then gone to the church.” He went directly into the kitchen.