Volume 1

Hertford County records.

  • Hertfordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1905-
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: Hertford County records. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    365/544 (page 319)
    5] 6. Indictment of Eichard Barnard, the elder, of Hertford, yeo- man, for that being bailiff of the liberties of the Hundreds of Hertford and Braughin he released a prisoner, whom he had taken, for a bribe of beer. 526. Indictment of Benjamin Kidley, of Barkway, yeoman, for digging three ditches in a moor or marsh leading from Barkway towards '.Vydiall and Buntingford. 536. Indictment of William Barfoot, of Chesthunt, clerk, for keeping a grammar school there without licence. 538. Indictment of Thomas Wait, of Standon, and constable there, for passing a pauper woman from “Thundrich” to Standon, and allowing her to leave Standon without a guide according to the tenor of the pass. 539. Indictment of Kobert Lay, guardian of the parish church of Bishop’s Stortford for not repairing a public pump on the Market Hill in the parish of Stortford. 540. Indictment of Samuel Allis, of Ware, husbandman and constable there, for detaining a pauper woman in his cus- tody for the space of eight hours “ when she did labour and travail with child,^' and for sending her from Ware to “ Thundrich.” 543. Indictment of William Clarke, of Bengeo, yeoman, for hold- ing an unlawful conventicle there. 544. Indictment of Eobert Maunnell, of Chesthunt, barber, for profaning the Sabbath by exercising his trade of a barber. 545. Indictment of Eobert Gates, of Layston, gent, for holding an unlawful conventicle there. 559. Presentment that a watercourse in a place between “ the vought of George Benn and “ the sign of le Palken inn ” in Puckeridge, is in great decay, and that Giles Blowfield, of Puckeridge, labourer, ought to cleanse the same. 562. Indictment of John Eooding, of Hertingfordbury, yeoman, for not repairing a watercourse next to a place called Sampson Gate, leading from Hertingfordbury to Hatfield.