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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    called Ford Bridge, in the parish of Braughin. (See Nos. 905 & 990). 983. Indictment of William Cole, of Shenley, esquire, for not repairing a certain ditch in the common highway in the said parish, leading from a place called Ridge Vill to a place called London Coney. 984. Indictment of Robert Vaughan, of Wellwyn, for encroaching on the high road there by building a “ privy. 985. Indictment of the inhabitants of the parish of Layston for not mending a cartway leading to a place called Hare Streete. 987. Certificate of the justices that the highway leading from Ware to Royston, lying in the several parishes of Aspeden, Throcking, Buntingford, Westmill, Buckland, Tharfield, Reed, Braughin, Anstey, and Barkway, is in want of repair, which repair should be done by the said parishes in respect of the part belonging to each. 98i). Presentment of the inhabitants of Newgate Street, in the parish of Hatfield, for refusing to work in amending the highways in the said parish. Numerous presentments for not attending church on the Sabbath Day. 91)0. Presentment that a bridge called Fore Bridge, in the parish of Braughin, being a county bridge, is in great decay, and that the county ought to repair the said bridge. (See also Nos. 905 & 982.) 992. Examination of several persons concerning the controversy between Mr. Francis 0.xly, of Hemel Hempstead and Christopher Mitchell, the latter having apprehended Oxly, and conveyed him to Hertford prison. Mr. William Downing, soldier in Sir Francis Compton’s troop, saith upon oath that he came to Mitchell with an order from his officer-in-chief. Major Coleborne, quartering at Watford, to command Oxly to his colours, and showed Mitchell his order, but he refused to read it, saying he cared not for order or officer, and that he would keep Oxly in spite of them, and that they were a company of rogues and “hallowed” at them when they went away.