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PAGE 1647, 5 October, Thirske . . i 1647-8, II January, Helmesley . 3 1647-8, 14 January, Richmond . 8 1648, II July, New Malton . 11 1648, 15 August, Northallerton 13 1648, 3 October, Thirske 1648-9, 9 January, Helmesley 1648-9, 12 January, RICHMOND 1649, 3 April, Thirske 1649, 10 July, KiRKBY MOORSIDE. 1649, 13 July, Beedall 1649, 2 October, Thirske . 1649-50, 8 January, Helmesley . 1649-50, II January, RICHMOND . 1650, 18 April, Thirske 1650, II July, Malton. 1650, 16 July, Richmond . 1650, I October, Thirske . 1650-1, 7 January, Malton . 1650-1, 10 January, Richmond . 1651, 8 April, Thii^ske 1651, 8 July, Helmesley . 1651, 15 July, Richmond . 165 1, 7 October, Thirske . 1 65 1, 13 January, MALTON . 1651-2, 20 January, Richmond . 1652, 27 April, Thirske 1652, 13 July, Malton 14 17 22 25 30 35 37 42 46 48 52 56 58 64 68 70 75 80 82 lOI 109 1652, 20 July, Richmond . 1652, 5 October, Thirske . 1652-3, II January, KlRBYMOOR SYDE . 1652-3, 18 January, Richmond 1653, 19 April, Thirske 1653, 12 July, Malton 1653, 19 July, Beadall 1653, 4 October, Thirske . 1653-4, 10 January, KlRBYMOOR SIDE . 1653-4, 17 January, Allerton 1654, 4 April, Thirske 1654, II July, Malton 1654, 27 July, Richmond . 1654, 3 October, Thirske . 1654-5, 9 January, KlRBYMOOR side 1654-5, 16 January, Richmond 1655, 24 April, Northallerton 1655, 10 July, Malton 1655, 17 July, Beadall 1655, 2 October, Thirske . 1655-6, 17 January, KiRBYMORE SIDE . 1655-6, 24 January, RICHMOND 1656, 15 April, Thirske . 1656, 15 July, Malton PAGE "5 122 127 129 134 139 142 146 150 153 159 163 167 172 178 181 186 igi 194 202 207 211 217 IV CONTENTS. 1656, 22 July, Northallerton . 1656, 7 October, Thirske . 1656-7, 15 January, Helmesley 1656-7, 20 January, Richmond . 1657, 7 April, Northallerton . PAGE 222 226 229 236 1657, 14 July, New Malton 1657, 4 August, Richmond 1657, 6 October, Thirske 1657-8, 12 January, Helmesley I'AGE 241 247 250 257 INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. This Volume differs from either of those which have preceded it in the same series, and in more ways than one. It is not that there is any diminution of interest in the matters dealt with in the various Minutes and Orders which come under hand ; on the contrary, the interest is more than sustained : but the facts and considerations brought under notice are in many particulars of a different character. Thus, in the present volume there are no long lists of Recusants, nor detailed records of the sternly repressive system of surveillance and treatment they were, of rule and custom, exposed to, as disclosed by the entries in the former volumes. It is true, Recusancy is referred to, and certain measures taken in reference to it are specified ; but the instances in which that is true are only two or three in number, and the total list of names of persons stigmatized as Recusants hardly embraces half a score. The one entry of real interest in this connection is that at p. 22 1 ; and that is such as to show that other considerations, and not any diminution of animosity against the old faith, are to be invoked in order to account for the difference now under notice. Another and minor difference will be observed in the lessened num- ber of words, phrases, and other matters of philological or antiquarian interest, met with in this volume. It is not that they have ceased to be, only that they are more sparsely used ; and indeed, in part, it may be that we have grown more accustomed to the use of several of them, and so they do not attract our regard as they did at the outset. Among those words of this class that are the most noticeable may be specified shire at p. 66, soon at p. 104, urging at p. 191, forefront at p. 196, Christ-tyde at p. 220, and trible vyall at p. 163. There are several others, all duly referenced in the notes, which call for passing observation ; but still the total list is a very much diminished one as compared with those given in the earlier volumes. Possibly, however, the occurrence of the word slam, p. 65, may claim a word or two of comment. In the course of another generation it will probably VI INTRODLK'TORV NOTICE. cease to exist as a local word ; even if it have not practically deceased already. True there is the slam-hole at Sandsend, and there are the slam-guttei's in the Robin Hood's Bay direction (connected with the long disused Alum-works at Stoup Brow) ; but the name in the latter case has been mentioned recently, within my own knowledge, without conveying any idea either to the user or the hearer of the same. The sentence passed on the Firby woman, that she should be " set in the ducking-stool and publicly ducked," should scarcely be left without some sort of notice ; nor yet the alternative offered to another inveterate scold, between a public ducking and the public asking of pardon from the aggrieved parties, and both .at the Market Cross and in the Parish Church — of course in time of Divine Service — mentioned on the last page of the volume. But passing all this by without further comment, the great element of difference in the interest attaching to the contents of this volume, as compared with its forerunners in the series, will be found to centre in the troublous nature of the times we have drifted upon, and the consequences which had resulted from the great convulsion which had rent and shattered almost all the older conditions of life, society, and even law itself. In these days of Trafalgar Square harangues and proclaimed League Meetings, and in hearing of the language held at them, in despite of Governmental Authority, we find it passing hard to conceive a regime whereunder a man could not drink the King's health without exposing himself to the pains and penalties of a rigorous Act of Parliament rigorously enforced ; and still less the issuing of a com- mission by the Justices to the High Constable, " to examine," in the case of ourselves and our near friends, " our affections and carriages to the Public, and more particularly what he conceives of the truth of the words we were charged to have spoken against the Commonwealth, and other persons " (p. 141). Or, perhaps, the infliction of a fine of ten shillings each on two men for the offence of travelling on the Lord's Day, their " excuse " for doing so not happening to commend itself to the views or the prejudices of a certain Justice of the Peace, may strike us as still more intolerable ; especially when we observe that the fine is to be levied in the way of distress on their goods, and if these prove insufficient, then " the said parties to sitt six hours in the stocks " (p. 224). The sentences also fulminated against various forms of " immorality and vice," especially against fornication, incontinence, swearing, and other phases of profanity, and the pure savagery of some of them, as against the weaker vessel, cannot fail to strike us with a very unpleas'ing sort of surprise that such thinkings and practisings should ever have found approval among men of sober thought and average clearness of INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. Vll vision, to say nothing of knowledge of human nature. Indeed one has to allow for all the mistaken fervour and intensity of strongly- moved political and religious feeling, and to remember that the delin- quents thus visited, mainly, if not entirely, belonged to what was — as far as the views of the then wielders of power were concerned — the heterodox party, before we can conceive how such things should have been. More than possibly, moreover, some consideration of this kind may, in some sort, have to be admitted in view of such Orders of Court as that " the Constables and Overseers of Gilling were to levy five shillings on the goods of Lord Fairfax, to be distributed to the poor, according to Ordinance of Parliament, for that it was proved that he was present when certain persons acted a comedy or stage-play at Gilling at Christmas time ; " other two Orders, precisely like, against members of other notable and noted famiHes, being made at the same Sessions. But it is not only in this class of entries, frequent and significant as they are, that the troublousness of the times is frankly brought under our observation, nor yet in the open as well as inferential showings forth of the material distress prevailing in the district by reason of the political convulsion recently passed through ; the same is made only too vividly apparent by means of what we may call the Criminal Calendar set forth in the present volume. In Volume IV. the Index gives five references to cases of horse-stealing ; that of Volume III. about seven or eight. The present Index affords no fewer than twenty- six ! So, too, it will be observed, on examination, that the present- ments under the general head of stealing are out of all proportion more numerous than in any preceding instance ; the same being true also of the cases of sheep-stealing.* That the impoverishment and distress prevailing, in some parts of the district, at least, must have been very great, there is no need to make elaborate efforts to set forth. One almost wonders it was not greater. But the wasting and desolations of war itself, with all its horrors, had not been upon the neighbouring country ; and the near vicinity of the Scottish Army, as it marched by, seems to have been the occasion of the worst of the local burdens. Not but what there were many others of a more indirect character ; and among these (omitting more special reference to divers direct taxes levied on behalf of the Commonwealth, for military and other expenses), one of the most exigent was the relief of Lame or Maimed Soldiers, and of the widows * A mere reference to the Index is, perhaps, hardly sufficient to malie good the statement here ventured. An adequate examination of the text, however, will be quite enough to establish it. The explanation is that one figure in the Index may easily indicate from five to ten different cases of the offence named. VIU INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. and orphans of such as had been slain outright, or died of the wounds received in the Parhament's Service. Entries bearing on this topic will be found in numbers all through the volume, besides explicit references from time to time to the heavy item of County expenditure thereby occasioned. When we take everything into consideration, and, particularly, re- member that the estates of many who had not been on the side of the Parliament had been seriously dealt with in virtue of their voluntary spending of their means, independently of the rough usage not a few of such owners met with at the hands of the victorious party, there is nothing to occasion surprise in the fact that we once and again come across the traces of decayed gentlemen and their families. There must have been many such. There are many other topics caUing for some sort of special notice in introductory matter of the present kind ; but it would be alike tedious and out of place to deal with them all in detail ; and it must suffice to draw attention to such matters as the Parhamentary regula- tions touching the Solemnization of Matrimony, the evident reluctance on the part of many, besides the clergy, to submit to them, the necessity of repeated reminders to the parish Registrars of what was expected of them ; to the unwillingness to forego the use of the Book of Common Prayer ; and other kindred topics, which crop up in continual succession. There are many other subjects besides these, moreover, which, as being more or less of a local nature, it is necessary to pass by on one side, however enticing annotation or discussion might be to a local historian or antiquarian, such as the entries touching Whitby Bridge, the character of the commencing growth of the streets of the same place in the modern acceptance of the term, the old rating-usages in Kirkleatham and many another place ; and many another such-like thing, which must of necessity be left with only the most perfunctory reference to them. On the whole, the volume is commended with some confidence to the historian, the antiquarian, and the inquiring reader and student, as being certain to supply something of interest in either of those divi- sions or provinces of inquiry. QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. [A'. 8i.] THIRSKE. Qu. Sessions at, 5 Oct'., 1647. Before Sir John Bourchier, John Waistell, Fr. Lascells, Rob. Walters, John Robinson, and Isaac Newton, Esquires. First Jury. Fr. Parvin, Gent"., Jur. Tho. Tomlinson, Gent". Will. Butterwicke, Yeom". Tho. Morrell, Will. Thompson, Will. Foggerthwaite Will. Daile, Will. Pearson, ' Jur. Greg. Jackson, Tho. Cowper, Tho. Awmocke, John Wade, Nich. Smith, Tho. Kilvington, Henry Smith, Yeom". Jur. Second Jury. Will. Wright, Gent"., Jur Tho. Wrightson, Yeom". 1 Fr. Heilde, Rob. Wells, Ja^ Gantley, Peter Wrightson, Tho. Kitchin, Miles Ferryman, Jur. Rich. Tarte, Will. Barneby, John Daggett, John Harrison, Will. Lumley, John Clough, Rob. Fawcett, Yeom" ■ Jur. Four Marske yeom"- presented for not paying their ass'=. ; [81''.] the Constable of the said place for refusing to collect the ass'^ ; Henry Cholmley of Tunstall, gent"., for converting a ruinous dwelling-house into two cottages without laying four acres of land to each ; two VOL. V. B 2 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. labourers for breach of the peace and rescuing certain oxen ; a husb". and his wife for assault and affray ; another case of the like ; the Con- stables of Carlton Miniott for refusing to render their ace". ; Henry Cholmley of Tunstall, gent"., for breaking and throwing down ^ the common pinfold there; three men for riot and forcible entry in a dwelling-house ; five others for the like ; and again six more ; a man for assault etc. ; an Aldbrough husb". for illegal seizure ; [82.] twelve persons for cutting down and carrying away trees at Pickall cuui Roxby ; four Murton yeomen for riotous and forcible entry on a close there ; a man of Hawke in Whorlton parish for harbouring persons of ill behaviour, and his wife for an assault, etc. ; a ToUerton husb" for an assault etc. ; a cordwainer and a tailor of Well for stealing a linen sheet (6s.) and a petticoat (los.); a man for stealing a pillow-bere, a napkin, and a shirt, and another as accessory after the fact ; a man for horse-stealing and another for sheep-stealing ; [82^ 83^] recogn'=". respited ; [83.] recogn"^ entered, none of any special interest. [85.] Orders made etc. The Thre'. for Hosp"". to pay to Mr. Jermyn Robinson the arrears of the rent for the Ho. of Con"- at Richmond ; a bastardy case ; Mr. Man to pay ^56. 19. o, which sum, belonging to the countrey, is in his hands, to two gent", named, who are desired to keep the same till further Order; all the H. C^ to pay the moneys already estreated to the Surv". for Bridges, and such of them as have been H. C^ for the six years last past, whether they are still in place or not, to pass their ace''., for all moneys received by them, to the gentlemen appointed for each Weapentake (whose names follow); [85^] the wages due to the Gov', of the Ho. of Corr". at Richmond, with arrears, since the Parlia- ment forces came into these parts, to be paid to him ; a case of difference referred to two gentlemen ; whereas there was a difference between the Constables of Fingall and those of the towns of Burton Constable, Thornton Steward and Spennithorne, concerning their Ancient Rente, it is Ordered that Fingall, which was formerly rated at ;^57, shall now be rated at ^43. 6. 8, and the remaining ;^i3. 13. 4 shall be equally borne by the said three towns amongst them, in all ass"., as well bypast as to come, and that this agreement for better confirmation be entered at the Gen. Sessions, witness our hands Jan. 9* 164! : Chr. Wivell, Tho. Davile, Fr. Jaques. This Court doth allow of this Order and doth confirm the same. [86.] Whereas diverse of the inhab". of Bainbrigg refuse to pay the late Constable their fair proportion of the ass', made for the satisfaction of four horses' bridles and saddles bought by him for the service of the Parliament, in obedi- ence to a warrant sent to him by Sir Edw. Loftus and Sir Chr. Wray, HELMESLEY, JANUARY II, l64|. and sent by him to Mr. Ralph Rymer, it is Ordered that they doe forthwith make payment of their severall taxes or sums of money, and in case of refusal, the Constable to carry them before the next J. P. to be bound etc., to appear etc. ; Rich. Johnson, cloathworker, to serve in the Office of Searcher of Broadcloth* for Massam for one year; Nich. Meeke of Ainderby to be H. C. for GiUing East vice Simon Willy ; a warrant issued out and directed to Mr. Brandsby of Thirske for the apprehension and carrying of the Overseers of Sowerby before the next J. P. to be bound to good behaviour and to appear etc., to answer their contempt of an Order of Sessions, concerning Mary Nicholson of Sowerby, and said J. P. to be desired to take care that the said Mary Nicholson be provided for according to law ; all the Thre". of Hosp'^ and L. S., that have borne that Office within this Ridinge and are now living, to give in their acc'^ to the same gent", who are ordered to take the ace", of the H. C, Collectors and Surv". ; [86^] the Thre'. for L. S. to pay to Abr". Barringham, a L. S. or Pensioner within the Division of Richmond, the arrears of his salary or pension for the past three years ; the Thre'. for L. S. to pay to Matth. Hoggard, a pensioned soldier, ;£'^. 6. 5, as part of his arrears forth of that sum of £,2^. 6. 5 he hath, of the Commonwealth, in his hands ; the Thre'. for L. S. to pay to Mr. Geo. Shaw ;^20 of the countrey's money, which he hath in his handes, and this Order to be his discharge. [88.] HELMESLEY. Qu. Sessions at, 11 Jan., 164^. Before Sir Henry Cholmeley and Geo. Ewry, Esq. First Jury. James Grundon, Jur. Edw. AUanson, Nich. Smith, John Burton, Will. Grindwell, |- Jur- Will. Hill, Orpin „ Will. Meed, Chr. Fawcett, Tho. Francke, Geo. Robinson, John Hall, Tho. Barker, Rich. Harwood, Tho. Hutchinson, - Jur. * See note Vol. IV. 73, on Aulneger. By authority of a statute of 5 and 6 of Edw. VI., c. 6, all mayors, bailiffs, or head-officers of all cities, boroughs, towns corporate, or pott towns were, from time to time, to appoint two or more honest, discreet, and expert persons, which shall from time to time, upon their oathes, view and search all and every cloth and clothes that shall be dressed, died, or pressed B 2 QUARTER SKSSIONS RECORDS. Second Jury. Rich. Dobson, Yeom"., Jur. Thos. Deeton, Thos. Stibbin, John Parkin, Rich. Rowland, [ Jur. James Cowston, Will. Jenkinson, Nich. Wilson, Will. Baker, John Barker, Tho. „ Will. Bentley, Geo. Sunley, John Lotherington, Rich. Sunley, - Jur. [88^] The inhab" of Skelton for not repairing their highway ; four yeomen for refusing to pay their ass'^ ; a lab', for stealing two guinea- fowls (5s.) ; a Hutton Mowgrave [Mulgrave] lab', for stealing oak-bark (3s.) and another as an accessory after the fact. John Freer, Jur. Geo. Bates, Geo. Garbut, Tho. Browne, Will. Hunsworth, Rob. Easton, Names of the Jury etc. Tho. Hagge, Chr. Garbut, Will. Wood, Jur. Will. Scott, John Redman, Geo. Thompson, [ Jur Who acquit all three prisoners implicated in the preceding felonies ; [90.]* nine bills ignored, among them two cases of horse-stealing and one of sheep-stealing ; [90''.] informations against five persons for using the trade of a miller etc. ; four for ingrossing cattle, etc. ; and one for buying grain still growing; [91, 91^] ten recog"^ respited; [92-93''.] twenty-one recogn"' entered, four of them in relation to cases of bastardy, and another /;/ re the case of assault etc. on Edm. Mauliverer. See IV. 273. [94.] Orders made etc. Whereas this Court hath received a certificate from the Inhab'^ and Freeholders of Kirkleathani testifying and declaring the great incon- venience, damage and discommodity that is likely to arise and would with the cold presse within such city, etc., and view and search whether the said cloths be well and .sufficiently dressed, etc., and also well and rightly dyed wiih good and perfect colours, etc. The searchers had authority, under this Act, to enter any person's house, where they should think meet to search, and to seize all cloths found defective, as forfeited etc., and of the fine half was to go to the King and half to the Mayor, or other head -officer aforesaid. * The number Sg is missed out in the pagination. HELMESLEY, JANUARY II, 164I. 5 probably ensue by proportioninge and layinge on ass'^, accordinge to estimation of every man's lands and hereditaments, and whereas they have likewise declared by their said certificate, that, time out of mind of man, there hath been and still is an ancient rent issueing out of the Constablery of Kirkleatham, of which ancient rent every man within the said Constablery hath ever borne his part and proportion, accord- inge to the quantity of lands etc. hee occupitth and enjoyeth within the said Constablery, and that the Rectory and Parsonage of Kirk- leatham aforesaid, consistinge of land, lythes, oblations and obventions, is charged with a proportionable part of the said ancient rent, and that the Hospitall Land, the ground whereupon the kilnes, the milne and storehouse at Cotham are erected, are charged with a part of the said ancient rent ; and that accordinge to their said ancient rent, all their towns moneys have been divided, and moneys paid for the purchase of their land have been rated and divided ; and that all ass", taxes, layes, charges and impositions, ordinary and extraordinary, ass^ etc. upon the said Constablery, time out of memory of any man now living even unto this day, have been rated, etc., upon every man, accordinge to his proportion of the said ancient rent, (saving once that the said manner of ass', was altered, which did breed great debate and strife amongst the said Inhab'^ insoemuch that every one was displeased and all resolved that there should never be any ass', soe laid on and propor- tioned afterwards, [94''.] but that all ass'^ and charges for the future should be laid etc. upon every man accordinge to his proportion of the said ancient rent that his land etc. are charged withall, as by the said certificate upon record in this Court more plainly doth appear), it is therefore, notwithstanding anything that hath been said to the contrary, thought filt and Ordered by this Court, that all ass", and other charges whatsoever, which shall happen for the future to be charged upon the said Constablery, shall be laid on etc. according to the said ancient rent and no otherwise, and that John Harrison, Tho. Harrison, Rob. Cuthbert and Tho. Peacocke shall be assessors for the future untill others be appointed ; on complaint of the late Constable of Stonegrave that he is ^£15 out of pocket, the Constables to cast on an ass', and pay him ; the late Constable of Welburne to give in his acc'^'. to Mr. Halliday of Lilling and Mr. Peckitt of Sheriff Hutton, and if they cannot settle an agreement amongst the neighbours, then to make certificate etc. [95.1 Order for the maintenance of a bastard child ; another for the like ; forasmuch as the inhab'^ of Skelton are much money in arrear to the late Constable, they are either to repay him forthwith, or to repair before the next J.F., who is desired to examine if there be cause of neglect in any person or persons to pay what is due, and then to 6 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. bind the refusers over to appear etc. ; [95^] the two gentlemen to whom the difference between the inhab". of Thirsk and the men who were Constables in 1643 and 1644, having this day made certificate to this Court, what they have certified shall be observed, and if any refuse to yield obedience thereto, this Court, upon complaint made, will take such course with the refusers as to law appertaineth ; Helmesley parish church being in great decay and Hkely to come to ruin if speedy course be not taken for repair, and an ass', having been cast, with consent of all or most of the parishioners, part of which is paid by some, and others i efusing to pay, the refusers are ordered to pay, or else the Constable is required to carry them before the next J. P. to be bound to appear etc. ; [96.] the Churchwardens and Overseers for Marske to pay to a poor man not only his arrears for the time past after the rate of 2d. per week, but also 2d. per week for the future, and in case of refusal the Constable to carry the refusers before etc., to be bound over etc. ; Mich. Young not to pay for the future any greater proportion of ass', for the land he farms of Mrs. Layton in Little Dromanby in Kirkby then after the rate of ^30 per annum, the said land being sett out by the N. R. Comiitee to Mrs. Layton for ;!^3o per annum ; three gentlemen to settle an equal proportion of ass', between Mr. Fairside of Hutton Bushell, for his tythe corne there, and the inhab'". of the said townshippe, and to make certificate at the ne.xt Quarter Sessions what they conceive thereofj three gentlemen to examine into the disproportion of ass', between two men of Little Ayton and to certify etc. ; [96^] the inhab'^ of Burniston to pay the arrears of ass', due to the late Constable, and the Constables to carry the refusers before etc., to be bound etc. ; a gentleman of Malton to examine into the disproportion of ass', between the townships of Wath and Oswaldchurch, and to settle an equality thereof if he can, other- wise to make certificate etc. ; two gentlemen are desired to examine into the difference between a woman and four men of Hutton Rudby, so as the truth of her complaint made here may be by them, if need be, certified to the next Quarter Sessions ; the late Constable of Marske being ;^i3. 15. li out of pocket, the present Constable to collect the said sum forthwith and to pay it to him, and if any refuse to pay, the Constable etc. [Side-note. — This Order made null and void at the Sessions at Thirsk next following, because for service done against the Parliament] ; [97.] a Rudby man to pay ass', for the tythe of Seamer hee now farms, according to the accustomed manner it hath done (sic) formerly ; three gentlemen to examine the disproportion of ass', between the inhab". of Rossedaile, Lastingham and Hutton, and to settle such order between Mr. Ewbancke about his tythe and the neighbours there as shall be by consent of all parties, otherwise to HELMESLEY, JANUARY II, 164I. ^ make certificate etc. ; the late Constable of Kilton to pass his acc'^ of such moneys as he hath in his hands in arrears, or else the next J. P. is desired to see right done to the parties grieved herein ; whereas this Court is informed that the village of Tunstall in Cleaveland in old customary rates formerly, till now of late, bore a proportion of ass'. with Little Ayton, and Little Ayton findinge them (sic) overcharged by the books of rates, and Tunstall instead of bearing a share with Little Ayton, is a bearer with Nunthorpe : upon the grounds aforesaid. Ordered that Tunstall shall be joyned again to Little Ayton, as formerly it hath been, after the six months ass', imposed by Ordinance of Parliament for disbandinge the supernumerary Souldiers, unless the inhab'^ of Nunthorpe, to which Tunstall is assistant, doe shew good cause to the contrary ; [97^] the late Constable of Bilsdale Kirkham being 28s. 2d. out of pocket, the inhab'^ to take care and see the said Constable satisfied, or the next J. P. to certifye the next Sessions where the default is ; whereas it appears to this Court that Mr. John Mason of Middleton hath contemned an Order of Sessions hereunto annexed, it is therefore Ordered that if the said Mr. Mason shall refuse, upon sight thereof, to performe the aforesaid Order, or to repair before the next J. P. to become bound to answer his contempt at the next Sessions, the Constable of Middleton to carry him before some J. P. to enter bond etc. ; whereas there hath been severall Orders directed from this honourable Court to the Constables of New Malton for the collecting of _;^2. I. 6 for divers bridges in decay, as also for the arrears of money due to the Master of the Ho. of Corr°. at Richmond, and for the Prison in York Castle, that forasmuch as the said warrants came lately to the hands of the old Constables who went presently forth of their office, and the said money never estreated and therefore in arrears and unpaid. Ordered that the present Constables shall presently collect the said sum etc. ; [98.] Mr. Sam. Marshall of Pickering either to pay such ass|'. as are imposed upon him for his lands in Middleton for three years last past, or else to appear etc. ; whereas complaint hath been made unto this Court by the Surv". of Whitby bridge, being an ancient country bridge mainteyned by the N. R. and standing upon the river of Eske, where there are diverse ships, belonging to the said town and coming from other places, often riding, which, by wilful negligence of the masters and mariners, do often break loose, and which, beating against the said bridge do much damage and make many breaches, which they refuse upon demand to make good, by reason whereof, the decayes of the said bridge do happen oftener than they otherwise would do, which brings an excessive charge to the country, for the preventing whereof these are to will and require you, the Constables of Whitby, from time to time to arreast and attach the bodies of all such o QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. masters of ships and vessels upon whom complaint shall be made unto you for any damage, lately done to the said bridge, or which shall hereafter happen to do any such damage, and them carry before the next J. P. to be bound to the Sessions, to answer for the said damage unless they shall first be willing to make good the same, or pay for the amendment thereof: hereof you may not fail at your peril. To the present Constables of Whitby, and to their successors, and to their lawfull deputies, and to every of them ; a bastardy case referred to two Justices. [99.] RICHMOND. Qu. Sessions at, 14 Jan., 164I. Before John Waistell, Roger Covill, and John Robinson, Esquires. High Sheriff, John Savile, Esq. ; Henry Marwood, Gent"., Deputy, &c. First Jury. John Robinson, Gent"., Jur. Chr. Thompson, Will. Robinson, John Bell, Will. Spence, \ Jur. Geo. Gibson, Raph Horsemann, Will. Freer, Chr. Plues, Fr. Lownsdale, Geo. Fosse, Henry Tayler, James Dunninge, John Sigsworth, Rich. Foster, [ Jur. Second Jury. John Mitchell, Gent"., Jur. Rich. Pyburne, ] Rob. Robinson, j Rich. Watson, | Math. Lightfoote, j- Jur. Rob, Cowlinge, 1 Oliver Iveson, | John Nicholls, J Will. Etherington, Tho. Burnett, Fr. Hunton, Tho. Story, Sidracke Dunninge, Fr. Marshall, Rob. Ripley, Jur. [99 .] A husb". for refusing to repair his hedge; six yeomen from Arkengarthdale, and near, for forcil)le entry on a certain messuage etc ■ the inhab'=. of the North Riding for not repairing Yafforth Bridge ■ an Easingwold lab', for feloniously taking a dagger (i6d.) and two knives (i2d.) from a man unknown, at Newton Moore on the King's high way ; a lab', from Well for pulling off the wool of sixteen sheep (40s ) ■ RICHMOND, JANUARY I4, 164I. g a Scarborough lab', for stealing an earthen pankin (8d.), an earthen pitcher (3d.), and an earthen doubler (2d.). Names of the Jury etc. Fr. Jackson, Sen., Jur. Tho. Tebb, Chr. Carter, ¥r. Clough, Fr. Raper, Rob. Fawcett, Tho. Cowper, Jur. Rob. Forrest, „ Fr. Phipps, John Martin, „ Rich. Dickinson, „ Tho. Wright, Who acquit the two prisoners tried; [103.] seven bills ignored; [^03^ 104.] recogn=". respited in thirteen cases, mostly to keep the peace; [104, 105.] seven persons bound in recogn"=- under various circumstances. Orders made etc. In a bastardy case, for arrears and a future weekly payment ; Geo. Shaw, late Master of the Richmond Ho. of Corr"., applies for compen- sation for the losses susteyned through his removal : he is to have, for that purpose, all such monies as hee shall discover to be in the hands of the severall C. C, levied for leading of ship timber for Newcastle, or any part of the county of Durham, and all such C. C. to pay over such sums of money to the next J.P., etc. ; Corporall Henry Quaits, who was maimed in the military service of the Parliament, to have 20s. for his present relief, etc. ; [106.] much of the money granted for the relief of the poor in Richmond, during thfe great infection of the plague there, not having been collected, and Mr. Henry Broadrigg, then Alder- man of the said town, having been, for want thereof, inforced to lay down soe much of his own moneys for the releife of the poore, whoe otherwise had beene in great danger of death by famine, whereby hee hath much impoverished himself, the said arrears of money so ordered to be forthwith collected, and the balance due to Mr. Broadrigg to be paid over to him without delay, and three of the Justices nearest to Richmond to take all the measures necessary for the prompt execution of this Order ; a soldier maimed in the service of the Parliament, and thereby disabled, to have 50s. yearly from henceforth ; a warrant etc. against Mr. Sam. Marshall of Pickering for contempt of an Order of this Court ; [106''.] the gentlemen appointed by Order of the Michael- mas Sessions to take ace', of the bridge moneys in the hands of the C. C^, and especially for Topcliff bridge, to lose no more time in ful- filling the said Order ; the late Constables of Sowerby to be repaid a small balance due to them ; ;^40 having been formerly ordered for repair of Massam bridge, and the Court being informed that ^^40 more 10 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. is required — Ordered accordingly ; ;^2o for Lealam bridge, if it appears to Geo. Ewry and Geo. Marwood, Esquires, to have been formerly repaired at the charge of the country, and Tho. Richardson and Miles Harwood to be Surv". ; [107.] the late Constables of Thirske, and all the other Constables of the same for seven years past, to make their acc'^ within one month ; Kirkham bridge reported as in great decay, and that ;^i 12 are required for its repair : Ordered accordingly, Messrs. Agar and Cardikes, Surv". ; four several Orders having been issued by the Court for the levying of an ass', on the severall townes of the Weapontake of Langbarugh, that neglected to send in provisions and draughts to the Scottish Army in their march from Leeminge south- wards, as was commanded by severall warrants from the Commissioners authorised for that expedition directed to the C. C\ of that Division, and for that the Petty Constables of the East, and some part of the West, Division have payd in the proportion assessed upon them to- wards that charge, although signally it appears that the East Division is free from many burthens that the West undergoe, and that the willinge party only suffer in cases of this nature, the C. C'. are forthwith to give an ace', to Geo. Ewrye and Geo. Marwood, Esquires, of what moneys they have received on that behalf, and to take stringent measures for the immediate collection of the residue; [107''.] Tho. Bates discharged from the office of C. C. ; auditors appointed to examine the acc'^ of a defaulting Constable ; Thirske stone bridge to be repaired, and twenty marks to be estreated for the purpose ; John Pybus and Jos. Bell to be Surv". ; case of bastardy : the putative father gone into the south parts, and therefore his father to pay 8d. a week for a year, 6d. a week for two years, and 4d. a week for three years after that, and then both to be free of further charge; [108.] Raph Wilson of Mansfeild to be C. C. of Gilling East vice Chr. Smithson, and the latter to make ace'. • Tho. North of Butterwicke and Tho. Butler of Stonegrave to be C. C". of Ridall vice Rich. Morritt, Rob. Denton, and Will. Sturdie, who are to pass their ace'", etc. ; Will. Redhead of Brompton, and Rob. Hard- ing of Pickering to be C. C=. of Pickering vue John Fairside and Tho. Swailes etc. ; Tho. Warcopp of East Tanfeild to be C. C. of Hallikeld vice Chr. Carter, etc. ; Fr. Knaggs of Whitby to be C. C. of Whitby Strand vice Fr, Robinson, etc. The next Sessions at New Malton, July 11 next, and by adjourn- ment at Northallerton on the 14th. [108".] Entry in a different hand :— ^^30 to be estreated for repair of Willey bridge over the Clowbeck, Mr. Luke Waistell and Mr. Sam. Peirte to be Surv". NEW MALTON, JULY II, [648. II [109.] NEW MALTON. Qu. Sessions at, 11 July, 1648. Before Sir John Bourchier, Luke Robinson, Rich. Eytherington, Geo. Marwood, and Arthur Noell, Esquires. High Sheriff etc. as before. Geoff. Nicholson, Jur. John Burland, Tho. Wilberfosse, Geo. Richardson, Geo. Wilkinson, Rich. „ Tristram Webster, Andrew Wilkinson, John Dagge, FIRST PANNELL. John Pearson, Rob. Wildon, Tho. Hardy, Edw. Blenckharne, Rich. Wright, Will. Emerson, Tho. Greene, John Cockrell, Jur. Jur. Fr. Sellar, Jur. Geo. Hill, John Harrison, Chr. Wake, John Smith, Tho. Hardwicke, Chr. Wilson, Mark „ Rob. „ SECOND PANNELL. Rich. Woodcocke, Theodore North, Tho. Lotherington, Geo. Sunley, Jun'., Tho. Kirkby, Rob. Consett, Nich. Wilson, Nich. Hopperton, Jur. • Jur [log''.] A Helperby woman for stealing two table-napkins, a table- cloth, and a hempen apron ; the inhab". of Stoxley (Stokesley) for not repairing the bridge called Stoxley-becke Bridge ; a man tried for forcible entry, and fined a farthing ; the inhab". of Linton for not repairing their highway called Lynton Lane; a Stokesley woman for enclosing and stopping up a foot-way ; the inhab". of Wiggington for not repairing the highway near EUer-Carr; the Constables of New Malton and Stonegrave for refusing to pay the moneys imposed on their Constableries etc. ; [no.] one bill ignored. Names of the Jury etc. Rob. Hood, John Ducke, John Blansherd, James Hebden, Edw. Pilley, Chr. Pannell, Jur. Will. Stonehouse, Jur. Cuthb. Beale, „ James Sugdell, „ Tho. Linsley, John Chimney, ,, John Bossell, „ 12 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Who acquit the prisoner tried; informations against four men for using the trade of a baker etc. ; against four others for ingrossing corn etc ; another for using the trade of a grocer ; another for etc. a carpenter ; four for beetUng, beaming, etc. ; six for ingrossing butter ; and three others for ingrossing growing corn. [in.] Recogn'"". respited in eight cases; [in, 112.] recogn"=. entered in seven cases. [112''.] Orders made etc. Will. Sturdy, late C. C. of Rydall, to have certain moneys disbursed by him when in office, but not as yet received by him, forthwith made good to him etc. ; the Weapontake of Pickering-lythe having neglected to pay to a L. S. 20s., as ordered, the Thre'. for L. S. to pay the man's pension yearly ; the C. C of all the divisions of the N. R. to see to the immediate coll", of all moneys due for the last four years for L. S. and Hosp"^., and pay the same over to the several Thre" at the next Sessions, and the same as to the bridge money etc. ; [113.] the parish otficers of Fileing to pay to Will. Leedall of the said parish, gd. a weeke, and gd. a weeke alsoe for his subsistence, hee haveinge received severall woundes in the service of the Parliament, and the next J. P. to see to the execution of this Order ; Phil. Howseman and Tho. Dickenson, C. C of Bulmer, to be bound etc. to appear at next Sessions to answere their neglect in not collecting the moneys estreated on Bulmer for divers purposes, etc. ; the parish officers of Thorneton, of about five years ago, having acknowledged the receipt of ^20 as the parish stocke for the poor, and as yet deteyne the same, they are forthwith to pay 40s. to an EUerburne woman, as part of the said ^20, and make present payment of the remainder to the present Parish Officers; [II3^] Will. Handley, a foote soldier who lately served under Captaine John Spencer, in the service of the Parliament, is sore wounded and not able to helpe himselfe, therefore the Thre'. for pensioned souldiers is to pay forth, upon the first money he receives for L. S., 30s. yearly to the said Handley etc. ; upon perusall of a petition from Great Ayton, and likewise of an ass', dated May 2, it appears that it is usual for the assessors in Gr. Ayton to mixe the Constables' layes, and other their Constables expences, with the monethly ass", and to levy the same by pretence of the said ass'^ : Ordered that the said assessors doe not upon any warrant to them directed, for any monethly ass'., assess or levy any more moneys then the very somme conteyned in such warrants, and that noe inhab'. there to any other ass', then such as are laid on by Ordinance of Parliament be assessed any otherwise then according to ancient custome used before the warrs, and that new assessours be hereafter chosen ; all NORTHALLERTON, AUGUST IS, l6:t8. 13 lands and estates in Easby, as to all ass'^ imposed by authority of Parliament, to be assessed according to the full and highest valew thereof, and for Constable-layes, onely accordinge to ancient custome used before the warres; [114-] the Parish Officers of New Malton to repair the dwelling of two poor people there, and if they neglect, the Con- stables there to carry them before the next J. P. etc. ; a warrant against the putative father in a bastardy case etc. ; another warrant etc. ; the Parish Officers of Redcar to pay all arrears due to one Will. Browne according to an Order made at Helmesley, and if they refuse, the Constable of the towne to take them before the next J. P. etc. [115.] NORTHALLERTON. Qu. Sessions by adjournment at, 15 August, 1648. Before Sir John Bourchier and Tho. Dickenson, Esq. High Sheriff etc. as before. Geo. Metcalfe, Gent Rob. Robinson, Will. Stringer, John Skelton, Rich. Merrington, ■ Geo. Flower, j Mark Hall, j John Snawden, J Jury. ., Jur. Tho, Coates, John Sigswicke, James Dunninge, John Bretton, Jur. Rich. Smith, Oswald Cotton, Will. Nelson, Y Jur. A man for breaking a close and rooting up and carrying away a hedge ; [ns''-] the inhaV. of Brunton for not repairing their pinfold ; those of Romanby for the like ; those of Northallerton for not repairing Sunbecke Bridge ; John Linsley of Northallerton for divers mis- demeanours ; two bills ignored ; recogn"'. respited in two cases. Orders made etc. Whereas an Order was made at Northallerton Midsummer Session in 1646, and ratified at Thirske Sessions in April, 1647, tl^at ^^40 should be estreated for repair of Smeaton Bridge, and Surv'^ and Collectors duly appointed, but both Order and bridge have been neglected, an additional Collector to be appointed for the better expediting of the work, and the C. C^ forthwith to pay over to the said Coll'=. such moneys etc. ; the Parish Officers of Northallerton forthwith to pay to a very poor widow there 6d. a week, until further Order. H QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. [117.] THIRSKE. Qu. Sessions at, Oct. 3, 1648. Before John Waistell, Rob. Watters, and Geo. Marwood, Esquires. High Sheriff etc. as before. Rob. Batter, Jur. Rich. Moore, Tho. Kitchen, Will. Crosby, John Will. Fountaine, John „ John Hey, Will. Atkinson, FIRST PANNELL. Henry Bell, Geo. Hustwhaite, Andr. Morrell, Raph Hewthwaite, Rob. Bell, Will. Heilde, Anth. Abbey, Will. Whitton, J Jur. Jur. SECOND PANNELL. Rich. Dickenson, Jur. Will. Daile, Geo. Jackson, Tho. Awmocke, Will. Pearson, j- Jur. Will. Lumley Will. Atkinson, John Hustwhaite, _, Will. Nelson, James „ Will. Butterwicke, Raph Bell, John Barker, Tho. Morrell, Will. Atkinson, J Jur. [117''.] Four yeomen for not obeying an Order of Sessions; three others for the like ; a Thringarth lab', for forcible entry on a close and taking thence a burthen of hay ; a Little Thirkleby yeoman for assault etc. ; two Redcar women for the like ; a Thirske lab', for stealing two burthens of beans and pease ; and another as accessory after the fact ; three lab'^. tried for stealing a bullock ; a Rainton lab', for stealing a sheep (6s.). [118.] Names of the Jury etc. Fr. Parvin, Jur. Will. Thompson Will. Foggerthwaite Edw. Cowlinge Rob. Fawcett Fr. Cowper Tho. Lumley John Barker Rich. Hodge Tho. Pearson Rob. Morrell Val. Kitchinman THIRSKE, OCTOBER 3, 1648. 