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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    99. Indictment of Andrew Carter, late of Thorley, for placing five loads of dung near the river Spellbroke at Sawbridgeworth, so that the said river was polluted. 102. Indictment of Robert Welles, late of Hatfield, shepherd, Simon Faieicloth, late of Hatfield, tailor, and Marmaduke Johnson, late of Hatfield, tailor, for forcibly entering the Howse Park, or Innynges Parke, at Hatfield, belonging to William, Earl of Salisbury, with dogs, ferrets, purse-nets and hay-nets, and taking therefrom four conies value 3s. 106. Presentment of Thomas Younge, for “ swearing twenty several oaths whereby he profaned the name of God.” 116. Recognizance of John Camfield, of Market Street, brewer, and Edward Christmas, innkeeper, of Whethamsted, and George Neale of the same, mercer. The condition of which is that “ whereas John Camfield is allowed to keep a common alehouse or tippling house, called the sign of the Rose, situate in Market Street, and not elsewhere, if therefore during such time as he shall keep such common alehouse, he shall not suffer any unlawful play at the tables, dice, cards, or other unlawful games, to be used in his said house or lands, especially by men seivants or apprentices, common laborers, or idle persons, nor dress any flesh or suffer the same to be dressed and eaten on any day forbidden by the laws of England, nor wittingly admit or receive into his house or any part thereof anybody notoriously defamed of, or for theft, incontinence, or drunkenness, or anybody who shall be beforehand notified to him by the constable of the town and parish aforesaid, or by his deputy as an unmeet person to he received into a common alehouse, nor shall keep there any strange person above the space of one day and one night together, without notice thereof being first given to the constable, and if the said John Camfield shall keep good order and rule in the said house, then this present recog- nizance shall he void.” 131. Petition of Symon Batts, Gilles Pierre, Marke Puddevatt, John Rolfe, Edward Paine, and Peter Curtise, of the parish