Volume 1

Hertford County records.

  • Hertfordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1905-
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Credit: Hertford County records. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    above ^140 yearly till the assessment was raised to i!160, and that the parishioners, when they certified the value of the living “ in the Usurper’s time,” certified it at £140, and the parsonage was “ lessened ” £30 yearly by Capt. Wingatt turning much arable into warren.’'’ The parishioners answered that “Mr. Weedon’s warren, which time out of mind was stocked with conies, is now turned into tillage, which is more advantage to the parson than is taken from him by Capt. Wingatt” (See No 929). 895, 893-901, & 913. Indictments of William Larkin, of Benjeo, tailor; William Fairman, of the Borough of Hertford, brewer; Margaret, wife of Thomas Bevis, of Hertford, gentle- man ; John Pickett, of Great Mundeii, husbandman ; Mary Whittenburj^ of Cottred [also described as of Bengeo], spinster; and of Cecily Grapes, widow, and Sarah Grapes, spinster, both of Tewin, for being at a conventicle in the house of Nicholas Lucas at Hertford. (See Nos. 921-928 & 943). 904. Indictment of Thomas Hunsden, of “ Makerills End,” in the parish of Wheathampstead, for not repairing a gate in the highway at Wheathampstead called Saucy (?) Lane leading from a common called Batford Field Common. 906. Indictment of the County for neglecting to repair a bridge (unnamed) in the parish of Stondon. 915. Indictments of Henry Parnell, mealman; Thomas Parnell, labourer; and Susan Parnell, spinster; Joan, wife of Thomas Johnson, draper; Nathan Walton, yeoman; Thomas Norris, shoemaker; and Stephen Smythe, shoemaker; all of Ware, for breaking into the bouse of Elizabeth Mead, spinster, in Ware, and assaulting her. (See also No. 916.) 919 & 920. Indictments of Frances Brock and John How, of North Mymms, husbandmen, for not attending church. 924. Indictment of Edward Parkyn, of Hertford, tailor, for attend- ing a conventicle at the house of Nicholas Lucas, in the Borough of Hertford. (See also Nos. 895, 898-901, 913, 921-923, & 925-928.)