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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    1684. 401. Eecognizance for the appearance of Sampson Tibballs, lock- srnith, and William Skegg, grocer, both of Layston, to give evidence against Daniel Gates, concerning ” certain scan- dalous and seditious words by him spoken against the King’s Majestie and the government for which he stands indicted.” 404. Eecognizance for the appearance of William Disher to answer for speaking seditious words against the King and his government. 413. Eecognizance for the appearance of John Searle alias Savill, to make answer to a charge brought against him by Nicholas Field, of Ware, fisherman, and Thomas Phillpott, of the same, bricklayer, ” for severall abuses and ill language which he . . . did in their hearing speake ” against Sir Thomas Byde, knt., and Skinner Byde, esq., one of H.M. justices of the peace. 449. Eecognizance for the appearance of Edward Shepheard to answer a charge brought against him by John Holgar, one of the constables of Sabridgworth, for abusing and disarm- ing the watch by taking their staves away, and for having “ great disorder'’ in his house “ about twelve of the clock in the night.” 470. 26 April. The information of Thomas Phillpott, of Ware, bricklayer, and Nicholas Field, of the same place, fisher- man, and Eobert Story, concerning what was said by John Searle alias Savill against Sir Thomas Byde and Skinner Byde, esq., at the house of Joseph Benson, at the White Hart, Ware, on the 31st March, about 8 or 9 o’clock in the evening. 490. Presentment that the King’s highway in the parish of Bunt- ingford Westmill, leading from Buntingford towards Ware, two miles in length, and also the King’s highway in the parish of Standon, leading from Buntingford to Ware, two and a-half miles in length are in want of repair, and ought to be repaired by the inhabitants of Buntingford Westmill and Standon respectively.