15 Who acquit the three prisoners in one case, but convict the other : to be whipped ; the inhab". of Kirkby on the Moor for not repairing their horse-bridge called the Threemile Bridge; those of Norton in Luto for the like as to the bridge lying between Norton and Cundall ; Lune Bridge and Reeth Bridge both as in decay ; the inhab'^ . of Kirk Leavington for not repairing their part of the highway called Limpton Moore Lane, leading from Scarth Nick to Yarra ; Willey Bridge as in ruin etc. ; the inhab*'. of Easingwold and Huby for not repairing the highway called Newbridge betwixt Easingwold and York ; a Middleton man for refusing to pay his ass""- ; the late Constables of East Witton and the late Midlam Constable for detaining the L. S. and bridge moneys in their hands ; three ToUerton yeomen for not repairing their highway from Tollerton to York. Three bills ignored. [119.] Recogn'". respited in five cases; [II9^ 120.] recogn'"- entered in six cases. Orders made etc. The gentlemen who took the acc'^ of Mr. Alderman Broadrigg (See p. 9) are forthwith to deliver the acc'^- they have received of the several Collectors to Mr. Broadrigg, that he may deliver them to three or two of the next Justices to Richmond, who are to take the said acc'^., according to the Order made at Thirske last April, and are to see that the said Order is speedily observed ; Mr. Fr. Robinson, C. C. of Whitby,, is, before the next Sessions, to submit his ace", to any two Justices, etc., and on their certificate etc., Mr. Robinson, on his naming a suitable successor, to be relieved of the office ; the Parish Officers of Redcar forthwith to cast an ass . for the payment of 2d. weekly to a poor man according to a former Order, and to pay him the arrears due, and the Constable of Marske to carry two of the parties con- temning the former Order before the next J.P. to be bound etc. ; [121.] Ensigne Abraham Holt having lost one of his handes in the service of the Parliament, wherein hee hath faithfully served by the space of six yeares last past, he is to have a yearly pension of 50s. etc., and for settled pension for his life, this Court refers him to the Justices of the West Riding, out of which Riding he ought to be pro- vided for according to an Ordinance of Parliament in that behalf; the Thre'. for L. S. for Richm". to pay to Henry Quaits, a Corporal maimed in the service of the Parliament, £t,. 6. 8 yearly, as a pension etc. ■ the new Constable of Catton forthwith to pass his acc'^., and any money found to be due to him to be forthwith paid over to him ; [121''.] a former Order having been made for the casting of an ass', at Butterwick wherewith to pay certain arrears due to a former Constable there, and complaint having been made to the Court at the 1 6 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Malton Sessions in July last that many refused to pay their proportion of such ass'., when a further Order was made that all such refusers were to be carried before the next Justice etc., and complaint being now made that nothing has been done upon the aforesaid Order, there- fore the new Constables of Butterwick are to carry all such persons as refuse etc. ; the new Constables of Sowerby forthwith to pass their acc'^ etc. ; two persons named are for the future to pay their ass", with the Constablery of Bagby for such lands as they farm, or to appear before the next J. P. to show cause etc.; [122.] whereas Rob. Dawson of Thornton in Pickering-lythe was slain in the service of the Parlia- ment, and has left a widow and divers small children in distressed circumstances, and whereas there is an Ordinance of Parliament pro- viding for the releife of the said wife and children, the Court requests the two next Justices to attend to the matter according to their dis- cretion ; whereas James Awderson and Rich. Collings, late C. C'. for Gilling West, Tho. Jobson and Geo. Dodsworth for Hang West, John Lucas and Tym. Brasse for Hang East, Chr. Smithson and Symon Willey for Gilling East, Will. Raper and Geo. Burniston for Hallikeld, have much money of the Country's in their hands, unac- counted for, which they collected for leadeing of Ship-timber, and that the same hath not been imployed as was intended, and this Court Ordering such sommes as they have in their keepeing to be paid to the next J. P., to be disposed of as this Court appointed, which they have neglected to do, the Court therefore requires the Bailiffs of the Weapontakes in Richm'^, where the said gentlemen dwell, to carry them before the next J.P., to become bound etc. ; [122''.] the Court being informed that the inhab" of Thirkleby doe unequally charge and assess Mr. Ashtill, Minister there, for his Vicarage, Ordered that in future the said gentleman shall be assessed according as Sir Henry Franckland and the inhab" formerly approved of; complaint by the inhab". of Barningham that, whereas the hamlet of Hopes, being formerly parcel of Barningham Constablery, did anciently bear the fourth part of all ass'^ therein, until, of late, upon reference to the Sequestrators of that District, it was Ordered that Hopes should bear only a fifth part, the inhab'^. there do nevertheless refuse to pay the same. Ordered that if they persist in such refusal, they shall pay the fourth part of all Constable rates and ass'^ charged on the said Con- stablery etc. ; warrants against the Constables of Seamer, Hutton, and Stokesley ; [123.J warrants against six men for refusing to pay their proportions of ass"- for satisfying the arrears of the late Constable of Borrowby; Will. Loftus of Walth Coate to be Thre'. of Hosp'^ in Richm. etc. ; John Wray of Rockwith to be Thre'. of L. S. in the same ; Tho. Bates of Stainton to serve as Thre'. for Hosp''. for the HELMESLEY, JANUARY 9, l64f. i/ East Division of the N. R. ; a warrant against the Overseers of Carle- ton Husthwaite for contempt of an Order of Sessions, and also of a warrant from Sir John Bourchier for finding of harbour and mainten- ance for two poor people etc. ; [I23^] two gent", named to take view of Bow Bridge, and certify at the next Sessions etc. ; two Constables nominated to serve for Thirske ; on a certificate from the Surv"- of Croft Bridge, confirmed by Mr. Waistell, J. P., ;^3o to be forthwith estreated for the repair of the same, etc. [I24^] HELMESLEY. Qu. Sessions at, Jan. 9, 1648-9. Before Geo. Ewrie, Barrington Bourchier, and Isaac Newton, Esquires. Sir Will. St. Quintin, High Sheriff, Geo. Marwood, Gent"., Deputy etc. FIRST PANNEIX. John Hall, Rob. Peere, Jur. Geo. Pearson, Will. Medd, Rob. Francke, Will. Thorpe, John Nicholson, Will. Grundell, John Francke, Geo. Robinson, J Jur. Rich. Sunley, Nich. Wilson, Tho. Barker, John „ Chr. Fawcett, Fr. Castle, Brian Beswicke, ^ \ Jur. SECOND PAN NELL. Rich. Dobson, Gent"., Jur. Rob. Fawdington, 1 John Eagle, Mich. Myers, Giles ,, Tho. Hardy, Joseph Moore, James Ettye, John Marshall, Jur. John Robinson, " Tho. Francke, Rich. Rowland, James Cowston, Will. Jenkinson, Will. Hill, John Burton, Will. Wood, Jur. [125.] A Brotton yeorn". for stopping and digging up the highway there • a Welburne yeom". for shooting diverse doves ; a Gerricke lab', and his wife for stealing two heifers (^8), tried for felony ; two lab", for sheep-stealing, and again other two for the same ; another VOL. v. ^ 1 8 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. case against the last two ; a lab', for stealing a windring (winnowing) cloth ; a Westerdale lab', for stealing a wether. Names of the Jury, etc. Marm. Usher Henry Simpson Raph Sedsworth Will. Lotherington Simon Hamilton Tho. Dobson Rob. Franckland Chr. Cowper Rob. Foster Tho. Birkill John Watson Will. „ [125''.] WHO, ETC. [No verdicts recorded] ; seven bills ignored ; informations against five yeom". for ingrossing butter ; four yeom". for ingrossing cattle ; eight yeom". for ingrossing grain ; [126.] inquisition taken at Egton on the oath of the Jury named below, before Isaac Newton Esq., J. P., touching a case of forcible entry etc. by which Tho. Metham, Esq., was disseised of a certain messuage etc. : — Tho. Shipton, Tho. Sraal- wood, Raph Camplin, Fr. Pearson, Raph Smalwood, Miles Harwood, Will. Tinsley, Rich. Fletcher, Will. Graves, Tho. Hill, Peter Cover- daile, Raph Wood, and Raph Temple; [126'', 128.] recogn"=- taken in twenty-three cases, principally to bind the parties to prosecute certain traverses, but none of any general interest. [128.] Orders made etc. The Parish Off'^ of Thirske to provide for a poor petitioner, or, upon further complaint, the next Justice to bind the contemners over to appear etc. ; the townshippe of Marske to rate Mr. Rob. Colthurst equal with the rest of the inhab". there, and if any contemn this Order, the next J. P. to bind the contemners etc. ; the new Constables of Newton to appoint four substantial men, and to cast an ass', for Wm. Muntoft, the petitioner, and if any refuse to cast or pay the same, the next J. P. to bind etc. ; if the Parish Off", for Kilburne, whereof Wasse and Old- stead are members, refuse to pay the money mentioned in the petition, the next J.P. to bind the person or persons refusing etc. ; [128. repeated] the sworn Constables for Osvvaldkirke, with four of the chiefe of the inhab". to joyne together for the imposing of such charges as shall for the future happen to the townshipp, and for the present, four persons named to serve herein ; the Parish Off' =. of Middleton to pay a poor woman 4d. a week, due unto her by a former Order, and the Overseers for Hutton Rudby, whereof Hutton, Middleton, Gowton and Rainton are members, to pay the said poor woman 8d. weekely for her main- tenance, and if any refuse etc. ; three men having been at some HELMESLEY, JANUARY 9, 164^. 19 charges in disbursing money at this Sessions for the townshipp of Easby, the inhab'^ are to proportion the said sum equally by way of ass', and pay it to the said parties, and if any refuse, the next J. P. etc. ; the inhab". of Faceby to observe in all future Constable ass'^ the proportioning of the same according to rates made amongst the neighbours about ten years past, excepting such as are imposed by Ordinance of Parliament, and if any further difference arise, [to be referred] to two Justices named ; [I28^] whereas an Order was made at Helmesley, Jan^. nth, 164I, desiring a certain gent", to examine the disproportion of ass', between Oswaldkirke cum Ampleforth and Wath, and to make certifi- cate to the next Sessions, upon perusal of the said certificate, it is Ordered that, upon an ass', of ;^7o,ooo upon the county of Yorke, the hamlett of Wath is to be abated at that proportion in future los., and Oswaldkirk cum Ampleforth to pay the same over and above their former proportion, and the same proportion to be observed in all future ass'^ ; whereas it appears to this Court that Stitnam in the Booke of Rates never used to be above ;£:^o till of late years, yet is now brought to ;^4S, two gent", are desired to examine how it comes to be so disproportionably rated from other townshipps, as ToUerton and Easingwould, and also to inform themselves why Cornbrough is abated ;^8 of late, and what other towns are eased of their former proportion, and, according to their certificate, further course shall be taken at the next Sessions for the easing of Stitnam, as cause shall require ; a warrant etc. against the late Constables of New Malton, etc., if they refuse to pass their acc'=. to the inhab'^ ; [129.] James Stevenson of Buttercrarabe, in the parish of Bossall, who was a souldier in the Parliament's service in Col. Thornton's regiment, having dyed in the said service of some wounds he received in the siege before Ponte- fract, leaving one Thomison Stevenson, a poore orphan, which was his daughter, to the charge of the parish, she having no means of subsistence, the Thre'. for L.S., according to Ordinance of Parliament to pay her 50s. yearly out of the Treasury of such Stocke as shall remain in his hands, towards her releife till further Order ; a warrant etc. to keep the peace etc. ; Mrs. Turner, for her tythes in Kirkleatham, and the inhab'^, for the lands there, to proportion all future ass'^ imposed by Ordinance of Parliament according to the value of the said lands, and all Con- stables layes as formerly, and if the parties cannot agree, then four gentlemen are desired to examine the same and settle such proportion as they conceive fitting, and upon their certificate this Court will give further Order; [I29^] whereas much money is due from cer- tain inhab'^ of Bilsdale, to the Constables thereof, which they have disbursed for the repair of Newton Bridge in the Constablery of Bils- dale, the Constables are to appoint four assessors to collect and pay c 2 20 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. the same, and in case of neglect, the next J. P. to bind etc. ; a man named to leave Ampleforth and repair to the place of his last habita- tion, unless he can give security to save the parish harm, and Widow Whitehead's daughters to refuse from henceforth to entertain him ; [130 ] four gentlemen desired to examine the disproportion of ass', in the hamlett of Thorpe and other towns in the Booke of Rates, and to certifye how it comes to be overburthened, and what towns are eased thereby, and then further Order will be given ; the inhab"- of Bilsdale to take care that certain persons petitioning the Court be not charged a greater proportion in ass', then themselves, but every man to be assessed equally to what he enjoys ; a case of relief etc. ; Mr. Chr. Potter or his tenant to take care that his water-course be scoured by the next Sessions, etc. ; the Slingsby Parish Off" to provide for a poor man ; the inhab'^ of Bransdale not to impose a greater proportion of ass', upon the parties petitioning then upon themselves, and if they doe, two men are appointed to examine and make certifi- cate etc. ; [130''.] three gentlemen appointed to settle the difference concerning the proportion of ass', between the inhab'^ of Middleton, Aislaby, Wrelton, Cropton, and Lockton, and Mr. Mason to make pay- ment of such sum as he shall appear to them to be in arrears ; the Con- stables and fower of the inhab". of Spawnton and Lastingham to cast an ass', for the money disbursed by the petitioner for the Constablery, and in case of refusal or negligence, the next J. P. to binde the refusers etc.; if the contents of Mr. Rogers' petition be true that he hath sold the lande in Upleatham, and is neither owner nor tenant thereof, then the occupiers to pay the ass', and the said Mr. Rogers to be acquitted thereof; [131.] the present Constable of Butterwicke to carry such persons as have not paid the ass', cast on for disbursement of the late Constable before the next J. P. to be bound etc. ; a warrant against Peter Behvood of Butterwicke and a woman there for the good be- haviour; the Constable for Carleton for the year 1647 being much money out of pocket, and the inhab'^ refusing to take his acc'^, three gent", are desired to joyne with some of the inhab'^ to take his acc'^, and the present Constable, with fower of the ablest inhab'^, are to cast an ass', and pay such sum as shall appear to be due to him, and in case of refusal, the next J. P. etc. ; a warrant against four men etc. ; [131''.] Mr. John Sedman of Selford in the parish of Hacknes to be H. C. for Whitby vice Mr. Fr. Robinson ; the Constables of Oswald- kirk cum Ampleforth to discharge three men from brewing in future, by reason they keep disorderly houses, and if any of them contemn this Order and persist, then to carry them before the next J. P. to be bound etc. ; the late Constables for Helmesley being £,2?,. 2. 3 out of pocket, and severall Orders to the inhab" to collect and pay the HELMESLEY, JANUARY 9, l64|. 21 same having been altogether neglected hithertowards, the present Con- stables, with such of the inhab'^ as shall be pleased to be there, are to assess, collect and pay the said sum before Feb'''. 2nd next, and in case of neglect the next J.P. to bind the offenders etc. ; [132.] whereas some refuse to pay an ass', cast by Order of Sessions made at Malton for the building of a house for the poore at Brompton, the next J.P. to bind the refusers etc. ; the Parish Ofif^ of Hacknes to convey a bastard child which has been brought into the parish back to the place where it was born, and the Parish Off", there to provide for it ; upon complaint of the Constables of Slingsby that two men refuse to pay their ass'^, the next J.P. to binde the offenders etc. ; the petitioner to have an ass', cast in the towne, and the Constables and inhab'\ performed accordingly and the money paid to him ; [I32^] the parishioners of Scawton to pay a man presenting a petition the sum charged upon them by way of ass', for a Church bible, and in case of refusal, the next J.P. to bind the offenders etc. ; the i^hab'^ of that part of Bilsdale called Midd-Cavill to observe an equall proportion in all future ass'^, both by lands and goods, to the value of both, and the ancient Constable-rates to be as formerly ; the inhab'^- of Helmesley to assesse themselves in all future ass'^ equall with the inhab'^ of the Moor Intakes or els show cause to the contrary before the next J.P. ; two Thornton men to take the acc'^. of Tho. Gowland of Rudby with some of the inhab'^. there, and to make certificate etc., that further course may be taken and arrears, if any due, paid by ass', throughout the Constablery ; two gent^ desired to call the parties concerned in a petition presented before them and settle a proportion of rates amongst them, or make certificate etc., that further course may be taken ; it is conceived fitting that all gainfull trades within the Constablery of Stoxley (Stokesley) shall be assessed according to Ordinance of Parlia- ment ; [133-] the person presenting a certain petition not to be assessed both waies, as set forth in the petition, but eased of paying to one of the said places [none mentioned], and to be assessed but equally with the other neighbours ; the Parish OfP^ of Fyleing to pay the souldier [none named] his arrears for the time past, and the whole liberty of Whitby Strand to beare the sum allowed for his releife ; such persons as have any of the money mentioned in the petition in their hands belonging to the poore of Thornton to pay it to the Parish Off'^, and if any refuse, the next J.P. etc. ; upon complaint of a Stillington man that hee mended the glasse windows in Stonegrave Church by consent of the parishioners, and is behind not only for part of his wages, but alsoe for the glasse, the inhab''. to pay the sum due to him according as two men of Scackleton shall, upon viewing the work, see fitt ; the Constables of Catton with fewer able inhab'^ to cast an ass', of ;^i7 22 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. and pay the same to the late Constable for the money the town is in arrears to him, and in case of refusal etc. ; [iss''-] two gent", to examine the contents of a petition presented, and view the acc'^ of the Con- stablery of Pickering, to end the differences if they [can], or otherwise to make certificate etc. ; ^6. 13. 4 to be estreated upon the whole N. R. for the repair of Lealholme Bridge accordinge to the certificate of the two gent", who viewed the same ; a gentleman to examine the inequallity of rates between Laskdale Pasture and Raisdale Grange, and to settle the same, if hee can, otherwise to make certificate etc. ; a warrant issued to bind three men to appear etc. [A.'. 134.] RICHMOND. Qu. Sessions, by adjournment, at, Jan. 12, 164I. Before John Waistell, Roger Covill, and John Robinson, Esquires. High Sheriff etc. as before. FIRST PANNELL. Tym. Fawcett, Gent"., Jur. John'NichoU, Will. Eythrinton, Rich. Danby, Rich. Feetome, !► Jur. Rich. Piburne, John^Becke, Tho. Cowlton, Lancelot Harrison, Will. Rawe, Will. Hodgson, Simon Plewes, Chr. Gilburne, Edw. Johnson, Leon. Smelt, Jur. SECOND PANNELL. Jur. Layton Brough, Mich. Parvin, John Bell, Tho. Harrison, John Scowe, Jur. John Robinson, Gent"., Jur. Gilb. Smithson, Chr. Trotter, John Todd, Fabian Walker, John Stenny, Rich. Martin, a?. Merrywether, Rob. Binder, [134''.] WHO PRESENT A Girricke gent", and his wife, another gent"., and two yeomen of the same place for riotous and forcible entry on a mess''^ of Tho. RICHMOND, JANUARY 12, 164I. 23 Franckland's there ; the farmers and occupiers of Broad Ings in Ottrington for not scouring their proportion of the Wiske ; the inhab". of Newsame for the Uke ; three gent", and three others of Kirkby Wiske etc. for the hke ; the inhab'=- of Ellerton Bolton for not scour- ing their parts of the water-sewer running through Bolton Kiplingwood Bridge to Scorton-; four men of Brackenbrough for not scouring their parts of Wiske. — Felonies tried etc. : a woman for stealing a linen sheet. [135.] Names of the Jury etc. Geo. Shawe John Wilson James Frear Rob. Rich. Wharton Geo. Coates Chr. Burne Geo. Wright Anth. Simnie John Walker John Harrison Rob. Walter Who convict a woman of the felony she is charged with : to be whipped; six bills ignored; John Sidman fined ;£(>. 13. 4 for refus- ing to undertake the office of C. C. of Whitby Strand; [135^136.] recogn"'. respited in six cases ; recogn"'. taken in six cases, one a case of bastardy. Orders made etc. [136''.] The inhab". of the Common* of Askrigg to take the ace", of the Constable, who hath served about two years, and what moneys shall appear to be due to him to be paid forthwith ; a warrant etc. against John Clerkeson of Newbiggin, within the Common of Askrigg, to be Constable vice Geo. Fawcett, the warrant to be directed to the Baliffe ; a warrant etc. to the Sheriff or his Deputy for attaching and bringing the body of Edw. Sturdy before the next J. P., he being com- mitt formerly to the Sheriff's custody but escaped without knowledge of the Court, to remayne in custody till he find sureties for good behaviour ; the Parish Ofi". of North Cowton to pay a poor blinde man i2d. weekely for his maintenance ; John Metcalfe of Bainbrigg to continue Constable and discharge the said place till he pass his acc'^ and another be sworn in his stead ; Wm. Smith of Melmerby to be Constable for the said town vice Wm. Meeke ; [137.] in consideration of the certificate of Mr. Darnton and Mr. Warcopp, the inhab". of West Tanfeild to cast an ass', for the disbursement of their late Constable; the Parish Off'^ of Langton to provide for a poor man and his family; Geo. [blank] to be Constable of Askrigg vice John * This is inserted nearly verbatim on account of the manner of expression adopted, which is unusual. 24 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Clerkeson ; the inhab•^ of Gilling to charge the petitioner only for such lands as he farms there, and that but for his proportion with the rest of the inhab'^ ; every of the inhab'^ of Mickleton to beare an equall proportion in all future ass" and other charges, according to what he occupies in the townshipp ; the Parish Off" for Askrigg to allow a man 4s. weekely, for the maintenance of three poor orphans, or the parishioners to take speciall care to provide for them otherwise themselves ; three men appointed to lake the acc'^ of Matth. Harrison of Reeth, that the inhab". may have an account of the ^^38 hee hath received; [iSV*"-] two gent", to examine the value of every man's lands in the Constablery of Gilling, and settle an equall proportion of ass'. if they can, otherwise to make certificate etc. ; three persons named to take the ace" of the late Constable for West Tanfield, and if he refuse to passe them, the next J. P. to binde him etc. ; this Court being in- formed that divers of the inhab'^ of the Constablery of West Tanfield refuse to pay their ass'^, the same being laid by consent of the neigh- bours, the late Constables are to assist the new Constables in calling them to account for the same, and in case of refusal, the offenders to be carried etc. ; Rog. Covell, Esq., J. P., is desired to examine the truth of this petition and to see the petitioner receive right if cause soe require ; [138.] the Court being informed that upon an Order to examine whether Kirkbridge be parcell of the Constablery of Stan- wicke or of Aldbrough, the referees say they certify it to be parcell of Stanwicke, as appears to them, and Mr. Wilkinson alsoe saith that Kirkbridge never paid ass'^ till about seven years since to Aldbrough, it is to pay ass*^. with Stanwicke and not with Aldbrough till further cause be showne by the inhab". of Aldbrough ; Hen. Dighton of Harneby, gent".j to be H. C. for Hang West vice Chr. Todd, gent".,'and Mr. Todd to give upp his ace", for the same ; Orders having been made on behalf of Mr. Hen. Broadrigg of Richmond, who disbursed much money for the people in Richmond when he was Alderman there, and as yett hath not received the same, Mr. Matt. Langdale and Mr. Hutton Gregory to audite the ace" of the said Mr. Broadrigg, and what towns they shall find in arrear upon examination, and upon demand refuse to pay the sum charged upon them, then John Robin- son, Esq., J. P., to grant a warrant to distreyne and levy so much of the offenders' goods as the sum shall amount to, or binde the refusers to appear etc., as he shall think fitt ; two gent", named to sett one a work to repaire Lune Bridge, and to certifye to the next Court there pro- ceedings therein ; [i37''.] the inhab". of Bowes to observe the same proportion of ass", with Bolron ; a warrant to be issued against certain men of Marsitt for breaking of hedges. THIRSKE, APRIL 3, 1649. 25 [A . 138.] THIRSKE. Qu. Sessions at, April 3, 1649. Before Sir William Allanson, Fr. Lassells, and Isaac Newton, Esquires. High Sheriff etc. as before. FIRST PANNELL. Will. Nelson, Gent"., Jur. Tho. Horner, Rob. Morrell, Will. Buttericke, Tho. Morrell, 1" Jur. Chr. Carter, Tho. Tebb, Will. Younge, John Barker, John Richardson, Tho. Dobson, Tho. Gierke, Fr. Cundall, Rob. „ , Rich. Crosby, J Jur. SECOND PANNELL. Greg. Jackson, Gent" Will. Pearson, Will. Awmocke, John Clough, Will. Atkinson, John Husthwaite, Raph Huthwaite, Tho. Milner, Jur. Jur. Rob. Belwood, Rob. Walker, John Smelt, Rich. Webster, John Sadler, Rich. Daggett, James Nelson, Jur. [I38^] WHO PRESENT — Dalton Bridge as in ruin etc. ; a yeom". of Swina Coate for an assault etc. on Elkana Immerwicke etc. ; two lab", and a husbandman for riotous assault and affray etc. ; a Reeth yeom". for neglecting an Order of Court ; an Easingwould yeom". for not repairing the highway between Oxe-Moore close etc. ; the inhab'^ of Skelton in Cleaveland for not repairing the highway at a place called Capon Wood ; seven yeom". of Carperby and near for riotous assault etc. ; a Newsome yeom". for assault etc. ; misdemeanor tried etc. ; two butchers for illegal seizure etc. of a horse. 26 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Will. Lumley, Rich. Meeke, Tho. Browne, Rob. Horner, Rich Hodge, James Pearson, Names of the Jury etc.* Fr. Page, Tho. Wood, John Metcalfe, Tho. Lumley, Tho. Redraaine, Tho. Bransby, ■ Jur. -Jur. J [139.] Misdemeanors tried etc. ; four Great Ayton yeom". for not obeying an Order of Court. Names of the Jury etc. Will. Lumley, Rich. Meeke, Tho. Browne, Rob. Horner, Rich. Hodge, James Pearson, 1 ■Jur. Fr. Page, Steph. Slater, Tho. Wood, Tho. Hodge, Tho. Wright, John Metcalfe, Jur. Who acquit the prisoners tried ; presented, two Newsome yeom". and a Kirkby widow for not scouring their part of the water-sewer running between Breckenbrough Coney-warren and Newsome ; the inhabt'^ of Clifton for not repairing the highway near St. Ann's Closes ; felonies tried etc. : a woman for stealing a burthen of hay ; another for stealing two cuts of yarn ; another, from Yarm, for stealing fourteen pecks of malt (ss.), seven pecks of bigg (2s.), and three salt cod-fishes. [239''.] Names of the Jury etc. Will. Lumley etc., as before ; who convict the woman charged with stealing hay [to be whipped] ; acquit the other two ; five bills ignored ; [140.] informations laid at this Sessions : — five persons for ingrossing grain, fifteen for ingrossing corn still growing, and an Ampleforth man, on two charges, for usury ; and by another informer, against four yeom". for ingrossing cattle; [140'', 141.] recogn"^ entered in twelve cases ; certificate at this Sessions upon oath : — Fr. Robinson, late C. C. of Whitby Strand, maketh oath that, presently after last Easter Sessions, hee did shew an Order of that Sessions to Fr. Knaggs of Whitby * Hitherto the terms employed in designating the office of the Petty Jury have been " ad inquirendum inter dominum regem et prisonar. ad barram. " From this point forward it becomes "ad inquirendum inter custodes libertatum Anglise, auctoritate Parliamenti, et prisonar. etc." It will be remembered that Charles had been put to death on the 30th of January immediately preceding. THIRSKE, APRIL 3, 1 649. 27 whereby hee was appointed to repaire before the next J. P. to take the oath of C. C. in the said Mr. Robinson's place, and that the said Fr. Knaggs did throw away the said Order, and saide hee would not serve but stand to his fine. Therefore his fine for his contempt was taxed at ;^20. [142.] Orders made etc. ;^4o, formerly ordered for the repair of Smeaton Bridge, not being sufficient for finishing the same, ^^20 more to be levyed etc., and paid over to the Surv" formerly appointed ; Order in a bastardy case ; Sir The. Gower, having petitioned for setting the rates of Stitnam and Cornebrough according to their ancient proportion, alleging the same have of late years been altered from their former proportion, and hee having produced two bills, one of 1606, and another of 1618, whereby it appears that Stitnam was then assessed after the rate of ;^3S, ancient rent, and Cornebrough after the rate of ;!£^40, the said townes to be assessed hereafter according to the said rates, untill it shall more fully appear that the same ought to be otherwise rated ; [I42^] there having been differences between the inhabt'^ of Wensley and Hudswell cum Thorpe about rates and proportion of ass', for millitary occasions, and they having agreed to be assessed as followeth : Wensley Constablery after the ancient rent of ;^4i, and Hudswell Constablery after the ancient rent of ;£s3, the said proportions and rates to be observed amongst them, and this Court doth confirm the said agreement amongst them ; Mr. Clarke, Minister of Bilsdale, and Mr. Chr. Fawconberge to take a view of all the poore people in the parish of Helmesley and Bilsdale, and to joyne with the Parish Off^ in making a joynt and proportionable ass', throughout the whole parish, and if any dissension shall happen therein among any part of the said parish, then the two next J.P^ to examine the cause of the difference and to settle the same as the Statute in that case appointeth ; [143.] Mr. Marm. Theakston to be H. C. for Hang West vict Mr. Chr. Todd, etc. ; ;^io to be collected towards the repair of Skeeby Bridge, and paid to the Overseers of the worke ; Mrs. Geo. Belasses having complained that shee is assessed for the surplusage of her lands in Yarme above the ancient rates in all ass'^ in the towneshipp, she is to be assessed in all charges imposed by Ordinance of Parliament for her lands, pro- portionally as other lands there are assessed, quantity and quallity considered, according to Ordinance of Parliament, and the next J.P. to enforce the town to yeild obedience to the said Ordinance, in case they shall assess her contrary thereunto, if he shall see cause so to do; £^- 13- 4 '^'^ ^^ estreated towards the repair of Dalton Bridge and paid over etc. ; [i43-''] complaint having been made by the 28 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. inhab". of Reeth of severall miscarriages by the Constable in making ass', without Order and deteyning moneys in his hands which should be paid to severall inhab'^, and refusing to give an ace', of his receipts, Mr. Waistell to call the said Constable before him and examine the cause of these complaints, and take further order about his acc'^, and if he shall find him faulty in his place or refractory in giving his acc'^, to binde him over to appear etc. ; on complaint of Mr. Chr. Todd, H. C. for Hang West, that bee is not only hindered by divers persons in his division in leveying the money charged thereon, but that after hee hath distreyned on some, the distresses are rescued from him, all Officers, as well Baliffes as others, are to be assisting to him in levying such moneys as are duely and legally charged on any within the Weapentake, and the next J. P. is desired to binde the opposers over to good behaviour; the late Overseers of the parish of Thornton to pay within fourteen dales to the hands of the present Parish Off". jQ^o, which is in their hands, of the poore's stock, els to pay one whole yeare's consideration for the same and to be bound to good behaviour, and to appear etc. ; [144. J the inhab'^ of Sexhovv, as well as those of Faceby, to observe the Order formerly made concerning Faceby, it being intended as is most reasonable that the whole Constablery shall observe one and the same rule in their ass". ; the late Thre". for L. S. moneys to bring in their ace", at the next Sessions upon paine of ;^ioo apeece; the Overseers for Murton Bridge to pay the peti- tioner the money due to him for repairing the said bridge, els to repaire before the next J. P. with the petitioner, to shew cause why they do not pay the same, who is to take some Order therein for the petitioner's releife, if hee can, els to certifye etc. that further Order may be taken : the inhab". of Skelton to repair the highway betweene Whitby and Skelton before the next Sessions upon pain of £,20 ; Geo. Pease of Yarm to pay all such ass", as he is in arrear for trading untill this present, and to lett fall his suite at the Common Law against the Ass"., provided they assesse him no more for trading, nor he trade not hereafter, and in case they do hee is to have the benifitt of his suit against them ; two gent" to ex- amine the inequallity of rates between Laskdale Pasture and Raisdale Grainge, and settle the same before the next Sessions ; Humph. Good- man and Tho. Harrison being appointed Constables by the inhab'^ of Pickall, they are to be sworn ; [I44^] sundry statutes having been made for the releife and maintenance of L. S. and mariners, and for other charitable uses, in pursuance of the said statutes, severall Thre". have been appointed, to whose hands diverse great sums of money have been paid, of which noe ace', hath been given as yett, and the Court being informed that there is much money resting in the THIRSKE, APRIL 3, 1649. 29 hands of Mr. Man and Mr. Hunter, late Thre"., and of divers others before them, they and all other Thre". as well for ten years before as since till this Sessions to dehver within ten daies a true and perfect ace', of their receipts and payments to some J. P., and also to appear and justifye their said ace'", upon paine of ;!^ioo each : and severall warrants being alredy sent out to each H. C. for levying the usuall sum charged for L. S., and the like sum for Hosp'^, for four years past, which is considered too great a charge for the country to pay, yett because most of these moneys are already charged upon the Rideing, the same to be levyed for time past till this Sessions, and paid to the Thre". for L. S., and from henceforth the usuah sum charged for L. S. and noe more to be charged or paid without further Order : and the Constables and Petty Constables to collect and levy the sums already charged, and pay them to the severall H. C^ of their Division within twenty daies after notice, [145-] upon the penalty expressed in the statute in the case ordeyned : and if any of them neglect to levy the same moneys, then the respective H. C^ of each Weapentake or Liberty is hereby commanded and authorised to levy the same by distresse or sale of the goods of every one refusing, rendring to them the overplus, and also the sum of 20s. of every Churchwarden and Petty Constable that shall faile in levying the moneys charged within their Constablery for the use aforesaid, or in paying the moneys by them levyed within the time limitted according to the statute : and because it is found to be a great inconvenience and cause of much difference among sundry towns about ass', that the usual rates are not paid or settled, to the great disquiett of the country and troubling of the Court, the present H. C^ of each Weapentake or Liberty to inform themselves, and by all means possible inquire out the most ancient and usuall rates of every Weapentake, town and hamlett, and certifye the same under their hands to the Clerke of the Peace before the next Sessions, that the same be extant att the next Sessions to be there viewed and examined, and entered among the Records of the Court, for future time, for prevention of further differences in such cases, and the H. C\ to give particular notice of soe much of this Order as shall concern them to every Thre". for the time being, and all others that have been Thre'=. for ten years last past, within this Riding, and to all Churchwardens and Petty Constables of each particular concerning them, and to observe this Order themselves in every particular at their utmost perills ; [I45^] Wm. Wilkinson of Stillington having been chosen Constable by the Jury at the last Court holden there, to be sworn accordingly within ten daies upon paine of ;£io; the inhab'= of Clifton to repaire the highway and wood bridge adjoyning on St. Anne's Closes, in the townshipp of Clifton, leading to York before 30 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. June ist upon pain of £io ; Wm. Barker to stand committed till he find sureties for his good behaviour, for making an assault and affray upon Tho. Hill in time of Sessions, within view of the Court ; the late Constables of Thirske to pay the present Constables the sum of £^ which appeareth to be due to them, by the acc'\, or els the next J. P. to binde the refusers over etc. ; the inhab". of Northallerton to allow 13s. 4d. in the ace"- of their Churchwardens and Overseers, disbursed by them by command from this Court ; two Orders for the payment of 4d. weekely to poor men of Northallerton ; [146.] the Parish Off", of the parish of [blank] to pay unto the petitioner 6d. weekely or shew cause etc. ; all Constable layes to be assessed according to ancient and accustomed rates, and, in all ass", laid by Ordinance of Parlia- ment, the directions of the Ordinance of Parliament to be observed, to assess personall estates and lands at their full value, quantity and quality considered ; the common water-sewer of Codbecke, and alsoe the broad becke leadinge to Thirske being so obstructed and stopped by reason of the not scowring thereof, that the country hath suffered much damage and is very likely to be further endamaged if it be not presently cleansed, it is to be scowered, cleansed and opened a suffi- cient depth and breadth, and upon further complaint of neglect therein, such severe fines will be imposed on the neglectors as shall be answer- able to the damage occasioned thereby ; upon certificate that Rob. Dawson of Farmanby did serve as a souldier for the Parliament and was slaine in that service, the Thre'. for L. S. to pay unto Frances Dawson his relict, 40s. in hand, and 25s. quarterly till further Order ; Rob. Simpson to be Constable for Yearsley ; 8d. a week to be paid to a Middleton man ; the Thre'. for L. S. to pay a M. S. in the service of the Parliament 25s. quarterly for his maintenance ; three other like Orders for 15s., 30s. and 25s. respectively; ^30 to be levyed upon the whole N. R. for the repaire of Lune Bridge and Overseers of the said work appointed ; Wm. Marshall, gent"., of Egton Bancke to be H. C. for the East Division of Langbargh vice Mr. Rich. Scarth ; a woman sent to the Ho. of Corr". ; Chr. Carter, late H. C. for Hallikeld, to pass his ace", and the present H. C. to pay the proportion of the sum of £^. 6. 8 charged on Richmondshire for Malton Bridge. [147"-] KIRKBY MOORSIDE. Qu. Sessions at, 10 July, 1649. Before Arthur Noell, Isaac Newton, and Will. Weddall, Esquires. High Sheriff etc. as before. KIRKBY MOORSIDE, JULY 10, 1649. 31 FIRST PANNELL, Rich. Dobson, Gent"., Jur. Will. Craven, Rob. Kirke, Tho. Francke, John „ John Hall, Geo. Robinson, Rich. Rowland, Anth. Ducke, John Warde, John Daile, Jur. Stephen Boyes, Rob. Cowper, Nich. Wilson, Tho. Barker, Will. Grundwell, Will. Hill, Will. Thorpe, Geo. Conyers, John Burton, Geo. Spenceley, Rob. Francke, [ Jur. SECOND PANNELL. Fr. Sellar, Gent"., Jur, Will. Daile, John Oxard, Geo. Richardson, Edw. Brabbiner, Rob. Wright, Rich. Bossall, Peter Wrightson, Jur. Will. Trewhaite, John Pursglove, Edw. Thornehill, Will. Walker, Geo. Hawraan, Rob. Postgate, Henry Beswicke, Jur. [148.] WHO PRESENT — An Easingwold man for tracing and killing a hare ; Kirkby Misper- ton Bridge as in ruin etc. ; two Easingwold yeom". for forcible entry on a dwelling-house ; two men, from Farndale and Rosedale severally, for refusing to pay a man his wage due for four years ; felonies tried etc. . a Thornaby man and woman for stealing two lambs ; a Wester- dale lab', for the like offence ; another lab', for sheep-stealing. Names of the Jury etc. Geo. Pearson, Jur. Rich. Judson, Raph Hicke, Rob. Browne, John Theaker. Tho. Slater, Greg. Wilson, Jur. Will. Spenceley, Geo. Boyes, John Spaven, Tho. Booker, Tho. Cowlson, Anth. Flintoft, ■ Jur. Who convict a man of riotous and forcible entry: fined los. ; and another man guilty of not repairing the highway etc. 32 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. [148''.] Names of the Jury etc. Geo. Cockerell, Gent"., Jur. Tho. Lotherington, Will. Medd, Tho. Wilson, Fr. Stonehouse, Will. Atkinson, Rich. „ - Jur. Chr. Cowper, Will. Otterburne, Raph Lee, Will. Paite, Peter Foster, Jur. Seven bills ignored, principally for stealing and illegal seizure. Pre- sentments at this Sessions : — The impropriatrixand minister belonging the parish of Sutton cum Huby for not repairing the quier or chancell belonginge to the church of Sutton aforesaid ; a Carlton cum Islebeck man for refusing to pay his Constable layes ; the inhab''. of Huntington for not scouring their part of the common sewer called the Double Dike ; two Overton men for not scouring their part of the water-sewer leading from Skelton Lane-end to the River Ouse ; two Wiggington men for refusing to work their Common-days-work; the inhab'^ of Wiggington for not repairing their highway near EUer Carr; four Con- stables and two yeomen for not collecting, levying, and paying their several proportions of L. S. and Hosp'^ moneys, etc. ; [149^] two inform°^ laid against Ampleforth men for ingrossing grain ; [150.] recogn"". respited in three cases ; [iSo'', 151.] recogn"^ entered in eleven cases; [ISI^ 152.] ^ecogn''^ entered by alehouse-keepers: — All entered as follows — " Under the condition that the aforesaid A. B. shall keep an alehouse at C. up to the date of the next General Qu. Sessions etc., and in the mean time shall keep and perform those things which are enjoined by the statute etc. [152''.] Orders made etc. The Constable for Harlsey having served for a quarter of a year last past, and having disbursed much money, four men appointed to take his ace''*., and if any money be due unto him from the town, to cause it to be paid, and the now Constable to be aiding and assisting in collecting and paying such money as is due ; Mr. Wm. Worfolke* of * This name, as that of an inhabitant of Hinderwell so late as 1649, is worthy of a moment's notice in passing. As early as the very beginning of the thirteenth century an ancestor of this family held lands to some extent in Hinderwell. One Osbert Wirfauch, about 1230, conveyed half a carucate of land there to Whitby Abbey ; and the first William Wirfaud, as he is styled in the " Memorial of Benefactions," had already given a half carucate when that document was penned, and that is certainly before the close of the twelfth century. The name is variously spelt as Wirfauc, Wirfauch, Wirfauke, Wirfald, Wirfaud, Wyrkefauke, Workefolke, Worfolk, etc., etc. KIRKRY MOORSIDE, JULY 10, 1 649. 33 Hinderwell to be Hr C. for Langbargh after Mr. Scarth hath passed his ace'', before Isaake Newton, Esq., J. P., and if he refuse to be sworn, to pay ^4.0 to the Commonwealth ; whereas Mr. Rob. Hunter had ^^25. 6. 5 of the Commonwealth's money in his hands upon his acc'^ when hee was Thre'. for L. S., hee is to be discharged thereof by reason hee hath paid ^£5. 6. 