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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    Hagger and G-eorge Hagger, the younger, sons of George Hagger, the elder, of Upper Chishall, in co. Essex, John Harris and Mary, his wife, of Cottered, William Gutteridge, singleman, of the same, Daniel Mardell, of the same, Prudence Burnhedge, widow, of the same, Ann, wife of John Parker, of Yardley, John Burnhedge, of the same, John Eockhill, of the same, Thomas Nutting, of the same, William Nutting, singleman, of the same, Thomas Game, of Aldbury, Eobert Tilling, of the same, John Shinn, of the same, Thomas Phip, of Purneaux Pelham, Henry Bush, of the same, William Stalley, of the same, Susan, wife of James Browne, of Standon, Francis Exton, of Walkerne, Nathaniel Bracey, of Sandon, Eichard Faire, of the same, Mary Stalley, spinster, of the same, Stephen Fetherstone, of Eoyston, Edward Sutton, of the same, John Brand, of the same, and ten other persons unknown were present at an unlawful conventicle in the house or barn of George Gates, of Layston, butcher, and that John Parker, of Yardley, and Anthony Tompkyns, of the Borough of Southwark, co. Surrey, took upon themselves to teach and preach there. 659. George Gates, Geo. Edridge, Susan Edridge, all of Laystone, John Knight, of Throcking, Anne, wife of John Brown, of Widdyal, Henry Hewlett, of the same, Wm. Warby, of Westmill, and James Brown, of Puckridge, presented for being at a conventicle in a barn of the said Geo. Gates, at Laystone. (See also 560, where other names are added). 661. Presentment of divers persons for being present at a conven- ticle at the house of Elizabeth Offield, at Eoyston. 562. The petition of Tymothy Norrys to the justices of the peace for the county of Hertford :— ShoAving that the said Norrys, “being seized of certaine copyhold land, holden of the manor of Flamstead, did purchase an ancient cottage standing in another place within the said manor, and for his convenience did after- wards remove and build it upon his copyhold.'’^ That he was then presented for “ a new erected cottage,” fined JllO and ordered not to dwell in it, “but that the same should be taken down.”