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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    33. Examination of Eichard Barnett, of Chesthunt, bailiff, who says that on 26 November, in the streets at Waltham Cross, John Bevis, of the same town, brewer, violently assaulted him. 38. Presentment of William Bayford, of Hunsdon, husbandman, for carrying a “piece,” not having lands, tenements, fees, annuities or office in his own right, nor in right of his wife, of the yearly value of £100. 39. Presentment that Susan, Lady Foster, of Hunsdon, had not repaired to her parish church, or any other usual place of common prayer, for the space of six months, and had not received the Sacrament there during the same period. 40. Presentment of Thomas Foster, of Hunsdon, esquire, on a similar charge. 46. Eecognizance of Eobert Harding, to appear and answer for leaving the service of Sir John Luke, being hired with him for a year as a servant in husbandry, and for refusing to do the service allotted to him. 47. Eecognizance of Frauncis Cumes and Eichard Puddifatt, to give evidence against Elkana Settle, for the chasing and taking of conies in enclosed ground belonging to Francis Coomes in Hemel Hempstead. 65. Eecognizance of Thomas North and Elline, his wife, to appear and answer for their ill usage of a poor bastard child, which they had agreed with the town of Astone to keep for £7, by burning his mouth and lips and divers other places of his body with a candle. 70. Order that Alice Usher, a single woman, late of Cheshunt, who was found wandering in the country, having been de- livered of a child shall be sent back to Cheshunt with her child, there to be provided for until the reputed father be made responsible for the support of the child. Note [on the dorse] That Cockerell, of Cheshunt, is accounted to be the father of the child. 71. 8 Januai’y. Order that William Pearman, of V^Tiaddon, co. Bucks, now in [Hertford] gaol, is to be delivered and sent with a pass to Whaddon.