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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    Edward Lawrence, of Wigginton, for continuing a tent or cottage without the statutory 4 acres of land to be occupied therewith. William Lane, of Walsworth, in the parish of Hitchin, and William Crawley, of Offley, gent., for harbour- ing rogues and vagabonds. 12. Presentment of the Hundreds of Hertford and Brafing, at the General Session held at Hertford, 30 December. Robert Younge, of Chesthunt, silk weaver, for harbouring divers rogues, vagabonds, and wandering persons in his outhouses. 18. Presentment of Henry Thorogood, of Baldocke, yeoman, for not scouring a ditch adjoining the highway from Baldock to Bickleworth, the said ditch having been scoured, for time immemorial, by him or those whose estate he has. Presentment of Robert Bedwell and Richard Weend, yeoman, of Stevenage, for ploughing up balk ends in a field there called Needle Field, which balks belonged to the ground of George Wilsheere and Robart Lowell of the same town. [This entry is scored through]. 14. Presentments of the grand jury :— “We find the best price of oats in our markets to be at Is. 6d. the bushell, therefore in our discretion we think fit they shall sell them in the inns for 20 pence the bushel.^’ We find that by the present plenty of hay, the inn- keepers may afford to take for every horse 6d. day and night, and 4d. the night, and so shall take and no more. Also we present that no brewer shall sell any beer above the rate of 8s. the barrel the best, and 6s. the other. Thomas Nutting, constable, of Baldocke, for not setting the watch according to the statute, and for suffering divers rogues and vagabonds whom he saw wandering in Baldock, to go unpunished. 15. Deposition of Ambrose Piggott, of Hatfield New Park, yeoman, that on 27 August, about 4 in the morning he saw four men, two of whom were servants of John Berry, of Northawe Warren, making a pitch with a long “ heynettin his