5 to a L. S. and ;^20 to Mr. Geo. Shawe by Order of Sessions ; [153.] the Parish Off", of Sproxton to provide sufficient habitation and releife for a poor family, and in case of neglect, the next J. P. to binde the offenders over etc. ; the Parish OfP^ of Kirkdale to finde habitation and releife for a poor woman, according to a former Order, etc. ; the Parish Off'^ of Hutton Bushell to pro- vide for the petitioner according to her necessities, and the Constables to take care to convey the said Parish Off'^ before the next J. P. to be bound etc., to answer their contempt of Mr. Noell's Order and the Order of Sessions ; four of the ablest* inhab". of Old Byland to cast an ass', and pay the petitioner's arrears, and contemners to be con- veyed before the next J. P. etc, ; whosoever farms land in Normanby to bear their proportion in all future Constables' charges ; [153^] upon a petition preferred by the Ministers of Thornton in Pickering Lythe, Kirbymoorside, Edston, Lastingham and Helmesley, and other Ministers in the N. R., of the great profanation of the Lord's Day in and thorow the said Rideing, and the Ordinance of Parliament, for the suppressing of vice and punishing of offenders, neglected by the Constables and Churchwardens, who are to see the same put in execution, to the great Dishonour of God and Discouragement of painfull and laborious Ministers, the Constables are required from time to time to take speciall care the said Ordinance of Parliament for better observance of the Lord's Day, and penall statutes in that case provided, be put in due execution, by carrying the offenders before the next J. P. to receive condign punishment, and the Ministers, where such offences are com- mitted, from time to time to inform the next J. P. if neglect be in the Constables and Churchwardens in pursuance of their office, that they may receive punishment, according to the nature of their offence and high contempt of authority ; the Parish Off'" of Swainby' to pay a lame man i2d. in arreare weekely etc. ; [154] whereas ;^i3. 6. 8 was to be estreated for the repaire of Newsam Bridge, and was estreated in all Divisions of this N. R. save Langbargh and Allertonshire, the proportions of the said sum to be forthwith estreated in those two Divisions and paid to Mr. Wm. Hebden and Raiph Whitwell ; Mr. Phil. Howseman to continue H. C. for Bulmer untill hee pass his ace"" etc., and six dales after Mr. Geo. Faceby of Stillington to be * "Able. Possessing a competency, in respect of property or worldly means" (Clnieland Glossary). The word is still in common use. VOL. V. '^ 34 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. H. C. in his place etc. ; whereas Fr. Scarth hath formerly had two Orders requiring the Constables of Helmesley cum membris to pay ;£i. 17. 6 to the petitioner, which Orders have been by them slighted and contemned, the now Constables to pay the said sum within thirty daies, etc. ; Rich. Marshall of Farmanby parish, a souldier under Capt. Wade, having been slain in the Parliament's service before Pontefract Castle, and having left a widow and three children, one of which children is lame and necessitated to be releived of the almes of the parish, Mr. Marm. Norcliffe, Thre'. for L. S., to pay Alice Marshall, widow of the said Rich. Marshall, 20s., as a gratuity for her and her children, and the H. C^ for Pickering Lythe to pay her 2S. 6d. a week till further Order; Mr. Marm. Norcliffe, Thr'. for L. S., to pay to Mr. Rob. Blackwell ^6. 13. 4 for the use of two women, widows of soul- diers slain in the service of the Parliament ; the H. C^ of Birdforth and Rydall to inform themselves how the same souldiers' moneys have been formerly paid in Bilsdale parish and observe the same in future ; [155.] the parishioners of Farndale East Side, part of the parish of Lastinghara, to pay a fifth part in all ass'^ for Church and poore as formerly about twelve yeares since, and in case of refusal etc. ; upon certificate of Arthur Noell, Esq., ;^2o to be estreated upon the whole N. R. for the repair of Ayton Bridge, it being in great decay, and if delayed will be much more chargeable to the country ; the inhab". of the Constablery of Oswaldkirke to pay such moneys as are in arrear to Mr. Fairfax, assessed and uncollected for the time he was Constable, and also the Constable and four inhab". to assess upon the Con- stablery ;^4. 5. 6, which appears likewise due to Mr. Fairfax, upon his acc'^ being allowed of, and in case of refusal, the next J. P. to see justice done ; Geo. Hodgson having been a souldier under Capt. Beaumont, and wounded before Scarbrough Castle (the Capt. having made certificate of the truth thereof), the Thre'. for L. S. to pay him 20s. as a gratuity; [ISS^] the Parish Off", of West Ayton to find harbour and maintenance for a poor woman, and the now Constables to carry the contemners of Mr. Noell's warrant etc. ; the Parish Off"' of Kirkbymoreside to provide for a child ; Math. Merrington to be Constable for Harlsey, and Rob. Appleby to be his deputy ; four of the ablest inhab'^ of Libberston cum Gristhorpe to take or cause to be taken the acc'^ of Wm. Tayler, late Constable, and to cause any arrears due unto him to be paid, and the contemners of Mr. Noell's warrant to be carried before the next J. P. to be bound etc. ; ;^ri2 having been charged upon the N. R. for the repair of Kirkham Bridge, and the neglect thereof being eyther by the H. O. in not paying in the moneys to the Surv"*., or in the Surv'=. in not calling for the sum, Mr. Fairfax Ringrose to joyne with the other two Surv". to receive the money and see the work done. BEEDALL, JULY 1 3, 1 649. 35 [A'. 156.] BEEDALL. Qu. Sessions at, 13 July, 1649. Before John Waistell, Roger Covell, and John Robinson, Esquires. High Sheriff, etc., as before. FIRST PANNELL. John Lucas, Gent"., Jur. John Maison, James Dunninge, Giles Mitchell, Leon, Snowden, Will. Threapland, John Raper, Chr. Smith, Jur. Henry Power, Will. Yeats, Rich. Lumley, Tho. Awderson, Tho. Place, Jur. SECOND PANNELL. Jos. Chapman, Gent"., Jur. Tho. Appleby, Will. Clapham, Charles Maukin, John Hodgeson, [ Jur. James Bishopridge, Tho. Pibus, John Jaques, Caverley Hutchinson, Will. Fisher, James Hutchinson, Geo. Barker, Geo. Robinson, Fr. Hutchinson, John Smith, -J Jur. [157.] WHO PRESENT — A Brotton yeom". and his wife, with another, for riotous and forcible entry on a certain mess*^". there ; two yeom". for assault etc. ; a yeom". and his wife for the like ; three Ellerbeck yeom". for riotous assault etc. ; a Skelton Moore-house (parish of Marske) man, and a widow of the same, for harbouring another man's servant ; a Bellarby gent", for forcible entry on another's free tenement ; eight persons for riotous and forcible entry on a certain mess^°. at Theakston ; felonies tried at this Sessions etc. : a woman for sheep-stealing. [157^] Names of the Jury etc. Simon Jackson, Henry Watson, Rob. Mason, Rich. Harrison, Rich. Tayler, John Westland, 1- Jur. Adam Staveley, Rob. Whitton, Tho. Stothard, Mich. Raine, Will. Lobley, Rich. Willey, J Jur. D 2 36 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Presentments continued : — Reeth Bridge as in ruin etc. ; Adam Hawkins de Carperby for breakeing and entring violently into one Widdow Tayler's house in Carperby, and takeing a man prisoner there, pretending a warrant from the Committee at Yorke. The remainder of the presentments, Ignoramus ; two other bills ignored ; Brewster in- dictments, vide Rotulum ; [158.] recogn'". respited in two cases; recogn"'. entered in three cases. Orders made etc. Ordered and agreed between the inhab". of Langton and Math. Taylor of the same that the presentm'. for the repair of Langton Kirke Bridge shall be traversed at the next Sessions, without exception to the forme of the presentment, and the bridge to be in the meantime re- paired by the inhab". at an equall charge, and the said charge to be repaid by him or them against whome the verdict is given ; a warrant issued against three men for their good behaviour, at the suite of John Wighill, they were bound to appear at this Sessions and failed ; [159-] Order in a bastardy case ; a warrant etc. for the apprehending of Geo. Dunninge of Whitson Coat-house and others, his associates, near Sutton; a warrant for good behaviour to be issued against Geo. Horner of Newhouse, to answer etc. those who were H. C^ about the year 1642, when the money was estreated for Becke Bridge, to make it appear at the next Sessions what money they received for the repair of the said bridge and to whom they paid it, and if any money be un- collected to make it appear in whose hands it is, and further Order shall be given; [159^] an Order having been entered at the last Thirske Sess"^ for the payment of such rents as are due to Mr. Jerome Robinson for the Ho. of Corr". at Richmond, and the Court being in- formed upon oath, that he wanteth six yeares and an halfe rent, after _;^8 per ann., which amounteth to ;^52, ending at Easter last past, the Thre'■^ for Hosp''. at the next Sessions to pay Mr. Robinson the said sum, proportionably, viz. the Thre'. for the East part of the N. R. to pay ;£s- 6. 8 per ann., and the Thre'. for Richmondshire ;£2. 13. 4, and this Court desireth that this Order may be confirmed at the next Sessions for the satisfaction of the said Mr. Robinson ; a West Tanfield man to refuse to harbour one Wm. Robinson, his wife, and daughter, which if he shall for the future doe, then the Constable of West Tan- field to carry him before the next J.P. etc.; [160.] a warrant etc. against Chr. Geldart of Cairdbar for receiving his goods from those that stole them, and suffering the offenders to goe unpunished, and to answer such other matters as Fr. Topham will object against him ; a warrant etc. against the aforesaid Wm. Robinson, his wife and daughter, to appear etc., and meantime to be of good behaviour; four inhab" of THIRSKE, OCTOBER 2, 1649. 37 the Constablery of East Witton appointed to take the ace", of Edw. Topham, Constable of the said town, since his entrance into the office, and if any moneys appear to be due unto him, the inhab'=. to cast on an ass', for his satisfaction ; Mr. Denton and Mr. Smailes, H. C^ for Rydall and Pickering I.ythe, to pay the money collected for Smeaton Bridge to Mr. Arthur Appleby, Collector for the same. [A'. 161.] THIRSKE. Qu. Sessions at, 2 Oct., 1649. Before Sir John Bourchier, Sir Will. Allanson, Fr. Lassells, Geo, Ewrie, John Turner, Rich. Rymer, Isaac Newton, and Will. Weddell, Esquires. High Sheriff etc. as before. FIRST PANNELL. Fr. Parvin, Gent"., Jur. Will. Daile, > Will. Foggerthwaite, Tho. Burnett, Will. Thompson, John Clough, Will. Lumley, Will. Atkinson, Tho. Cowper, J Will. Pearson, Will. Awmocke, Tho. Tho. Horneby, Tyj. Will. Buttericke, Tho. Morrell, John Husthwaite, Rob. Belwood, Geo. Husthwaite, Jur. SECOND PANNELL. Will. Nelson, Gent"., Jur. Will. Fountaines, Symon Arnett, J-ames Nelson, Will. Jackson, Henry Crowe, Peter Bretten, Will. Tindall, Rob. Crosby, Tho. Pearson, . Jur. John Brettaine, Tho. Wrightson, Rich. Horneby, Edw. Cowlinge, Rob. Tarte, Raph Hewthwaite, Will. Jackson, ■ Jur. [161''.] WHO PRESENT — A Kirkby Malside [? Moorside] lab"', for stealing a calf (20s.), and another man as accessory after etc. ; felonies tried etc. : a lab^ for stealing a pig (i8d.)j an East Cottam lab', for stealing three waine- 38 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. clowts * (gd.) ; a man for stealing a bushel of unwinnowed wheat (i2d.); a lab', for stealing a stook of barley; another for sheep-steal- ing ; a Sowerby woman for stealing two pillow-beres, a towel, two pewter saucers, a handchercher, a pair of linen sheets, and a linen apron, etc, ; another lab', for sheep-stealing. [162.] Names of the Jury etc. John Dickenson, Jur. Will. Gamble, Will. Barneby, Will. Fowntaines, Tho. Fr. Jackson, Sen'., Fr. Page, Rob. Proude, Tho. Freer, Jur. Geo. Kidd, Tho. Walker, Will. Adamson, y Jur. Who acquit five of the prisoners tried, convict the two others, who are to be whipped, etc. ; presented further — nine yeomen from Egton, Goadland, and Beck Hole for riotous and forcible entry etc. ; [162''.] a Thirske yeom". for a rescue in a case of distraint on a brief from the Court of the burgh and barony of Thirske ; a yeom". for an assault etc. ; fourteen persons, generally described as yeom"., for using the trade of a badger etc. ; four yeom". for disregarding an Order of Court ; the late Bailiff of Hang West for extortion etc.; Geo. Burton of Sandbecke, gent"., for forcible entry on a close belonging to John Waistell, Esq., and taking thence three stooks of rye (20s.) ; the inhab". of Pickering for not providing common measures for the use of the said town ; [163.] the inhab"- of Helmesley for the like; a Pickering yeom". for keeping unlawful measures not duly tested, sealed and stamped ; the same on a second presentment; three Gowton yeom"., one of Pottoe, and a Hull man for riotous and forcible entry on a certain tenement; a Goadland man as a barrator ; the western part of Howsam Bridge as in ruin etc. ; twelve yeom". of Gisbrough and five from Skelton for digging up and stopping the highway, lying in Skelton aforesaid, be- tween Gisbrough and Whitby; [^63^] Dame Anne Hutton, impro- * HalHwell gives " C/omA To mend or patch.'" But he does not give the noun. Under "clout-nails," however, he gives the definition "nails used for fixing clouts or small patches of iron or wood." And again, he defines " mould-board -clouts " as "plates of iron which protect the mould-board, or projecting side of the plough, from the wear and tear of the earth and stones it meets with." Any one who bears in mind what the wain actually was will see without difficulty how essential to the durability of some parts of the carriage, exposed to such wear and tear as they were, iron clouts must have been. The wain was, it will be remembered, a two- wheeled carriage, with a long narrow body, the forward part of which, when no dragging power was in action, rested, or, if going down hill, trailed upon the ground. This part, therefore, required to be shod, or fortified, with iron, and these shoes or strengthening plates were the clouts. THIRSKE, OCTOBER 2, 1649. 39 priatrix of the Rectory of Sutton on the Forest, for not repairing the quire or chancell belonginge the church thereof; three Easingwold men for taking toll of corn of the inhab'=- of Huby etc. ; nine Kirkby Wiske yeom". for disregarding two several warrants under the hands of two Justices ; a gent", and a yeom". of Farlington for not repairing a highway and bridge called Praetor Lane ; four Clifton yeom". for not repairing their proportion of a highway there ; three Skipton yeom". for the like. Names of the Jury etc. John Dickenson, Jur, Will. Barneby, Will. Fountaines, Tho. Fr. Jackson, Sen'., Fr. Paige, Jur. Will. Gamble, Rob. Proude, Tho. Freer, Geo. Kidd, Tho. Walker, Will. Adamson, Jur. Seven bills ignored; [164''.] informations against seven yeom". for ingrossing cattle ; against another for ingrossing grain ; against five men for using the trade of a mason ; against five persons for keeping common tipling-houses ; two for ingrossing grain, one for cattle, two for keeping common etc., four for ingrossing cattle, three for grain, three for keeping etc., one for grain, and two for beaming, beetling, etc. [165.] Inquisition taken at Thirske, 5 May, 1647, before Geo. Mar- wood and Rob. Walters, etc. on the oath of Rob. Bellwood, Sowerby, yeom"., Tho. Walker, Will. Scott, John Crosley, Rich. Wrightson, Tho. Jackson, Henry Watson, Tho. Whipper, Henry Hall, Rob. Fawcett, Tho. Viccars, Raph Inhill, John Jackson, Fr. Smith, Rich. Arnett, yeomen, all of Thirske, Rich. Scruton of Carlton Miniott, and Tho. Morrell of Bagby, yeomen, who say on their oaths that Fr. AUanson, gent"., Tho. Brett, woollen-draper, and John Cleeve, cloth-dresser, all of Leeds, with others not named, made riotous and forcible entry on Abbey-close House in the parish of FilHskirke, then in the peaceable possession of Philip Esh of York, gent"., and Elizabeth his wife, one- time widow of the late Rob. Trewman, linen-draper, of the said place, etc., etc. [166.] Recogn"^ respited at this Sessions to the number of thirteen, two in cases of alleged felony, the others for personal appearance at the next Sessions, etc. ; [167, ids'".] recogn"=. taken in sixteen cases, none of any particular interest. Orders made etc. Peter Ingram to enter bond for securing the parish of Great Osburne 40 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. of a bastard child, and the child to be conveyed to the parish of Little Osburne, which is to provide for it ; [169, 169".] thirteen Orders for various gratuities to souldiers wounded, or the widows of souldiers slain, in the service of the Parliament ; further process against the inhab". of Wigginton for non-repair of their highway to be respited till June 24 next, between which time the Constable of Wigginton will bring a certificate from the next J.P. that the highway is repaired ; the Cer- tiorari of Fr. Allanson, gent"., of Leeds, Tho. Brett and John Cleave to be allowed of this Mich™. Sessions for the removal] of an inquisition taken before Geo. Marwood and Rob. Walters, Esq"., wherein Phillip Eshe and Eliz*. his wife are prosecutors; [170.] Tho. North and Wm. Hebden, who were Constables for Ridall in 1646 to pay ;£i. 6. 8 to the Overseers for Morton Bridge, they having the same in their hands, and if they refuse etc. ; Order for the maintenance of a bastard child, and its mother to be carried to the Ho. of Corr". ; a warrant against a man of Thorpefeild, and three of Thirsk for contempt of an Order, etc. ; a like warrant against two Thirske men ; Mr. Ley to call Tho. Browne of Carlton Miniott and Wm. Lumley, with the rest of the inhab*^., before him, and to examine the ace'" of the said Tho. Browne, and to end the difference between them or certifye the next J.P. ; the Thre'. for L. S. to pay gratuities to two soldiers maimed in the service of the Parliament; [170^] whereas, at the Sessions held at Thirske, Aprill 27, 164I, there was some difference between the Constables for Thirsk from Mich""- 1643 to Mich"". 1644, and the inhab'"., about ass'"., for the composing of all which differences it was referred to Mr. Raiph Bell and Mr. Wm. Hickes, whoe made certificate at the next Sessions, at Malton, July 13, 1647, whereby it appears the Constables had received £iZ'^- i7- 7; ^nd their disbursements and engagements for the town came to ^^177. 7. 7, and that there remained due to the said Constables ^24. 14. 4, which was to be paid out of the arrears of the two ass'"- made upon the warrant of the Right Hon. the Lord Fairfax, being ;!^33. 15. 10, according to their ace'., for the satisfaction of the aforesaid sum, and the remainder to be for the use of the town : for the preventing of further difference or trouble herein, this Court Orders that Mr. Simon Willye and Mr. Sam. Ley shall call all parties concerned before them, and after perusal of the aforesaid Order and examination of the differences, to compose the same if they can, other- wise to be concluded and fully determined by what order Col. Lascelles shall make therein; [171.] the Court being informed that divers souldiers and other persons destroy the deere in Helmesley Park, these are therefore to desire the Officer that shall command in chief near that place to restraine the souldiers from soe doeing, and if any persist in the like, upon complaint made by the Keeper of the Parke, THIRSKE, OCTOBER 2, 1 649. 41 then to bring them to punishment according to the nature of the offence, and if any whoe are not souldiers offend in the Hke kind, the next J. P. (upon complaint made) to punish the offenders according to law ; severall Orders having been granted to Mr. Rich. Pulleyne, late deceased, late Constable for Hang West, for the collection of moneys due to the Purv"., and Gov', of the Ho. of Corr°., Muster Master, and for Bridges, which moneys were estreated but not collected, but dis- bursed by Mr. Rich. Pulleyne, part in his lifetime, and part by Mr. Anth. Pulleyne, his father, after his decease, which money rests un- satisfied, and the sums of the severall towns in the Weapentake of Hang West, according to the paper annexed, due to Mr. Anth. Pulleyn, being ;^26. 7, the severall towns are to pay the sums proportioned upon them, and in case of refusal the next J.P. etc. ; ^^13. 6. 8 allowed for repair of Eshall Bridge ; [171''.] £,'20 having been ordered to be collected for Beck Bridge at a Sessions held in this N. R., A.D. 1642, and having been neither estreated nor collected by reason of the troubles of the times, the said sum to be forthwith estreated and. paid to Mr. Anth. Pulleyn of Worton in Wensleydale ; whereas Mr Jerome Robinson is to have, by Order of Sessions, £,i per annum for the rent of the Ho. of Correction, from the Thre''. for Hosp'^., and there is six years arrears now due unto him, which, at the last Quarter Sessions was ordered to be paid to him, the Thre'^ to pay the sums forthwith to the said Mr. Jerome Robinson or his assignes ; Stitnam to be assessed in the Booke of Rates for the future after ;^4o, and Cornebrough after ^^37 ; [172.] Mr. Peter Newton, Mr. John Kettle- well, and Mr. Wm. Blyth, who were appointed Overseers for Topcliffe Bridge, having been at much charge and trouble about the collecting of the money, the Thre". for Hosp'^ in Richmondshire to pay ^^5 towards their charges ; Wm. Wetherall of Broughton having disbursed money for the town, when hee was Deputy Constable, which money, according to the certificate of two of the gent", to whom the matter was referred, is still unpaid and ought to be paid, the said Wm. Wetherall, Wm. Jackson and two of the ablest inhab*^ to repair to Geo. Ewry, Esq., or some other J. P., who is to examine the same and binde the offenders over etc.. if cause soe require ; the Parish Off'l for Easing- wold shall, with the approbation of the Minister of the parish, nominate and certify the two next J.P^ whoe is a fitt maister to take Eliz'\ Baxter's grandchild an apprentice, and the parties concerned therein to repair before the two next J.P^. as aforesaid, that indentures may be entered according to law; [172''.] upon a Traverse and fulle hearing of the matter in variance between Tho. Wilkinson of Easingwold and the Minister and Parish Off*^. there, about the placing of two poore people in a house called Fossbridge House, in Easingwold, and that the same 42 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. with some ground was passed by Mr. Raiph Stringer, Vicar, by sur- render in Court, to The. Wilkinson and his heirs for ever, conditionally that the Parish Off ^ for the time being shall have the nomination of what two poor people should be placed there, it is Ordered by consent of the said Tho. Wilkinson, John Coates, and Ja'. Weere, the present Overseers, and entrusted for the parishioners of Easingwold, that the said Tho. Wilkinson according to trust reposed in him shall permitt and suffer the Vicar, with the Parish Off", for the future to place two poore people there as aforesaid, and not otherwise ; upon hearing the Traverse of a presentm'. between Math. Taylor of Great Langton and the inhab'^ of Langton, concerning the repair of Langton Kirk Bridge, it is found that the said Mr. Math. Taylor ought to repair it, and whereas the necessity for its repair was so great that it was Ordered at the last Sessions at Bedall that it should be repaired by the inhab'^, and the party or parties whoe should be found lyable for its repair should restore the charges. Math. Taylor to repair it in future at his own charges, and likewise to pay the inhab'^ the sum of los., lately disbursed by them ; the inhab"- of Wath, Friton and Howthorpe in all ass'=. for L. S. and Marshalsea onely a third part with the Constables of Hovingham, according to ancient custom, and those assessed are to take notice hereof. [A'. 173.] HELMSLEY. i6*a Qu. Sessions at, 8 Jan., Before Luke Robinson, Geo. Eure, Rich. Eytherington, Isaac New- ton, Geo. Marwood, and Ralph Rymer, Esquires. Sir John Savile, High Sheriff ; Nich. Artush, Under-Sheriff. FIRST PANNELL. Edw. Wise, Gent"., Jur. Rob. Webster, Rich. Bosvile, Tho. Walker, Will. Tindall, }-Jur. Geo. Simpson, Rich. Sunley, Geo. Boyes, John Burton, Fr. Challenor, John Meed, St. Boyes, Rob. Morrell, Tho. Lindiley, Chr. Watson, Jur. HELMESLEY, JANUARY 8, l6f§. 43 SECOND PANNELL, Tho. Watson, Gent"., Jur. Will. Wright, John Barker, Will. Baker, Fr. Wise, Will. Wilson, Will. Bolton, Rich. Wainde, Jur. Rich. Douchman, John Lotherington, Geo. Sunley, John Daile, Tho. Viccars, Jur. [173*'.] WHO PRESENT — A Little Ayton woman for milking cows belonging to other people ; a man for keeping a common tipling-house etc. ; an Easington yeom". for forging a letter in another man's name; the inhab*^. of Normanby for not repairing their highway between Nor- manby Bridge and Brag House ; a Farndale Churchwarden for neg- lecting an Order of Court ; a lab', for horsestealing. Felonies tried at this Sessions : a man for stealing twenty harrow-teeth (4d.) ; another for stealing an ox (^6) ; another for stealing twenty harrow-teeth ; another for stealing twelve pieces of beef, the property of a person unknown ; yet another for stealing an ox. [174.] A man and his wife for stealing a smock and a mantle; a man and his wife, with another woman, for sheep-stealing; the two former again, on another charge, for the like ; a man for stealing a goose, and the man charged twice before with sheep-stealing for the like in a third instance. Names of the Jury etc. Tho. Wise, Jur. John Thorpe, „ John Stockley, „ Math Mercer, „ Will. Seymour, „ Roger Bell, „ Will. Hensworth, Jur. Tho. Foster, Tho. Dodson, Rich. Flawith, Tho. Lambe, Rob. Wright, Who etc., the Court sentencing six of the prisoners convicted to be whipped, another to be branded in the hand, the rest being acquitted. Further presentments of a yeom°., a husbandman, a weaver, and a lab', of Helmesley for not payeing their severall proportions of their parish clarke's wages ; a Great Barugh yeom°. for not repairing the highway between Barugh and Normanby. 44 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. [174''.] Names of the Jury etc. Geo. Pearson, Jur. The. Hickes, Tho. Horneby, Will. Craven, Chr. AUatson, Tho. Langdale, Nich. Smith, Jur. Henry Jackson, ,, Rich. Smith, „ Tho. Coverdale, ,, John Trainholm, „ Will. Armestrong, ,, Who acquit a man indicted for barratry, and convict others indicted for riotous and forcible entry etc., who are fined 13s. 4d. each ; [175. J another case of forcible entry etc., in which the defendants are acquitted ; and the woman indicted for milking other persons' cows* convicted and fined 20s.; eleven bills ignored; [175''.] two informa- tions for ingrossing grain, and other two for ingrossing growing corn ; [176.] recogn^". in four cases respited; [176'' — 177*".] recogn"^ entered in eleven cases. Orders made etc. All J.P^ desired to keep their monthly meetings within the several! Divisions in this Riding, for settlinge a maintenance for the impotent and aged persons within their severall parishes where they ought to be provided for, and to binde out poor children according to statute, and warrants to be issued to the H. C". by the J.P". to give timely notice to the Petty Constables to meet at such times and places as shall be thought convenient, and diligent search to be made for the apprehen- sion of vagrants and rogues and to bring them to the said monthly meetings to be punished according to law; [178.] the H. C^ through- out the N. R. to issue out warrants to all Petty Constables in their severall Divisions requiring them to put in execution the laws and statutes against Vagrants and Sturdy Beggars, and in case any within the severall Constableries shall harbour any such or releive them by almes at their doors, the Petty Constable, where such offence is com- mitted, to present the same to the next J. P., who is desired to inflict the statute against such offenders, and the H. C^ to informe themselves of the neglect of the Petty Constables herein, and to certify the next J. P., whoe is to see the laws put in execution against such Petty Con- stables as shall faile in the performance of their office ; the inhab''. of Hutton Rudby to cause an ass', to be cast for the moneys which Tho. Treynholme and Wm. Armstrong have disbursed in presenting their * This is by no means the first indictment of this kind, and possibly it may be thought to be of a singular nature. If, however, it be remembered that all the cows of the township were to be seen pasturing in the same common feeding-ground under charge of the same common herd, it will be at once apparent what opportuni- ties for committing such an offence would be continually presenting themselves to a dishonestly disposed person. RICHMOND, JANUARY II, l6|§. 45 evidence against John Robinson ; the H. O. to passe their ace", before the next J.P., who is desired to return the same ace' . to the next Sessions, and that course to be held for the future ; four gent", appointed to examine the disproportion of ass", betweene the inhab". of Seamour and of Brawith and to settle the same by the consent of both parties if they can, otherwise to certify etc.; [I78^] ;^io. 14. 10 to be estreated, already disbursed by Tho. Hutchinson and Tho. Swailes, Surv". for Howden Bridge, over and above the sum of ;^30 which they have received for the said worke ; gratuities to be paid to two souldiers wounded in the service of the Parliament; ;£i$ allowed for Newsam Bridge ; Luke Robinson, Esq., to examine how the money already collected for Normanby Bridge hath been imployed, and what sum is now requisite, and certify etc. ; a fine of ;^2o to be levyed upon the goods of a Great Barugh yeom"., if hee shall neglect the repair of the highway between Barugh and Normanby betwixt this and the ist Aug. next ; [179-] a fine of ^^20 to be levyed upon the inhab'^ of Normanby if they shall neglect to repair the common highway betwixt Normanby and Brag House before the ist Aug. next; upon information that Tho. Ingledew, Informer Generall for this Rydeing, by his own confession, hath, under pretence of authority from the Sessions, taken upon him by his own authority, to act as Gierke of the Market, and under that pretence hath cozened the people of the N. R., and hath exacted severall sums of money upon many of the Constableries in this Divi- sion, without authority and against the law of the lande, under pretence of veiweinge, sealinge and cuttinge of measures and weights, this Court, being very senceable of the abuse and exaction laid upon the country by the said Ingledew, doe Order that hee be henceforth dis- charged any imployment by the Court, and that hee do enter recog- nizance by good and able freeholders to be and appear at the next Assizes to answer this abuse, and likewise to make restitution of what moneys he hath defrauded the people of in this particular, and the J.P^ to give notice to the severall Constables of their Divisions to bring unto them a particular of the severall sums, that the money may be repaid by the said Ingledew to the severall Constableries before the next Assizes, and a copy of this Order to be sent to the respective H. C^ to enjoyne the P. O. to send in the particular receipts of the said Ingledew for the ends aforesaid ; [179''.] a warrant etc. ; a warrant to be issued against those parishioners of the Eastside of Farndale, in the parish of Lastingham, who refuse to pay their proportion of their Clerk's wages; two gratuities of ^2 to L. S. who served in Col. Lassell's regiment. 46 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. [A'. 1 80.] RICHMOND. Qu. Sessions, by adjournment, at, 11 Jan., i6|^. Before John Waistell, Mathew Beckwith, Roger Covell, and Raph Rymer, Esquires. High Sheriff etc. as before. FIRST PANNELL. Chr. Trotter, Gent"., Jur. John Robinson, Will. Turner, Rich. Watson, Will. Leightfoote, Rob. Ovington, Will. Robinson, Tho. Eytherington, John Hall, J Jur. John Nicholls, Edw. Johnson, Will. Eytherington, John Harrison, Raph Cooley, Will. Man, Rob. Finder, Will. Clapham, Jur. SECOND PANNELL. John Cuthbert, Gent"., Jur. John Mason, Will. Binlasse, Raph Horseman, Tho. Aughton, Math. Leightfoote, Henry Harland, Will. Rawe, Symon Plewes, Jur. Will. Hodgeson, Fabin Walker, Rich. Danby, Fr. Morland, Rich. Feeton, Rich. Piburne, Rob. Robinson, Raph Thompson, -Jur. [I8o^] WHO PRESENT A man for stealing a cow (^3) ; Chr. Metcalfe of Little Ottrington for slaying one Raph Bell. Felonies tried at this Sessions : two women for sheep-stealing ; a Helaugh woman for stealing a parcel of tobacco, a lump of soap, two candles, and a mass of tallow ; a lab', for sheep-stealing. Names of the Jury etc. John Cooke, Skeeby, Gent"., Jur. Will. Owthwaite, Hunton, Yeom"., Jur. Elias Carter, Hunton, Yeom"., Jur. Geo. Kilborne, „ ., ,, Cuth. Burrell,Melsonby, „ „ Latan Burth, Newsome, „ „ Math. Bell, Gillinge, Yeom"., Jur. Rich. Lowis, Newsome, Rob. Foster, Brunton, Anth. Wilson, Gailes, Jas. Arrundell, Healey, Geo. Buckle, Leeminge, ,, RICHMOND, JANUARY II, l6f9. 47 [181.] A man charged with shooting certain live doves; further presentments etc. :— the Overseers of East Witton for not findeing maintenance and houseroom for a poor man and his wife ; a Startforth yeom". for forgeinge, counterfeilinge, and setting the hand of one Will. Chesbrough, late Constable there, to a billett ; the alehouse-keepers within the N. R. for refuseinge and being unable to entertaine travel- lers, and selling ale above a penny a quart ; the Parish Officers within this N. R. for not makeinge their monethly ass . for the poor according to the Statute. Informations laid etc. against a Wensley yeom". for ingrossing sixty pounds of tallow, another for using the trade of a chandler etc., another for the like, and again a third for the like. [181'', 182.] One recogn". respited; recogn'^". entered in six cases. [182''.] Orders made etc. Order in a bastardy case ; upon a certificate that the late Constable for West Tanfield is ;^2. 9. 9 out of pocket, the inhab" to cast an ass", for the said sura, and in case of refusal etc. ; the Thre'. for L. S. to pay J[^2 as a gratuity to a L. S. who served under Col. Waistell, and the same to be paid quarterly as a pension till further Order ; a Laborne man to finde sureties for good behaviour, for letting Anne Maynerd of Bellerby escape who was attached for felony ; [183.] Con- stable for Sutton cum Holgrave appointed, according to former Order, and if he neglect etc. ; whereas a Knaton man was at 15s. 2d. charges in maintaining of a child three weeks that was brought from Middleham, the inhab'=. of Knaton to cast an ass', for 7s. yd., and the inhab". of Upsall to cast a like ass', and pay the same to the said man in lieu of the aforesaid charge ; the Constable of Burton to carry Susanna, daughter to one Ja^ Simpson, late deceased, to East Witton, where shee was borne, and ought to be provided for, and the Parish Off", their to provide for her accordingly : and the said Constable to carry Rob., Ja^, and John Simpson to Middleham, where the Parish Off''^ are to provide for them as the law appointes ; [iSs*".] Mr. Tho. Sudall of Forsett and Mr. Math. Atkinson of Akeley to view the decayes of Rutherforth Bridge and Bow Bridge or Gilmanby Bridge, over the Greetoe, and to certifye what sum is fitt to be charged upon the country for their repair ; Order for maintenance of a bastard ; a warrant to be issued for the apprehending Chr. Metcalfe to find sufficient sureties to appear at the next Qu. Sessions to answer a bill of inditement pre- ferred against him concerning the death of one Raiph Bell, late of Northallerton; [184.] the inhab'^- of Gilling to assess Rich. Wharton proportionably for that part of the farme called [blank] Farme, in Gilling, with the other parties which farm part thereof, and if they refuse, the next J. P. to see justice done. 48 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. [A'. i86.] THIRSKE. Qu. Sessions at, i8 April, 1650. Before Sir William AUanson, Luke Robinson, John Wastell, Fr. Lasscells, Geo. Ewry, Geo. Marwood, Will. Weddall, Raph Rymer, Math. Beckwith, and Isaac Newton, Esquires. High Sheriff etc. as before. FIRST PANNELL, Rob. Bellwood, Gent"., Jur. Henry Bell, Fr. Buckle, Tho. Dobson, Tho. Thorpe, > Jur. Will. Pearson, Will. Foggerthorpe, Raph Hewthwaite, Rob. Fawcett, Will. ToUerton, Henry Eden, Will. Younge, Rob. Maisterman, Will. Trewhaite, Will. Allanson, Jur. Jur. SECOND PANNELL. Tho. Hutchinson, Gent"., Jur. Fr. Cundall, Rob. Morrell, -^ Fr. Heild, Rob. Agarr, Tho. Barker, Shadracke Duninge, John ,, John Brettaine, J- Jur. John Jackson, Fr. Peacocke, Tho. Nicholson, Rich. Mayson, Will. Clapham, Rob. Pearson, and Will. Pratt, J [iSe''.] Nine yeom"., a widow, and a spinster for riotous and forcible entry, etc. ; eleven yeom". for assault etc. ; a Sutton-on-the-Forest man for digging up and stopping the highway leading from the said town to its Common-fields ; three East Grange yeom". and a widow of the same for riotous and forcible entry etc. ; two yeom". for refusing to execute a warrant of this Court; [187.] three Husthwaite yeom". for riotous and forcible entry etc. ; a yeom . and three women for riotous assault etc. ; a man for refusing to pay his Constable ass'. ; a Falling Fosse lab', for stealing a gray mare ; another man for stealing a horse. Felonies tried at this Sessions :— A lab', for sheep-stealing ; another for horse-stealing ; a lab', for stealing three hens, two cocks, and a capon; a lab', for sheep-stealing; [18 f.] another for stealing two quarters of mutton, the property of some person unknown, and a THIRSKE, APRIL 1 8, 1650. 49 woman as an accessory after the fact ; a man for stealing two oxen ; another for sheep-stealing ; a Iab^ for stealing a tin platter and a piece of tin ; and another man for sheep-stealing. Names of the Jury by whom the above-named felonies were tried. Rob. Morrell, Rich. Wilson, Will. Clarke, Tho. Dighton, John Cowpland, Fr. Fisher, Tho. Hurwood, Rich. Rymer, Will. Hodge, •^ ^ Will. Ingleton, J ■• ' Rich. Bossell, I Tho. White, j Who convict four of the prisoners tried, three of whom are to be branded in the hand, and the fourth whipped ; and acquit the rest. Further presented at this Sessions : — The inhab". of Easingwold for not repairing How Bridge ; two Brompton yeom°. for refusing to pay their Constable ass". ; [188.] the inhab'^ of West Rounton.Welbury, Appleton on Wiske, Horneby and Deighton for not scowring and clensing their parts of the River Wiske ; a Normanby man for stopping up a highway ; a Citty of Yorke man for not makeinge sufficient the highway in Eastley- bridge Laine.; the inhab'^ of Huntington for not repairing their high- way on the east side of Fosse ; those of Lowthrop for not repairing the highway in Lowthrop Laine, at both ends of the bridge; those of Stockton for not repairing the cawsey leading to Heworth Lane ; those of Sutton on the Forest for not repairing the Church Laine leading from the church to Huby ; and also for not repairing Sutton Lane ; those of Crake for not repairing Crake Lane leading toward York ; those of Aizenby for not repairing their part of the highway leading between Burrowbridge and Topcliffe ; those of Rainton cum Newby for not repairing the highway between Topcliff and Ripon ; those of Baldersby for not repairing the highway between Burrowbridge and Leeming ; those of Kirby, Milby and Langthorpe for not repairing the highway from Burrowbridge to Ripon ; those of Middleton cum How, of Dishforth, and of Leeming and Aiskew for the like as to roads in the same vicinity ; those of Pickering for not repairing the highway over Rich. Smith moore ; those of Allerston for not repairing AUerston Lane ; [I88^] those of the Marishes for not repairing the highway from Rich. Smith moore to How Bridge ; those of Kirkby Misperton for not repairing the highway from Barugh to Newsam bridge ; those of Pickering for not repairing Vergoe Lane ; those of Edston, and the occupiers of Keildholme, for not repairing the highway between Edston Common and Keildholme ; those of Hutton on the Hill, Sproxton and Helmsley, Keildholme, Amotherby, Helmsley, Carleton, Birkby, Hutton VOL. V. E 50 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Bonville, Northallerton, Brompton, Hornby, Welbury, [189.] Brompton, Northallerton, Yafforth, Great Langton, Easby, Eyreholme, Great Smeaton, Brompton on Swaile, Croft and Dalton on Tease, Strencile, North Inges, Bossall, Oswouldkirke, [iSg*".] Hovingham, Slingsby, Felixkirke, Catton, Thirkleby, Thirske, South Ottrington, Newsam, Carleton Minyott, Topcliffe, Sand Hutton, Thornton in la Moore, Sutton under Whittson-Cliffe, Newsam and Brackenbroughe, [190.] and Crakeall and Fawdington, all for the like as regards roads for which they were liable; seven bills ignored. [igo^.-ic)2.] Recogn''°^ re- spited in twenty-three cases ; [192-195.] recogn*^". entered in twenty- six cases ; a Deighton yeom". for permitting the escape of a prisoner in his charge ; a Knaton man for assault etc. ; three Easingwold yeom". for illegal seizure etc. ; three men and a woman for riotous and forcible entry etc. ; [195.] information against a man for using the trade of a Sadler etc. [195^] Orders made etc. Three pensions for L. S., one of ^4 and the others ^£2 yearly ; the ancient raites between Stitnam lordshipp and Cornebrough to be con- tinued to be paid as they were wont till Anno Domini 1640, and Wm. Weddall and Hen. Hall, Esq^, between this and the next Sessions, to examine the true yearly value of the severall lordshipps, and to pro- portion and lay the taxes according to the true pound rent thereof, and to settle those raites between the townshipps if they can, and for the last three months assesse, as also for what shall be due till the next Sessions, the same to be paid to the lordshipp or town that has or shall have disbursed more than the just proportion, which the referres shall order for the future according to the raite sett down by them, and they are to certify etc. ; [196. | a brewer suppressed for keeping a disorderly ailhouse ; another brewer for being a Recusant ; Geo. Shaw, or those that have any charge to exhibit against Hutton Gregory, Gov'- of the Ho. of Corr"., for his disaflection to the State, and evill carriage in his place, to be heard at the next Sessions, that it may be taken into consideration whether he be fitt to be continued in the same place or not ; a brewer of Brunton upon Swaile suppressed ; the difference about the acc'^ of the late Constables of New Malton, referred to two gent", who are to see right done the inhab". wherein they are injured, and to certify the next Sessions what shall be done by them therein : and if they cannot agree, to binde the said Constables etc. ; a warrant to be issued against the Constables of Northallerton to be bound etc., for contempt of Mr. Robinson's warrant ; [196".] a brewer suppressed for keeping a disorderly ailhouse ; three pensions of 40s. to be paid to L. S. ; Jaine Gardice to have ;^3 as a gratuity and to be recommended to the J.P'. THIRSKE, APRIL 1 8, 1650. 5 I of the East Riding ; the H. C\ to give notice to the inhabitants of their severall Divisions to repair before the next J. P., who is desired to examine what money Tho. Ingledew of Normanby in Cleveland hath unduely exacted, or extorted from any of them illegally, as by taking upon him without any collour of authority the place or office of Clerk of the Markett in this N. R., or otherwise by pretence of processe of law, where none such issued, and the J.P'., after such examination had, to make certificate, of the sum soe illegally obteyned into his hands, to the next Quarter Sessions, that course may be taken for the restitution thereof to the party or parties grieved, according to an Order at last Assizes, as also according to a bond entered with sufficient sureties by him in that behalf; [197.] the examination of the disproportion of ass"- in Sinnington having been referred to Mr. Rob. Harding and Mr. Tho. Hutchingson to settle the same, or to certify etc., and they makeing certificate and putting no settlement to the raites, all the eight- and-forty oxgangs, except demeasne lands, to be assessed alike in future till cause be shown to the contrary ; the great disproportion of ass", in the Constablery of Arkengarthdaile having been referred to Geo. Mennell and Andrew Barton, gent"., and having received their certificate that the inhab". of New Forest in the said Constablery, in an assesse of three score pounds, ought to pay ;£i6. 13 thereof and Arkengarthdaile ;^43. 