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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    176. Petition of Joseph Finch, of Ware, bargeman, in which he states that he served his late Majesty “ in the wars against the Dutch in several shipps, that is say : in the Fame, a fyer shipp. Captain John Gibbons ; in the Amsterdam Bull, Captain John Gibbons, captain thereof; in the Royal James [under] Prince Eupert and Sir Thomas Allen ; and in the Old James with Captain Story,” Being wounded in the wars, he was set on shore and was attended at his own cost by Mr. Archer, of Hertford. He had a promise from Sir John Watts of the next county pension, and this has now occurred by the drowning at Stansted on the previous night of Nathaniel Messenger. The petition is supported by the vicar of Ware, and others, whose signatures appear. 180. 7 January. Certificate by Charles Baggaley, rector of Datch- worth, and others, that John Warwick and Thomas Cutbert, of the said parish, formerly indicted as dissenters from the church, have since that time ” frequently resorted to the parish church of Batch worth, and have there decently and reverently behaved themselves during Divine service.'” 185. 27 April. Certificate by Sir William Lytton and Sir Charles Cleaver, justices, of the good repair of the highway leading from Graveley to Stevanage, for which the inhabitants of Stevenage had been indicted. 186. Certificate that Daniel Young “ hath laid the way open into Bruckfeild, and hung up the gate ” according to the order of sessions, 187. Certificate of the good repair of the highway leading from Baldock towards Stevenage, for which the inhabitants of Graveley had been indicted. 188. Certificate that the inhabitants of Little Wymondley had repaired their part of the same highway. 192. Certificate of the good repair of the highway from Royston to Reed Mill, called London Hill, for which the inhabitants of Tharfield were indicted in 1683 ; and the highway from Buckland to Reed for which the inhabitants of Tharfield and Reed were together indicted.