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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    178. Complaint of Jo. Scrogges that John Ginne, of Aldbury, yeoman, has hedged and ditched in part of the common “fayringway” between a place called Chapgate and Aldbury church, near a water-course ; so that the inhabitants are shut out of the track which they have for many hundred years kept and repaired, and are obliged to plunge into a pit whenever it rains ; otherwise they cannot pass that way either to church or elsewhere. 179-183. Names of jurors. 193. Eecognizance of Thomas Love, of Waltesworth, to appear and answer why he has put away his servant. 194. Eecognizance of Mark Wren, of Walsworth, in the parish of Hitchin, husbandman, to appear and show cause why he has unlawfully departed out of his master^s service, being his lawful hired servant. 200. Petitions of divers inhabitants of the parish of Chesthunt, setting forth that John Geery, the elder, of Cheshunt, being a man of lewd and contentious disposition, continually rails and reviles petitioners without cause, so that his neighbours cannot live quietly near him. Moreover he maliciously poisons the water, which petitioners have occasion to use, by throwing his tan skins there, even upon the Lord's day. 202. Petition of the inhabitants of Ware Extra that some of the inhabitants of Ware Infra assume to themselves the power to dispose and alter the officers of the parish, and would suppress the surveyor of the highways in Ware Extra. From time immemorial there has been one constable, one church- warden, one overseer for the poor, and one surveyor for the highways in Ware Extra or Upland. They pray that the said officers of Ware Extra may be continued, there now being extraordinary occasion to repair the “ highways upland ” on account of many great carts, with great loads, forsaking the common road and resorting with malt and barley through our highways to Ware. Petitioners are willing to aid them of Ware in mending the highways to adesmill and other parts in this parish. 204. Petition of William Heard, of Little Hadham, showing that