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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    1038. Petition of Edward Inskypp, of Stevenage, concerning his loss (by the burning of his house) amounting to the sum of £145 16s. 8d. (See No. 1021). 1039. Petition of John Holt, of Bovingdon, praying for a pension, he having been in the Parliament service under the command of Colonel Cox; during that time he had gained “ such distemper in body ” that he is utterly unable to make a living. 1044. Petition of the inhabitants of Eadwell, showing that the Great Northern Eoad, lying for two miles in their parish, is in great decay, and that the soil “ being such as the winter devours whatsoever they are able to lay on in summer,” and the jjarish so small that it has only two teams. The peti- tioners pray that, in consideration thereof, they may be relieved, and such order taken, that for the future they may not be oppressed with chargeable indictments, as they have done to the full what ” the laws do require.*’ 1051. Petition of the inhabitants of Crawley, showing that all occupiers of lands, tenement, and hereditaments (by a late ordinance entiteled “An ordinance for the better amending and keeping in repair of the common highways of the nation”) are to be taxed and rated to such parish wherein the said lands lie; and “ that about two hundred acres of land lying in the said parish, belonging to a farm in Weston, in the occupation of Nicholas Honor, has always paid and performed all taxes and duties to the said parish. But the present tenant doth refuse to do service in repair- ing the highways, or to pay taxes for the same.” 1053. Petition of divers “ uplanders ” of the parish of St. Andrew, Hertford. Praying for an adjustment of differences in the rates. 1054. Petition of Elizabeth Browne, widow, showing that her late husband had been allowed a pension of £4 per annum, having been wounded at the battle of Naseby, in the defence of the Commonwealth, and praying that she may be still allowed so much of the said pension as the justices shall think lit.