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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    therefore bep to be discharged and another who can both read and write ajipointed upon his nomination. 114. Petition of John Cann, of Hertford, setting forth that Richard Hipkyn, of Waltham Cross, has grievously misused, beaten, and wronged John Cann, his apprentice, petitioner's son, and that a warrant issued for the arrest of the said Richard Hipkins was not executed owing to his absence. 115. Petition of the inhabitants of “Barkhamsted Peeters,” that a violent pestilential fever is raging in town. Twenty families, consisting of eighty persons, must be cared for and relieved at the parish expense. Among them are fifteen children who must be put out to nurse. Petitioners have doubled their collection but are unable to meet the increased expense. They pray for an order at quarter sessions for neighbouring towns to contribute. 126-7. Lists of chief constables. 128-9. List of bailiffs. 130. 13 April. Award of Edward Atkins and Thomas Took, justices of the peace, to whom the matter of the rating of Ware parish was referred by an order at the general sessions of 9th April, after hearing the petition of Robert Hellam, of Waters Place in Ware and others, upland inhabitants of Ware. See also No. 117. VOLUME FOR 1644. 179. Indictment of John Collop, late of Ware, for playing cards there by night and day. See also No. 215. 186. Indictment of John Porter, late of Hodsdon, yeoman, for permitting a ditch lying towards Beggers Grove, between Hodsdon and Hertford, to be “landed up.” See also No. 215. 189. Indictment of Phillip Hill, late of Little Berkhamsted, yeoman, for stopping up a common foot path in a place there called the Danes, leading from Little Barkhampsted to Hertford, and also for undermining the highway leading from Hertford to Little Barkhamsted, in a place there called Danehedge. See also No. 190.