7, the said proportion of raites to be observed till further Order ; Oath having been made by Rob. Taylor of Apleton Wiske that he is not worth 40s. freehold yearly, and that he is re- turned as a freeholder to serve at the Assizes and Sessions, the Sheriff to take care to put his name out of the Freehold booke ; a woman sent to the Ho. of Corr". and to appear at the next Sessions ; [I97^] Tho. Croft, Esq., of Stillington, being much money in arrear to Wm. Fletcher, late Constable, for ass", and refusing to pay, if he refuse to make pay- ment upon demand the next J.P. to take him bound etc. ; ^30 allowed for Sraeaton Bridge ; a gratuity of 20s. to a L. S. ; Mr. Chr. Dodsworth, Maister of the Hosp'. att Well, to enter bond of p^ 13. 6. 8 to John Thompson of Snaipe to abide the end and determination of Col. Lascells and Mr. Beckwith about the difference concerning ass" between Mr. Dodsworth and the inhab". of Snaipe, and the same to be settled within forty days from this date ; the Clerk of the Peace for the N. R. to take care the farmers of Castle Milnes at Yorke be presented as a newsance (at the next Assizes) to the N. R. ; the Parish Off", of Well to take care for maintenance of a child lately left there whose mother dyed at Fencoate, in case it cannot be made appear where the child was born; [198.] the inhab". of Castle Leavington in future to serve in course, as Constables, if they be such competent and fitt per- sons as the law appointes ; Tho. Clarke of Apleton Wiske to be dis- E 2 52 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. charged and suppressed from brewing and keeping a fishing-house by- reason of severall complaints and misdemeanours objected and proved against him, and to finde sureties for his good behaviour, and the Con- stable to pull down his sign ; the Parish Off", of Thirske to allow i2d. a week to a poor man and his wife; gratuities of 20s. to two L. S. ; ;^2o allowed for Rutherforth Bridge; Mr. Chr. Carter to pay Mr. Tho. Hutchinson and Mr. Tho. Swailes of Pickering 14s. which he deteyns in his hands ever since he was H. C. for Hallikeld, and is due to them since they were Overseers for Howe Bridge, or to appear at the next Sessions at Malton to show cause to the contrary; [r98^] a warrant against a man and three women for an assault, to appear at the next Sessions ; Mr. Ja^ Moor to deliver to Mr. Luke Robinson the par- ticular raites of every township in the N. R. ; there having been differ- ences between the inhab". of Thirske and Fr. Jackson and others, who were Constables in the years 1643 and 1644, about ass'^, the Con- stables' receipts and disbursements for the said years to be referred to Tho. Potts and Tho. Foster, who are to examine the said ace'", and to allow of such ass'', and charges as were imposed by authority of Par- liament, and not otherwise, and if it appear that the town is in arrear to them, the now Constables to collect the severall sums from the persons from whom it is due, for their satisfaction ; there being great neglect in the Parish OR", of Thirske in providing for the releif of the poore, and preserving thereof and imploying it to the use it is intended by law, the new Parish Off", to pass their acc'^ and take care the stock for the poore, being about ^150, be taken out of whose hands it is in, and paid unto Jos. Bell, appointed Overseer for the poor for the year to come, to the end materialls may be bought with the same as are fitt to set them on work, and that the same may be imployed to the best benefit of the parish, and the ass*''- for the poore to be doubled for the year to come to the sum it was last year, and to certify the next J. P. what poore children are fitt to be putt apprentices and who are fitt masters for them ; [199. J a warrant against Edm. Bygood of Marton for maintenance of a bastard ; the Thre'. for L. S. to pay a pensioned soldier the arrears due unto him. [A'. 200.] MALTON. Qu. Sessions at, 11 July, 1650. Before Luke Robinson, John Wastell, Geo. Ewry, Arthur Nowell, Chr. POTcehay, John Robinson, Will. Weddall, John Worsley, Will. Thometon, and Leonard Smelt, Esquires. High Sheriff etc. as before ; Deputy Sheriff, [blank] Smithyes. MALTON, JULY II, 1650. 53 Names of the John Faireside, Gent"., Rob. Francke, Tho. Scipline, Tho. Trier, Will. Bolton, Rob. Consitt, Tho. Lootherington, Tho. Harrison, Guy AUattson, Will. Walker, Will. Agarr, John Smith, Tho. Makepeace, Rob. Stubbs, Chr. Allenson, Chr. Fawcett, Chr. Crosby, Jur. Jurors etc. Tho. Hutchingson, Gent"., Fr. Smith, Chr. Wilson, Mark „ Rob. „ Rich. Plewman, John Lythe, John Piper, John Harrington, Rob. Robson, Rob. Jackson, Stephen Russell, John Gill, Will. Marshall, Tho. Pennocke, Martin ,, Jur. [200".] Tho. Cockerell of Stakesby, gent°., with Will. Barnes and his ■wife from Eskdaile, for forcible entry etc. ; John Midleton of Kirby Mooreside for high treason against the Commons of England in Par- liament assembled ; the inhab". of Skelton for not repairing the high- way at a place called Capon-wood ; a Sheriff Hutton man for illegal seizure etc. ; a Cottingham man for stealing a hood ; traverse of an indictment for forcible entry maintained by seven Wykeham men and one from Ellerburne. Names of the Jury etc. Rob. Blackwell, Gent"., Chr. Halliday, Geo. Pearson, Mark Bardon, Rog. Monnckman, Tho. Thompson, Jur. Mark Stockton, Chr. Medd, Rich. Smith, Geo. Faceby, John Stockell, Mansfeild Wilkinson,J [ Jur. [201.] Felonies tried at this Sessions : — A lab', far stealing a pair of shoes ; a Great Ayton man for sheep-stealing ; another man of the same place for the like, and a third as accessory after the fact in both cases ; two men for sheep-stealing ; another for the like, and a man as accessory in the former case ; a Normanby man for stealing twenty-six sheep ; and another as accessory etc. ; the same man for stealing twenty- six more sheep from the same owner; and another for stealing two 54 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. COWS : two of these being convicted, one to be whipped, and the other branded in the hand, the second of the accessories being fined ;^5. [201''.] Presented at this Sessions: — The inhab"- of Newton and Ben- ningbroLigh for not repairing New-bridge ; the inhab". of Farmanby for not repairing their common pyndfold ; a Stockton man for not re- pairing part of the cawsey, or highway, leading to York ; the inhab". of Great Barugh and Habtons for the like ; a Great Barugh man for not repairing the common highway between Barugh and Normanby, leading from Malton to Kirby-Mooreside. Bills ignored at this Sessions in four cases, [202. J and in five others ; traverse of an indictment against twelve Gisbrough yeom". and five from Skelton, for digging up and stopping the highway between the market towns of Whitby and Gisbrough. [202^] Names of the Jury etc. Mark Stockton Chr. Medd Peter Hindbley John Gibson Will. Rumbert Chr. Pearson Math. Hall Will. W.ight Leon. Medd Rob. Ferd Will. Crosse Math. Esh Who say etc., that the traversers in the case named were guilty of the offence alleged : and each of them is fined 5s. [203.] Recogn"^ respited in seven cases; [204, 205.] recogn"', entered in eleven cases. [205^] Orders made etc. Mr. Chr. Beckwith of West Ayton to give security to Mr. Readhead for ;^3. 6. 8 for a new chalne for a bridge between East and West Ayton; Stitnam to be assessed after ^^45 ancient rent, and Corne- brough after ^^32, as in 1649; John Midlewood being indicted for speaking words of a very high nature against the Commons of England, assembled in Parliament, the Sheriff to take the said John Midlewood into saife custody and him saifly keepe in the Gaol or Castle of Yorke till he shall be from thence delivered by due course of law ; pensions of 40s. yearly to be paid to two soldiers' widows, whose husbands served in the garrison of Hull, untill their children shall be able to earn their livelyhood ; [206.] in pursuance of Order of Parliament of April 9th, 1650, that the Arms of the late King be taken down and defaced in all Churches, Chappells and all other publique places within England and Wailes, and the towne of Barwick upon Tweed, and that all J.P'- in MALTON, JULY II, 1650. 55 their respective Countyes and all other publique Magistrates and Off"., Churchwardens and Wardens of Companyes are required by the vertue of the said Order to see the same taken down etc. accordingly, and for- asmuch as heretofore hath been much neglect in inferior Off'', through this N. R. of puting the said Order in execution, these are therefore to require the respective C. O. to issue out their warrants to all P. C=. and Churchwardens in their severall Divisions requiring them forthwith to take down the Arms of the late King, or cause the same to be taken down etc., in their severall Churches and Chappells, and in all other publique places in their parishes within ten dales time after sight hereof, and forthwith to repair to the next J. P. and certifye him what is done in pursuance hereof, that the next Quarter Sessions may be certifyed what is done therein ; lett this petition be shown to Math. Preston, and if he refuse to take the said apprentice and provide for him, the next J. P. desired to see justice done; [206''.] Rob. Hugill of Gisbrough and others mentioned in an indictment, for their severall fines to pay 5s. each to Mr. Warfoike, whoe is to receive directions from Geo. Ewry, Esq., how the same shall be imployed for the repair of Skelton highway, and Mr. John Win hath undertaken the payment thereof ; Mr. Worsley to hear and determine the busines between Grace Edwards and Chr. Belt; if the Comittee of Sequestrations for the County of Yorke have any further examination against Mr. Hutton Gregory, Gov', of the Ho. of Corr"., touching matter of delinquencie, their Clark to transcribe the same and send them to the J.P^ to the next Sessions, that if he appear a delinquent he may be proceeded against according to justice ; Wm. Readhead and Rob. Harding, gent"., C. C^ for the Liberty of Pickering Lythe, to passe their acc'^ against the next Ses- sions, and other two to be appointed in their place ; a warrant to attach the person of Tho^ Croft, Esq., of Stillington, to carry him before the next J. P. to be bound etc., for refusing to pay arrears of ass", due to Wm. Fletcher for the tyme he was Constable; [207,] ^^j per ann. from henceforth due and payable by the country for the Ho', of Corr". to be distributed between the two Ho', of Corr". at Richmond and Pickering by the proportion following : £^2 to be paid to the Gov', of the Ho. att Richmond, and /^2c^ to the Gov"^. of the Ho. to be erected att Pickeringe, and the severall H. O. who are to levy the same in their respective divisions from time to time to pay the same to the said Gov", respectively, and ;^36 to be forthwith estreated and levyed upon the whole N. R. towarde the providinge of utensalls and other necessaries for the accommodation of the Ho. to be erected att Picker- ing, but the country not to be charged in that way for any further sum for the use aforesaid, and Mr. Luke Robinson, Mr. Piercehay, Mr. Nowell and Mr. Worsley to take charge of the errecting of the said Ho. 56 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. and fitting the same for the use it is intended for, and to make choice of a fitt person to be by them commended to the next General Sessions, to be allowed and approved by the Court to be Maister and Gov', of the said intended Ho. of Corr°. ; [207^] three gent", to view the decay of Egton and Gromond Bridges and certifye etc. ; the gent", appointed to hear and audite the acc"^ of the petitioners, and the inhab". of Sowerby to have notice to attend and alledge what they can in reference to the said acc'^ and the refiferees to certifye etc. ; the inhab''- of Hawnby to pay the petitioner the sum levyed upon him and one half of the charges mentioned in the petition, being 20s., and within four- teen dales after the petition be shown to the Constables and neighbours, the Constables to pay the moneys aforesaid or repaire to the next J. P., the petitioner having notice ; Mr. Chr. Halliday to be C. C. for the Weapentake of Rydall vice Tho. North, and the said Tho. North to pass his ace", before the next Sessions ; [208.] Mr. Rich. Johnson to be C. C. for Northolme [? Northallerton] vice Mr. 'J'ho. Butler ; Mr. Rich. Halliday of Lining to be C. C. for Bulmer I'ice Mr. Phil. Horse- man ; Rolls signed by Luke Robinson, Geo. Eure, Arth. Nowell, Chr. Pearcehay, Wm. Weddall and John Worsley. [.V. 209] RICHMOND. Qu. Sessions at, i6 July, 1650. Before John Wastell, Roger Covell, Math. Beckwith, John Robinson, and Leonard Smelt, Esquires. Names of the John Robinson, Gent"., Peter Jefferson, Will. Turner, Rob. Ovington, John Burrell, Rich. Watson, John Leightfoote, Chr. Mitchell, John Harrison, Will. Hodgson, Marm. Wintersgill, John Burrell, Jerome Robinson, Rob. Hutching^on, Jur. Jury etc. Edw. Tophan, Gent"., Will. Robinson, Chr. Smith, Rob. Bishoprick, Rich. Danby, Rob. Robinson, Rich. Fleetham, Will. Carter, Tho. Slenny, John Nichols, Raph Kay, Will. Porter, Marm. Lambert, Tho. Millner, John Slenny, \ J^ RICHMOND, JULY l6, 1650. 57 Who say upon their oaths etc.— [209^] An Allarthorne woman for illegal seizure of wood ; four yeom". for assault etc. ; Misdemeanours dealt with at this Sessions : — A Newton Morrell man for refusing to pay his ass'=- (fined ^8) ; a Melmerby woman for harbouring vagrants etc. (fined los.) ; two Knapton yeom". for assault etc. ; felonies tried etc. : two women for stealing a smock (to be branded in the hand) ; a man for stealing woollen cloth (same sentence) ; a woman for stealing rye. [210.] Names of the Jury etc. Rich. Hutchingson Charles Neesome Henry Calvert Tho. Cawton Tho. Fothergill Edw. Willey Will. Sedgwicke Will. Eitherington Rob. Pinder Oliver Iveson Geo. Barker Miles Todd Who deliver their verdicts as implied in the sentences noted above. Two bills ignored ; [2Io^] further presentments etc : — A Knapton man for not paying his ass'^ ; a Stainey man for not repairing the highway etc.; recogn'". respited in three cases; [2 11. J recogn"^ entered in seven cases ; brief of restitution, in full, in a case of illegal ejectment. [212.] Orders made etc. A warrant against a man of Ruswicke, nine of Fingall, and one of Aikbarr to appear at the Sessions etc. ; a woman committed last Sessions to the Ho. of Corr" to be sett at liberty ; an Ellingstringe man committed to the Ho. of Corr" for a disorderly person and dangerous to the people amongst whom he converses ; two men in the Ho. of Corr". to be sett at liberty ; a man in the Ho. of Corr". to be sent to Whawton in Northumberland, where he was borne, and another to Yearme in this Rideing, where he last remained, after they be stript from the midle upwards and whipt ; [212''.] a man formerly committed to the Ho. of Corr"- to be continued till further order ; a woman in the Ho. of Corr". to be set at liberty and a passe from Constable to Con- stable etc ; two gent", to view Deepdaile and Reeth Bridges and certifye etc. ; the late Constable of Snaipe to pay los. for suffering vagrants to goe unpunished ; the Sheriff to make restitution of posses- sion of one close called Wood Close att Husthwaite to the owner etc. ; the Parish Off of Thome to provide howseroom and maintenance for a poor woman, and if they refuse etc. ; [213 ] Edw. Kearton to be Deputy Constable of Reeth cum Hamletts ; the Parish Off'*, not having 58 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. taken any care for the payment of the petitioners' arrears, the Con- stable where they live to carry them etc. ; this Court conceives it fitt and agreable to justice that an ass', be charged equally upon the Con- stablery of Ravensworth for Miles Todd of Easton for the grass the Troopers' horse eats, being imployed in the Parliament's Service, and for the better expediting thereof four men desired to examine the truth of the petition, the value of the grass, and afterwards to assess the same as they conceive due to the petitioner, and cause it to be collected and paid to him ; a warrant etc. against a man ; [213''.] forasmuch as the Churchwardens and Overseers for Askrigg for the last year have much money in their hands due to the poore, and deteyn the same, to the great prejudice of the poore, the said ould Churchwardens and Overseers for five years before to pass their ace", to the rest of the inhab". and to pay such moneys as they have in their hands etc. ; two persons now in the Ho. of Corr". to be sett at hberty and passed from Constable to Constable to the respective places where they last re- mained ; [214.] three gent", to examine the difference about ass'^ between the inhab"- of Arkengarthdaile and New Forest and certify etc. ; a woman formerly sent to the Ho. of Corr". to be returned there till she be delivered by due course of law ; a woman in the Ho. of Corr"- to be whipt and passed from Constable to Constable to the place of her last habitation ; a warrant against four Gilling men to be carryed before the next J. P. to be bound etc., for contempt of an Order; [214''.] two souldiers of Col. Coxe's Regiment to be sent to their colours by Alex. Lambert and Cha". Burrell of Richmond, and Mr. Jos. Wray, Thre'. for L. S., to pay them 30s. for their charges in conveying them as aforesaid. Rolls signed by Jos. Wastill, Rog. Covell, Jas. Robinson, Math. Beckwith, and Leonerd Smelt. [216.] THIRSKE. Qu. Sessions at, i Oct., 1650. Before Sir Will. AUanson, Luke Robinson, John Wastell, Geo. Eure, Fr. Lascells, Arthur Nowell, Will. Weddle, John Worsley, and Will. Thornton, Esquires High Sheriff etc. as before. THIRSKE, OCTOBER I, 1650. 59 Names of the Jurors etc. Will. Lumley, Gent"., Will. Hareby, Will. Thompson, Chr. Newsam, Rob. Bellwood, James Nelson, Peter Brettain, Will. Atkinson, Tho. Cowper, Tho. Hoopes, Tho. Awmocke, Will. Peckett, Will. Heild, Fr. „ Edw. Cowlinge, Tho. Nicholson, Will. Trewhitt, Jur. Geo. Clough, Esq., Henry Parvin, Rich. Dickins, Raph Hewthwaite, Geo. Husthwaite, Nich. Hopperton, John Armestronge, Tho. Pearson, Tho. Dobson, Will. Foggerthwaite, Will. Awmocke, Will. Pearson, Will. Jackson, Rob. Fawcett, John Jackson, • Jur. [aie*".] A man for stealing ten stooks of rye; two lab", for stealing a stagg* ; a lab', for horse-stealing ; misdemeanors : — A Wood Apple- ton man for an assault etc. (fined 20s.) ; an Easingwold man for taking unjust toll ; another man for assault etc. ; three Aiskew yeom°. for riotous and forcible entry etc. (fined 3s. 4d. each) ; three men from Beedall and Aiskew, with two women, for the like (fined 4d. each) ; a Langthorne man for shooting doves (fined i2d.) ; and again on a second charge; [217.] Alex. Wooton of Wykeham, gent"., and eleven yeom". of the same for riotous and forcible entry on a parcel of land there called Gildersdaile-hill etc. (severally fined i2d. each) ; five other yeom". of the said place for an assault etc. (acquitted) ; a New Malton man for an assault etc. ; [217''.] Felonies tried etc. : — A lab', for stealing a pair of shoes ; another for stealing nine stooks of rye (2s.) ; another for stealing a stook of beans ; another lab', for breaking into a dweUing- house by day and stealing thence a fork ; two Kilvington lab", for stealing a sheet. Names of the Jury etc. Geo. Kitchingman, "1 Tho. Hardinge, Raph „ Tho. Skelton, Tho. „ I Jur. Rob. Morrell, Will. Dayle, Tho. Langdaile, Hugh Rendon, Rich. Hodge, Will. Parkinson, i Will. Thompson, * A stag is a young gelding, and the term is usually understood as meaning an animal under two years old. \- Jur. 6o QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Who return verdicts according to above sentences; [218.] two bills ignored ; presentments etc. : — The inhab". of Newsam for not repair- ing Nowt-sike Bridge ; the inhab". of [blank] for not repairing the laine or common highway leading from Skipton to and through Baldersby ; several highwayes leadeing between Yafforth and North- allerton ; two Thirske gent", and two others for not scouring their several proportions of a common water-sewer lying between the lord- ship of Kilvington and Thirske ; a Thirske man for keeping unlawful measures and selling therewith (fined 20s.) ; the inhab". of Skipton for not repairing the common highway leading to the Moore ; the inhab" of Marton and Acklam for not repairing their lane and bridges called Fleete Bridges, between Stockton and Pickering; [218''.] a Thirske mercer for not paying his ass', to the Overseers of Carleton for his land there ; Col. Lascells presents the highway from North Kilvington to Knayton ; a Great Langhton man for not scouring a water-sewer etc. ; the inhab" of Kilvington for not repairing their highway etc. ; Philip Howsman of Ferlington for refusing to pay over his bridge-money which he received of the country when he was H. C. ; the inhab". of Thornton le Beanes for not repairing the way from Braworth to Milne-flat Gate ; a Stockton gent", for not repairing his proportion of Stockton Lane ; the inhab'^ of Wykeham for not making large and broad the common highway, leading from Scarbrough to Pickering and Kirby-Moorside, lyeing betweene Wykeham on the backside Ruston, to Ruston Becke, and lyeing betweene two steepe banckes, according etc. ; the inhab". of Northallerton and Danby Wiske for not repairing the bridge and common highway between Danby and Lazenby ; those of West Ayton for stop- ping up one of the arches in the middle of West Ayton Bridge ; Mr. Wastell presents the highways between Long Cowton and Great Sraeaton ; the inhab'^ of Ovington and Barforth for not repairing their highway etc. ; a Thirsk inn-holder for keeping unlawful measures and selling therewith ; [219.] Will. Bransby of Thirske, gent"., for stopping up a common highway leading from Sand Hutton Chapel to Thirske Church ; Will. Lee and Math Kettlewell for combining to defraud Tho. Jackson thelder of Topcliff of his Constable's disbursements ; the inhab". of Bossall for not repairing Bossall Lane ; the Jury present a common highway or lane leading from Canstoke Parke to Massam Bridge ; one lane in a pasture belonging to the lordship of Uplsland [sic] to be in great decay ; the inhab". of Bagby for not repairing their pindfold ; a highway called Brawby Lane and Sawton towngate, lying between Malton and Kirby-Mooreside ; the inhab'^ of South Kilving- ton and Thornebrough for not repairing the highway from the little stone-bridge near Mr. Mennell's unto White-house Bridge ; the inhab". of Danby, Nortli and South Cowton for not repairing the street between THIRSKE, OCTOBER I, 1650. 61 Felgill More [Moor] and North Cowton towne ; those of Croft and Dalton on Tease for the street from North Cowton to Darrington ; the Mount Bridge and Favvdington Lane presented, being in the parishes of Brafferton and Topcliff ; Langhton Kirke Bridge presented as in ruin etc.; [219-221. J recogn'=". respited in fifteen cases; [221, 222.] recogn'^". entered in nine cases. [222^] Orders made etc. The C. C\ of Rydall to collect the sura mentioned in an estreat dated at the last Sessions at New Malton, and to pay the sum charged for the repair of their highway between Malton and Newsam Bridge to four gent"., who are to receive the same and sett people on worke at the said repaires, and the said gent", as well as the C. C^ to give an accompt of their proceedings to the next Sessions ; a like Order to the C. C^ of Rydall touching the highway between Malton and Yorke ; [223.] John Hobson to be C. C. of Pickering Lythe vice Mr. Wm. Readhead, upon paine of ;^2o if he shall refuse ; the money estreated for the repair of the common highway called Caponwood to be forth- with leavied and imployed, and two gent", to view the said ways, and in case they find them sufficiently repaired before next Christmas, to certifye the same, and the overplus of the sum so leavied to be restored to the inhab". ; whereas a Kirbymoorside man has formerly paid a fine of ;^2o for selling aile and beere without license and was for the second offence suppressed, yett notwithstanding the same he persists therein in contempt of authourity, he is to be conveyed before the next J. P. etc. ; [223''.] an EUingstringe man bound at the suit of Jos. Cleaveland to appeare at this Sessions, and the said Jos. Cleaveland having failed to prosecute etc. he is to be taken before the next J.P. to be bound etc. ; a like Order in another case ; [2 24. J the Parish Off", of Newton to provide for a poor woman harbour, and otherwise as her necessities require, and if they faile herein etc. ; the parish of Burniston to repay the late Constable for Leeminge the sum of 8s. 6d. disbursed by him for the repair of Leeming Bridge, or the next J.P. to see justice done ; 40s. per ann. as a pension to a L. S. ; [224^] ;£i. 19 being due to the old Constables for Beedall and Kirby, and a former Order to the inhab". of the Constablery to make payment having been neglected, the inhab'^. to cast an ass*, for the said sum and the present Constables to collect it and pay it over ; forasmuch as Mr. Rob. Ashton of Beedall is informed against to be a person of lewd life and evill behaviour, and one who has committ severall offences of a high nature against the publique peace of this Commonwealth, and that he may be fourth- coming at the next Assizes or Generall Gaole Deliverie to answer the same, these are, on behalf of the Keepers of the Tibertie of England by 62 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. authority of Parliament, to require and command you to receive into your custody the body of the said Mr. Rob. Ashton, [225.J and him saifly keep in your said Gaole till he shall be thence delivered by due course of law. Fail not. To the Keepers of the Gaole and Castle of Yorke. — Mr. Wm. Hebden of Apleton in the Street to be Thre'. for L. S., and Mr. Marm, Northcliffe to repaire to VVm. Thornton and John Wastley, Esq'., who are to take his ace''- and return the same to the next Sessions ; the C. C\ of Bullmer to collect and pay to Mr. Rob. Blackwell and Mr. John Harrison, Jun'., of Malton, the sums of money estreated upon the highways in the Weapentake of Bullmer leading from Malton to Yorke, and the said gent", to imploy the same for the repair of the highwayes where it shall be levyed, and they as well as the C. C. to give an ace', of their proceedings to the next Sessions; [225'".] the C. O. for Bullmer to collect the severall sums of money according to an estreat made last Sessions at Malton, and pay the same to four gent"., who are to receive the said money and sett people on work for repairing the said ways, excepting such moneys as are to be leavied for repairing the highways betweene Yorke and Malton in Bullmer Weapen- take, which are to be paid to Mr. Rob. Blackwell and Mr. John Harrison, and the said gent", as well as the C. C. to give an accompt etc. ; the C. C. of Pickeringe to pay the ^^5 leavied of the inhab". of Ebberston for the repair of their highways to a gent", who is to imploy the same for the said repair and give an accompt etc. ; [226, 227.] like Orders concerning the highways of Gilling East, Pickering Lithe, Bird- forth, Allertonshire, Hallikeld, Gilling West and Langbargh ; lett Mr. Alderud Brooke see this petition and either give libertie for the Over- seers of the poore for Lastingham to build houses upon the waist, for the poor people mentioned in the petition, or else show cause for his refusal att the next Sessions ; [227''.] Order concerning the maintenance of a bastard child ; complaint having been made of a very great inequallity in proportioning of ass', in the Constablery of Balke, every man is to be assessed according to the quantity and quallity of the land he enjoyes; [228.] the Constable of Ebberston to discharge a man from keeping a disorderly ailhouse or tipling-house, and to convey him before the next J. P. to enter bond not to keep an ailhouse or tipling- house for three years and to be of good bearing in the interim ; a Pickering man to appear at the next Sessions to answer a petition pre- ferred against him by the poor people of Pickering about the towles there ; upon grounds laid down in the petition, the Grange of Rand to be taken into the charge of the Constables of Beedall as of their Con- stablery, and assessed according to the proportion of the ancient rent of _£6. 1 3. 4, or the true vallue thereof, untill the inhab". of Crakehall shall make it appear that the same was anciently parcell, and of right THIRSKE, OCTOBER I, 1650. 63 did belong to that Constablery, provided allwaies that Beedall be assessed after their said ancient rait over and besides the said /^6. 13. 4 for Rand; [228^] Rich. Dickens of Foston and John Cole of Crambe, who have taken up much of the timber belonging to the pubhque bridge at Kirkham, to deliver the said timber to Mr. John Agar and Mr. Rich. Curdnes for the use of the country, or els make satisfaction according to the reall value of the wood, for which they are to account at the next Sessions, and if they refuse to make satisfaction to be bound etc. ; the Parish Off", for Newton to provide for a poor woman and the next J. P. to see the Order observed; the late Constables of New Malton, having given security to the town to pay such moneys as are in their hands due to the inhab'^, such inhab'^ as are behind with their ass'^ to them in the tyme they served as Constables to pay them such arrears, and if any of them refuse the present Constables to carry them before the next J. P. to shew cause to the contrary; [229.J the Constable of Leeminge to pay the petitioner 6s. 8d., and if he refuse, the C. C. of the Weapentake of [blank] to carry him before the next J. P. to answer his contempt; a warrant to convey the witnesses before some J. P. to give evidence against Rob. Ashton of Beedall at the next Assizes of Generall Gaole Deliverie ; a warrant for Mr. Howsman to be conveyed by the C. C. of Bulmer before the next two J.P^ to passe his acc'^ and to enter bond to appear etc. ; neither Chr. Allanson nor Wm. Owram to be Parish Clarke of Crake, but a third person to be ellected which has not beene in armes against the Parliament nor voluntarily aided or assisted against the Parliament, and that he shall be so chosen. Sir Wm. Allanson, Knt., doth freely give his interest of the profits of the grounds in question to the said Clarke ; John Hebden of Hillerby to be C. C. in Pickering Lythe vice Wm. Readhead of Brunton ; the inhab'^ of Arkendaile and New Forest to be at Richmond Sessions next and to pay their ass", as formerly till then ; [229^] an estreat for ;^2o having gone forth against Rich. Smith of the Marrishes for not repairing a highway through his ground, between Pickering and Malton, and he being onely tenant and one Mr. John Simpson owner of the said land, Mr. Simpson to allow his tenant such moneys as shall be expended in the said repairs ; ;^i5 allowed for Kilgram Bridge ; send out a Capias against Tho. Croft, Esq., of Stillington, and proceed to Outlawry till he appear at the Sessions ; Ordered that the petitioner shew this petition to the inhab'=., and they required of the said towne whoe were Constables since the petitioner, whoe have given in their acc'\ and have money in their hands.* * This entry is, as is seen, utterly vague. But it is one of a somewhat numerous class. No clue whatever, in many cases, is given as to locality, matter in hand, person, &c., &c. 64 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. The next Sessions to be at Malton the first Tuesday after the 12th day and Friday following at Richmond ; Luke Robinson, Fr. Lascells, Jos. Waistell, Wm. Thorneton, Geo. Marwood. [230.] The Order concerning the election of the Parish Clark of Crake on page 229 repeated. [A'. 2 29^] M ALTON. Qu. Sessions at, 7 Jan., 165^. Before Arthur Nowell, Chr. Pearcehay, Will. Thorneton, and John Worsley, Esquires. Sir Edward Rhodes, High Sheriff, [blank] Martyn of Wykeham, Gent"., Deputy Sheriff. FIRST PANNELL. Rob. Denton, Gent"., Jur. Will. Baker, John Boyes, John Medd, Charles Crosby, Chr. Wilson, Rob. Francke, Martyn Pennocke, Tho. 1 Jur. Will. Marshall, >; Fr. Smith, Geo. Hill, Tho. Hutchinson, John Barker, Geo. Conyers, Rob. Francke, John Burton, - Jur. [230.] SECOND PANNELL. Henry Haider, Gent"., Jur. Tho. Dobson, Rich. Marsingale, John Welburne, Fr. Beswicke, Tho. Thorpe, Rob. Batter, Tho. Wilkinson, Will. WUson, Jur. Fr. Heild, Will. „ Tho. Stephens, Rich. Plewman, Rob. Webster, John Pickeringe, Tho. Gothericke, Mark Wilson, ■ Jur. Misdemeanors etc. : — A Huby yeom". for an assault etc. ; an Amotherby yeom"., his wife, and another yeom". of the same place for an assault, etc. on Chr. Halliday and Rich. Johnson, C. O. of Rydall (fined 155.) ; Peter Pinder of Whitby, gent"., Rob. Lawson of Skelton, MALTON, JANUARY "J, l6Sf 65 and Vincent Helme of Moorsome, yeomen, for throwing the slam* of allome into the water-course at Slape-wath ; three Husthwaite yeom". for riotous assault on a woman ; a Crake yeom". for contemning an Order of Court ; [230''.] Misdemeanors etc. : — A yeom"., his wife and another for an assault etc. (fined 2S. 6d. each); Rob. Blacker, lab'., Henry Russell and James Russell, yeomen, all of Whitby, for drinking the health of King Chariest (fined is. 8d. each) ; Fr. Horner of Rasskall for speaking scandalous words, viz. " hee would be Provost- Marshall to Tho. Pickard, whoe had a commission from the Skotts to raise forces" (fined 20s.); Tho. Pickard of Raskell for the like, and fined in the same amount; a Sneaton man for unjust caption of a mare (fined 20s.) ; a woman for an assault etc. (fined 2us.) ; a Picker- inge man for unjust levying of toll on diverse inhab'^ of the said town (admitted to traverse); a Skewsby man for an assault etc.; [231.] Felonies tried etc. : — A Pickering woman for stealing a burthen of peas ; two Shipton lab", for stealing a turkey (3s.); a woman for sheep-steal- ing ; two Kirby-Moorside lab'■^ for stealing a silver spoon ; two Boltby women for stealing twenty yards of linen cloth (9s.); an Aizlaby woman for stealing a goose, and again for sheep-stealing (to be branded in the hand); a woman for stealing three bushels of meslin (12s.), and the same measure of oats (3s.) ; another woman for stealing a sheaf of barley; [23I^] a woman for stealing a silver spoon (to be whipped) ; a lab', for sheep-stealing (to be branded in the hand) ; a lab', for sheep- * I have not met with this word before, and it is not easy to say, at first sight, what it may mean. The Latin phrase employed is " dejiciendo amircum," with the English translation as in the text. In Facciolati's Lexicon I find the word anmrca, with the definition " the lees of oil, sordes olei, quae prtecedunt, the scum: nam quae sequuntur, _/«f« vocantur, the dregs." In the manufacture of oil, then, the amurca is that refuse part which rises to the surface in the process of boiling ; and it may be assumed that in the old days of the alum manufacture, if not in the later, some impurities of the nature of a scum were separated from the boiling alum liquor, which had to be disposed of as useless ; and this was " the slam." On inquiry in an old alum-making locality, I find that the slam was the slimy stuff that was deposited in the pans in which the alum liquor was left to settle after being boiled. It of course represented various impurities, and varied in colour accordingly. Generally it was whitish ; but if the alum-shale had been impregnated with iron, it had a high yellowish or reddish hue. It was often so sticky that to make it run off freely the men added water for the purpose. As not quite irrelevant, it may be added that, on the face of the sea-wall at Sandsend, there may be still seen the mouth of a drain leading into the works, which is locally called a "slam-hole." In reference to the word "settle," used above, it is to be observed that the "settling" was a part of the business, and attended to in order to cause the separation of the slam before crystallization of the liquor. t This and the two following entries are such as to speak significantly for them- selves ; for on the one side they show the nature of the repression of any expression of any Royalist feeling by the powers that were, and on the other, that, notwith- standing such repression, tyrannical enough, as it seems to us, the feelings of loyalty to the fallen throne would from time to time find expression. VOL. V. F 66 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. stealing in two cases ; a woman for stealing a horse (;^3) ; Will. Fentrice of Danby for stealing three sacks, a bushel of oats, five pounds of tallow (i6d.), a quarter of mutton (i4d.), two tanned calfskyns (i8d. : to be whipped). Nich. Smith, Geo. Kingson, Chr. Allanson, Fr. Tryer, Jur. Names of the Jury etc. Geo. Anderson, 1 Tho. Carlisle, "1 Tho. Stample, John Harrison, Claud Best, Mark Stockton, ^Jur. Chr. Cowper, Rob. Wilson, j \]nr. [232.] Twelve bills ignored; [232''.] further presentments etc.: — The inhab'^ of Huby for not repairing their highway leading from Greene-carr Gate to Burn Gate, and also in respect of another highway of theirs (to be repaired before Febr. 20 on pain of ;^io) ; Tho. Croft of Stillington, Esq., for suffering his fences to ly downe in Growthwaite Crofts, lyeinge and adjoyneinge to the corne feildes of >tillington ; the same gent", for not sufficiently scouring and clensinge the ditches and water-sewer in Viccar Crofts ; four yeom". of Catton, Topcliff, EUmyer and Dalton for not paying to the Constable of Topcliff their several proportions of ass'^ ; [233.] the inhab'^ of the parish of Alne and the towne of Tollerton for not repairing the common highway and laine from Dauney Bridge over Alne shires,* and soe farr in the laine leading to Yorke as farr as to the new bridge over the Fleetet (to be seen to before Febr. 20 on pain of ^10) ; the inhab". of Bossall for not repairing their highway etc ; Sir John Temple and the occupiers of Sewhitt Carr for not repairing the highway from Hinderland Gate to the Broade Cake, and along to Wiggington Laine-end, and also the way leading from Peate Carr to Haxby Gate, also the way from Blay- poole Bridge to Wiggington Gate, and from Ellarcar Gate to Shipton Moore ; recogn"'. respited in one case, [233^] in six others; [234-236.] recog"^ entered in twenty-two cases : in one of them, the principal, a woman named Ruth Barton, is bound in ;^8o, with three sureties in ;£^o each, " under the condition that she shall bee of good behaviour, and shall not harbour or keepe company with Raiph Sheires, nor come voluntarily where hee is, except it be in the church or markett, and that she appear etc. ; no others of any special interest. * This seems to be still another application of the word shire in its sense of division of land, or district. In the course of these Records we are sufHciently familiarized with the terms Richmondshire, AUertonshire, etc ; as also, in other districts, with such names as Howdenshire, and the like. But the shires of an indi- vidual township, as in the present case, are of less customary character and occur- rence. t See Vol. IV., pp. 36, and note, and 72. MALTON, JANUARY /, 165^. 6/ [237.] Orders made etc. The inbab'^ and ass" of Helmesley to assess all manner of persons within their Constablery towarde the mounthly assesse for the Army, according to Act of Parliament, that is — two parts on the lands and a third part on personall estaite;* the Thre'. for L. S. to pay ;^3. 6. 8 to a widow of a souldier who dyed since he came from Scotland ; a man to be provided for by his children ; Mr. Tho. Heild to be C. C. for Pickering Lythe vice Mr. Hebden ; diverse persons in New Malton refusing to obey an Order made at Thirslc for paying the late Constables their arrears, the next J. P. to binde such refusers etc.; [237''.] four men appointed to examine the disburse ments of John Harrison and Wm. Crosse for repairing of St. Michaell's in New Malton, as the bell and other things, and to allow the said Harrison and Crosse what shall be due to them in arrear upon the ace'. ; the Constable of Crake to carry a man before the next J. P. etc, ; Mr. Tho. Pearce of Thorneton to be C. C. for Langbargh vice Mr. Chr. Lownesdale of Maltby, and Mr. Lownesdale to pass his ace", within three weeks to four gent"., who are to return the same etc. ; a Shipton man, having failed to appear to answer an indictment, the Constable of Shipton to convey him before the next J. P. to be bound etc. ; [238.] the Constable of Whitwell to attach a man etc. ; a brewer of Gilling suppressed for keeping a disorderly ailehouse ; a warrant against Edw. Wakefeild, Clarke, to appear att the next Sessions to prosecute touching the murder of a child near Raskall ; a warrant against Tho. Lacock of Brunton for not prosecuting the evidence against Ellice Rennocke for felony and to be bound to good behaviour ; a warrant against another man for the like ; whereas the C. C^ of Rydall had an estreat for leavying ;^20 upon the inhab". of Amotherby for the repair of a highway, this Court upon further information findes that the said highway ought to be repaired joyntly by the inhab". of Amotherby, Apleton and Swynton, according to their proportions, as in other ass"., the C. C of Ridall to leavy the said sum proportion- ably upon Amotherby, Apleton and Swynton, and not to leavy the whole sum upon Amotherby according to the estreat, and to pay the same to the Overseers formerly appointed; [238^] the C. C. of Pickering Lythe to discharge a Hutton Bushell innholder from brew, ing for three years, and to pull down his signe post, and the next J.P, to take recognizance accordingly ; a like Order against a Sinnington man ; a warrant against a Whitby man, a Skelton man and a Great Moorsome man to be bound etc., to answeare an indictment ; twelve * This is one among many like entries pointing to the root-and-branch changes that had been made in all standing district arrangements as one of the results of the Civil War and what its issue led to. F 2 68 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. men of Gisbrough and five of Skelton, who were formerly indicted for digging up and stopping up a highway, in a place called Conibancke, alias Springbancke, and upon traverse were found guilty, to fill up the pitt and make the way passable for travellers and strangers, where it anciently was, that noe prejudice come to any passenger by their neglect. [A'. 240.] RICHMOND. Qu. Sessions, by adjournment, at, 10 January, 165^. Before John Wastell, John Robinson, and Will. Thorneton, Esquires. High Sheriff etc. as before. John Robinson, Gent"., Tho. Harrison, John Slenney, Tho. Chr. Smith, Will. Spence, Rob. Bishopridge, Tho. Futhergill, Will. Kay, James Duninge, Will. Johnson, Leon. Snawden, Will. Threapland, Raph Cowley, Will. Yeates, Names of the Jurors etc. Tho. Eitherington, Gent"., John NichoU, Rob. Pynder, Will. Eitherington, Will. Leightfoote, Tho. Whitfeild, Rich. Watson, Jur. Rich. Danby, Rob. Robinson, John Smelt, Arthur Cooper, John Hodgson, Will. Horsman, Chr. Gaile, Leonard Robinson, ■ Jur. [240''.] Misdemeanours etc. : — Two Askrigg yeom". and a woman for riotous and forcible entry etc. ; Felony etc. : — A lab', for stealing a mare {£,'i) ; Misdemeanours dealt with at this Sessions etc. : — Two yeom". and another man of Wedgate, with a fourth of Hallgate, for riotous assault etc. (fined 2od. each) ; a Giggleswick man and his wife, with two other women of the same, indicted as vagabonds and for refusing to work (the two first committed to gaol, and the other two to be whipped); [241.] Presented etc. : — A Staney man for not scouring a ditch or water-sewer in Walker's Close (to be cleansed by 20 Feb. on pain of ;^2o) ; a Fremingtcn man for not repairing the highway lying in the Burfitts in that parish (to be repaired etc. on pain of ;^to) ; the Staney man, presented above, for taking away a wood bridge over a ditch between Walker's Close and Staney, and damming up the water- KICHMOND, JANUARY lO, l6S°. 