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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    Hodsdon, and other markets,” before such wheat and barley was in any of the said markets to be sold, and against the form of the statute in that case made and provided. ^350 is claimed by John Eudd (for the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth) from Humphrey Hardwick, that being the value of the said wheat and barley. 588. Several informations concerning William Stoard, servant to John Stone, of King^s Langley, who was sent by the said Stone to keep the gleaners back from the corn “till the raking was fully finished.” 587. Presentment that Thomas Jones and Benjamin Jones, late of the town of Hertford, did use and exercise the “ French trade and mystery ” of dyers, never having been appren- ticed to the said trade. See No. 688. 607. Presentment that John Vany and William Pigsworth, of the parish of Wigginton, did, with dogs and ferrets, enter a warren of the Lady Gertrude Anderson, and did kill and carry away one couple of “ coneys.” 623. Presentment of William Border as in No. 607. 624. Presentment that a certain footbridge in the parish of Ches- hunt, leading from Theobald Park to Hodsdon, is in great decay, and that William Gray, late of Hodsdon, ought to repair the same. 625. Presentment that Brett Butter, elected overseer for the parish of Bishop s Hatfield, did, for nine months of the year, entirely neglect to execute the said office. 626. Presentment that the petty constables of Bayford did not appear upon a warrant, at the meeting '' at the sign of the Bull at Broxbourne,” to give an account of what vagrants they had apprehended and passed, “ with certificate thereof, under the hands of the minister of the parish church of Bayford.” 640. Presentment that a certain bridge in the parish of “ Benieo called Homes Bridge ” is in great decay, and that George Bromley, late of Ware West Mill, ought to repair the same.