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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    380. Indictment of Richard Goodman, of Hertford, malster, for stealing the timber and ironwork of the beacon at Hert- ford Heath which had fallen down. 381. Indictment of Edward Camp, of , for higgling without a license. 382. Indictment of the inhabitants of Throcking, for not repairing a highway leading from Buntingford towards Chipping (sic). 388. Indictment of the county for not repairing an ancient com- mon cartbridge called Fordbridge, in the parish of Braughin, in the highway there, between Puckeridge and Barkway. 389. Indictment of Henry Lawrence, of St. Margaret, esquire, for making a ditch in the highway called Twitchells, leading from a place called Hayley towards Hertford and Ware. 390. Indictment of the county for not repairing an ancient com- mon bridge called New Bridge, in the parish of Westmill, leading from Puckeridge to Buntingford. 406. Presentment of Edmond Godwyn, clerk, rector, and minister of the parish of Eastwick, for not conducting Divine service there for the space of two years. 423. Presentment of Thomas Gardiner, clerk, rector, and minister of the parish of Cottered, for not reading the book of Common Prayer. 442. Indictment of Richard Chesam, of Bishop’s Hatfield, for not attending church. 462. Order signed by Henry Chauncy, the younger, esq., that Anthony Gray should keep and maintain one Jeffrey Salmon, his servant, who has become sick and subject to “ strange fits of lunacy ” until the “ full end and expiration of the term of his said service,” 464. Report of three justices of the peace :— Whereas at the General Sessions of the Peace, held 26th April, 1661, it was ordered by the Court, that the matter in controversy, touching the remainder of the robbery moneys, concerning one Ralph Bennett, charged upon Nathaniell Coles, then late one of the petty constables of Cheshunt,