69 sewer with stones (to ly a sufficient bridge by Feb. 20 on pain of ;^S) ; the inhab". of Tollerton for not repairing their highway between Alne Bridge and Tollerton Bridge (to be repaired etc.) ; the High Street in Baldersby Feild leadinge betweene Yorke Gate and the Lord- ship of Newby (etc. as above) ; the High Street leading to York at the west end of Aizenby (etc. as above) ; the inhab". of Clifton for not repairing the highway in Clifton Feild leading towards the cittie of Yorke ; * the occupiers of the landes belonging to the free schole of Kirby Hill for not repairing the common highway in Straite Laine. [24I^] Recogn'". respited etc. in two cases; recogn"^ entered in six cases. [242^] Orders made etc. A warrant against John Metcalfe aUas John Butcher of Askrigg to answeare what will be objected against him by Sam. Spencer for coun- terfeiting a certificate and puting diverse of their hands to the same without their privity ; f a warrant against a Wedgate and Hallgate man to appear etc. ; Mr. Geo. Frear of Newhouses in Bishopdaile to be C. C. for Hang West w« Mr. Edw. Watson, and Mr. Watson to pass his acc'^ before two J.P^ before the next Sessions; a vagrant in the Ho. of Corr°. for her punishment to be whipt, and sent to the place where she saith she last remained ; [243. J two other like Orders ; Mr. Anth. Alderson of Cogden to be C. C. for Hang West vice Mr. Geo. Marshall, and Mr. Marshall to pass his acc'°- before two next J.P^ before the next Sessions ; whereas John Watson of Gigleswick in this county, as he pretends, in the Ho. of Corr"., whither he was com- mitted as a wandering rogue, was brought this day into Court, appears upon his own confession to be dangerous to the inferior sort of people, and not fitt to be delivered or sett at libertie [243^] without branding in the left shoulder with a hott iron in manner and form sett downe in the statute etc., and intending to brand him, upon baring his shoulder, the Court conceives he hath been branded already, and therefore by law a felon, these are to require you to receive the said John Watson into your gaole, where you are to keep him in safe custody, till he shall be from thence delivered by due course of lawe. Faile not hereof att your perill. — To the Sheriff of the County of Yorke, and to the Keepers of the Common Gaole, their Deputy or Deputies, and to every of them. * A significant entry as touching the condition of the country in the close vicinity of York in 1650. t This is an exact copy of the entry. 70 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. [Vol. A".] THIRSKE. Qu. Sessions, at, April 8, 165 1. Before Sir \Vm. AUenson, John Wastell, Arth. Nowell, Geo. Mar- wood, Wm. Weddall, John VVorsley, and Wm. Thorneton. Sir Edw. Rodes, High Sheriff; Martin Wykeham, Deputy Sheriff. FIRST PANNELL. Tho. Hoopes, Gent"., Wm. Atkinson, Tho. Langdaile, Wm Martin, John Brettaine, Wm. Sigswicke, Andrew Morrell, John Clarke, Rich, Wass, Geo. Scruton, Ja^ Hutchingson, Chr. Mitchaell, John Johnson, John Etherington, Jos. Noble, Rich. Harton, Rob. Slee, Jur. Jur. Fr. Parvyn, Gent"., Wm. Foggerthwaite, Rob. Bellwood, Henry Bell, Simon Arnott, Rich. Hodge, Ja^ Peirson, Rich. Crossby, Tho. Stonehouse, Rob. Fountaines, Wm. Gowerley, Rob. Crossby, John Cussills, Edw. Cowling, Ambrose Fisher, John Armestrong, Rich. Cundall, Rob. Slee, J Rob. Staveley, Fr. Cundall, Tho. Deighton, Geo. Smith, [^^] A Northallerton lab^ for stealing a tanned hyde (los.); a Sheriff Huttonman for stealing a horse (^5), reins (6d.), a sadle (3s.); a Heworth man for breach of the peace ; a Kirby man for keeping a tipling-house etc. ; an Arkengarthdaile man for contempt of an Order; the inhab^ of the N. R. for not repairing Yeafforth Bridge ; the same' for not repairing Eure Bridge ; Barth. Easterby for refusing to obey a Justice's warrant ; a yeom". of Osmotherley for taking wood and spoil- ing grass (acquitted) ; [2.] a Ferlington man for assault and affray ; Felonies tried etc. :— A Newton lab', for stealing a heifer (^3) ; a Heworth lab', for stealing three bushels of malt (9s.), and a bolster (6d. : guilty of larceny) ; two Hawes men for stealing a spade (6d.) (the first guilty, to be whipt, the second, not guilty) ; THIRSKE, APRIL 8, 1 65 1. 71 Chr. Poore, Fr. Letby, Ja^ Coates, Peter Bretton, John Storr, Wm. Peirson, Names of the Jury etc. Jur. Wm. Awraocke, Rob. Fawcett, John Jackson, Wm. Tindaile, Rich. Wrightson, Wm. Jackson, ■ Jur. [2*=.] Misdemeanors tried etc. :— Two Mountgrace men for being vagrants and refusing to work. Twelve bills ignored. [3.] Presentments at this Sessions : — A woman of Yorke for not repairing the highway, in her grounds called Forrest Closes, in the Lordshipp of Huntington, on the west side of Fosse ; a Gisbrough man for being a common drunkard and disturber of the peace ; [3^] a Sunderland man, one of Grimsby, one of Lyth, and four of Whitby for making severall breaks with their vessels in Whitby Bridge (traverse entered) ; the inhab*^. of Clifton for not repairing the highway or laine lyinge betweene Rog. Caley's milne and the Milne Crooks, and so allonge to Earsley Bridge (certified as repaired, and discharged) ; seven persons for not paying ass'^ to the late Constable of TopcHfife (acquitted) ; four ■men of Crake for refusing to pay ass", to the late Parish Clarke of Crake (fined 2d. each) ; a Foxton gent", for not sufficiently cleansing a common ditch or water-sewer lying between Midleton and Foxton ; the inhab". of Bowdam warde for not repairing the highway in the New Intake ; [4.] the inhab'^ of Sutton upon Galtres for the like in a piece of ground called Bohimea or Basill Kitliall, and not making Blay- poole Bridge sufficient for cart and carriage ; the inhab". of Kirby ^\'iske, Newsam cum Brackenbrough, South Ottrington, Newby upon Wiske, North Otterington, Warlaby cum Sowber, Ainderby, Yeafforth, Romondby and Litle Danby, for not sufficiently cleansing their seveiall proportions of the River Wiske. Names of the Jurymen etc. [Blank ] [4''-5''.] Recognizances respited in eleven cases. [6, 7.] Recog- nizances entered in twelve cases. [7^] Informations against Ralph Dowthwaite for arresting a man, not being sworn beforehand, accord- ing to the Statute ; four other men for the like. Seath Barnard, Relator. 72 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Ja'. Coates, Fr. Letby, Peter Bretton, John Storr, Names of the Jury etc. Tho. Awmocke,! John Jackson, j Wm. Peirson, I ^ Wm. Tindaile, I , Tnr >■ T ur r iu.r, ^ Wm. Awmocke, I ■" " Rich. Wnghtson, | -" Rob. Fawcett, j Wm. Jackson, Who convict one prisoner tried, and acquit the other two. [8. J Orders made etc. A warrant to send a Midleton woman before the next J. P. to be examined, and if cause be found to be sent to the Ho. of Corr". ; two gent", to view the decay of Howsam Bridge and to certifye etc. ; the Parish Off", of Thormanby to provide for a poor man and his children ; forasmuch as complaint is made that the number of poore people in- crease dayly more and more in the parish of Crake, and that noe care is taken by the Parish Oft", for the putting out of poore children apprentices, these are to require the present Parish Off" to certifye the next two J.P^, whereof one to be of the Quorum, what children are fitt to be put forth apprentices : [S''.] as also the persons fitt to receive them, and the J.P'. to see the children placed according to law ; Mr. Wm. Hebden, Thre'. for L. S., to pay a gratuity of 40s. to a souldier wounded in the service of the Parliament ; two vagrants who lately came into the town of Welbury, to be passed from Constable to Con- stable to Darneton in the county of Durham, where they either were borne or were last settled, to be there provided for ; a warrant against the reputed father of a bastard child ; Mr. Marm. Norcliffe to pass his acc'^ as Thre'. for L. S., and appear at the next Sessions ; [9.] Mr. Norcliffe to pay four pensioned soldiers their arrears for the tyme he was Thre'. ; ^15 to be estreated for the further repair of Skeeby Bridge, and the rest to be done by Common-dayes-workes by the parish ; Mr. Tho. Foster of Barrowby to be C. C. vice Mr. Tho. Potts, and Wm. Gamble of Romanby ma Mr. Rob. Metcalf, and Mr. Potts and Mr. Metcalf to pass their acc'^ att the next Sessions ; ^£'40 allowed for Rudby Bridge ; [g^.] ^20 allowed for Egton Bridge, and ;£6. 12. 4 for Growmond Bridge ; two gent", to view the decayes of Whitby Bridge, and to inform themselves who were the chief instruments in pulling it down,* and to certify etc., that further course may be taken ; the matter complained of in the petition referred to two gent", who are to mediate an end to the same or certifye ; whereas there was * In the preceding minutes, as it would be observed, several persons were pre- sented for damaging this bridge ; and from this entry it is apparent that some pro- ceedings, either high-handed or unwarranted, had been taken in connection with the said structure. It is to be regretted that the present entry is so little explicit. THIRSKE, APRIL 8, 1651. "J-i, ^35 to be leavyed upon Sir John Savill's ace'., and ^■^ thereof being levyed upon the inhab"". of Topcliffe, the said sum being the propor- tion of the Weapentake of Birdforth, the said sum to be estreated by the Clark of the Peace on the Weapentake of Birdforth, and to be paid to two gent", of the said town ; [10.] Mr. Tho. Baites, Thre'. for Hosp'^ for the East Division of the N. R., having paid to the Lord Chief Justice Roby ^^13. 11. 6, as arrears due from the N. R. for the poore prisoners in the Upper Bensh and Marshallsea, with charges about paying in the same, as appears by a receipt in Mr. Bates' custody, the aforesaid sum to be allowed him in passing his ace'" ; the inhab*^ and occupyers of the lands lyeing in Huntington, Earswicke, Tholthorpe and Strensile before the loth June next to scoure and sufficiently cleanse the water-sewers within their severall Lordships respectively, upon paine of having the law inflicted upOn them for default therein ; the Constables and Parish Off", of Kirtlinton to convey a woman with two children lately come into the town of Sutton Howgrave in the parish of Kirtlinton, to the place of their last aboad ; [lo*"-] ;£^25 allowed for Deepedaile Bridge ; five men in the Ho. of Corr°. sent to their respective birthplaces ; ^^t,. 6. 8 allowed for Dalton Bridge, by reason the sum of;^6. 13. 4 formerly ordered will not finish the work ; Wm. Wetherall of Great Broughton allowed Informer within the N. R. ; Mr. Seath Barnard sworn Informer ;* ;^6o allowed for Croft Bridge; [11.] a child lately left by the moother at Warlaby to be sent to Thornebrough in Tanfeild, and there to be provided for ; ^50 allowed for the part of Yearme Bridge belonging to the N. R. ; the Thre'. for Hosp"^. in the west part of the N. R. to pay Mr. Jerome Robinson such arrears as are due to him for the rent of the Ho. of Corr". at Richmond, the same being after ^^8 per ann., and to be paid by the N. R. ; ;^So allowed for Reeth Bridge ; Wm. Jackson, butcher, and his partners, the Constables of Thirske, to pay to two men named 39s. 9d., and the same to be allowed in part of the moneys in their hands, due upon their ace', to the town ; [n''.] upon a reference made at the Sessions at Thirske, Aprill 8th, 165 1, unto Fr. Lascells and Geo. Marwood, Esq^, for the composing the- differences between Sir Wm. Allanson, Knight, and Wm. Fryer, Ordered by the said gent"., and allowed by the Court, that Mr. Wm. Frear shall pay the said Sir Wm. Allanson 22s. for and in consideration of certam hay growing in a Close, called Squaire Croft, in the parish of Crake in the yeare 1650, and that Sir Wm. Allanson and his tenants shall alwaies hereafter yeild upp the bennefitt of the said Close unto the town Clark of the * These two entries are by no means without a special interest of their own, either taken per se, or in connection with existing records of the manner and nature of the action of the sworn informer. 74 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. parish of Crake for the time being, as a gratuity from him to the said Clarke, and whereas diverse of the inhab". of Crake are still behind with Chr. Allenson, the late Clarke, for all sums of money which were due unto him, he is to accept of them half of such arrears, and the inhab'=- to pay him the same, in lieu of his service while he was Clarke, and all suites and differences between the said Sir Wm. Allan- son and Mr. Frear to cease ; [12.] upon a full hearing of the matter in variance between the inhab^ of the two Crakehalls in Beedall and John Peirse, jun'. (sonn of John Peirse, Esq.), owner of the Graing[e] or place called Rand in the same parish, this day in the presence of Councell learned, on the behalf of the said inhab'=., and John Peirse, sen'., on behalf of his said sonn, upon examination of the witnesses on both sides, the Court is fully satisfyed that the said Graing is not parcell of the Constablery of Crakehall, nor was ever contributory to or with the same in any Constable's rates, before the tyme that the late Earl of Newcastle's Army overpowered this county, at which tyme it was drawn to be assistant to the said Constablery in the publique charges imposed upon them, and for that it appeareth plainly to the Court, that within the compass of memory untill the time aforesaid, any Constable raites or ass", have not been paid by any owners, tenants or occupyers of the said Grainge, or any part thereof, for or in respect thereof, soe that it doth not appear within what Constablery the said Graing is, but it is conceived to have evidently been a distinct Constablery of itself, and to have been depopulated, the said Graing is not to be charged in any ass", or Constable-rates whatsoever with, or as part of, the Constablery of Crakehall, but shall be a distinct Constablery of itself, [12''.] and charged accordingly in all publique rates etc. after the rate of ^6. 13. 4 in the Booke of Rates, and the benifitt of the said addition to redound equally to the whole Weapen- take of Hang East, within which the said place is ; two gent", of Ilelraesley to be Overseers for the highways in Oswaldchurch, and the C. C^ for Rydall to pay them such moneys as they leavied for the same, that they may hire draughts and labour ; like Orders for the highwayes in Helmesley and Sproxton, and for Helme Layne and Holme Sike ; two gent", to view, within six dales, the layne lyeing in the common highway to Skipton from the poast road to Skipton Moor- gate, and to examine what part and how much thereof ought to be repaired by Mr. Geo. Clough, and how much by Rich. Dickinson, or the owners and occupiers of the lands late his, thereupon adjoining, and to assertaine Mr. Clough to repair the one end and Rich. Dickinson the other, and certifye etc.; [13.] the laine called Haggberryhow Layne, leading from the West Moore Gate unto the gate that leadeth to Woodall Feild Grainge, as far as the fartherest of Fairfax Closes, to HELMESLEY, JULY 8, 1651. 7S be repaired by the inhab*^. of the Constablery of Thirske, by Comraon- daies' workes or otherwise, and the inhab'^ of Woodall Feild Grainge to serve at all the Coramon-daies' workes, from tyme to tyme, which shall be appointed for the repairing of all the highways within the said Constablery, and the occupyers of the demeasnes of Woodhall Feild to repaire at their own cost now and hereafter the common highway from the aforesaid lane-end over the great Common pasture, called Hag^bery How, unto the water sewer and gate devideing Thirske Lordship and Newsham ; there being great neglect in the severall parishes of the Weapentake of Langbargh in not repairing their highwayes as the law appointes, and the badness of the way requires, [13''.] the severall parishes before June 24th next, to repaire their respective highwayes sufficiently, and likewise to cleanse and scoure the ditches on both sides the said wayes, upon paine of ^20 for such defective highwayes, and the C. C^ to send a copy of this Order to every parish. [A" 15.] HELMESLEY. Qu. Sessions at, July 8, 1651. Before Luke Robinson, Fr. Lasscells, Geo. Eure, Arth. Nowell, Chr. Piercehay, Wm. Weddall, Wm. Thorneton, Geo. Marwood, and John Worsley, Esquires. Deputy Sheriff, Martyn Wickham. Henry Lyall, Gent"., John Bradley, John Baker, Raiph Hopkins, Rob. Stockton, John Pyper, Tho. Mitchaell, Wm. Craven, Chr. Power, Rob. Welden, Chr. Richardson, Chr. Younge, John Kitchingman, Chr. Allenson, Rob. Morrell, Rog Hebden, Tho. Skelton, Names of the Jury etc. Fr. Knaggs, Anth. Nessfield, John Berryman, John Storr, Rob. Audas, Rob. Watson, Wm. Francke, John Atkinson, j- sworne. Geo. Sunley, John Lootherington, Wm. Baker, Tho. Barker, John „ Rob. Consitt, Nich. Hopperton, Fr. Seller, Chr. Crosby, ► sworne. 76 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. [IS^] A Brotton lab', for being a common barrator; two men for exaction of 5s. ; Sir Edw. Rodes, Knight, High Sheriff, Tho. Reed and Rich. Lealand, Gaolers, for exacting 4d. for receiving a prisoner ; several inhab'^ of Kilburne for refusing to assist the Constable in the execution of his office ; a Heworth man for breach of good behaviour ; a Sand Hutton man for not repairing the highway leading from Skipton Moore to Thirske ; the inhab" of Thorneton and Farmanby for the like betweene Farmanby Gate and Thorneton ; the inhab'"- of North Ottrington and Little Ottrington for the like between Bow- bridge and Northallerton ; a Crake man for brewing without licence, and suffering people to drink in his house the Lord's dayes and thanksgiving dayes ; the inhab"- of Allerston and Ebberston for not repairing the highway between Allerston Beck and Ebberston; [16.] the inhab". of Clifton for not making a sufficient pinfold ; the inhab*^. of Pottoe, Traineham, and East Rownton for not scouring their proportion of Traineham Stell ; * a highway between Southward Howses and Fyling in the Liberty of Whitby Strand ; the inhab". of Traineham for not making a sufficient horsebridge over Traineham Stell; a New Malton man for not making his hedges adjoyning upon Mr. Alex'. Orrock's kilne ; the inhab". of Raskall, Brafferton, Helperby, Thoulthorpe, and Flawith for not scouring their propor- tions of a water-sewer running from Sunbecke through Helperby, Tholthorpe, and Flawith grounds ; Mr. Dawson of Heworth, or the occupyer of Pratcar Close, for not repairing Prattcar Laine ; a man and a woman of Rocliff and a man of Yorke for not scouring a water-sewer between Holsike and Hurbutt Goate ; t the inhab"* of Raskall, the occupyers of Turner's Closes, the inhab'^ of Tholthorpe, Flawith, and Alne for not scouring a water sewer called Kile ; the inhab*^. of Welburne for not repairing the highway between Welburne and Welburne Moore; [16''.] two Bransby men for not scouring ditches belonging to Newbrough Leaes ; a Marton man for not re- pairing the highway at a gatestead in Marton Laine ; a man of Bransby Mill-hill for the like between Spell Gate and Bransby Mill ; the inhab'^ of Crake for the like between Crake and Owston, and Crake and Yorke ; three men of Crake for the like in the West Laine ; the inhab". of Thormanby for the like between Birdforth Bridge and Thormanby ; Mr. Allanson, tenant at Huby, for the like in Ilecarr ; the inhab*^. of Raskall for not scouring their ditches (to * Stell, an open ditch or drain of some depth and width, with or without water constantly in it as a flowing stream. Brockett, as well as Halliwell, defines the word as a large open drain. Compare the A.S. waeler-steal, a water-place, ^ lake, a marsh. t See Goate, ii. 176, and note. HELMESLEY, JULY 8, 1651. 17 be fined i2d. a rood if unrepaired by a given time); the inhab". of Rocliff for the like (to be fined etc. as above) ; the inhab'=. of Ould Malton for not repairing their highway between Howbridge and Ould Malton ; the inhab'=- of Kirkdaile for the like, north-east of Riccall Bridge; a man of Wasse for beetling, beaming lyning (hnen) cloth; a man for stealing a brown gelding {£•]) (found guilty and hanged) ; a woman for stealing two geese (to be whipped) ; a woman for taking 1 2d. out of a man's purse. Names of the Jury etc. Rob. Colthurst, Gent"., Wm. Jackson, John Newton, Wm. Wigginor, Math. Wilson, Rich.- Mann, - sworne. Tho. Barker, Myles Cussan, Peter Finder, Tho. Hutchinson, John Swailes, Wm. Roger, sworne. Who say as abovesaid in the margine, and convict two men for not paying ass'^ '; and acquit a New Malton man for being a vagrant and person of evil behaviour ; a woman for living in incontinence ; a Skelton man for unjustly takeing and deteyning a white gelding ; [I7^] Names of the Jury etc. [blank] ; [18.] eight bills ignored, one of them against a man and a woman for adultery ; and another against a man for ravishing a woman ; [I8^] ten recognizances respited on condition of appearance at next Sessions; [I9^ 20''.] fourteen recognizances entered. [21''.] Orders made etc. A subpoena against two men of New Malton and one of Boltby to appeare etc. and give evidence against a woman for supposed incon- tinence ; an Ould Malton man fined ^3. 6. 8 for speaking contemp- tuous words against authority ; the Constable of Marton fined .;^2o for not keeping a sufficient watch, a pension of 40s. to a souldier wounded in the Parliament's service ; it appears to this Court that as two souldiers received their wounds in the West Rideing, they ought to be there provided for, yett for their better subsistence and releife at the present, considering their condition, the Thre'. for L. S. to pay either of them 20s. as a gratuity, but they are not to expect any further releif from this N. R. ; whereas Ensign Holt was wounded in the Par- liament's service, and though a pension of sos. was formerly ordered to be paid him, it appearing to us to be but a small subsistence for him, [22.] the Thre'. for L. S. to increase his pay to ;^4, to be paid quarterly ; two J.P^ to view the highwayes in Marton Lordshipp, and 78 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. if the same be sufficiently repaired, to examine what moneys are in the hands of Mr. Tho. Peirse over and above the repair, and to order the repayment of the overplus to the inhab'^, and upon certificate that the way is repaired, the Sessions will give Order to discharge the present- ment ; the Court being informed by the Committee of Sequestration that Mr. Hutton Gregory, Maister of the Ho. of Corr"., is a delinquent and thereby dissabled by law to bear any office in the Commonweath, the C. C". to forbeare to pay him any more moneys in leiw of his place as Gov', of the said Ho. of Corr"., but to keep the moneys in their hands to be disposed of by Order ; [2 2^] Mr. Tho. Worfolke of Whitby having kepi disorder in his house, his recognizance to be estreated and he to be discharged from selling any wine, or from keeping a tavern or inn for three years : — to the C. C. of Whitby Strand who is to dis- charge him ; a man guilty of assault and affiay to be carried before the next J.P. to be bound with sufficient sureties ; a Gisbrough man being a person disaffected to this present Government, and having been bound to good behaviour and forfeited his recognizances, a common quareller with his neighbours and disturber of the publique peace, a haunter of ailehouses, and a person of a very dissolute life, and one who contemns all manner of lawful authority, he is to be apprehended and carried to the Castle of Yorke near the walls of Yorke to be kept etc. ; [23. J a Pickering man who disbursed i8s. 4d. for How Bridge to be paid from the money that remained of the buying of a chaine * for Ayton bridge ; upon the oath of Tho. Lea in Great Grimsby in Lin- colneshire the recognizance of Tho. Foster of Grimsby to be respited ; an ailehouse-keeper to be suppressed for entertaining persons sus- pected, and to enter bond etc. ; upon traverse Roger Hunt and Wm. Skelton ought to pay their ass'^ towardes the repair of Thorneton Bridge over the water called Thorneton Becke ; a Clifton man to have a licence to sell mealef according to Act of Parliament ; [23^] upon hearing of the Parish Off", of Lyth and New Malton both together it appears that a man and his wife remained soe long in Malton as tends to a settling in law, therefore the Parish Off"- of New Malton to receive them and their children and suffer them to remain in the said parish ; * Another reminder of the old usage of putting a chain across the end of a bridge, so as to stop the traffic when it seemed expedient to do so. Thus, in many cases, the bridges were customarily chained at night, and with the more care in times of prevailing infection. It is stated that the chain used for this purpose at Yarm Bridge was still extant at the beginning of the present century, and was, of use and wont, borrowed on occasion of the bull-baitings which were, not so long ago that they are quite forgotten, held in the old market-place of that town. t This would appear to be a special enactment passed by authority of Parlia- ment in those days of its supremacy, and which was de facto an innovation on the older practice. HELMESLEY, JULY 8, 1651. 79 two pensions of 30s. and 40s. respectively to soldiers of Col. Lasscells' regiment, wounded before Scarbrough Castle; [24.] Wm. Knaggs, lab'., of Barton, being found guilty of horsestealing, namely one brown geld- ing, the law doth adjudge him to be carryed to a publique place con- venient neare to the towne of Helmesley, and there hanged by the necke * untill he be dead, upon the roadway between Helmesley and Kirbymooreside, and the Sheriff to cause and see execution to be done before two of the clocke in the afternoone on Satturday, which will be the 1 2th of this instant July; the Gaolers of the Castle of Yorke to appear at the next Sessions to answeare an indictment ; the Jury for the Keepers of the Liberty of England doe upon Oath present that Wm. Knaggs, the 22nd day of June in the year of our Lord God 165 1, by force etc., one gelding, coloured bay brown, worth _;^7, did feloniously take and lead away, and the said Wm. Knaggs being then and their present in Court at the Sessions, [24''.] upon hearing of the indictment and being arraigned att the barr, he having fully understood the said indictment, did complain by reason of the indictment to be much greived and that very justly, and saith that the matter therein contained is not true, and therefore for his plea saith he is not guilty of the in- dictment aforesaid, in manner of form aforesaid as the said Jury said against him, and therefore for his tryall putt himself upon God and the country, and a Jury being returned by the Sheriff to inquire between the Keepers etc. and the said Wm. Knaggs, that is to say Rob. Colt- hurst geni°., Wm. Jackson, John Newton, Wm. Wigginor, Math. Wilson, Rich. Mann, Tho. Barker, Myles Cussan, Peter Pynder, Tho. Hutchin- son, John Swailes and Wm. Rosse, who being chosen, impannelled and svvorne well and truly to try, and true deliverance make between the Keepers etc. and the said Wm. Knaggs, doe upon oath say that Wm. Knaggs is guilty of the felony aforesaid, as the former have given against him, therefore it was adjudged by the Court that the said Wm. Knaggs be carried to the place of execution and there hanged etc. * In one previous instance, if not more, it has been seen that the Court of Quarter Sessions exercised the power of life and death. In the present instance, so much in the way of detail relative to the proceedings is given, that it would seem that special importance was felt to attach to the case, and consequently it is thought better to draw attention to it by appending this note. The case is in all respects a singularly noteworthy one. 8o QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. [25.] RICHMOND. Qu. Sessions at, by adjournment, July 15, 1651. Before John Waistell, Fr. Lassells, Wm. Thorneton, and Rog. Covell, Esquires. Martin Wikeham, Deputy Sheriff. Names of John Robinson, Gent"., sworne. Geo. Dun, Gyles Lightfoote, Wm. Turner, Rich. Pyburne, Wm. Spenceley, Tho. Etherington, Wm. Lightfoote, Chr. Mitchaell, Tho. Burnett, Ja^ Hutchingson, Geo. Skrewton, Rich. Hudson, Edw. Wellbancke, Rob. Atkinson, sworne. the Jury, etc. Fr. Buckle, Tho. Coates, John Britten, Rich. Danby, Wm. Eitherington, Rog. Vawson, Tho. Greenside, Fr. Langley, Chr. „ Math. Lightfoote, Rob. Robinson, Rob. Finder, Chr. Snawdon, John Clarke, Wm. Walker, sworne. [25''.] Without in fellony at this Sessions : — four lab", for stealing a cow {£a- 10) ; without in tresspasse at this Sessions : — an Ellerbecke man for suffering a prisoner committed to his charge to escape (fined £26) ; the said prisoner for rescueing his goods, taken upon execution (fined J^io) ; a Scotton gent", and two Burton lab", for riot ; a Snaipe carpenter for trespass with damage ; a Hawkeswell man for assault etc. ; [26.] Felonies tried etc. : — a man for stealing hay (lod. : not guilty). Names of the Jury etc. Henry Deighton, Gent". , Wm. Lightfoote, John Burrell, Laur. Wilde, Rich. Watson, Rich. Colling, Chr. Hillarie, Rob. Ovington, Rog. Anderson, Chr. Wade, Chr. Teasdale, Wm. Plewes, )■ sworne. Presented : — An Exelby man for not making a sufficient hedge and RICHMOND, JULY 15, 1651. 81 a ditch between his lands in Exelby Green and the laine adjoyning (to make a hedge etc. by Mich"", upon paine of 40s.) ; the inhab'' of Morton cum Faireholme for not scouring their ditches and repairing the highway (^5, to be estreated by Mich"".) ; [26^] a Rawes man for turning a water sewer out of its ancient course (40s.) ; two men for not paying L. S. and Hosp'"'. money (;^4o fine if they bring not certificate of the payment) ; the Overseers of Marton for not paying the money due to a poor man ; nine persons of Gilmonby, seven of BoUron, and five of Slaney Keild for not paying ass'=- to the late Constable accord- ing to Order; [27.] the Overseers of Askrig for contemning an Order and not paying moneys due (fined ;,^2o each) ; Grunton Bridge as in decay : — a gent", to view it and certifie etc. ; the Overseers of Midle- ton for not making their ass", for the poore ; the Constable of Askrigg for not executing a warrant (fined 20s.) ; the inhab" of Croft, Ellerton upon Swale, Little Langhton, Langthorne, Burneston and Gatenby for not assessing and paying their bridge money ; the inhab'^ of Great Smeaton for not repairing a layne leading out of the high street betweene Northallerton and Darneton towards Yearme (to be repaired within 20 dales upon paine of ;^2o) ; the high road in Baldersby Feilds between Yorke and Topcliffe (Mich"", etc. 20s.) ; the highway between Thirske and Newsam (Mich"'^^ etc. los.); the bridge and highway between South Otterington and Newby ; [^l^-] recog"^ respited in five cases ; [28.] recog""". entered in three cases. [28''.] Orders made etc. Two gent" to call John Coates of Thorneton and Myles Ingledew of Beadall before them, and to sett down Orders for releif of Myles Ingledew and for freeing the parish of being charged by him ; the difference about ass'^ between Arkengarthdaile and New Forrest re- ferred to four gent"., and another appointed umpire if they cannot settle the same, but the proportion for raites to stand betwixt them according to an Order dated April 23, 1650, till the gent", certifye etc. ; a warrant against an Ovington man etc. ; the like against a Melsonby man ; a Northallerton man fined 40s. for not prosecuting the Common- wealth's evidence ; [29.] a warrant for good behaviour against Wm. Wilson and others ; the Parish Ofif". of Brunton to pay a poor woman not only the i2d. a weeke in arrears due to her since her husband's death, but likewise 6d. a week for the future ; a warrant against a Whitby man, to be of good behaviour and appear etc. to answeare what will be objected against him by a joiner of Whitby on behalf of the Commonwealth ; Mr. Geo. Metcalfe and Mr. John Cowper to be C. C^ for Allertonshire vice Mr. Tho. Potts and Mr. Rob. Metcalfe ; three gent", of Northallerton to examine the receipts and disbiirse- VOL. V. G 82 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. ments of the late Churchwardens, and if any moneys appeare to be in their hands due to the town, they are to pay John Rymer for repair of a schoolhouse and other worke he did by appointment, and if there be not enough for his satisfaction, then the present Churchwardens to pay him out of the rate they have made or shall make ; [29'=.] the Parish Off', of Midleton Tyas to pay a poor man 6d. weekly ; Order in a bastardy case ; Wm. Williamson to be Constable for South Cowton via Mr. Wettinghall, instead of the office being imposed on one house as formerly, and afterwards the inhab'". to appoint a fitt person to be Constable as other townships doe ; [30.] a warrant against a man etc. ; the Parish Off", of East Witton to provide for a man and his wife, being persons aged and in want, and in case of refusal etc. ; a pension of 40s. to a L. S. wounded in the Parliament's service ; a man sent back to the Ho. of Corr". ; a lad to continue in the Ho. of Corr°- till his master have securitie, and be pleased to receive him and con- tinue him as his apprentice ; the Parish Off" of Cattericke to pay a poor aged man 6d. weekly ; [30''.] Mr. Hutton Gregory, being sus- pended from the place of Gov', of the Ho. of Corr"., Rob. Sayer, who hath formerly been imployed in the managing of the government of that House, to take upon him the charge of the said place, till the next Sessions, Mr. Gessling having engaged himself for his due dis- charge of the place in the meantime ; the Parish Off", of South Cowton to pay a poore aged woman 6d. weekly. Rolls signed by Fr. Lassells and John Wedell. [31. J June 6th, 1651. Whereas we, whose names are hereon, have received an Order of Sessions, dated Aprill 8th, 1651, to view the laine lying the common way to Skipton from the poast road to Skipton Moor-gate, and to examine what part thereof ought to be repaired by Mr. Clough and how much by Rich. Dickinson, or the occupyers of the lands late his, thereupon adjoyning, we have viewed and examined accordingly, and we doe ascertain Mr. Clough to repair the west end thereof, viz. from Skipton and Moore-gate to a markestone which wee have sett in the laine, and alsoe the bridge, and Rich. Dickinson, or the occupyer of the lands late his, to repair the east end from the post road to the aforesaid markestone. [32.] THIRSKE. Qu. Sessions at, 7 Oct'., 1651. Before Sir Wm. Strickland, Bart., Luke Robinson, John Wastell, Fr. Lassells, Geo. Eure, Chr. Piercehay, Math. Beckwith, Rob. Walter, Wm. Weddall, John Worsley and Leon. Smelt, Esquires. THIRSKE, OCTOBER 7, 1651. Martyn Wykeharn, Deputy Sheriff. Peter Pyndar, Gent". Geo. Metcalfe, „ Rob. Colthurst, „ Sam. Key, ,, John Lockwood, ,, John Goodyear, „ Tho. Shipton, „ Shadrake Dunning, ,, Wm. Jackson, ,, Andrew Morrell, Yeo". Rich. Harton, Gent". Fr. Smith, Yeom". Wm. Hodgson, „ Tho. Dobson, ,, John Dickinson, „ Tho. Coates, ,, Rog. Marshall, „ Names of the Jury etc. Sam. Hessle, John Ettie, Wm. Rosse, Henry Hewerdine, John Robinson, Tho. Martyn, Rich. Moore, Fr. Lassells, }■ sworne. Tho. Hutchingson, Rog. Hunter, Wm. Jackson, Tho. Maynard, Wm. Gamble, John Hebden, Nich. Peirson, Tho. Dove, Ralph Hessle, 83 Gent". Yeom°. Gent". Yeom". Gent". Yeom^ Gent". [32^] Without in trespasse at this Sessions : — Hugh Lengue of Hut- ton upon Darwent, Clarke, for publiquely reading the Common Prayer;* an Ellingstringe man for assault etc. (entered traverse) ; a Whitwell man for rescuing a man from the Constable of Kirkham (entered tra- verse : — guilty, fined 33s. 4d.) ; a man and woman late of Scarbrough for fornication (committ) ; an Exelby man for enclosing a peece of a common or laine ; the inhab'^ of the N. R. for not repairing Topcliffe Bridge ; Rob. Geere of Great Barugh, gent"., for high treason in har- bouring one Rich. Mountain, a traytor and publique enemy (committ to the Gaole) ; three yeom". of Husthwalte for trespass with damage ; * We have here, in a very limited space, a series of entries all closely connected with the troublous state of the times, and bearing distinct testimony to the extent of coercion brought to bear on such as dissented in political feeling and view with those who bare the rule, and reflecting with forcible irony on the practice of the party who termed themselves " the Keepers of the Liberties " of the country. First, there is this Clerk in Orders for the offence of publicly reading prayers ; then that of a gentleman, long an office-bearer in the North Riding, in trouble for sheltering another of like position and antecedents, charged with the offence of Royalist pro- clivities and action— proclaiming Charles II., in fact ; and, in the third place, that of a member of a considerable family for the offence of speaking his mind in reference to the said keepers of England's liberties and their proceedings. — Written as this is during the continuance of the debate on procedure, and when the utterances of Mr. Dillon and other Irish members are still fresh in every one's recollection, truly the contrast as to freedom of speech could no further go. G 2 84 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. the said persons again for the like, three times repeated ; twelve men of Gisbrough and five of Skelton for contemning an Order (guilty) ; [33.] a gent"., two lab"., and a yeom". of Gisbrough for riot and force- able entry upon a barne (entered traverse : — not guilty) ; Hen. Cholme- ley of Tunstall, gent"., for speaking scandalous and seditious words against the Parliament (entered traverse : — guilty, fined ;^2o) ; trespass acknowledged at this Sessions : — two gent", of Slingsby for assaulting the watch (submitted, fined either of them ;^6. 13. 4); fellonyes tryed at this Sessions : — a Huby lab', for stealing four sheep (53. each : guilty and burnt in the hand) ; a woman for steahng 9 yds. of lining cloth, value 7s, (guilty 5s.) ; a lab', for stealing two stooks of wheat, worth 4s. (guilty and burnt in the hand) ; a woman for stealing an ox yoake with staple and iron ring, value 6d. (not guilty) ; a Thirske man for escaping from the Constable being committ for felony (guilty and burnt in the hand) ; the same man for stealing one ewe sheep (6s. 8d. : putts himself guilty to 3s. 4d.) ; the same again for stealing one pillow- beere, one handcirtcher, one table napkin, one croscloth and two bands (putts himself not guilty) ; the same again for stealing five clewes of lining (Unen) yearne (i5d. : putts himself guilty to lod.) ; a Thringarth man for stealing one ewe sheep (6s. 8d. : guilty) ; [33''.] a Normanby man for burglary and taking away severall goods, and ^14 in money and gould out of the house of Edw. Wyse (guilty : hanged) ; the same for murdering Hen. Wyse (puts himself guilty) ; the Thringarth man aforesaid for stealing four sheep (5s. each : putt himself not guilty) ; a woman for stealing a lining shirt, value 2s. (guilty : and to be whipt) ; an Apleton lab', for stealing a gray gelding (;^7 : guilty : to be hanged).* Henry Lisle, Wm. Foster, John Newton, Nich. Wigginor, John Lyth, Tim. Fawcett, Names of the Jury etc. Gent".t - sworne. Henry Bradley, Gent". Rich. Mayson, Jos. Kitchingraan, Rob. Gesling, Chr. Allanson, Tim. Kitchingman, - sworne. Whoe say as above said in the margine. * It should be noted that sentence of death is passed in two different instances, and, as will be seen from a subsequent entry, eventually executed. t AH the members of this Jury are described as Gentlemen, and it would seem they have the responsibility of trying the prisoner charged with the capital crime THIRSKE, OCTOBER "J, 1651. 85 Names of the Jury etc. Geo. Clough, Gent". John Carter, Wm. Atkinson, Geo. Hill, Rob. Bell, J. sworne. Oswould Dawson, Fr. Parvyn, [33'] Who acquit the prisoners tried. Tho. Langdaile, Wm. Pearson, Tho. Reynoldson, Emanuell Farneham, Tho. Kirby, sworne. Names of the Jury etc. Tho. Langdaile Wm. Peirson - sworne. Rob. Reynoldson Tho. Kirby Tho. Morrell Henry Wilson Geo. Clough, Gent". Wm. Atkinson, Geo. Hill, Rob. Bell, Gent". Oswould Dawson, John Carter, Who convict Rob. Ashton, gent"., of practizeinge as phissitian, con- trary to the statute (putt himself guilty : fined. j[^'2.o) ; the aforesaid Rob. Ashton of deceiving the people, pretending to cure the Kinges Evill soe called. Bills ignored : — Against Rob. Geere, gent"., of Great Barugh, for traitorously harbouring Rich. Mounlaine ; a man and woman for adultery ; [34^] and in ten other cases, the last against a man and woman of Marton for adultery. Presentments etc. : — The late Constable of Hunton for refusing to give an account of the money he received when he was Constable; the inhab*^. of Alne and Tollerton for not repairing their highway, between Milne-gate and Flood-gate ; Geo. Robson of Husthwaite for publiquely reading the Common Prayerbook ; * a Sowerby man for counterfeiting a passe and setting Raiph Bell and Jos. Pybus hands to it ; a Morton man for refusing to pay zgs. remaining in his hands of the Church money; a Thormanby man for stopping up an ancient highway; [35.] a Hovington man and his wife for not marking their firkins of butter, according to Act of Parliament (not guilty) ; Sir Walter Davison, or the occupyers of a parcell of ground called Bohimea, or Sir Bossall Nicholl's part, for not repairing a highway leading from West Nouke- gate to Blaypoole Bridge ; three men of Sutton on the Forest for not sending their draughts for repairing highwayes ; the inhab'=. of the * There is nothing in the entry to indicate that Robson was, or was not, a Clerk in holy orders. 86 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. N. R. for not repairing Willie Bridge ; the inhab'=. of Helmesley for not makeing the highway leading towards Thirske sufficient ; the inhab". of the N. R. for not repairing Thorneton Bridge, a highway from Falls- grave towne and to Newbrough Gate and Seamour Moore ; Rob. Geere of Great Barugh for giving out threatening words and languages against the well affected ; recognizances respited in eight cases ; [36-38.] recognizances entered in twenty-four cases. [38^] Orders made etc. A brewer suppressed for three years for suffering disorder in his house, and two gent", sent to take his recognizances ; two women, for that they are Roman CathoHques, to finde suretyes not to teach any children till next Easter Sessions, and then to appeare, and not to departe the Court without licence ; a warrant against a Danby man for not appearing to give evidence etc. ; a Scarbrough man having been bound to appear at this Sessions, and it appearing that the fact was committed in Scarbrough, the Sheriff to convey him there to be further proceeded against ; a woman who was gotten with a bastard child, which child was lately borne and since dead, to be sent to the pubhque Gaole at Yorke Castle, to remain for three months, without bayle ; [39.] the Parish Off", of Cowsby to pay a woman i2d. a week for the main- tenance of herself and children ; a man having petitioned this Court and informed that the Overseers of Askrigg have contemned severall Orders for giving him relief for maintaining a bastard child he keeps, that was left att the said towne, if the said Overseers shall refuse upon sight hereof to pay him his just demands, the next J. P. to binde etc. ; a warrant against a woman to enter recogn". to prosecute evi- dence against a Danby man ; a Pickering brewer suppressed for three years, and to enter bond with new sureties not to brew or sell aile during the said time ; a warrant against a man to appear and give in- formation against a gent", of Strensile ; the recogn". of a Skelton man to be respited till next Sessions affter Easter, and a warrant to bring in a man and two women to give evidence ; [39^] the same Skelton man to finde suretyes of peace till next Easter Sessions ; a warrant to committ a man lately bayled to gaole again, for that he was bayled contrary to law ; a Malton man to be bound to prefer a bill of indict- ment ; the Thre'. for L. S. to pay unto a woman, whose husband was slayne in the Parliament's service, ^3. 6. 8, as a gratuity, till next Sessions ; the Overseers of Hilton to pay or cause to be paid to his successors [sic] is. weakely till further order, and more if need require; the Overseers for Carlton to provide a poor woman with houseroome and to pay her 6d. weekly ; a warrant against John Aulderson of Sleights to appear and answer what will be objected against him for THIRSKE, OCTOBER 7, 1651. 