Volume 1

Hertford County records.

  • Hertfordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1905-
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Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: Hertford County records. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    daughter of Thomas Love, of Walsworth, being also dead. The said Thomas Love, the grandfather of the children, being “ a person of sufficient ability and estate,” ought to maintain the children, and desiring that if he refuse he may be ” made lyeable to the penalties of the lawes.” 635. The petition of Amy Peacock, of Hartingfordbury, to the justices of the peace at Hertford, setting forth that she was removed by an order of sessions from Hertford to Harting- fordbury, and that there she and her children suffered much want through the cruelty and injustice of the overseers, who deducted a shilling from her weekly allowance, and offered “ that if the petitioner would by stealth and privately kreepe into the parish of All Saints, Hartford, again, or into any other parish,” they would give her five pounds “ which thing and motion the petitioner utterly rejected.” She therefore begs their worships to take her case into considera- tion, See No. 641. 636. The petition of John Smith, setting forth that Francis Calverley, of the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, in the county of Middlesex, is a pensioner in the county of Hertford, and also in the county of Surrey, and in several other counties, and that he was a pensioner “ in the time of Olliver and did receive two seaverall pentions, one at Ely House in Holborne, and the other at Exon [Exton ?], in the county of Devonshire.” The petitioner begs that their worships will take the case into their serious consideration, and do with the said Calverley as they in their “ grave wisdoms shall think most meete.” 637. The petition of Daniell Spurr, of Little Hadham, cloth- worker, showing that he has lost goods to the value of ^ 150, in a sad and lamentable fire which burnt his house to the ground, and begging for a certificate of the bench to the lord keeper of the great seale of England “the better to enable the petitioner to procure his Majesty’s letters-patent for a charitable collection ” to aid him in repairing his losses. 638. The petition of William Ivory, of Great Munden, setting forth that James Tylor, a poore sickly indigent person, “has