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Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Hertford County records. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![terrible fire, by what accident he knows not, whereby the whole house with the outhouses and hovells thereunto belonging, together with all or most part of the household goods and wearing apparrell therein, were in the space of one hour utterly burned and consumed.” The petitioner therefore desires that their honours will be pleased to grant him an order for collecting ” the charitable benevolence of well-disposed people ” in the several parish churches in the county. 210. Certificate of the parishioners of Stondon [Standen ?] that they have received sufficient security of William Smyth, of Braughing, to discharge the parish of a child which he had at nurse in that parish; ” and that since the child is dead.” Dated, January 3rd, 1664. Signed by Edward Chapman, one of the overseers, and John Gardes, church- warden, and by Thomas Mitchell. 211. Certificate of two justices of the peace for Hertford that having been informed of an indictment against the inhabi- tants of Shenley, for not repairing a common highway leading from St. Albans to Chipping Barnett,. they have viewed the said highway and found it to be well repaired, and “that the toune of Shenley hath l)een at noe little charge in mending the same.” 212. Certificate of the minister and inhabitants of Wheathamsted, “ to the reverend divines of the several churches and Chappells in tho county of Hertford, the gentry, yeomanry, and all other good Christians within the said county,” on behalf of John Howse, of Gustamsted [Gustard ?] M ood, in the said parish, labourer, and his wife and family. They state that on Friday, the 21st July, there happened at the house of the said John House a terrible fire, “ by what accident cannot be certainly knowne (there beinge, before the flames, but little fire in the chimney, which did not occasion the same) by which fire the whole house with the hovells and outhouses and most of the household goods and wearing apparrel, were in about one hour utterly con- sumed, the loss being estimated at threescore pounds at the least.” The minister and inhabitants of Wheathamsted therefore](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24878315_0001_0221.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