87 harbouring Rog. Todcastle, and being suspected to be partaker with him in several! felonies ; a warrant against a man to appear and answear what will be objected against him by the Minister of Kirtlinton j [40.] Mr. Hebden, Thre'. for L. S., to pay 20s. as a gratuity to a soldier lamed in the Parliament's service, and borne at Cleasby in this Rideing ; a warrant against a man to be conveyed before Mr. Eure to be ex- amined etc. ; Rob. Sayer, who was Deputie Gov', of the Ho. of Corr"- under Mr. Hutton Gregory, late Gov'., and had ;£'io yearely for the said place, appearing to be £e, of his pay behind, and he having officiated the said place and given ingagements to perform the said office since last Sessions, the yearely stipend of ;£:i2 in arreare, ordered att Malton, July 11, 1650, for the Gov', of the Ho. of Corr"., to be paid to Mr. Rob. Gessling of Richmond, now appointed Gov'., that Rob. Sayer may receive the ;^5 due to him, and full pay for the place after ;^32 yearly from last Sessions till this time, and Mr. Gessling to receive the said stipend for the future for officiating the said place, and the C. C. to pay him the money accordingly ; the Thre'. for L. S. to pay 20s. as a gratuity to a woman whose husband was slayne in the Parliament's service ; [4o^] forasmuch as Rob. Geere of Barugh stands indicted for high treason, for releiving and harbouring one Rich. Mountaine, who proclaimed Charles Steward, sonn of the late Kinge, Kinge of England, Scotland, etc., these are to require you to take into your custody the said Rob. Geere and him safely keep till he shall be thence delivered etc. — To the Keepers of the publique Gaole ; Tho. Warcope and Wm. Blyth, gent"., C. C^ for Hallikeld, to pass their acc*^. att the next Sessions, and Chr. Wilkinson and Rob. Barugh to be C. C^ in their place ; Mr. Rymer and Mr. Marshall, C. C". for Hang East, to pass their ace"., and Rich. Fawcett, Geo. Binsley, Rich. Smirthwaite, and John Apleby to appear at the next Sessions that two of them may be sworn C. C^ for Hang East ; a warrant against a Ferlington man to appear etc. ; the Parish Off'^ for Sowerby to pro- vide weekly releif for a poor widow with fower children, and in case of refusal etc. ; the money estreated for the Ho. of Corr". at Pickering to be paid to two gent", of Pickering, by the C. C for the N. R., according to a former Order for finishing and settling the said House ; [41.] an Apleton lab', and a Normanby lab'., having been indicted, arraigned, and found guilty of severall felonies and offences, the Judge- ment of the Law therefore is : that they shall be carried to the place of execution, in some publique open street, near to the town of Thirske, and there be hanged etc., and the Sheriff to see this execution done upon Munday next by one of the clock in the afternoon ; a man committed to the Ho. of Corr" till he find suretyes of the good be- haviour ; ^30 to be estreated for Rutherford Bridge, over and above 00 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. the ;^2o allready estreated ; three gent", to view Willy Bridge and certifie etc. ; a like Order concerning Burne Bridge ; [4o''-] Capt. Edw. Place and [blank] to take the acc'^ of Mr. Pickersgill and his partner for the two Orders for the repair of Masham Bridge, and certifie etc. ; three Normanby men sent to the next J.P. to be bound to shew cause at the next Sessions why they have not removed the sand beds out of the river of Severne,* by reason whereof Normanby Bridge is brought into great decay; ;^io allowed for Normanby Bridge; a man to be sent back to the Ho. of Corr". .and imployed in worke till next Sessions; two gent", to examine the acc'^ of the Surv'^ for highways at Barugh and Keildhome, and certifie etc. ; a like Order for the Surv". of high- wayes in Rydall and Pickering Lythe ; Capt. Jas. Best to be summoned to appear etc. to answeare the complaint of Mr. Chr. HaUiday ; a Robin Hood's Bay woman sent to gaole for committing the detestable sin of fornication; [42. J Rob. Ashton of Beadall to pay ;^8o fine for the indictment for deceiving the people, and ;^i2 upon the indictment for practising phissick contrary to law, and to enter bond in ;^2oo himself, and either suretie in j£is°' to appear etc., and to be of good behaviour, and not to be bayled but by the J.P'. at the N. R. Sessions; the said Rob. Ashton committed to the Castle or Gaole of Yorke to be safely kept untill such time as he becomes bound as aforesaid, or sett at hbertie by Order ; a man to be sent from Constable to Constable to the place of his birth, being Sookeley in Durham ; a vagrant and sturdie rogue sent to the Ho. of Corr". The next Sessions to be held at Malton, Tuesday, Jan. 13, and by adjournment at Richmond, Jan. 20. Rolls signed by Luke Robinson, Geo. Eure, Wm. Weddall, Math. Beckwith, Jos. Worsley. [42*".] Coroners at this Sessions: — Fairfax Ringrose, Rich. Ceilings, gent". . Thre'^ : — Tho. Baxter, Wm. Heb- den, Wm. Lofley, Jos. Wray. C. C". for BuUmer : — Tho. Dickinson, Rich. Halliday ; for Birdforth : — Jos. Pybus and Chr. Goulton ; for Rydall : — Chr. Halliday and Rich. Johnson ; for Pickering : — Tho. Keild and Tho. Hutchinson ; for Whitby : — Wm. Harton ; for Lang- bargh : — Tho. Peers and Wm. Worfolke ; for Allerton : — Chr. Metcalfe and John Cowper ; for Hallikeld : — Tho. Warcop and Wm. Blyth ; for Hang East : — Geo. Rymer and John Marshall ; for Hang West : — Geo. Frear and Geo. Marshall ; for Gilling East : — Rob. Lumley and Jos. Shawe ; for Gilling West : — Rich. Collinges and Jos. Shawe. * The Normanby here named is not more than six or seven miles from Pickering, on the high road from Kirby Moorside to Malton, and lies on the western bank of the River Seven. MALTON, JANUARY I3, 1651. 89 [43- J MALTON. Qu. Sessions at, Jan. 13, 1651. Before Luke Robinson, Chr. Piercehay, Arth. Nowell, Wm. Weddall, Henry Hall and John Worsley, Esquires. Geo. Marwood, Esq., High Sheriff, represented by Tho. Hinckes, Gent"., Deputy Sheriff. Wm. Frier, Gent"., Andrew Dowsinge, „ John Pickeringe, „ Jos. Moore, „ John Bell, John Nelson, „ Wm. Dynmoore, „ Rob. Stockdaile, „ Chr. Lownesdaile, „ John Preston, „ Tho. Maynard, „ Henry Hewerdine, „ Rob. Jackson, „ Wm. Brown, „ Geo. Jackson, „ ' sworne. Wm. Clarke, Gent".,-] Rob. Blackwell, Rog. Hebden, Tho. Frier, John Bradley, Henry Ronetree, Wm. Gibbon, John Sturdy, Rich. Scaife, Wm. Kitchingman John Harrison, Chr. Cowper, Rich. S earth, Tho. Pye, Fr. Seller, J- sworne. J [43*".] Without in felony at this Sessions : — Three men for taking 5s. out of the pockitt of Geo. Todd (committed to gaole) ; two Colton men for stealing two heifers and one stere (^6) ; Without in trespass at this Sessions : — Rob. Geere, gent"., of Banigh, and three gent", of Norton for enticeing one Wm. Dawson to marriage (admitted to traverse) ; a man of Sandhill for brewing without licence ; a Ferlington gent", for unjustly taking ;^5 from one Geo. Tod (bound to the Assizes) ; the same for deteyning Geo. Tod about four or five howers prisoner (entered traverse : fined 40s.) ; two gent", for causeing one Wm. Adamson to be arreasted at Emma Crosby's suite without her consent (entered traverse). Names of the Jury etc. John Hebden, Gent"., Tho. Ibson, „ Tho. Watson, „ John Stockill, Chr. Crosby, Mark Wilson, sworne. John Baker, Wm. Parkinson, Rob. Harding, Wm. Lotherinton, Henry Otterburne, Rob. Rymer, sworne. 90 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. A woman for stealing half a peck of wheat, worth 6d. (guilty to 3d. : to be whipt) ; an Auld Malton lab', for stealing 6| yds. of woollen cloth (8s. : guilty to lod.) ; [44.] a lab', for stealing 24 yds. of woollen cloth (30s. : not guilty) ; a lab', for stealing a wether sheep (los. : guilty to 5 s. — to be burnt in the hand) ; a lab', for stealing one ewe sheep (i2s. : guilty to lod. — to be whipt) ; a woman, described as a lab'., for stealing five harrow teeth (sd. : guilty to 3d. — to be whipt) ; a man for steahng a bay mare (^^3), property of a person not known (not guilty) ; a lab', for stealing a syth (9s. : guilty to 4d.- — to be whipt); a Skewsby lab', for stealing one black maire (5 s. : not guilty) ; a Kirby Misperton lab', for stealing one oake stoop, one side of a sheep hecke,* one oake jeist,-}- six whyn kidds,J worth 2S. (not guilty) ; the Skewsby lab', afore- said for stealing five sheep (40s. : not guilty) ; a Kinthrope lab', for stealing an ewe sheep (3s. 4d. : guilty — to be burnt in the hand) ; two Skewsby lab", for robbing two men of their conny nett (not guilty) ; two Shipton women for receiving, comforting and releiving a man accused for horse-stealing (not guilty) ; a Normanby man for stealing three geese (5s.: guilty to i2d. — to be whipt) ; [44^] Trespasses ad- mitted at etc. : — A New Malton lab', for assault etc. (fined 5s.) ; two Marton yeom". for unjust taking of a horse (;^6 : fined 80s. and 20s. respectively) ; three yeom". for a riot (fined 2s. each) ; two Skewsby lab'^ for assault (fined 40s. each) ; two yeom". for leavying money by Fine out of the Exchequer, not shewing the seal according to law (fined 20s. each) ; a gent", for leavying and receiving more moneys of the Country than his warrant, whereby he was Collector, did authorize him to doe (fined ;^2o) ; the same for leavying more moneys for the ass'^. for Dragoone horse than he ought to have done (fined ;^2o) ; a Hutton Bushell gent", for leavying more money etc., being Collector for monethly ass"- (fined ^40) ; a man for assault (fined 20s.) ; a Gisbrough lab', for assaulting a man, and taking from him two peckes of wheate (3s. : fined 40s.) ; another Gisbrough lab', for assault (fined Ss.) ; [45.] Leon. Conyers of Lastingham, Gierke, Tho. Dove of Newton, Rob. Harding of Pickering, Rob. Hunter of Thorneton, gentlemen, for persuading the people of the Country to take certificate of subscrip- tions to the Ingagement,§ and receiving 6d. apeece for them (fined, * A kind of rack made for feeding out hay to sheep, roofed over and with railed sides. t An oaken joist. t A kidd is a small faggot or bundle of brushwood or twigs. These were com- posed of whins or furze. § This Sessions is dated Jan. 13, 1651-2, and it may not be altogether impertinent, or without its interest and use, to insert a note with the object of adverting to what had recently taken place in the career and conduct of the great struggle wherein the great battle of the eventual liberties of England was fought out to the bitter end • MALTON, JANUARY 13, 1651. gi Conyers j£6. 13. 4, Hunter /^^. 6. 8, and the others 20s. each) ; a lab', of Auld Malton for reporting false news and speaking seditious and with the still further object of seeking in that way to obtain some little amount of illustrative light, such as may serve to give a greater intelligibility to the frequent entries met with in the present volume of "Minutes and Orders" touching the manifestation of political feeling and its attempted repression by the authorities. The King, it will be remembered, had been put to death just two years before. More recently, namely, on Sept. 3 of the year last past, the Battle of Worcester had been fought and won. More recently still, the so-called Pacification of Ireland had become all but an accomplished fact, and the Union of Scotland was in a fair way of coming under the same category. Perhaps a brief abstract of Green's statements touching the state of affairs immediately subsequent to the death of the King may be tlie best way of effecting our object. After noticing the effect pro- duced by the news of Charles's execution on Europe at large, he goes on to remark that with respect to the danger from without, it "was not met with resolution and energy on the part of the diminished Parliament, which remained the sole depositary of legal powers. The Commons entered on their new task with hesitation and delay. More than a month passed after the King's execution before the Monarchy was formally abolished, and the government of the nation provided for by the creation of a Council of State, consisting of forty-one members selected from the Commons, who were entrusted with full executive power at home or abroad. Two months more elapsed before the passing of the memorable Act which declared that ' the people of England, and of all the dominions and territories thereunto belong- ing, are, and shall be, and are hereby constituted, made, established, and confirmed to be a Commonwealth and free State, and shall henceforward be governed as a Commonwealth and free State by the supreme authority of this nation, the repre- sentatives of the people in Parliament, and by such as they shall appoint and con- stitute Officers and Ministers for the good of the people, and that without any King or House of Lords.' " The author then glances at possible continental dangers, and at the more pressing dangers in Ireland, and proceeds : "The Commonwealth found considerable difficulties at home. The death of Charles gave fresh vigour to the Royalist cause. . . . But the dreams of a rising were roughly checked by the execution of the Duke of Hamilton and Lords Holland and Capell. But the popular disaffection told even on the Council of State. A majority of its members declined the oath offered to them at their earliest meeting, pledging them to an approval of the King's death and the establishment of the Commonwealth. Half the Judges retired from the Bench. Thousands of refusals met the demand of an engagement to be faithful to the Republic, which was made from all beneficed clergymen and public functionaries." I pause here to remark that this, or of the nature of this, is the "Ingagement" mentioned in the text, and which doubtless became of a wider scope eventually than was proposed at first. Our author continues — " It was not till May, and even then in spite of the ill-will of the citizens, that the Council ven- tured to proclaim the Commonwealth in London. A yet more formidable peril lay in the selfishness of the Parliament itself It was now a mere fragment of the House of Commons ; the members numbered hardly a hundred, and of those the attendance average was little more than fifty." Parliamentary reform was talked of, but " there was a suspicion that no serious purpose of its own dissolution was entertained by the House." One of the results of the popular discontent was a formidable mutiny of the Army, which was stamped out by Cromwell's promptitude. In the midst of all these complications, the General was summoned to Ireland by "a series of Royalist successes, which left only Dublin in the hands of the Parliamentary forces. With Scotland' threatening war, and a naval struggle impending with Holland, it was necessary that the work of the Army in Ireland should -be done quickly." A series 92 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. and scandillous words against the Commonwealth (fined 40s.) ; a yeom°. for assault etc. (fined los.) ; a yeom". and four lab", of Ruston for making an assault riotously (fined one of them 5s., the others 20s. each) ; Dame Clare Vaughan of Whitwell for speaking seditious, mali- tious and scanduUous words and languages against the peace of the Commonwealth (not guilty) ; a yeom". for assault (not guilty) ; Tho. Wilkinson of Marygate near the Mannor of Yorke for betraying his clyent, or maister, and receiving his fee and managing the said suite against his said clyent (committ to the gaole for a yeare and a day). Names of the Jury etc. Jos. Hebden, Gent"., Tho. Ibson, „ Tho. Watson, „ John Stockill, „ Chr. Crosby, Mark Wilson, y sworne. John Baker, Wm. Parkinson, Rob. Harding, Rob. Rymer, Wm. Lotherington, Henry Otterburne, . sworne. [45''.] Who acquit the prisoners tried in two cases, and convict Rob. Richardson of Grimston for rescueing one Rich. Mountaine from the Constable of Kirkham, and order him to pay five nobles {^i. 13. 4) as a fine to the Commonwealth. [46.] Bills ignored: in three cases of no interest; Leon. Conyers, Gierke, for assault, etc. ; a yeom" for being a common barrator ; a man and woman for fornication, in two cases ; a Lealam lab', for speaking words against the publique peace ; Sir Hen. Vaughan of Whitwell and Dame Clare his wife for feloniously and traytorusly har- of successful engagements in that country enabled Cromwell to return to London, to proceed northward, to win Dunbar, and thence to march to Worcester, where the last "crowning mercy " was obtained. " ' Now that the King is dead and the son defeated,' Cromwell said to the Parliament, 'I think it necessary to come to a settle- ment.' But the settlement which had been promised after Naseby was still as distant as ever after Worcester. The Bill for dissolving the present Parliament, though Cromwell pressed it in person, was only passed, after bitter opposition, by a majority of two. Internal affairs were simply at a dead lock. The Parliament appointed Committees to prepare plans for legal, or for ecclesiastical, reforms ; but it did nothing to carry them into effect. It was overpowered by the crowd of affairs which the confusion of the war had thrown into its hands, by confiscations, seques- trations, appointments to civil and military offices — the whole administration, in fact, of the State." This, then, is the condition of affairs in England at and about the date at which we have now arrived in the examination of these Records of Quarter Sessions ; and quite enough will be found in even a cursory survey of the same to illustrate and explain most of the entries touching proceedings taken from political feeling or political bias, and under the impression of general uncertainty, doubt, or apprehension, which may safely be assumed as almost instinctively felt rather than openly admitted by the community at large. MALTON, JANUARY I3, 165I. 93 bouring Rich. Mountaine as a traytor ; two lab'■^ for [stealing] two blake kyne (;^8. 13) ; a Wasse man for unjustly shooting and killing a wether sheep (i8s.) ; [46^] a man and a woman for adultery ; in four other cases ; Leon. Conyers, Clarke, for unjustly taking one gray mare (£6. 6. 8) ; in six other cases ; a yeom". of Wasse for counter- feiting a passe and setting Sir Arthure Heslerigg's hand to it. [47.] Presentments made etc. : — A New Malton yeom". for an in- croachment and stopping up the highway (entered traverse) ; the inhab'^. of the Constablery of Yearsley for not repairing a highway leading from Bransby towards Easingwold Markett (^10, if not repaired by Midsummer) ; the inhab'^ of Ferlington for the like between Sand- hill and the forrest yeate leading from Helmsley towards Yorke (till Midsummer, ;!^2o) ; the inhab*^. of Aldwark for suffering a causey in the said towne to be in decay, leading from Henlake Corner to Rose doer,* being the way from Easingwold to Knaresbrough, and likewise for that there is not a sufficient pair of stocks in their Constablery (;i^io : till Midsummer) ; a Marton man for not repairing the highway in a yeat-stead leading out of Marton Lordship from Helmesley towards Yorke (/^S : till Midsummer) ; the highways leading from Amotherby to Kirbymoorside presented to be in decay (;^2o : till Midsummer) ; the Constablery of Habtons for not repairing the highway from Newsam Bridge to Barugh Lordship (till Midsummer: ;£is) ; the Constablery of Barugh for the like from Barugh to Normanby Causey (^45 : till Midsummer) ; the highways from Edston Common-gate to Kirby- moorside Milles (till Midsummer : ^^lo) ; [47''.] the highway called Upgang Laine, near Whitby, in the Constablery of Ruswarp, leading from Whitby to Gisbrough (till Midsummer : ^^40) ; the inhab''. of Hausgarth for not repairing the highwayt leading towards Scarbro, be- * This appears to be the reading ; but it is impossible to be quite confident about it. + The causey in this case, as also in the Upgang instance, still remains in situ, although, by reason of frequent repairs, not in their pristine condition. As regards the Upgang portion of the road to Guisborough, it may be remarked that down to a very recent period, from Sandsend to Upgang-foot the highway lay over the sands, and of course was only available at low water. In the case of the Hawsker highway, the causey runs close by the side of the modern highway. Some three or four miles on the other side of Whitby, I believe in the township of Bamby, what may almost be assumed to be the causey coeval with the present entries is still extant. The slabs constituting the causey are worn down in the middle along the line of the way to the depth of three inches, of course by the wear and tear, long continued, of the feet of men and horses. By the side of it still lies the " lane," mentioned in the Upgang entrv This lane is what other modern lanes usually are, a sort of roadway mainly overgrown with green sward, affording in the dry weather of summer-time a tolerably firm if somewhat rough, trackway ; but in winter, or after a continuance of wet weather, from ancle-deep to knee-deep in soft wet earth and mud, or mire. Such as this were by far the most of the highways dealt with in the present class of entries. 94 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. ginning at Whitby Laithes and soe along to Hausgarth (till Midsummer : ;^3o) ; the inhab". of Huttons both* for the like between New Malton and Crambe Becke (till Midsummer : ;^io) ; the inhab". of Crambe for the like from New Malton to Yorke (till Midsummer : ;^i5) ; the inhab". of Harton in Bossall for the like from Malton to Yorke (till Mid- summer : ^£,(3. 13. 4); the inhab'^ of Crambe for the like on Barton Moore (till Midsummer : ;^io) ; the highways from the beginning of Normanby Causey to Marton Common (till Midsummer : ^Q^. 13. 4). [48, 48''.] Recognizances respited in eleven cases. [49] Recogniz- ances entered : — a gent", bound in ;^20o to appear etc., and meantime to be of good behaviour, and not act anything prejudiciall to the Commonwealth ; in several other cases ; a Sleights yeom". in ;^ioo (without sureties) to appear at the next Assizes and prosecute evidence on behalf of the Commonwealth, against Mr. Leon. Beck- with of Handall Abbey and Mr. Zackery Steward of Loftus ; three like cases ; [49'^-] Zacharias Stewart in ;^5oo, with sureties ^1^250 each, to appear at the Assizes ; John Knaggs and Raiph Parker in;^5o each, upon condition that Ann Anderson appear etc., and meantime be of good behaviour; an Oulton gent", bound in ;^5o to abide the order of the two next J.P^ in Buckinghamshire, where the bastard child was born; in four other cases; [50.] Phillip Howseroan of Ferlington, in _;^5oo, with sureties in ;^25o, to appear at the next Assizes and answer what will be objected against him on behalf of the Commonwealth; in four other cases; [50'', 51^] recog'^". taken in twenty-four cases of no special interest ; a Grimston yeom". in ;^4o to appear and answer what will be objected against him for perjury, denying his former evi- dence and deluding the Court. [52.] Orders made etc. A warrant against two men and five women of Spaunton to appear and give evidence against Mr. Leon. Conyers on behalf of the Common- wealth ; a New Malton brewer to be suppressed and his recog" to be estreated [fined 20s. to the poore of the towne, and 20s. to the Sheriffe, for playing att cards, and suffering disorder in his house] ; the recog"- of an Ayton man to be estreated ; the recog". of a Kirby Misperton man to be estreated, and he suppressed from brewing for three years for suffering disorder in his house ; a pension of 40s. yearly formerly ordered to two widows of L. S. increased to sos. yearly ; a Ruston brewer suppressed, and his recog". to be estreated; [S2^] for that Tho. Wilkinson late of Marygate, York, hath been indicted for that he Usually, however, when only the causey is mentioned, there is reason to think the " laine " may not have heen there at all. * Usually Huttons Ambo at the present time. MALTON, JANUARY I3, 1651. 95 did, about Nov. 9th, 165 1, undertake to be attorney or solllcitor for Anth. Teasdaile of Sinnington in an action of playnt against Wm. Howson of Sinnington, in the Court of INIary Libertie as aforesaid, and did receive of the said Teasdaile 2s., as his fee, or for his wages, and other sums of money in the said playnt, action, or suite, and did promise faithfuUness to the said Teasdaile, and notwithstanding did betray his said maister, or clyent, and his cause, and did manage the said cause against him, for the said Wm. Howson, whereby the said Teasdaile was nonsuited, and much dampnified, contrary to the lawes of the land and to the publique peace, and contrary to an Act of Parliament, made in the third year of Edward I., and being found guilty according to the said indictment and denying the fact, did crave libertie to traverse the said indictment, and, being admitted to such traverse, was by due course of lawe found guilty of the cryme charged upon him, for offending against the Act of Parliament aforesaid, in pursuance of which Act, the Court doth Order that the said Tho. Wilkinson be and stand committed to the publique Gaole, there to remaine in safe custody from the date of this Sessions for one whole year and a day, and the Shiriff, and the Keeper, or Keepers, of the publique Gaole are required to observe and execute this Order; [53.] a warrant against a Loftus woman to prefer an indictment against two men for breach of the peace ; a warrant against a Staithes man to prefer an indictment, and to be of good behaviour ; Henry Readshaw of Sandhill, near Ferlington, to be suppressed for three years, and to pay 40s. for suffering gameing and other disorders in his house, one moyetie to the Commonwealth, and the other moyety to the parish of Shirrif Hutton ; theis are to require you, upon sight hereof to bring John Bourchier, Wm. Somersides, and Ann Somersides of Clifton, neare the walls of Yorke, before the J.P'. at the Sessions now held at Malton, to answer what will be objected against them. Fail not etc. : To the Constable of CHfton and the Bailiff of Bullmer ; a Barton man suppressed for three years from keeping a common ailehouse ; Eliz*. Webster's recog"- to be estreated for not prosecuting the evidence on behalf of the Commonwealth against Dame Clare Vaughan ; [53''.] three Whitby men and a Goldsbrough man to have tymely notice to make good the presentment at the next Sessions, against the owners of the shipps which broke down Whitby Bridge, and the said owners to be discharged in case the same be not prosecuted, and their recog"'. to be respited in the meane time ; whereas a woman of Stratford in Buck- inghamshire is come into this N. R. and maketh complainte against Mr. Cha'. Bellasses, that he is the reputed father of her bastard child, which was born at Stratford aforesaid, where it ought to be provided for in such manner as it shall be ordered by the next two J.P". where it was born, 9^ QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. it is therefore Ordered that the said Mr. Cha'. Bellasses enter into recog" of ;^ioo to abide and perform such as shall be sett down by the said two J.P'. ; Mr. Phil. Howseman of Ferlington to be suppressed from making malt to sell, either by retail or otherwise, more then for his owne howse use, and the Order to be sent to the C. C. to give him notice thereof accordingly ; a warrant against the Constable of Ruston for suffering a tumult in the said towne, he being Constable, and not labouring to suppress it, to appear etc. ; [54.] Phil. Howseman to enter securitie to appear at the next Assizes ; a Skewsby woman suppressed for three years for keeping a disorderly ailehouse ; Order in a bastardy case ; a man of the Manner, near Yorke, suppressed and to enter bond not to keep an ailehouse for three years ; two gent", to take Mr. Phil. Howseman's ace", and to endeavor to give notice to the Country to charge him with what sums he hath received, and to certify etc. ; forasmuch as Leon. Conyers, Clerke, of Lastingham, Tho. Dove, gent"., of Newton, Rob. Harding, gent"., of Pickering, and Rob. Hunter, gent"., of Thorneton, being intrusted for the use and como- ditie of the inhab" of same parishes, to take subscriptions to the Engagement in theis words : — (I doe declare and promise that I will be true and faithfull to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established, without a king or howse of Lords) appointed by Act of Parliament, that the said gent", did, in the month of Jan., 1650, at Kirby Misperton and other places, [54''.] for their own covetous ends, and to procure money to themselves, and to oppress the said inhab'^, publiquely and falsely devulge, to the great scandall of this Common- wealth, that there was a necessitie of all persons having subscribed should have certificate from them, testifying such subscription, and in case such persons had not such certificate to produce, that they could not travaile above five myles from home, or go to the markett, but any persons might take them prisoners, and take away their horses, cloathes or other goods from them, and the persons soe taken prisoners, and having their goods soe taken away could obtain noe remedy in that behalf, and that by which false and indirect dealings they persuaded the inhab'^ that there was a necessity of having- their certificate, and yett notwithstanding would not give or signe any such certificate under 6d. each, all which is contrary to law, to the scandall of the Common- wealth, and contrary to the publique peace, and deceipt of the people, and for that they were found guilty by the Grand Jury and were not willing further to prosecute the business, but did submit to the censure of the Court, and for that it doeth appear unto us that the parties were not equally guilty, but that Mr. Conyers and Mr. Hunter were most to blayme, and Mr. Conyers did act most in the said misde- meanors, the Court doeth Order that Mr. Conyers be and is fined to MALTON., JANUARY 13, 1651. 97 the Commonwealth, £6. 13. 4, and Mr. Rob. Hunter £2,- 6. 8, and the others jQi each, [55.] and that all the parties do enter recog". to repay unto the country all the moneys exacted upon them before the next Sessions, and that they appear at the next Sessions to certify such repayment, and to stand committed till this Order be performed ; Tho. Keild being indicted, that under pretence of being H. C. and Collec- tor for Pickering Lythe for the monethly ass", for the Militia, charged by the Parliament, about the month of Sept', last sent out warrants coercive whereby he did leavy and receive upon severall Constableries greater proportions than he ought to have done, or then his warrant did authorize liim to, which said overplus of moneys he hath converted to his own use, to the great oppression and deceipt of the inhab"., and contrary to the privilege and right of the people, and the declared lawes of this land, etc., having been found guilty, and having referred himself to the judgement and censure of this Court, denying to proceed to traverse or justifie himself, thereby confessing the fact, he shall stand committed to the custody of the Sheriff untill he pay ^^20 to the Commonwealth, and doe enter good recog"=. to pay back the full sums exacted, [55''.] and also to pay to the Constableries the charges they have been at in attending upon this business, and to be discharged the office of H. C., and a gent", appointed to have the oversight and care of the business and give ace', to the next Sessions ; like case of Mr. John Faireside, to pay £^0 to the Commonwealth, etc. ; [56.] similar case of Tho. Keild again, under pretence of authority from the Commander of the Militia, for furnishing horse, same Order as before ; [s6^] Phil. Howseman to pay the money in arrear for repair of bridges ; two women committed to gaol at the last Sessions for forni- cation, to be set at liberty, upon becoming bound with good sureties to good behaviour for one year; [57.] Wm. Jackson of Whitby, being visited with extremitie of sicknes, and thereby dissabled to performe the office of C. C. for Whitby Strand, to be discharged that office, and his fine remitted ; Order in a bastardy case ; a warrant against a Kirbymoorside man to be bound etc., to bring certificate that the stocke for the poor of Kirbymoorside be paid in ; a warrant against Edw. Manwaring of Sowerby, Clarke, to be bound etc., to answer for marrying people privately* and using the Comon-prayerbook ; a * In the earliest Register Book of this parish, under date of Annunciat. Domini, 1654, is an entry at the side as follows : — Publications and marriages accordinge to a late Acte of Parliament in that behalfe latlye provided, the first entry standing — " Robart Warde and Jane Hobson published in the church in the year 1653. Robart Warde and Jane Hobson married the 27. March, 1654. " Parents and guardians to Rob. Warde and Jane Hobson : — Mr. Samuell Leving- ston and Laurance Warde." VOL. V. H 98 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. warrant against the reputed father of a bastard child to be bound etc. ; a warrant against three men to present evidence against Wm. Headlam for keeping Crucifixes and other [blank] in his howse and not acquaintinge some Justice of Peace therewith ; [57"=.] the Constable of Cowton to restore the two heiffers and one sheep to their owner, he having entered bond to have them forth- coming (according to the tenure of the conditions of his said recog"'.) ; Mr. Tho. Dickinson, having served as C. C. for three years, discharged at his own request, and Mr. John Lockwood to serve in his place (Mr. Lockwood sworne in Court); a pension of £,2. 13. 4 a year to a soldier's widow ; a brewer suppressed for three years for keeping a common ailehouse, and his signe to be pulled down ; a pension of 40s. to a L. S. ; a pension of ;£t, to a soldier's widow; a gratuity of 30s. to a L. S. ; the Parish Off", of Welburne to provide for a poor impo- tent man ; [58.] the Parish Off', of Craike to provide for a poor man ; Order in a bastardy case. [60.] RICHMOND. Qu. Sessions (by adjournment) at, Jan. 20, \(>'^\. Before John Wastell, Rob. Walter, John Robinson, Rog. Covell, Wm. Thorneton, and Leon. Smelt. Geo. Marwood, Esq., High Sheriff: Tho. Hinckes, Gent"., Deputy Sheriff. Two pages further on the following entry presents itself: — loih. September, 1656. The solemnization of marriage between John Snowden of Glaisdale in the parish of Danby, labourer, & Elizabetji Knaggs of the same, spinster, being published in the parish church of Danby at the close of the Evening Exercise, three severall Lordes Dayes, to witt — the loth., 17th., 24th. of August last, were performed before me, Benjamin Norcliffe, Esq., one of the Justices of Peace of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the daye and year above written, in the presence of Henry Dale, George Stonas, Joseph Plattes, and others, according to an Act of Parliament in this case made and provided. Witness my hand the day and year above written Ben. Norcliffe. To this it may be added that these marriages were " solemnized " in the " next " market town. RICHMOND, JANUARY 20, 1 65 J. 99 Names of Jurymen etc. John Robinson, Gent". John Nicholl, Wm. Eitherington, Chr. Mitchaell, John Raper, John Mayson, Wm. GilUnge, Rob. Clarke, Raiph Horsman, Wm. Harrison, Fr. Marshall, Fabyan Walker, Geo. Kilborne, John Eshald, John Brittaine, Chr. Gill, Wm. Spence, K sworne. Gyles Leightfoote, Gent", Wm. John Burrell, Tho. Whitfeild, Rich. Watson, Math. Leightfoote, AVra. Hartley, John Staney, Ja^ Dunninge, Fr. Harrison, Chr. Hutchingson, Wm. Leightfoote, Tho. Brignell, Rob. Ovington, [60 .J Without in Felony at etc. : — A Kirtlington lab', for stealing two geese (lad.); a woman as accessory after the fact; an Aislaby woman for stealing two peckes of wheat, one peck of rye and f lb of butter (2s. : in the Ho. of Corr°.) ; Without in trespass etc. : — Four men for riot and forcible entry (entered traverse) ; a Howgill yeoni". for couzenage in selling cheiz ; a Dishforth yeom". for shooting and killing conyes (quashed by the Court) ; a Beadall yeom". for selling with un ■ lawfull measures, not examined, sealed and signed according to the statute (submitted: fined ss.); a man for assault etc. (fined 3s. 4d. ); [6 I.J Felonies tryed at this etc. : — A Thringarth lab', for stealing three ewes (i2S. each ; guilty, to be burnt in the hand) ; a lab', as accessory after the fact (not guilty) ; a woman for being a wandering person, and having been punished formerly (guilty : to be burnt on the left shoulder) ; a lab', for stealing a lynn shirt (izd.) and two lynn smockes (2s. : guilty to rod. : whipt) ; a lab', for stealing one harden smock (i6d. : guilty to 5d. — whipt) ; a woman as accessory after the fact (not guilty) ; the said lab', for stealing one lynn handcirtcher (i8d.) and one holland apron (3s. : guilty to 6d.— whipt); two women as accessory before the fact (not guilty). 100 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Math. Brough, Rich. Pyburne, Rob. Robinson, Rich. Hudson, Raiph Kipline, Wm. Rutter, Names of the Jury etc. ^ Chr. Dawson, - sworne. J John Mitchaell, John Robinson, Ja^ Kilborne, Anth. Warde, Chr. Plewes, y sworne. [61''.] Trespasses acknowledged etc.: — A Rainton lab', tor extorting i6d. as Constable for e.xecuting a warrant to hira directed (fined 5s.) ; a Barton yeom". for speaking scandallous words against Gen. Cromwell (fined) ; Trespasses tryed etc. : — A Braithwaite yeom". for speaking severall unseemly languages in contempt of authority (void). Names of the Jury etc. [62. J The same as before. Who convict Henry Cholmeley of Tunstall of speaking seditious and scandallous words against the present Government (condemned to pay ;,f 20 to the Commonwealth and then to be discharged) ; an Elling- stringe yeom". of assault etc. (to pay 13s. to the Commonwealth and then to be discharged). Bills ignored in six cases. Presentments made etc. : — The inhab" of North Cowton for not re- pairing the highway between Long Cowton and North Cowton; Henry Tunstall, gent"., of Tunstall for refusing to pay his ass'^ for repaire of the church etc. ; a Tunstall yeom". for prophaneing the Lord's Day. Recog"'. respited : — A man in ^20 to keep the peace towards a woman ; [63.] a Northallerton lab', in ;^2o to prefer an indictment against Marm. Calvert for deserting his coulours without licence. [63-64''.] Recog"^ entered in nineteen cases. [65.] Orders made etc. Warrants issued in three cases ; Rich. Nelson, gent"., to be C. C. for Hallikeld, 7■ sworne. J Who say : that the inhab". of Husthwaite are guilty for not repairing the highway, and that they are lyable and ought to repair the same. [io8.] Recog"^". respited etc. : — Fr. Daniell, Gierke of Ferlington, in _;,^2o to answer for marrying etc. contrary to law ; Fr. Gentleman, a Newby lab'., in ;^2oo to answer for the wounding and beating of one Hen. Daggett, and meantime to keep the peace ; John Daggett, husb"., in ^60 to prosecute against the said Fr. Gentleman ; Wm. Court of Silfoe, yeom°., in ;^4o to answer for making a tumult in the congregation on the Saboth Day in Hacknes Church, and in the meantime to be of good behaviour (Respited till .... Sessions 1653, and all the rest in Mr. Proud's busines) ; [Io8^] seven similar cases ; two New Malton men in ;^40 to be of good behaviour ; Tim. MauHverer, Esq., in ;!r2o to appear etc., and in the meantime keep the publique peace. [109.] Bills ignored in fifteen cases. [110-112.J Recog"'. entered in twenty-two cases. [113.] Orders made etc. For that it appeareth by a sufficient certificate that a lab', of Hutton had his bowse burnt and all his goods therein to the damage of ^10, THIRSKE, OCTOBER 5, 1653. I 19 the Thre'. for Hosp" to pay him 50s. as a gratuity, and the Overseers of Gisbrough to provide for the poore man, according to his necessitie ; the C. C. to take care that the petitioner be returned noe more att the Assizes or Sessions, if his petition be true ; the tyme Percivall Trevi'- hitt, a shoemaker, served as a soldier in the ParHament's service to be allowed him in the time of his apprenticeshipp, as if he had continued with his master ; a gratuity of 20s. to a L. S. ; Mr. Claudious Best to be C. C. for Rydall vice Mr. Halliday ; [n3^] a warrant against a man of Atley Moore to enter bond to traverse an indictment, preferred against him for stopping up a highway between Whit well and Darring- ton, in a parcell of Atley Moore, and, for that he did not appear to plead to the said indictment, the inhab". of Whitwell in the Whinns to pull down such ditches and stopps as have been and are made to stop the way aforesaid, for their necessarie passage that way, soe they doe not the same roughly, but in a peaceable manner ; a warrant against ' Mr. Henry Tennant, jun'., to be bound to the peace ; the like Order against \Vm. Tennant of Scotton ; whereas ;i^io was estreated against the inhab'^ of Pottoe for not sufficiently clensing a water-sewer or stell called Traineham Sike, and alsoe ;£i3. 6. 8 upon the inhab'^ of Traine- ham for the like offence, and ^10 for not making a sufficient horse- bridge over the said sike : forasmuch as it appears by the certificate of Fr. Lassells, Esq., J. P., that the said sike or stell is sufficiently scoured and a convenient bridge laid by the inhab", the C. C. for Langbarugh to repay the said inhab"- the money collected by him for the offence aforesaid, excepting such charges as the law allows for leavying the sum ; [i 14.J the Parish Ofif'^ of Hutton Rudby to pay 8d. weekly to a poor man and his wife ; the Overseers of Sowerby to pay 6d. a weake to a poor man, not able to work ; kn Easingwold man to be suppressed for three years from keeping a common ailehouse, and to pay los. fine; a gent", fined 5s. for being druncke ; John Bell of Flaxton to be C. C. for Bullmer vice Rich. Halliday of Lillinge ; it is Ordered that in case Mr. Tho. Apleby, one of the Surv''- for Smeaton Bridge, doe forthwith pay to Mich. Atkinson, a free mayson, whoe was imployed in the repair of the said bridge, the money in his hand [sic], or the next J. P. is to see the lawe putt in execution against the said Mr. Apleby for detein- ingthe said money in his hands ; [114''.] the C. C. of AUertonshire to free Tho. Man of North Morton of future service at the Assizes and Sessions, if the contents of his petition be true ; a pension of /^4 to a L. S. ; a gratuity of 20s. to the widow of a soldier; upon information of Luke Robinson, Esq., J. P., that the quere or chancell of the parish church of Kirbymoorside is in great decay and like to fall, by which means the inhab'^ of that parish, resorting to that church, may be in danger, and for that it is likewise informed that Mr. Rob. Otterburne, I20 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. sen'., and Tobias Thurscrosse, sen'., ought to uphold and repair the same, the Bailiffs of Ridall to carry them before the next J. P. to enter bond to repaire the same before the ist Dec', next or appear etc. ; [115.] a warrant against a Broughton man to appear etc., and mean- time be of good behaviour ; the inhab'*. of Northallerton and the inhab". of Lazenby to pay there proportionable parts, one to the other, in all Constable ass"^. touching highways, and if any difference arise amongst them, Col. Lassells to determine it ; the Parish Off'^ of Cold Kirby to pay a poor woman 6d. weekly, and in case of refusal etc. ; a warrant against Mr. Read and Mr. Lealand, Gaolers, to enter bond to answer an indictment against them, for unlawfully using ways and means to the oppression of the poore prisoners : and further to enter recogn"^' to answer what shall be objected against them by Wm. Gray and other prisoners in Yorke Castle ; a widow either to repay the money her husband had with his apprentice, or to take care the apprentice be taught his trade of butcher; a gratuity of 5s. to a soldier's widow; [US'".] los. in hand and I OS. quarterly to be paid to a L. S. ; Col. Lassells to call a man and a woman before him and to mediate an end to the difference betwixt them if he can ; a gratuity of ^2 to a L. S. ; the Parish Off", of Dishforth to provide for the necessities of a poore widow, or the next J, P. to see justice done ; pensions of 40s. to two soldiers' widows ; the Thre'. for L. S. to pay two L. S. their arrears, and to continue the payment of their proportions for the future, if noe former Order to suspend the same; [116.] a gratuity of 20s. to a soldier's widow ; the Thre'. for Hosp'^ for Richmond to pay a Sowerby man ^^i. 13. 4 towards the losses he suffered by fire ; the Parish Off'^ of Easingwold to provide for the necessities of a poor old man and his wife, or the next J. P. etc. ; a gratuity of -£^. 6. 8, and a pension of ^4 to a soldier's widow, and her former Order to be suspended, in regard she hath a great charge of children ; whereas the Parish Off", of Kirby Knowle was ordered to allow a woman 6d. weekly, but considering her husband's poverty, and her weaknes, they are for the future to make the 6d. up to gd. weekly ; [116''.] take care to award a Writt of Restitu- tion for a woman ; upon a petition from one Wm. Gray, a coppie of which is hereunto annexed, setting forth the ill carriage of the Gaolors to the prisoners, the Sherriffs of Yorke to peruse the same, and take care the prisoners have right done them, and noe cause of complaint in future ; Mr. Wm. Frear of Crake to linde sureties for good behaviour, for contemning two Orders of Sessions, the last with his own consent : this Order is to be suspended if Mr. Frear bring a certificate from Sir Wm. Allanson that he hath paid 20s. according to the Order; the sum of ;^4o estreated this Sessions against the inhab" of the precincts and THIRSKE, OCTOBER 5, l6S2. 121 parish of Scarbrough, for not repairing the highway between Fauls- grave and Seamer Yeate, before June 24, according to Order, to be leavyed upon the said inhab*' by the C. O. of Pickering Lythe, who are to pay the same to two gent"., who are to receive and imploy the same in the repairing of the said highway, and to give an ace', from time to time, at everie Sessions, of their proceedings therein ; [117.] the Gierke of the Peace to give coppies of all Orders touching the Ho. of Corr". at Richmond, of the severall sums of money that have been formerly raised for buying the house aforesaid, and what sum or sums of money have been raised as a stocke for the said House ; the Surv'^ of Topcliffe Bridge to give an ace', of the said bridge to Lieut. Col. Watters from time to time; ;^is allowed for Kilgrave Bridge; _j^2o allowed for Normanby Bridge ; the High Shirriffe to take the case of Wm. Gray, prisoner in Yorke Gastle, into consideration, that he may have the benefitt intended him by the Act of Parliament; the Parish Off'^ of Sowerby to finde harbour for a poore woman and her three children, and to pay her 8d. a week, or to shew cause wherefore Mrs. Lockwood should finde her howsing, as in the petition is asserted ; I, Robert Thorpe of Brunton, doe declare and promisse etc., I, Wm. Thompson of Helperby, doe declare and promisse that I will be true and falthfull to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established, without a kinge or a howse of lords : — Rob. Thorpe : Wm. Thompson ; ['117''.] Mr. Holborne to solicite the discharginge of such issues as arc against the inhab*^. of the N. R. for bridges and highwayes, pre- sented att the Assizes and depending the Sessions, and to move the Court next Sessions what moneys is disburst by him concerning the same, that care may be taken accordingly; Wm. Jackson, gent"., of Wilton, to be G. C. for Langbarugh vice Mr. Wm. Worfolke ; Mr. Wm. Frear of Crake to take upon him the office of Thre'. for L. S. for the East Division of the N. R. att the next Sessions, and Mr. Wm. Hebden, the now Thre'., to receive all such sums as are in arrear, or shall be due in the interim, and pay the L. S. pensions and gratuities till then, and to pass his acc'^- and pay over the stocke in his hands at the said next Sessions ; a vagrant in the Ho. of Corr°- to be whipt ; the Thre'. for L. S. to pay to Tho. Ward 40s. as a gratuity till this time twelve- moneth ; — To Mr. Wray, Thre'.; [118.] a boy of Crake, having been pre- sented to the J.P'. within Bullmer Division, to be putt forth as an apprentice, and the Parish Off"- of Crake having nominated one Marm. Mortimer to take him, but the said Mortimer having refused to take the said apprentice, three J.P'. to call all parties concerned before them, and to see right and justice done therein; a warrant against the Parish Off"- of Kilburne to be bound to the good behaviour and to appear etc., for contempt of an Order ; Tho. Foxton of Sowerby 122 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. to pay ^5. 8 due of late to Wm. Troutesdaile for the use of a poor childe, late the sonn of Wm. Waire, or els to keep the said child with necessaries, or be bound etc. ; the next Sessions to be at Kirbymoore- side, Jan. 11, and at Beedall, Jan. 18, by adjournment; [118''.] Mr. Tho. Reynolds of Yorke, having been, amongst others, appointed Surv'. for diverse highwayes in the Weapentake of Bulmer, and he having given satisfaction to the Court of the great caire and trouble he hath been put to about repaire of the highwayes of both sides of the bridge, called the New Bridge, by the New Parkside, and 1Q20 having been estreated for repaire thereof, which should have been paid to the said Mr. Reynolds by Mr. Diconson and the other C. C. for Bulmer, the Court being informed part of the money remains still in Mr. Diconson's hands, and that Mr. Reynolds hath disburst the same of his own money, lest the work should be neglected, the said Mr. Dickonson to pay the said Mr. Reynolds the remaining sum in his hands which was chairged for repair of the said bridge. [11 9. J Blank. [120.] KIRBYMOORESYDE. Qu. Sessions at, Jan''. 11, 165!. Before Luke Robinson, Math. Beckwith, Arthur Noell, Henry Hall, and John Worsley, Esquires. Hugh Bethill, Esq., High Sheriff: Geo. Blanshard, Gent"., Deputy Sheriff. Names of the Jury etc. FIRST PANNELL. Rich. Yoward, Gent"., Rob. Colthurst, Fr. Dickinson, Tho. Nesse, Henry Crowe, Henry Otterburne, Rich. Mann, Tho. Francke, Fr. Seller, Nich. Conyers, Rob. Hardinge, Fr. Knaggs, Stephen Russell, Arthur Diconson, John Sedman, sworn. SECOND PANNELL. Rob. Blackwell, Gent". Hugh Savill John Harrison Tho. Pye Rich. Scarth Lancelot Johnson John Kitchingman John Stephenson Wm. Geere Tho. Watson Tho. Burton John Waynd Rob. Bushell Rob. Mayson Nich. Wigginor KIRBYMOORESYDE, JANUARY II, 1652. 123 [^2o^] Without in trespass at this Sessions :— Two yeom". of Crake for perjury ; a yeom". late of Baxby for converting a water corne- milne into a cottage or dwelling-house, not having laid four acres of land thereunto (entered traverse) ; an Allerton man for brewing without licence ; a Thorneton gent", for assault etc. (entered traverse) ; a gent", and two men of Alne for treading down grasse (fined 4d. each) ; the Deputy Bailiff of Bullmer for clearing and excusing freeholders from their attendance at the Sessions ; Leon. Conyers, Gierke, of Lasting- ham, for extortion (entered traverse) ; a Skewsby woman for harbouring evill- disposed persons (submitted, Thirsk, '53 : fined 6s. 8d.). Without in Fellony :— A lab', late of Cramble for steahng a rye loaf (4d.) ; a woman of Cramble for receiving the same, knowing him to have stolen it ; [121.] a lab', late of Midlesbrough for receiving stolen goods. Trespasses acknowledged at this Sessions : — A Baxby yeom". for eatinge upon, treading down, and spoiling grass with his swine and geese etc. (submitted : fined 4d.) ; three yeom". of Goulton for breaking into a house and committing a riot upon the owner and his wife (fined one of them los., the others 3s. 4d. each) ; a Wliitby yeom". and his wife for assault etc. (fined 3s. 4d.) ; Sam. Robinson of Thorneton for sealing a lease of ejectment under pretence of searching for stolne goods (fined 40s.) ; two Newby yeom". for unjustly takeing two oxen (fined 6s. 4d. each) ; a man late of Whitby Laythes for taking and carrying away several goods from a ship (fined ^5); Wm. Wright, Clarke, of Wigginton for refusing to pay his Constable ass". ; Andrew Perry, Clarke, of Foston for assault etc. (fined i2d.); [121'".] the same for the like, twice (fined in each case i2d.) ; the same for speaking contemptuous words against authority (fined 2s.) ; the same for break- ing the common pynfold at Foston and takeing his goods out of the same (fined 2od.) ; a Foston yeom". for not making his fence sufficient about the gleab lands at Foston (fined 3s. 4d.) ; a Skewsby ailehouse- keeper for harbouring and entertaining many lewd and evill-disposed persons (fined) ; a man and his wife for the like (fined) ; a Baxby woman for breaking the common pynfold (fined 3s. 4d.). Felons tried at this Sessions : — A Huntington lab', for stealing a quarter of beef (6s. 8d. : putts himself not guiltie) ; a Thorneton lab', for steahng three quarters of mutton (i6d.) and three quarters of honey (i8d.) the goods of whom not known (putts himself not guiltie) ; [122.] two Kirbymoorside lab", for stealing a lamb (3s. 4d. : the first putts himself not guilty, the second guilty to lod. — whipt) ; a Pockley woman for steahng a coife, a handkercher, a white coife, a pynner (8d.) and a pair of stockins (i6d. : putts herself not guiltie) ; a woman late of Marton for receiving and buying the said stockins knowing them 124 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. to be stolen (not guiltie) ; two New Malton lab", for stealing two swyne (25s. : the first guilty to i6s., burnt in the left hand, the other not guiltie). Bills ignored in several cases ; one against ten Jurymen of Marske Court for giving in their verdict without the knowledge or consent of their fellow Jurymen. [I22^] Presentments at this Sessions : — A Wigginton yeom". for not makeing his fence sufficient between Haxby Common and his Moor Close ; the occupyers of Raw Brow for not repairing their highways between Scalby and Seamour (^10 if not repaired by ). [123. J Trespasses tried at this Sessions. Names of the Jury etc. Henry Bradley, Gent".," Ja^ Wilkinson, Rich. Harton, John Harland, Wm. Lotherlngton, Wm. Ward, (- sworne. Rich. West, Rich. Shippard, John „ Bethell Hunter, John Snawdon, Ja^ Knaggs, Who acquit the prisoners. Names of the Jury etc. Henry Bradley, Gent". Rob. Otterburne, ,, Ja^ Wilkinson, ,, Rich. Harton, ,, Wm. Lotherlngton, ,, Wm. Warde, „ Rich. West, Rob. Beckett, Rich. Shippard, John ,, Bethell Hunter, • sworne. Gent". [I23^] Who convict the prisoners in two cases, acquit them in three cases. [124.] Recogn*^" respited in eight cases. [125-126''.] Recogn"^"- entered in sixteen cases. [127.] Orders made etc. The Court being informed that Rich. Lealand and Tho. Reed, late Gaolers for the Castle of Yorke, have imbezelled warrants and records belonginge the gaole, concerning the execution of the Comission of Peace, to the great obstructing of justice, they are to be carried before some J. P. to enter bond, each of them with two sufficient securities in ;^5oo apeece, to appeare etc. ; whereas Tobias Thirscrosse and Rob. Otterburne, gent"., of Kirkbymooreside, impropriators of the Rectory KIRBVMOORESYDE, JANUARY II, 1652. 12? of Kirkbymooreside, have not repaired the chancell of the parish church there, as by law and custom they ought to have done, but have longe neglected the same to the great hazard and damage of the inhab"., theis are to require you to demand /^i of good money of the said Toby Thirscrosse and Rob. Otterburne as a fyne the law appoints them to pay unto the poore of the parish, to be distributed amongst them, and in case they do not forthwith pay the same, to leavy it upon there goods and chattels by distresse and saile, rendring what remains, and hereof yow are not to faile : — to the Parish Off" of Kirbymoore- side ; [127''.] Mr. Timothy Mauliverer's recog". entered for the peace dis- charged ; the recog"- of John Hudson of Whitby respitted till next Sessions, in regard it appears by Mr. Harton's information and the confession of Allattson that the said Hudson is att London ; ;^2o to be leavyed upon the goods of an AUerston man for selling aile and beere without licence ; John Bell, gent"., of Flaxton sworn C. C. for Bullmer vice Mr. Rich. Halliday ; upon the oath of Nich. Pynder of Staythes that Rich. Barker of Rie-howse is sicke, that he could not come to this Sessions without danger of life, the traverse which hee stands bound to prosecute this Sessions to be respitted till the next Sessions and the recog^'. entered for the same ; Capt. Wm. Jackson, gent"., of Wilton sworne C. C. of Langbarugh vice Mr. Worfolke ; the recog'=^ of Mr. Chr. Goulton, which he entered for the peace, to be es- treated ; two J.P^ to examine the business concerning a bastard child; [128.] upon hearing the allagation of the Overseers of Whitby and a poor man of the same concerning his maintenance, the said Overseers alleadge that he was not an inhab'. of their parish at the time of making the Order of allowance of 2s. 6d. weekly, by reason whereof, they humbly conceived they were not bound to make him such allow- ance, and that he and his wife are able to labour in some calling to erne their livinge, the said Overseers to take care to sett them on worke, and to provide for their maintenance as they shall thincke reasonable ; a warrant against Mrs. Ruth Barton of Cawton to appear before John Worsley, Esq., to be bound etc. : and that he consider of a way to provide maintenance for Mr. Barton, husband to the said Ruth, and his children forth of his estaite and to certify etc. ; the Sherifife to give into this Court to-morrow morning a particular of the names of there severall BaUiffes of Weapentakes within this Division and there Stewards, and alsoe the BaUiffes then to give in a particuler of the names of the severall Stewards of Leet within there severall Hundreds, that they may be required to certify the severall indictments and pre- sentments, given in before them in their severall Courts and Jurisdic- tions, according to the Act of Parliament the ist of Edw. IV. ; the Parish Off", of Wigginton to demand and receive within 20 dales 20s. 126 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. of Mr. Wright of Wigginton, and in default of payment to distreine of his goods, which they are to distribute att the discretion of two gent", of Crake ; Mr. John Pybus and the now C. C^ of Birdforth to pay unto the Master of the Ho. of Corr". all such moneys as are by them in arreare unto him; [128''.] Phil. Howseman, gent"., of Ferlington, late C. C. of Bullmer, having contemned an Order in not passing his acc'^, to bring in and passe his said ace", the first day of the next Sessions upon paine of forfeiture of ^^40 ; whereas Chr. Goulton of Baxby was fined ;^^. 6. 8, the Court upon reason showne to the same, Orders 13s. 4d. to be taken of the said sum ; the Surv" of Highways in the parish of Thorneton, Allerston and Ebberston to pass their ace", to two J.P^, who are authorized to proceed therein according to law, and to certify etc. ; if a man and his familly have not a competent estaite to subsist on, the Parish Off", of Seamer to provide for tlieir necessities, or shew cause etc. ; like Orders for a man of Stillington, a woman of Kirkedaile, a woman of Sutton and a woman of Terrington ; [129. J the Parish Off", of Gillinge to pay a woman i8d. weekly; Ellen Hesse of New Malton, being a Romish Recusant, to be suppressed from keep- ing an ailehouse for three years, and the C. C\ and Bailiffs of Rydall to give her notice thereof within three days, and to certify the next J. P. within ten days of the execution of the said warrant, and of her obedience to the said Order ; a woman sent to the Ho. of Corr". ; a vagrant to be severely whipt and sent to Hull ; a vagrant begging upon pretence of a free pass to be kept in the Ho. of Corr". till next Ses- sions ; the Thre'. for Hosp'^ to pay ^20 of the County money to the Thre'. for L. S., to be laid out according to Orders ; a man and woman committ till they find good securities (not Skewsby men) in ^40 apeece to appear etc., and to be of good behaviour ; the Clarke of the Peace to forbear to estreat any issues of Jurors lost this Sessions by reason there service was well performed by able Jurors ; a Kirbymooreside woman comitted to the Shirriff till she finde securities to appeare att the next Assizes; [I29^] forasmuch as it is made to appear by the oaths of the Overseers of Terrington and Wm. Waind, an inhab'. of Terrington, that John Simkins, who is lately sent by the warrant of Rich. Etherington, Esq., J.P., to be entertained as an inhab'. there, that the said Symkins was never otherwise at Terrington then a hyred servant with Wm. Waind a'bovesaid, and that his tyme for which he was hyred did expire at Martinmas last, and he was born at Rullington in the E. R., and had his bringinge up there, where his mother doth still inhabit, and where since Martinmas he hath resided, the Constable and Parish Off", of Terrington to convey him back to Rullington aforesaid to be provided for there ; the Constable and inhab". of Butterwicke to appeare att the next Sessions to shew cause wherefore they should not RICHMOND, JANUARY l8, l65f. 127 make restitution concerninge the materialls of the ould bridge, and wherefore they should not contribute there proportion for erecting of a new bridge as is pretended in this petition ; whereas a woman for the relief of herself and her children had formerly a pension of ^d. 10 yearly, which is after 2s. 6d. a week, the Court being informed that her charge since that time is much lessened, her allowance to be i8d. a week for the time to come, and the former Order to be suppressed ; [130.] whereas it was Ordered at Thirske, Oct'. 5 last, that the Parish Off^ of Hutton Rudby should pay a man and his wife 8d. a week, now forasmuch as it appears by certificate under the hands of the Minister, Parish Off", and other inhab'^ of Hutton Rudby that he is able to maintaine himself without being chargeable to the parish, the Parish Off'^ to be discharged from paying the aforesaid 8d. a week for the time to come, unless cause be shewed to the contrary ; a Thorne- ton man committed to the custody of the Shirrifif till he tinde securities to be of the good behaviour for seaven years, he being a person that hath committed severall felonyes, often committ to the gaole, and a person of dissolute life. [132.] RICHMOND. Qu. Sessions, by adjournment, at, 18 Jan., i6s|. Before John Wastell, Roger Covell, John Robinson, Will. Thorneton, and Leonard Smelt, Esquires. Hugh Bethell, Esq., High Sheriff : Seath Lazenby, Gent"., Deputy Sheriff. Names of the Juryors etc. Rich. Fawcett, Gent°. Will. Sigswicke, James Dunninge, Rob. Kitchinge, Ralph Thompson, Chr. Mitchaell, Will. Hartley, Will. Adamson, Oliver Iveson, James Wharton, Will. Leightfoote, Tho. Eytherington, John Nicholl, Will. Leightfoote, Chr. Snowden, ■ sworne. John Robinson, Gent"., John Bishopbridge, Rich. Waller, Tho. Harrison, Lancelott ,, Chr. Maukyn, Chr. Plewes, John Raper, John Mayson, Geo. Cowper, Tho. Whitfeild, Rob. Smithson, Gyles Leightfoote, Fr. Peacocke, 128 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. The verdictes followes :— [I32^J Without in fellonye at this Sessions : —A lab', for stealing a cow (value entered as 5s.) ; another for stealing a paier of showes (prisoner in Yorke Castle) ; a spinster for stealing 8d. in money numbered (fled) ; a case of sheep-stealing (in the gaol) ; the same man again for the like ; an Exelby lab', for stealing a winder- cloth, a pack-cloth, a sheet, a sacke, and three cabbishes ; the owner of the stolen goods in the last case for concealinge and not prosecuting the said fellony. Without in tresspass att this etc. :— A widow, a yeom". and his wife for forcible entry into a mansion house etc. ; a Northallerton yeom". for entering into a house, the freehold of Tho. Lasscells, gent"., and cutting down part of the house ; two Northallerton lab'=- for suffering a felon to escape ; a Northallerton yeom". for showtinge in a gunn, con- trary to the statute ; [133.] a long entry touching a Writ of Restitution ; [133''.] another Northallerton yeom". for shuttinge in a gunn etc. ; a lab', for assault etc. Felonies tryed this Sessions :— A case of horse- steahng ; two cases of sheep-stealing ; a lab', for stealing a bee-hive, an ewe, and a peece of rosemary (40s.) ; a widow for stealing a hank of yarn, and three quarters of lyninge cloth (pleads guilty of petty larceny — to be whipt). [134.] The Names of the Jury etc. Philip Brunskill, Gent"., Will. Eytherington, John Bayley, John Laideman, Geo. Thompson, Fr. Morley, sworn. Geo. Davison, John Dowson, Will. Bollron, Ralph Kiplyn, Fr. Welles, Will. Spence, sworn. Presentments at this Sessions : — Four yeom" for collecting and receiving several sums of money and not imploying the same to the uses intended ; a man for not repairing the highway etc. ; four yeom". of Bedall for refusing to pay their ass" ; the inhab" of Skeeby for not repairing their highway in Skeeby pasture; [134''.] Names of the Jury etc., as before. [I35^ 136.] Recogn"'- taken at this Sessions : — In eleven cases of no interest. [I36^] Orders made etc. The Parish Off'^ of Smeaton to provide maintenance and harbour for a poor man and his family ; the like in the case of Kirby Ravens- worth ; Clir. Wilkinson of Kirtlinton to take the oath of C. C. of Hallikeld vice Will. Blythe ; Will. Browne of Baldersby to serve for the same Weap'. vice Tho. Warcope ; a warrant etc. against two persons THIRSKE, APRIL I9, 1653. 129 named ; again the like ; three gent", named to view the decay of Eglestone Bridge; [137.] a man to be committed to gaol till he finde securities for his good behaviour for seaven yeares ; whereas John Wray of Hipswell confesseth in open Court that he had the carnall knowledge of the bodie of Ann Foster, and she Hkewise acknowledg- inge the same, Ordered that they be both committ to the Castle of Yorke, there to remaine without baile or mainprise for the space of three moneths, and after expiration of three moneths, then, till they shall enter further securitie to be of good behaviour for a twelve- moneth, according the effect of the Act of Parliament in that case made and provided ; John Swan of Litle Danby and Tho. Cooke of Bowes comitt to the Sheriff, Cooke for suffering Swan to tiple in his howse on the Lord's Day, and Swan for tiplinge on the Lord's Day in Cooke's howse, and to sitt six hours in the stocks, according to law in that case, for refuseing, each of them, to pay los. apeece* ; a Writ of Restitu- tion ordered ; Leon. Smelt, Esq., J. P., to issue a warrant against a man charged with felony ; the Constable of Bowes, with five other men of the same place, to be discharged of the presentment against them ; [I37^] a warrant etc. ; Ordered that there be a libertie to the Sheriff to discharge a man from further imprisonment; Luke Yearker of Laburne, gent"., to be sworn C. C. of Hang West vice Geo. Marshall; Geo. Binsley of Askew to be sworn C. C. of Hang East vice Geo. Rymer ; Rich. Smirthwaite of Nutwith Coate to be C. C. vice John Marshall ; a warrant against a man for behaving himself uncivilly in the Court, and for deluding the Court, — to be bound to the good behaviour, and appear etc. [A". 139.] THIRSKE. Qu. Sessions at, 19 April, 1653. Before John Wastell, Fr. Lassells, Geo. Marwood, Rob. Walter, Math. Beckwith, Will. Thorneton, Esquires, and other their fellow Justices, etc. High Sheriff etc. as before. * I have thought it expedient to give this Order and its predecessor in extenso, as an illustration of the forcible attempts on the part of the powers that were, already more than once referred to in these notes, to compel men to be virtuous We know what the result was, as it always must be, given the same circumstances. VOL. V. K 130 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. The Henry Wilson, Gent"., John Brettaine, Will. Whitton, Joshua Noble, Rich. Milburne, Rich. Wilson, James Colson, Tho. Tebb, Chr. Carter, Ralph Kay, Henry Sigsworth, John Scruton, Tho. Hovington, Will. Merrye, Will. Treapland, John Watson, Will. Skelton, Names of the Jurors etc. Randolf Berryman, Gent"., Tho. Younge, Henry Walker, Will. Raggett, Tho. Cowper, John Richardson, Tho. Langdaile, Fr. Challiner, Nich. Oxan, Rich. Hardinge, Rob. Crosby, Rob. Pearson, Chr. Wiglesworth, John Bayley, John Wardrope, John Becke, John Read, [I39^] Without in felony etc. : — A woman for steaHng a goose; a man for sheep-stealing ; — Without in tresspasse : — Three Sutton yeom"- for riotously entering a man's house and taking away his greyhound ; a man for assault etc. : a Glasedaile man, one from Easington, and a third from Westerdaile for riot, assault and affray upon one Geo. Seale, Gierke ;* Will. Cleaveland of Whitby, attorney at law, for receiveinge severall fees of a man named and refusinge to give an ace', of the said moneyes ; a Marricke man for breach of the peace ; John Mennell the elder of Thornaby, Esq., Lawr. Mennell of the same, gent"., and John Mennell the younger of the same, gent"., for a forceable entry into certaine grounds in the possession of Rob. Thompson (entered bond) ; the Constable of Seizey (Sessay) for suffering a man to escape (fined 20s.) ; the inhab'^ of Fremington for not repairing their highway in the township of Grunton between Topley Stile and Abbey Sandbed ; [140.] a man as a wandering rogue and a dangerous person ; eight Scarbrough men and two of neare the walles of Yorke for riot and forceable entery etc. (the latter enter traverse : warrants for the others) ; a man and woman of New Malton for fornication ; two Sutton men and one of Huby for killing deer with greyhounds (warrant made) ; Trespasses acknowledged at etc. : — A man for assault etc. on a woman * In 1657 Samuel Leavingston is named as incumbent of this parish of Danby, and for several years after. He was indebted for at least occasional assistance to a Mr. Sealle — no doubt, from the vicinity mentioned in the entry, the person on whom this assault was made. THIRSKE, APRIL I9, 1653. 131 (fined 6s. 8d.) ; three Marricke men for rescuing certain goods seized etc. (fined 2s. 6d. each) ; two men for assault etc. (fined 6d. each) ; [I4o^] the Constable of Thornaby for suffering a felon to escape (fined 6s. 8d.) ; Reynold Parnaby of Thorneton Steward for speaking scan- dallous words against the present Government ; Fellons tryed att etc. : — A man for stealing a pair of shoes (found guilty of petty larceny only* — to be whipped) ; a man for sheep-stealing (as above : — to be whipped) ; the same man again for the like, and same sentence ; a lab', for steal- ing a packe of woolen stockins (£4) ; a widow for stealing a Iamb (sentence as above) ; a man for stealing a plow-socke (6d. : to be whipped); another for stealing two iron teames (4s.) and a cowter [coulter] (6d. : to be whipped) ; a man for stealing three pounds of hemp yarn (i8d. : to be whipped) ; [141.] a- Wass lab', for stealing fifteen seale-sparrest (2s. : not guilty) ; a lab', for stealing a sheep, the goods of one unknown (found guilty up to 6d. : to be whipped) ; a lab', for stealing six bean-sheaves (i2d. : not guilty) ; a man for stealing a ram (12s. : not guilty) ; another man as a principal in the same offence (guilty to 6d., and whipped) ; two Thirsk persons for stealing un- winnowed barley (not guilty) ; an Appleton man for stealing twenty- four sheaves of wheat and rye (3s. : guilty to 6d., and whipped) ; a Gisbrough man for stealing a cloth gown, a black hat, and a pair of cuffes (30s. : not guilty). Will. Atkinson, Henry Skailes, Will. Jackson, John Hogge, Tho. Langdaile, Raiph Hewthwaite, Names of the Jurors etc. Simon Arnett, Tho. Hardinge, Chr. Jackson, Leon. Bell, Tho. Man, Will. Cowper, J ' sworn. V * It is impossible not to contrast the severity of the sentences for political offences, and in those against morality, with the singular lenity shown in the many cases of felony like unto those concerned in the present, the following, and so many other entries found throughout these Minutes. The prisoners are, in point of fact, allowed to plead guilty of the minor offence of petty larceny, and dealt with accordingly. A good instance of what is referred to occurs a little below, wherein the crime charged is that of stealing a ram worth 12s., and is dealt with as for stealing what was worth only 6d. t Under CEIL, CIEL, Professor Skeat writes — " Older form syk: also spelt sei'/e (Minsheu). . . . The verb to ceil, seile, or syle is purely an English formation from the older substantive syle or cyll, a canopy. . . . The word was afterwards extended so as to include the notion of covering with side-hangings, and even to that of pro- viding with wainscotting or flooring. Cotgrave has ' plancher, a boarded floor ; also, a seeling of boords.' " Thus, then, the meaning of the term in the text is simply the spars, or slight battens, to which the boards forming any given seeling or sealing were attached by the nails employed for the purpose. K 2 132 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Who say as aforesaid. [I4I^] Presentments at etc. :— Two men in separate cases for re- fusing to pay their ass". ; a Thrintoft man for stopping a common and ancient highway ; the inhab'=. of Scruton for not repairing their high- way ; a Satteron man for diverting the ancient course and streame of the River Swaile ; Nich. Brabbiner of Sutton for refusing to make his hedges and fences between his grounds and those of Rich. Plewman ; a Maunby man for stopping up a common foot-way there ; the Church- wardens of Wass and Oldstead for not collecting the ass", for the church ; a Husthwaite man for not making his hedges sufficient be- tween Wailes' woodclose and Dobson's woodclose ; Sir Henry Vaughan of Whitwell for stoppinge up a common highway in the firth ;* [142.] indictments not found at this Sessions in eleven cases. [142''.] Names of the Jurors to inquire etc. Will. Atkinson,^ John Hogge, John Metcalfe, | Tho. Langdaile, Will. Tindaile, Ralph Hewthwaite, . r, ■, r sworn. ™ TV,- f sworn. Henry Scailes, Will. Jackson, Tho. Man, Simon Arnett, Ralph Sewhill, J Tho. Hardinge, Who say as follows : — That the Goulton man is not guilty of con- verting a water corn-mill into a cottage without etc. ; and a like verdict in the other four cases; [143.] recogn'^". respited in eight cases; [144, I4S-] recogn'". taken in fifteen cases : — in one, Leon. Conyers of Lastlngham, Gierke, is bound in ;^ioo to appear etc. on a charge of extortion, in another the party is bound to free Topcliff parish of his bastard child, in a third the like as to Foston, and lastly eight men enter bond in ;^ioo each as licensed to keep alehouses. [145''.] Orders made etc. Three persons indicted at this Sessions to be bound to appear etc. ; Order to the Gov', of the Ho. of Corr". at Pickeringe to receive two men, described as lewd and evell-disposed persons, useinge loyteringe, and to give them chastisement accordinge to the order of the said House till they shall be set at libertie by due course of lawe ; [146.] the Constable of Egton, for neglecting his duty in setting the watch there when Henry Jackson was slayne, is fined 6s. 8d. ; a man to be bound etc. to save the parish harmless through any charges on account of his daughter's bastard child ; a warrant etc. ; another against two * See Vol. IV. p. 216, and note. THIRSJCE, APRIL I9, 1653. I33 men for not deliveringe out the Mittimuses; Luke Yearker, having been sworn C. C. for Hang West, forthwith to take up the duties of the office ; a man to be committed for beatinge and abusinge his neigh- bours ; another to be comitt for three moneths for a bastard child ; a man allowed till next Sessions to prosecute his traverse; [146".] Mr. Holborne, Clerk of the Peace, forthwith to send to Justice Watters a charge of all orders and estreates delivered to Mr. Warcope and his fellow late C. C\ of Hallikeild, to the end that Mr. Watters and Mr. Rymer may be inabled to take their accompte, which charge, so sealed up, the said C. C^ are to take from Mr. Holborne and carry to Mr. Watters, and observe his time for taking their accompts ; Kath. Baites of Pottoe to be suppressed from brewing etc. for dissorders in her howse ; Ordered that there shall be but one Treasurer for the whole N. R., both for Hosp'". and L. S. ; Mr. Will. Frear to be the said Treas'. ; Mr. Loftus, Treas'. for Hosp'=., and Mr. Wray, Treas'. for L. S. in Richm'=., and Mr. Will. Hebden, late Treas'. for L. S. for the Eastern Divisions of the N. R., and all C. C, and other persons what- soever, that have received, collected, or had in charge, or that ought to collect or receive, shall collect all the arrears, and pass their acc'^ of all moneys for Hosp'^ and L. S. at the next Sessions etc., and shall pay all such money as they have in hand to Mr. Frear, the new Trea- surer ; [147.] Mr. Baites, Treas'. for Hosp''. for the East Divisions of the N. R., to pay ;^24. 3. 5 now in his hands, to Mr. Frear etc. ; Mr. Frear to pay to Mr. Rob. Holborne, Clerk of the Peace, ^^4 for this year's pension, out of the East Divisions of the Riding ; a L. S. to have a gratuity of los. for the wounds received in the Parliament's service ; a dead soldier's widow to have los. ; the like in another case ; the Parish Off'^ of Whitby to provide for a poor woman ; 5s. to the widow of a soldier ; [147''.] another Order for relief ; again another ; 20s. to a soldier maimed in the Parliament's service ; los. to a soldier's widow ; los. to a maimed soldier ; like Orders in six other cases ; [148.] relief for a poor widow ; if the Setteron man, indicted for divert- ing the Swale by incroachinge on the said river and straightening it, do not prosecute his traverse at the next Sessions, the Court will give Order about it; whereas an estreat of ;^i6, or thereabouts, was issued out of the Exchequer against the inhab*^. of Marton for not repairing their highways, and upon certificate of the way being repaired the said money was repaid to the Constable there, he is forthwith to pay over the same etc. to be paid back to the contributors etc. ; ^£4 yearly to be paid to Mr. David Waid, wounded in the Parliament's service ; [I48^] Rich. Smirthwaite of Nuttwith Coate and Anth. Benson of Bedall to be C. C^ of Hang East, and to appear etc. to be sworn ; re- cogn"'. respited ; Rob. Burton of Pickering sworn Bailiff of Pickering- 134 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Lith ; £20 Ordered for Eure Bridge ; £i,o for Willie Bridge ; £10 for Catterick Bridge ; a Fremington man, fined for non-repair of a high- way, and a mistake made as to the highway intended, the fine to stand if the said man does not duly repair the said intended highway, namely adjoining to Burfitts from a place called Toxey Style to the hither Sandbed-yeate, and the same to be viewed etc., and certificate given etc. ; [149. J a fine remitted ; los. to a M. S. ; a prisoner in Pickering Ho. of Corr". to be sent from Constable etc. ; the like as to another prisoner there ; los. a quarter to be paid to a M. S. ; Will. Maisterman's proportion of Traineham Syke being duly scoured, the fine levied on him to be repaid ; in re the warrant against Rich. Lealand and Tho. Reade, late gaolers of York Castle, for imbezelinge warrants and recordes belonginge the gaole at the Castell of Yorke, concerninge the execution of the commission of peace within this Ridinge, and whereas they gave bond for their appearance etc. but in contempt of authority etc. failed to appear, to the greater obstructing of justice, — these are to require you to apprehend them etc. To the Sheriff of the County of Yorke. [A'°. 150.] M ALTON. Qu. Sessions at, 12 July, 1653. Before Luke Robinson, Geo. Marwood, Arthur Noell, Chr. Peircehay, Math. Beckwith, Will. Weddell, and John Worsley, Esquires. John Smithyes, Deputy Sheriff. The Names of Hugh Hesle, Gent"., Luke Bagwith, Tho. Harrison, Rob. Skelton, Will. „ Tho. Pennocke, Chr. AUanson, Tho. Walker, J- sworne. Rob. Morrell, John Otterburne, Mark Stockton, Tho. Harrison, Edw. Marton, Rich. Duckett, Rich. Hobson, the Jurors etc. John Narye, Gent"., Will. Hebden, „ John Pyper, John Lyeth, Will. Worfolke, Tho. Fryer, Rob. Peckett, John Richardson, Mich. Postgate, Steph. Russell, Tho. Watson, John Stockill, Chr. Fawcett, John Purslove, John Prissicke, sworne. MALTON, JULY 12, 1653. 135 [I5o^] Without in tresspasses at this Sessions : — A Hackness man for prophanely sweareinge two severall oathes (a warrant for good behaviour against him) ; four Crake men for riotous assault etc. (traverse entered) ; Will. Megson of the Mannour of Yorke for assault and affray (admitted to traverse) ; two Aislaby men and as many women of "the same for riotous assault on a man and two women ; Tobias Thurscrosse of Kirby Moorside, gent"., for sending a letter to Sir Will. Ingram wherein was severall scandallous and reproachful words against the said Sir William, tending to the disturbance of the publique peace (admitted to traverse, submitted etc. — fined 3s. 4d.) ; Sir Henry Vaghan of Whitwell and Dame Clare his wife, Phatnell Skailing, and Geo. Hudson, of the same, for forceable entry into a parcel of land in the possession of John Parrott (admitted to traverse, submitted, fined iis.) ; Sir Henry Vaghan again for taking and impounding eight sheep of Tho. Steade's (traverse: fined i2d.); Sir Henry Vaghan for forceable entry into the mansion-house of John Parrott (traverse: fined i2d.); a Whitwell lab', and a woman of the same for unjustly taking a mare {£$ i°s-) of the goods of John Parrott (traverse: fined 2s. each); [151.] Sir Henry Vaghan and Dame Clare his wife for pullinge up, treadinge downe, waisting, and consuminge the grasse and corne of Tho. Stead thelder (fined 4s. : traverse) ; a man for an assault etc. ; Sir Henry Vaghan and Dame Clare his wife, Phatnell Skailing, Mary Scurr and Ann Goodfellow, all of Whitwell, for a forceable entery into a close of John Surr (? Scurr: traverse, fined i2d. each); the same man as in last assault case, for another assault (traverse) ; the watch-man at Marton for neglecting his office ; three Hovingham yeom". for riot and assault, and taking severall goods out of the pinfold ; one of the pre- ceding, and four other men of the same place, for forceable entry into the freehould of Tho. Worsley, Esq., and causeing the ground to be plowed up and sowed (not guiltie upon traverse) ; two Norton men for unjust seizure of oxen; [I5I^] Fellonyes tryed at this Sessions: — Two Loftus men and one of Staithes for stealing three gang of wheel- speakes* (12s.) the goods of Sir Fr. Boynton, Bart, (not guilty) ; a woman for stealing a goose (not guilty) ; a man for stealing a dykeing * From the "provincial language" point of view, this is an interesting entry. Whed-speeaks, for wheel-spokes, is still the pronunciation our ears are entirely and customarily familiar with throughout Cleveland, while the word gang may best be illustrated as follows :— " Gang, Ganging. A set ; the complete number of any- thing ; usually limited to an animal's feet, or their belongings. — Dan. dial, gang, a set ; applied to the number of traces requisite for a pair of horses, to trace-ropes, to the seals, or hames, appertaining to the barf am or collar. Instances of every-day usage are : — A gang of cauf 's feet, or nowt's feet ; a ganging of shoes, when a hoise is shod all round." " Duk gan^a et dimidia de felies de fraxino," from the Finchale Priory Book, published by the Surtees Society, ought not to be omitted, by reason of the analogy with the present entry. [See Clevel. Glossary:\ 136 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. spade (i2d. : not guilty) ; another for stealing a linn shirte (2s. 6d.), a hemp shirte (2s.), and three stone of horsehair (7s. : not guilty). The Names of the Jurors etc. Henry Lisle, Gent"., Henry Bradley, ,, Will. Parkinson, Fr. Raines, Tho. Hardinge, Rich. Parke, V- sworne. Rob. Lyth, Will. Lotherington, Edw. Watson, John Sedman, Tho. Yeates, Will. Deane, sworne. Who say as above-written. [152.] Tresspasses acknowledged at this etc. : — A man for assault etc. (submitted, and fined 6s. 8d.) ; another for the like (fined i2d.); nine Gouldsbrough men and three of Barneby for makeing scandallous proclamations, to the disturbance of the publique peace (one of them, Marm. Wilson, fined 20s., the rest 2s. 6d. each) ; Math. Wilson of the former place for abettinge and councel- linge them to the same (fined 20s.) ; a Farmanby man for breaking the pindfold there (fined los.); a Liverton man for stopping up a common highway (fined 2s.) ; a man for an assault etc. ; [152''.] three other men of the same place (Pickering) for an assault etc. on the same individual (fined i2d., 4d,, and 4d. severally) ; Ralph Yorke, Rob. Hol- borne's deputy, for exacting and extortinge i2d. for drawing an indictment (he pleaded and protested he was not guiltie to the indict- ment, and that the same was unjust, and the matter therein contained, yet would not contend with the com[mittee], but submitted to the Court). Presentments etc. : — Tho. Morrett of Raskelf for giving several provokeinge words to excite and challenge Henry Foster ; the latter for the like to John Bell ; three men and a woman of Aislaby for a fould breach ; Tho. Stephenson for not repairing Newbiggin Laine ; [153.] the Constables of Sutton for neglecting the watch (fined 5s. each) ; four Great Ayton men for convertinge [sic] an ancient water- course ; the inhab" of Old Malton for digging pitts or holes neare the highway ; the occupiers of Newsam Grounds for not repairing the lane leading from Newsam Bridge to the common [highway] leading towards Malton from Kirby Moorside (to be repaired by April i, on pain of j^i^. 6. 8) ; John Pyper of Pickering for a fould breach (fined los.). The Names of the Jurors etc. Tho. Shipton, Gent". John Bradley, Rich. Shippard, John Will. Craven, Rob. Wilson, -sworne. Tho. Mackpeace, Will. Marshall, Geo. Hill, Henry Jackson, Will. Tollerton, Chr. AVake, - sworne. MALTON, JULY 12, 1653. 1 37 Who say that Marm. Harrison is guilty of the trespass charged ; that Leon. Conyers, Clerk, is guilty of the extortion charged (see above); [153^] that Rob. Pearson of Grenkill is guilty of perjury; and that four other persons charged with riot and battery are not guilty. Indictments not found in eleven cases. [iS4-iS5''.] Recogn"". taken at etc., in twenty cases, in five of which Sir Henry Vaghan is the principal bound. [156.] Orders made etc. Mr. Tho. Lee, Treas'. for the prisoners in York Castle, to be called to an ace', for the moneys he has received these seven or eight years last past, and that the Justices for the East and West Ridings be desired that they likewise call him to an ace', for the money received in their country, and this to be done at the next Assizes ; and that Mr. Weddell and Mr. Beckwith be desired to take the said acc'^ for the N. R. ; by the acc'=- of Mr. Will. Hebden, late Treas'. for L. S., taken by Mr. Arthur Noell, it is shown that he has disbursed to L. S., widows, and orphans, more by ;£^i2." 6. 9 than he has received : — Ordered that the said sum be made good to Mr. Hebden etc. ; a warrant against a Hackness gent", etc. ; a vagrant to be sent to the Ho. of Corr". at Pickering, and there corrected and set on work according to the rules of the House; [I56^] ;!f 30 formerly Ordered for Normanby Bridge, and ;£t.o more, already spent, and it appears that ^^23. 6. 8 will but finish the repairs : — Ordered that that sum be estreated ; Geo. Jackson of Pickering and John Baker of Wilton to pass their acc'^ to Luke Robinson and Arth. Noell, Esquires, of all moneys received by them touching the repairs of the highways in Pickering-Lythe ; Ordered that Capt. Hall be desired to hear the complaint of Anth. Smith's mother, and to examine what money is due to him, who was servant to Sir Henry Vaghan, who detains his wages, and confesses that the said Smith is in the Commonwealth's service in Ireland, to thend Sir H. Vaghan may satisfy the same ; a Crayke man being bound to appear at this Sessions to answer etc., and being on his way to attend the Court, he was arrested by vertue of an Upper-Bench writ or summons at the suit of Jos. Awman, prosecutor, and for that the law alloweth priviledge to come and go to the Sessions [157.] free, it is Ordered that the Bailiff do forbear to detain the said person from appearing etc., and afterwards take the benefit of his writ etc. ; a Kendall man to be sent with a pass from the Constable of Malton, and so from Constable etc. ; a charge of ^^30 levied on the goods of Marm. Nortcliffe, on behalf of the inhab'^. of the whole N. R., the matter to be looked to forthwith ; the Under-Sheriff to pay 13s. 4d. to the Constable of New Malton, disbursed by him for the fitting a convenient place for the Sessions to 138 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. be held there, and that the said sum be allowed to him in his ace", forth of the forfeited [sic] this present Sessions ; a pension of 40s. yearly to the widow of a soldier dead of the wounds received in the Parliament's service; [iSV''.] the C. C\ generally negligent about pay- ing the Gov', of the Pickering House of Corr° his salary, and the service of the Commonwealth very much retarded thereby, therefore the C. C are Ordered not only to pay the said Gov'., Col. Rich. Battersby, the sums due to him, but take care for the future to pay him quarterly as the salary falls due ; a pension of 50s. yearly to the wife or widow of a lame soldier late in Scotland etc.; a gratuity of 20s. to another L. S.'s widow ; all C. C^ who have been in ofSce for seven years to be at Sutton on the Forest on Aug. 8, before Geo. Marwood, Math. Beckwith, Will. Weddell, and Henry Hall, Esquires, to give their acc'^ of all moneys collected by them etc., and also to pay such arrears as are in their hands etc., and that the Clerk of the Peace give notice to all concerned in this Order, and prepare a charge for such of the C. C^ [158.] as are in arrear etc. ; the Treas'. for L. S. to pay 2s. to four persons named, and is. to another, petitioning the Court etc. ; a long entry touching traverse by Rob. Peirson, late of Grenkell, in re an indictment for perjury committed, as alleged, by him at York Assizes, in which judgment is given against him, and he is consequently committed to York Castle for six months, — the noteworthy part being that the perjury had been committed in Peirson's sworn allegation that " Bowlby was a mannor-house, and Rob. Conyers, the plaintiff's father, had died seised thereof, and of all the lands in Easington, whereas Bowlby is no mannor-house, but hath done suit and service to the Court of Easington time out of mind, and that the lands actually in seisin did not amount to £^t^o a year, etc."; [159.] another long entry concerning the same man, involving the Order by the Court that the said Peirson (or Pearson) shall lose and forfeit £,20, and have imprison- ment by the space of six months, and that his oath from henceforth shall not be received in any Court in England, Wales, or the marches of the same, until such time as the judgment against him shall be re- versed by attaint or otherwise; [IS9^] next Sessions at Thirske, being the ancient and most convenient place for the country to meet in, be kept there if the Justices for Richm'=. approve thereof [this is literally copied]. [160.] Another long entry, closely written, and occupying both sides of the folio, touching the same process, and certified by the Clerk of the Peace to be a true copy, agreeing with the originall. BEADALL, JULY I9, 1653. '39 L161.] BEADALL. Qii. Sessions, by adjournment at, July 19, 1653. Before John Wastell, John Robinson, Wm. Thorneton, and Leon. Smelt, Esquires. Hugh Bethell, Esq., Sheriff; John Baite, Gent"., Deputy Sheriff. Henry Raper, Henry Power, Chr. Hutchinson, Marm. Flower, Chr. Pybus, Wm. Threapland, Wm. Toes, Chr. Mitchaell, Wm. Sidgswicke, Wm. Hill, Rich. Harrison, John Clarke, Junr., Rich. Claxton, Tho. Place, Names of the Jurors etc. Geo. Lewlinge, Tho. Fothergill, John Browne, Geo. Brinsley, John Raper, Tho. Burnett, Chr. Smith, Wm. Key, John Tanfeild, John Raper, Tho. Wright, John Todd, Mich. Robinson, Rog. Smith, Ralph Porton, - sworne. sworne. [i6i''.1 Without in trespass att this Sessions : — A gent", and three men of Scorton for a forceable entry into fourteen acres of land (resti- tution awarded) ; the same for the like into other three acres ; the same for the like into other three acres, into other seven acres, and into other eight acres ; three men of Wanlas Parke and two men of Midle- ham for a riot and forceable entry into a howse ; [162. J two Dishforth persons for unjustly takeing two horses (one, traverse next Sessions, the other, not guiltie upon traverse) ; three Roxby men for selling ale without licence; a gent", and a man of Roxby and two men of Leeminge for breaking into a howse and carrying away severall goods (the gent", to traverse next Sessions ; the others fined 3s. 4d. each) ; three men and two women for dissobeying the Committee's Order and receiving stolen goods (fined 3s. 4d.); a man of Gaile for his goods* eatinge up the grasse in a close ; three men of Newton Willowes for unjustly takeinge and driving away fiftie sheep of the Common sheep- * We have had one entry or more above in which the word goods is used in the sense of cattle, animals, or stock. I40 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. rak* of Great Crakeall (not guilty upon traverse) ; Without in Felony :— A lab', of Sorasikes for stealinge a gray mare {£i. 19); a lab', of Rowmer for stealinge two bushells of unwinowed wheat (lod.). [162''.] Fellonyes tried at this Sessions : — Two Thornehill men for stealing eleven sheep (9s. each : not guilty) ; the same for stealing twenty-four sheep (9s. each : not guilty) ; the same for stealing five sheep (7 s. 6d. each : not guilty) ; the same for stealing eight sheep (8s. each : not guilty) ; the same for stealing nine sheep (8s. each : not guilty) ; a North Allerton lab', for stealing a linin apron (rod. : guilty, whipt). Names of the Jurors etc. Leon. Snawdon, Yeom°.,~" Rob. Bishopricke, „ Wm. Dobison, ,, Math. Tebb, Rob. Barrowby, „ Peter Gierke, „ Fr. Gierke, Yeom"., Rich. Glapham, „ Tho. Sutton, „ John Lumley, „ Tho. Wilkinson, „ Peter Hutchinson, ,, sworne. [163.] Five bills ignored. [I63^] Presentments made at this Sessions : — Three men of Theak- ston and two of Exelby Grainge for refusing to pay there proportions of ass'^ for a horse sent into the service (submitted : fined 4d.); the highway between Greeto Bridge and Barnard Castle, called Abbey Laine (to be repaired by Aug. 31, upon pain of lod.) ; the inhab'^. of Ellerbecke for [not] makinge sufficient there highwayes from Ellerbecke to North Allerton and to Thirske ; the inhab'^ of Osmotherley for the like (^5, if not repaired by Easter Sessions) ; a man of Newton Morrell and a man of Stapleton for not scouring there proportions of Willie Bridge becke ; a man of Burton in Bishopdaile for walling and stopping up an ancient way. Names of the Jurors etc. as before. Who say that the men mentioned in the presentment are guilty for not paying bridge money, but not for the repair of Beadall pynfold. [164-165.] Blank. [166.] Twelve recogn"'. entered. [167.] Orders made etc. A woman with fower small children, who have lived and bin settled * "Rake, range, stray, sheep-raik, a sheep-walk, quoted by Wedgwood. The so-called rake or range is understood in Cleveland to be a portion of free grazing land for cattle. The ' Rake Farm ' in Glaisdale is said to derive its name from the circumstance that in other days cattle had their run on it." [Supplementary words to the Cleveland Glossary, "[ BEADALL, JULY I9, 1653. I4I in the parish of Massam for the space of seven years or thereabouts, beinge common beggars and likely to prove chargeable to the parish of East Witton, the Constable of East Witton to convey them to EUinstringe in the parish of Massam, where they ought to be setled, and the Parish Off", there to provide for them ; a Sowerby man dis- charged from brewing for keeping a disorderly house ; a woman who confesseth that she hath had three bastards, committed to the Shirriff till she enter recog". to be of good behaviour ; ^25 allowed for that part of Egleston Bridge, over the River Tease, which belongs to York- shire ; [^67^1 ^5 allowed for Balder Bridge; Edw. Dunninge of HalUkeld near Brompton, and Edw. Willis, gent"., of Holme, to be C. O. for Allertonshire via Mr. Geo. Metcalfe and Mr. John Cooper, who are to pass their acc*^. ; a warrant for the good behaviour against two Thorneton Steward men of rude carriage and evell behaviour ; two of the C. C\ for Richmondshire to examine* the affections and carriages to the publique of Reynolds Parnaby and the two Thorneton men aforesaid, and more particularly what they conceive of the truth of the words Reynold Parnaby was charged to have spoken against the Commonwealth and other persons ; [168.] a warrant for the peace against two men of Thorneton Steward at the suite of Reynold Parnaby ; the bridge between Aiskew and Beadall, being in decay, to be repaired by Beadall with Firby, and Aiskew with Little Leeminge, the pillers all to be built of stone and the midle pillar to be sett in the same place it stood formerly, att the sole charge of Beadall with Firby, and Aiskew and Leaminge to have liberty to lay there timber on the said pillar as formerly ; two vagrants sent back to the Ho. of Corr". ; the like Order for Lewillin Jones ; forasmuch as Hen. Girlinton, gent"., now of Richmond, prisoner for debt, is soe much decayed in his estaite, that he hath litle or noe meanes to raaintaine himself and two daugh- ters, and whereas Mr. Nich. Girlinton, his sonn, who by law ought to maintaine his said father and sisters in this condition, hath a good and considerable estaite now in possession, the said Nich. Girlinton to pay unto his said father henceforth ;£& yearly, [leS''.] and unto his said sisters, either of them, ^4 a year, and to pay the same quarterly by equal portions, the first quarter in hand upon sight hereof, for there relief till further Order; the Parish Off"- of Grunton to provide for a woman of Freminton and her three small children, her husband being dead in the service of the Parliament, and in case any fail, a gent", to see right done ; a like Order. * An entry sufficiently illustrative of the state of suspicion and practical surveil- lance, if not actual espionage, in which those who might be only supposed likely to be not too friendly to the Parliament were of necessity reduced to live. It should, perhaps, be noticed that we are on the very verge of the Protectorship— a time of great heart-burnings to many hitherto loyal to the Parliamentary side. 142 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. [A'". 170.] THIRSKE. Qu. Sessions at, Oct. 4, 1653. Before Sir John Bourchier, Sir Will. Allanson, Luke Robinson, Fr. Lassells, Rob. Watters, Geo. Marwood, Will. Thorneton, Will. Weddell, Henry Hall, and Leon. Smelt, Esquires. High Sheriff as before ; Geo. Blanshard, gent"., Deputy Sheriff. Tobias Humphrey, Gent".,") Chr. Lownesdaile, Yeom". Jeremiah Spavand, ,, Rich. Mann, „ Rich. Wainde, „ Will. Barneby, ,, Rich. Milburne, „ Rich. Walker, ,, Geo. Meeke, „ John Brittaine, „ Rich. Wainde, „ John „ „ Simon Brettaine, „ Will. Annison, ,, Rob. Bel wood, „ Names of the Jurors etc. Will. Gibbons, Yeom"., Alex. Nissbett, Will. Faceby, Tho. Kitchingson, Anth. Kitchinge, John Stevenson, James Pybus, -sworne. Tho. Burton, John Sturdie, Henry France, Chr. Hay, Simon Arnett, Will. Tindaile, Fr. Parvyn, Tho. Langdaile, }■ sworne. [I7o^] Without in tresspass at this etc. : — John Mennell of Thor- naby, Esq., Laur. Mennell and John Mennell of the same, gentlemen, for forcible entry etc. ; an Askrigg yeom". for perjury ; a New Mai ton gent", and a yeom". of Hovingham for taking in inmates etc. ; three yeomen and two women of Normanby for a riot and assault etc. ; a yeom". for an assault etc. ; In felony : — Two men and their wives for receiving stolen goods ; Tresspasses acknowledged etc. : — A yeom". for an assault (submitted, and fined 3s. 4d.) ; a woman for an assault ; a yeom". for an assault and taking a hat from the man assaulted (fined) ; [17 I.J Mark Midleton of Baltersby, gent"., for speaking several words tending to the breach of the peace, and in contempt of authority ; Fellonyes tryed at etc. : — A, lab', for stealing a mare (puts himself not guilty) ; a man for stealing wheat (2d. : puts himself not guilty) ; a man for sheep-stealing (pleads guilty, and is burnt in the hand) ; a man and his wife for stealing a harden sheet and a shirt (3s.), and again for stealing a Holland apron, eight bands, two handkercheifes, two bands, THIRSKE, OCTOBER 4, 16S3. 143 and a panier * (20s. : the man confesses, to the value of ss., the woman acquitted : the former burnt in the hand) ; [lyi''-] a man and his wife for stealing a blew petticoate and an impe coatef (both guilty to 6d., and whipt) ; Geo. Storke of the Castle of York, lab'., and Rich. Rob- inson, alias Day, alias Marwood, of the same, for stealing twenty-three sheep (los. each : the former to be burnt in the hand, the other not guilty) ; the same two for stealing seventeen sheep (with the same ver- dict) ; a Northallerton lab', for stealing two bolts and shackles,^ two runners, § three lynn-pinns,|| and a pewter chamber-pott (3s., the goods of a person unknown : guilty to lod., whipped) ; a man for horse- stealing : pleads guilty, and is hanged. Names of the Jurours etc. John Browne, Gent"., Fr. Jackson, thelder,Yeom°.) Joshua Noble, „ Fr. Page, Will. Richingson, ,, Tho. Hodge, ,, 'Sworne. Rob. Slaytor, Yeom".,^ Will. Atkinson, Chr. Brathwaite, Raiph Sugill, John Armstronge, John Adams, ► sworne. Who say as aforesaid; [172. J indictments not found in eight cases, one of adultery, and another wherein the person is charged as a com- mon bawd; [172^] Presentments at this etc. ; — Two Kirby Moorside gent", for not repairing the chancel of Gillamoor Church ; the i^hab'^ of Fyley for not repairing Newbiggen Lane [to be repaired etc., or ^^20 etc.J; a Wilton man for not repairing a lane there; a Pickering mercer for stopping up two common highways, leading overthwaite IF the Broadmire lands, and the other lying over the east end of Broadmire * This is the pannier which was part of the equipment of the horse of burden, and which remains in North Yorkshire in the words pannier-man, pannier-man's causey, etc. t This is beUeved to be the short jacket worn by women, sometimes as an addi- tion to their upper apparel, and sometimes in lieu of it. The sense of insertion or addition, which belongs of right to the word imp, thus is not altogether lost. % See Vol. I. p. 26, and note. § The Editor has heard this word used in two or three cases, all of the same nature. The more usual word is washer, and it means a ring of iron, or other mate- rial — indiarubber in these days — placed on any given rod or bar, so as to prevent, or at least modify, friction between any two surfaces exposed to it. Thus there are runners employed on the axletree of a cart, etc., to prevent the wheel having too much play ; on that part of the gate-crook on which the loop of the hinge works, etc., etc. I Sometimes lin-nail, the lynch-pin of a wheel. This word most likely decides the nature of the runner of the preceding note. H The true form is overthwart, often overquart in this district, meaning across, in a cross direction, whether more or less oblique or not. 144 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. lands (to be cast down by Nov. nth on pain of 40s.) ; a Thormanby man for the like ; the same man for ploughing up a balke * or common highway in a parcel of ground called the Wyse Bushes ; the inhab". of Coxwold for not repairing Brenk Lane (to be repaired etc. on pain of ;£'2o) ; five men of Marton on the Moor for not making their hedges between their grounds and Marton Moor; [i73-J Rich. CoUinges, gent"., C. C. of Gilling West, and Chr. Todd, late C. C of Hang West, for not passing their ace", and paying the money in their hands, accord- ing to the Order ; Traverses at this Sessions : — The Jurors to inquire between the Keepers etc. and Rich. Harland the younger, Rob. Brabbiner, Tho. Keild, and Will. Greenhill : Fr. Jackson, thelder,Yeom°., ' John „ Henry Skailes, , Geo. Ridsdaile, , John Spa 'line, , Will. Ricninson, , • sworne. Joshua Noble, Yeom"., ~ Tho. Jackson, Tho. Kirby, Tho. Wright, Will. Bell, Henry Crawe, Who Sity as follows : — That Harland and Brabbiner are guilty to the indictment etc., and must pay 40s. to the use of the poor of their parish; that Keild is guilty on both indic'^, and is fined 13s. 4d., and that Greenhill is not guilty etc. ; the same Jury try three other cases of no interest. [i74-J Recogn""" respited in two cases; [174, 175.] Re- cogn'"'^ entered in twelve cases, one in a case in which a man indicted for perjury brings his writ of Certiorari to remove the indictment into the Upper Bench, and the condition is that if the man in question shall pay such costs as the Justices of this Riding shall think reasonable, in case he be convicted, that then etc., or else etc. [176.] Orders made etc. Mr. Nicholas Girlinton of Girlinton, who by law ought to relieve Mr. Henry Girlinton, his father, not being able to maintain himself and his two daughters, being impotent, shall pay his said father _;^i2 yearly, towards his maintenance, the first quarter's pay to begin at Martinmas, etc. ; all the informations and examinations taken in the case against some Gerrick men to be certified to the next Sessions ; the summe or paine laid on Newsam Lane belonging to Sleightes and the West * Bearing in mind what the balks were in the old Common-field system, it be- comes perfectly obvious that in many a case the direction and course of a particular balk would coincide with the direction of one of the numerous ancient ways or tracks crossing the country in all directions, and that, in any such case, the said balk would be about sure to be appropriated to the purpose of the said track or highway. THIRSKE, OCTOBER 4, 1653. 145 Inges to be forthwith estreated and applied to the repair etc. ; Mr. Tho. Bell of West Layton, and Mr. Tho. Barnes of Startforth to appear at the next Sessions, that the Court may then approve of the one of them to serve as C. C. of Gilling West vice Mr. John Shaw, who then is to pass his ace", and be discharged etc. ; [176''-] a warrant etc. to bring to the next J. P. a woman for contemning and not obeying a subpoena, to be bound to appear etc. ; the like in another case ; Will. Smith of Newby Wiske within fourteen days to take the oath of C. C. for Gilling East vice Rob. Lumley, and that Lumley pass his ace'", etc. ; Order touching a traverse of an indictment etc. ; the sum of ;£'i8 ordered to be paid to the owners of the Ho. of Corr". for rents arrear, to be respited till next Sessions ; Mr. Geslinge to bring with him to the next Sessions all records he hath in custody belonging to the Ho. of Corr°. at Rich- mond, and that in the mean time Mr. Geslinge do show the said records to whom this Court shall appoint to peruse the same; [177.J two gent". named to view the building of Howsam Bridge, lately repaired, and that they certify at etc. what, in their judgment, hath been disbursed really about the building of the said bridge, and obtain all possible in- formation on the subject before next Sessions ; the recogn"". of a man bound to prosecute a traverse at this Sess"^, and failing to appear, to be forfeited ; a warrant against the Overseer of Pickering to levy 50s. of his goods, for money due to the poor, still in his hands, and also 20s. more for neglecting the execution of his office as Overseer ; Order to the Gov', of the Ho. of Corr". at Richmond to receive two men named, charged with misdemeanor at this Sess"'., being persons of evell life and conversation, and them chastise according to law etc. ; [177''.] a man to be committed to the Sheriff till he can find sufficient sureties in ;^5o each, himself to be bound in ;^ioo, to appear etc. ; 20s. to be paid to a woman, her husband having been a soldier, and grown very infirm ; a like Order for los. ; ;£-^ to be paid to one, late a soldier in the Par- liament's service, the better to inable him, his wife and children, to travel into Ireland, where he intends to settle himself; 13s. 4d. to be paid to the widow of a soldier etc. ; los. quarterly to be paid to another soldier's widow etc. ; [178.] los. quarterly to be paid to the two orphan daughters of a soldier etc. ; 20s. to another woman, the widow of a soldier etc, ; the Parish Off'', of Topclifif to provide for two poor old people etc. ; a similar Order on the Parish Off", of Seamer ; 30s. to another widow of a soldier ; the Parish Off", of Osmotherly to provide etc. ; [178''.] the C. C. not having paid their several portions estreated etc. for Thornton and Normanby Bridges, they must pay the same be- fore next Sess"'. on pain of ;^S each C. C. making default ; the inhab". of Clifton represent the disproportion of ass'', between themselves and the inhab". of St. Marygate, and it is Ordered that in future the VOL. V. ^ 146 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. latter shall bear a fifth part of all ass", levied on the Constablery of Clifton, being the ancient etc. ; Rich. Johnson, C. C. of Rydall, having served three years, and wishing to be relieved of the office, John Bradley to be sworn in his place, etc. ; Rob. Bushell of Ruswarp to be C. C. of Whitby Strand vice Mr. Harton ; [179.] on the petition of John Parratt and Tho. Stead, it is Ordered, with Sir Henry Vaghan's con- sent, that if they will go before a Master in Chancery and prove their leases or other covenants betwixt them and Sir Henry Vaghan, of any grounds or lands they pretend to hold by grant from him, that then, without any further trouble, it shall be granted and confessed by the said Sir Henry, and promiseth Sjic\ to confirm their said grants under the rents and covenants so proved ; Mr. Holborne to give a list of those that served this Sess"^ to the next Sheriff, and it is the desire of this Court that he forbear the returning the freeholders aforesaid that served this Sessions ; the late Overseer of South Kilvington forthwith to pass his acc'^ to the Minister of the place and three other of the sub- stantial list of the Constablery, and in case he refuse, then etc. ; Fr. Key of Northallerton to be sworn C. C. of AUertonshire vice John Cowper etc. ; [lyg^] in re the man charged with horse-stealing (see above) it is Ordered that in pursuance of the law the said man be taken from hence to some place of safe custody, and thence to some publique place of execution near to the town of Thirsk, and there hanged by the neck etc., and the Sheriff to see etc., on Oct. 8 instant, between the hours of nine and twelve in the morning ; a man to receive los. from the Tr'. as a gratuity. [181.] KIRBYMOORESIDE. Qu. Sessions at, Jan*'. 10, i6s|. Before Chr. Piercehay, Arthur Noell and Henry Hall, Esquires. Sir Wm. Constable, Bart., High Shirriff; John Chapman, Gent- Deputy Shirriff. The Names of the Jury to inquire for the Lord Protector* of the Comonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, etc., and the'bodie of the N. R. The change in style here as compared with what we have grown used to in former Minutes of Sessions in reality calls for our special attention. KIRBYMOORESIDE, JANUARY 10, l6sf. 147 Rob. Blackwell, Gent".,' Fr. Trammer, Yeom", Tho. Sturdie, „ John Harrison, ,, Rob. Wildon, Rob. Mayson, ,, Edw. Harrison, „ Wm. Craven, „ John Jackson, „ Arthur Dickinson, „ Rich. Horton, ,, John Shippard, „ Rob. Chapman, ,, Wm. Readhead, „ Wm. Watson, „ Tho. Savill, Gent"., Rob. Bushell, ,, Rob. Berriman, ,, Henry Otterburne.Yeom"., Wm. Butterwicke, ,, Edw. Robinson, ,, Tho. Watson, „ John Hogg, „ Stephen Dickinson, ,, Zachary Seaton, „ Tho. Nesse, „ Wm. Marshall, „ Lancelot Johnson, „ Tho. Hodge, „ Geo. Wilkinson, „ sworne. [181''.] Without in trespass att this Sessions : — Fouryeom". of Myton for takeing and destroying the fry of sallmons, trouts, pykes and other fish, contrary to the statute ; a yeom". of Butterwicke for assault etc. ; the inhab'^ of Ferlington for not repairing Pratcar Bridge and the Laine (to be repaired by June 24, upon paine of -^^. 6. 8) ; Geo. Harland of Sowerby, Attorney att Law, for receiving 20s. of one Rob. Easton, and causing him to become bound in ^^3 more, and refusing to give him a bill how the same became due ; two lab", and a woman of Upleatham, with other persons unknown, for a forceable entry into a part of a messuage in Marske ; a gent", of Girricke for an assault etc. ; a lab', of Lackingby and a yeom". of Marske for an assault etc. ; a man and his wife and two yeom". of Marske for a riot-assault etc. (fined 4d. each) ; a vintner, a taylor and a mayson of New Malton for a forceable entry. [182.] Trespasses acknowledged att this Sessions : - — A Thorneton yeom". for an assault etc. (fined i2d.); a Wykeham gent", for the like (fined 5s.) ; a Wrelton gent", for the like (fined 20s.); a Seamour lab', for the like (fined 3s. 4d.) ; a Seamour man for keep- ing an ailehouse without licence (fined 20s. to the poore of the parish) ; four persons of New Malton for an assault and afl"ray, and rescueinge six peeces of leather taken upon execution (fined i8d., rad., 2s. 6d., 2s. 6d. respectively); a man of Apleton in the Moore for takeing unjustly a grissell maire (^4 : fined los.) ; two women of Fademoore for an assault etc. upon the Sub-collector in the execution of his ofl5ce (fined 3s. 4d. each) ; a yeom". of Great Ayton for assault etc. (fined 3s. 4d.). [182*".] Fellonyes tryed att this Sessions : — A Limber-hill lab', for steahng two weathers (los. each : not guiltie) ; three Ruston men for stealing seven harrow teeth and an iron plowstaff (yd. : one not guiltie. 1-48 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. the others guiltie to 2d.— whipt) ; a lab', of Great Ayton for stealing two peeces of timber (2s. : not guiltie) ; a lab', of West Ayton for stealing a prop of oakewood (6d. : not guiltie) ; an Easingwold lab', for stealing a paire of showes, a holland capp, a testament and a salme- booke (not guiltie) ; a Clifton woman for felloniously breaking into a howse and takeinge a silver challice (i8s.) and sss. in money (not guiltie) ; the three Ruston men abovesaid for stealinge an iron shackell and bolt (12s. : not guiltie). The Names of the Jury to inquire between the Lord Protector etc. and the prisoners att the barr. Fr. Dickinson, Yeom"., John Harland, Rich. Wilkinson, Tristram Webster, Wm. Wasse, Rich. Shippard, sworne. Rob. Tooes, Yeom"., John Day, Tho. Francke, Wm. Crow, Daniell Seaton, Phil. Emerson, [►sworne. Who say as abovesaid. [183.] Fifteen bills ignored : one for prophaneing the Sabboth ; one for murder ; two for perjury ; and two for subbornation. [183''.] Names of the Jury to inquire etc. upon pleas of trespasses. (As before.) Who acquit the prisoners tried. [184.J Presentments att this Sessions : — The inhab". of Bullmer for not repairing the highway betwixt New Malton and Yorke in a place between Crambe Becke and a gate upon the topp of a hill leading towards Yorke ;• the inhab". of Hutton for the like. [184''.] Recog"'. respited in five cases. [185.] Recog'". entered in five cases. [186.] Orders made etc. Whereas there are severall fines allready leavyed, and other fines and amerciaments forfeited by the inhab'^ of the N. R. for not repairing highways and bridges, certified up into the publique Exchequer, which said fines etc. are likely to be given in charge to the Shirriff to. be leavyed upon the inhab'^ there, which when done will occasion some disquietnes etc. to the said inhab'^, the Clarke of the Peace is hereby impowered to compound for all the said fines etc. in the publique Exchequer, soe leavyed or forfeited as aforesaid, and what sum shall by him be soe disbursed, shall be reimbursed him and paid unto him by the Thre'^ for L. S. and Hosp'^ from time to time ; Henry Foster's recog" for traverse to be respited till next Se sions ; a gratuity of 20s. to a L. S. by reason of his impotence and weaknes, occasioned in the service of the Parliament, when he was in Scotland under the command KIRBYMOORESIDE, JANUARY lO, l65|. 149 of Capt. Carter ; the difference betwixt the inhab'=. of Clifton and St. Marygate concerning monethly ass'=. to be referred to the Commis- sioners for Monethly Assesses, to whom it properly belongs, and the Constable layes to goe as formerly; [I86^] Order in a bastardy case ; Ordered that the presentments dependinge in Court touching the high- wayes in Newbiggin Laine in the parish of Fylay traversed att the next Sessions, and was done by the consent of Tho. Stephenson, on the one part, and Chr. Foster and Wm. Mayling on the other ; Rich. Leife of Crawme in the clay to pay the sum of 32s. unto Peter Baker, who was his servant, and in case of refusal the Constable of Crambe to carry the said Rich. Leife before the next J. P. there to perform this Order, or shew cause etc. ; a Seamor man suppressed from keeping an aile- house for three years, and 20s. to be leavyed on his goods within six dayes, and, if he refuse, to be whipped, the moneyes to be distributed amongst the poore of the parish ; the indictment preferred by Wm. Cooke against Wm. Cleaveland of Whitby, Attorney att Law, to be dis- charged, conceiving it not proper for this Court ; Rob. Bushell, gent"., of Ruswarpe, sworne C. C. for Whitby Strand vice Mr. Wm. Harton ; [187. J the Parish Off'^ of Sowerby having dissobeyed an Order made last Sessions at Thirske, Oct. 4, 1653, and a former Order touching the weekely maintenance of a poore ould man not able to maintaine himself, the said Parish Off" to pay unto the petitioner all the arrears of his weekly maintenance, formerly Ordered him, and 8d. weekly from this time forward, and in case they refuse, the Constables of Sowerby to carry them before the next J.P. to enter recog". to answer their contempt, or shew cause etc. ; Mr. Wm. Harton, gent"., to pass his acc■^ before a J.P. within a moneth, and the said J.P. to take them and return them to the next Sessions ; a warrant against Mich. Taylor of Limber-hill to be of the good be- haviour and to appear etc., he being a dangerous person, and of evill fame ; Mr. Tho. Dickinson, late C. C. of Bullmer, to pay unto Mr. Tho. Reynolds of Yorke, Surv' of the New Bridge, 28s., due unto him upon his ace", and remaining in Mr. Dickinson's hands, and in case he refuse or delay to pay the same, the Constable of Aldwark to carry him before the next J.P. to be bound etc. ; [187''.] there being diverse arrears of L. S. money in the Weap=. of Bullmer, which is charged upon Mr. Tho. Dickinson and Mr. Halliday, late C. C. there, who have neglected and doe delay to pass their acc*^., and pay over the moneys in their hands, as by severall Orders they have been re- quired to doe, the said Mr. Dickinson and Mr. HalUday within six days to repair to the next J.P. and pass their acc'^., first giving notice to Mr. Frear, Thre'. for L. S., who is to attend the said J. P., and give in a charge against them, upon passing of which ace" they are re- I50 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. spectively to pay the moneys remaining in their hands to the said Thre'., and in case they refuse, the present C. C. to carry them, or such of them so refusing, to the next J. P. to be bound etc., and the Bailiffs of Bullmer to give them notice hereof upon receipt of a copy of this Order; Mr. Holborne to recommend to the Court at North- allerton the desires of the Jury for traverse for the usuall pay for two traverses, one for Barth. Cade and Rob. Consitt of Hovingham, another for Chr. AUinson of Craike, and half fee for Rob. Consit, wherein Mr. Orrocke joynes and paid his half fees, [i88.j intimating that this Court would have relieved the said Jury in there desires in case they had made them knowne before the adjournment thereof. [I88^] Coroner, Mich. Humble, Gent". ; Thre'. for Hosp'=- and L. S., Wm. Frear, Gent". ; C. C=. of Birdforth, Wm. Kitchingman, Wm. Lumley, Gent". ; Bullmer, Jos. Lockwood, Jos. Bell, Gent". ; Rydall, Claudius Best, Jos. Bradley, Gent". ; Pickering, Wm. Bower, Tho. Hutchinson, Gent". ; Whitby Strand, Rob. Bushell, Gent". ; Lang- bargh, Tho. Peeres, Wm. Jackson, Gent". [A" 189.] ALLERTON. Qu. Sessions by adjournment at, Jan. 17, 165!. Before Sir John Bourchier, John Wastell, Math. Beckwith, and Will. Thorneton, Esquires. Sir AVill. Constable, Bart., High Sheriff; and John Chapman, Gent"., Deputy Sheriff. Names of the Jurors etc. Tho. Barstoe, Gent"., John Snawdon, Yeom", Rich. Merrington, ,, Rich. Gaole, ,, Geo. Squire, „ Rob. Bullmer, „ Will. Adamson, „ Will. Dobbison, „ John Smelt, „ Tho. Foster, „ Tho. Coates, „ Rich. Walker, „ Rob. Flower, ,, Will. Sidgswick, „ Rob. Crawforth, „ Henry Warcopp, Gent"., ' John Key, Yeom". Will Staines, „ Tho. Flower, „ Tho. Mann, „ Geo. Flower, „ Will. Nelson, -sworne. John Raper, „ Tho. Seadman, „ Chr. Bedforth, Will. Simpson, „ Math. Wilkinson, „ John Kettlewell, „ Marm. Todd, „ Tho. Flower, „ ALLERTON, JANUARY 17, l65f. 151 Who say as follows :— [189^] Without in tresspasse att this Sess"^ :— A Yafforth lab', for speaking contemptuous words against Ralph Rymer, Esq., (entered traverse) ; a Craike spinster for maliciously and unlaw- fully interrupting the Minister of Craike when he was preaching the Word of God to the congregation (comitt to the gaole for three moneths) ; a lab', of the same place for the like (like sentence) ; three Northallerton yeom'". for extortion ; Elias Hutchingson of Kilvington, Clerk, for not paying his servant his wages ; an Over Silton man for an assault etc. ; a Tunstall yeom". for incloseinge up part of the common street or towne-gate there ; Tresspasses acknowledged etc. : — A Tunstall man and his wife for an assault etc., and rescuing goods taken upon execution (fined 2s.) ; [190.J Felonyes tryed etc. : — A lab', for stealing a gowse (whipt) ; a man and his wife for steaHng ten yards of flanning* cloth, (20s. ; not guilty) ; a lab', for stealing a certain quantity of wool (not guilty). The Names of the Jurors to inquire etc. John Marshall, Yeom"., James Calvert, „ Lancelot Harrison, „ Rob. Calvert, „ Will. Waite, „ Rich. Smith, ,, ■ sworne. Geo. Tuke, Yeom" John Foreman, „ Mich. Rootles, „ John Skelton, „ Mich. Rymer, „ John Margin, „ sworne. J Who say as above etc. : Indictments not found in three cases, one of ravishing a woman; [I9o^] in another for stealing 21s., moneys numbered ;t in another, a stackbarr ;J in another for having two wifes [«V] ; in another for hunting and killing connyes in Lord Darcye's warren ; in another for stealing ^£4. 10 in moneys andgould [sic], etc. ; in another for unjustly taking away an oak-stoop ;§ and in another for scandallizing a man ; Presentments at etc. : — The Constable of Theak- ston for not making a sufficient pair of stocks|| there, and for pulling down the common pindfould (fined 3s. 4d.) ; a yeom". for refusing to pay his ass*^. (submitted at Midsummer, and fined 2d.) ; the inhab". of the Constablery of Bagby cum Fawdington for refusing to pay their bridge and Ho. of Corr". money to the late of C. C. Birdforth ; [191-] * This is still the North Country form, prevailing throughout Cleveland, of the word flannel. ■j- This is inserted on account of the idiom involved. J The word in universal use throughout this district to express the article usually called a hurdle. § An oaken post. " Stoup. A post, either of wood or stone ; to a gate or door, or standing singly, or in lines or groups." [Clevel. Gloss.]. II The expression " a pair of stocks " is noteworthy. See Vol. II., p. 196. 152 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Tresspasses tryed etc. : — The names etc., as before, who acquit the persons charged on a plea of trespass ; recogn"^ respited in two cases, [l9I^] and in seven others ; [192.] recogn'". entered in five cases. [193.] Orders made etc. A case of settlement, wherein a woman was got with child [s/c] while in service at Poppleton in the Ancitie (Ainsty) of the cittie of Yorlce ; Geo. Marshall, late C. C. of Hang West, to appear etc. to perfect his acc'^ for L. S. and Hosp'\ money, and to bring with him an estreat which he had produced to the Treas'. for the Riding for the collecting of the said moneys, that the Court may consider thereof and establish the rates for the said Wap=., and Mr. Todd, late C. C. of the same, also to appear and finish his ace'". ; the Parish Off", of Thornton le Street to provide competent howseinge for a woman whose husband is in the service of the Commonwealth ; [193''.] whereas Tho. Walker of Craike stands indicted for malliciously and unlawfully interrupting and disturbing James Williamson of Craike, Minister, in the time he was preachinge the Word of God, all which is contrary to law in such cases, etc.. Ordered that the said Walker be comitt to the Castle or Gaole neare the walls of Yorke, there to remaine etc. for the space of three moneths etc., and further to the next Qu. Sess""". to be held next after the end of the said three moneths, at which said Sess"^ he, upon his reconciliation and repentance in that behalf before the Justices there present, shall be dehvered and discharged out of prison and gaole, upon sufficient securitie of his good abearinge* and behaviour for a year next ensuing; the like in the other like case; ;^2o additional having been Ordered for repair of Eure Bridge, and ;^6o for Willy Bridge, three Justices named to view the said bridges and see what sums, not exceeding the sums named, will suffice etc., [194. J and to certify accordingly ; Mr. John Shaw of Newsam, the younger, to be C. C. of Gilling West vm Mr. Rich. CoUings ; Mr. Anth. Bayles of Rombaldkirk to be C. C. of Gilling West nice John Shaw ; Messrs. Shaw and Collings to make their ace'". ; John Ryder of Manfeild to be C. C. of Gilling East vue John Shaw; 13s. 4d. to a widow whose husband died of the wounds received in the Parliament's service • the Gov', of Richmond Ho. of Corr". to keep a certain prisoner and chas- tise him according to the orders of the said House in the meantime • a cittie of Carlisle man to be discharged of the said House and to have a pass to go thither; [Ig4^] six prisoners named to be sent back to the Richmond Ho. of Corr"., and chastised according to the order etc. ; an Order in a bastardy case ; Mr. Leon. Robinson submits an * See Vol. IV., 52, and note. THIRSKE, APRIL 4, 1654. I S3 acc'. of arrears due to him for the rent of the Richm''- Ho. of Corr"., amounting to ^^25. 13. 4, from Michaelmas, 1641, unto Mich, last, which is Ordered to be paid, and if there be found to be any over- charge the same to be rectified : and for the future the Treas'. is to pay ;£4 half-yearly for the rent of the said House as long as it is used as the Ho. of Corr". ; [195.] the whole parish of Osmotherley to con- tribute to the poor there for the future, and if any refuse etc. ; the Treas'. for L. S. to pay to Mr. Math. Rymer, late of Morton-on-Swale, who received diverse wounds in the Commonwealth's service in Scotland, ;^3 as a gratuity ; the Overseers of Hawkeswell to provide for a poor woman ; the Parish Off"- of Osmotherley to provide for a poor child, named; los. to be paid to a man who had his house burnt down, and had been a soldier in the service of the Commonwealth ; the like Order in behalf of another ; the Parish Off■'^ of Smeaton to relieve an aged and impotent couple ; Lieut. -Col; Perrigrine Lassells to peruse Ellin Fishacke's petition and make certificate of the truth thereof at the next Sess"". ; a warrant etc. ; [igs''.] a warrant etc. against Nich. Girlinton of Girlinton for contemning an Order of Sess"'. and a Justice warrant for the maintenance of Mr. Henry Girhnton, his father; a warrant etc. against a Craike man for his contemptuous carriage before Sir John Bourchier, J.P., saying he was an oppressor (to be bound etc.) ; another warrant in the case of a man neglecting to appear to his recogn"'. ; Will. Smith sworn C. C. for Gilling East in open Court. Next Sessions at Thirske, April 4th next, etc. : and the Clerk of the Peace to issue process accordingly. [A". 197.J THIRSKE. Qu. Sessions at, 4 April, 1654. Before Sir John Bourchier, John Wastell, Fr. Lassells, Geo. Mar- wood, Rob. Walter, Henry Hall, Geo. Smithson, Leon. Smelt, and Tho. Harrison, Esquires. High Sheriff, Sir Will. Constable, Bart. ; Geo. Blanshard, Deputy, etc. The Names of the Jurors to inquire for the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England and Ireland etc., and the bodie of the N. Riding. 154 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Henry Wilson, Gent"., Will. Raper, Yeom"., Rob. Postgate, „ Tho. Bland, „ Will. Hodgson, „ James Pybus, „ Will. Atkinson, „ Chr. Wiglesworth, „ Tho. Younge, „ Rich. Bossall, Rob. Binkes, ,, Will. Johnson, „ Tho. Hall, „ Will. Wright, Roger Humble, „ Jos. Beverley, Gent"., Fr. Parvyn, Yeom"., Will. Butterwicke, ,, Will. Tindall, Rowl. Betson, „ John Hogg, „ John Husthwaite, „ ^sworne. Tho. Kirbye, „ Geo. Foster, ,, John Scrafton, „ Geo. Husthwaite, „ Simon Arnett, ,, Will. Martin, „ Tho. Gill, Chr. Calvert, „ - sworne. The verdicte foUowes : — [197".] Without in tresspasse ; — A York lab', for extortion ; another York lab', for unjustly taking a stoned horse (£3. 6. 8) ; a Goadland man for an assault on Edw. Challonour, and disturbing and stopping him in the highway ; the same man for the like unto another ; a man and woman of Yafforth for entertaining rogues and beggars (fined los. each); Chr. Johnson of Raskelf, yeom"., and his wife, with Geo. Deaneham of Baxby, gent"., and a lab', of the same, for forcible entry on lands in the possession of John Myers (traverse next Sess"^) ; two Kilburne yeom". for receiving goods dis- treined by the C. C^ for ass'^ ; Will. Toomes of Hackney, gent"., and sixteen lab'^ of Gisbrough, with two of Skelton, for digging up a common highway in a place called Combancke, otherwise Spring- bancke, between Whitby and Gisbrough; [198.] the same Mr. Toomes and thirteen Gisbrough lab", with five of Skelton, for throwing and casting stones, burnt lyme, and other rubbish into the beck called Slapewath ; [198''.] Trespasses acknowledged at etc. ; — A man for un- justly taking away two cocks of hay (2d. : fined 5s.); a -man and his wife for an assault etc. (fined i2d.); a man for unjustly taking an ewe (fined 4d.) ; two men for an assault (each fined 4d.) ; Felonies tried etc. : — A lab', for stealing two burthens of hay (puts himself not guilty) ; a Thirkleby lab', for ravishing Dorothy Fisher (puts himself not guilty) ; a lab', for stealing two oxen (puts himself guilty : hanged) ; a lab', for stealing a wooden trough (4d. : puts himself not etc.); [199.] a Richmond lab', for bigamy (not guilty) ; two lab'^ for stealing two pieces of oak timber (8d. : not guilty) ; a woman for stealing a burthen of hay (guilty to id. : whipped) ; a man for the like, with like sentence ; again another, as before. THIRSKE, APRIL 4, 16S4. 15s The Names of the Jurors etc. Yeom°., Fr. Jackson, Henry Croe, „ JohnKitchingman, ,, Tho. Morrell, „ Tho. Wright, „ John Stephenson, ,, - sworne. Tho. Jackson, Yeom"., Rob. Belwood, „ Ralph Sewhill „ Anth. Nelson, „ Will. Gamble, Rob. Morrell, „ ^sworne. Who say as aforesaid etc. ; [igg"'.] Indictments and presentments not found at etc., four cases ; presentments at etc. : — Two Thirkleby men for unjustly taking and detaining a pewter flagon ; a Scruton gent", [the C. C] for not paying in the money charged upon Hang East for repairs of Normanby Bridge ; the inhab'^ of Askrigg for not assessing etc. their ass'= to Geo. Frear, gent"., C. C. for Hang West ; two gent", for not paying the Constable's ass'^ ; [200.] the inhab'^ of Exilby, Leeming, and Newton for not assessing etc. and paying their bridge money to Mr. Tho. Warcope ; those of Whorleton for not making a sufficient pindfold ; the inhab'^. of Great Busby for not repairing their highways (to be repaired etc. on pain of j£io) ; those of Crathorne and Yarm for not repairing their town streets or gates" (same time and payne) ; the inhab". of Whorlton and Great and Little Dromonby for not re- pairing their highways between Thirsk and Stokesley (same paine and time) ; a Heaton yeom". for breaking the common fould and taking his goods ; t the same man, with other two of the same place, for digging up and making pitts in the street there ; the inhab'^ of Rochff for not repairing their highways leading through their lordship to York (24 June, on pain of ;^io) ; the inhab'^ of Shipton for the like (same time and penalty) ; the inhab". of Skelton for their highways being in decay (same time and penalty) ; Will. Bell of Overton, Esq., for not repairing the highway, bridges, and yeates leading to Benningbrough through his grounds towards the city of York (same time etc.) ; [200''.] Tresspasses tryed at etc. : — The Names of the Jurors to inquire between the Lord Protector, etc., and Elias Hutchingson, Clerk, Tho. Stephenson the inhab'^ of Fyley, and Michael Taylor upon pleas of tresspasses :— * This is so striking an illustration of the true meaning of the words street and ga/e, as originally used, that, notwithstanding notes on the same subject in previous volumes, I can hardly refrain from directing attention to it here. Gate, the way or road gone ; street, the way for going specially provided by aid of something of the nature of that which is laid down, a pavement, or what not. There is no meaning but this in the words as originally applied. As illustrative take Bargate at Boston, and Micklegate-bar at York : the one being the gate or street leading to or through the formal or fortified entrance-gate into the town ; the other the same sort of forti- fied entrance-gate, taking its distinguishing name from the great northern road from the south which it defended. + See a previous note only a few pages above. 156 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. the same as in last Pannell : who say that all are guilty except Stephenson; [201.] recog"'. respited in three cases; [201^ 202.] recogn'" taken in thirteen cases, among them, Geo. Deaneham and Chr. Johnson (See above), to prosecute their traverses next Sess"^ with effect, and again Deaneham in ^1,000, and Will. Staveley of Thormanby, gent"., in ;^Soo, upon condition that Deaneham shall per- sonally appear before his Highnes, the Lord Protector, and his Councell of State, or his Councell of Warr, within a twelvemonth from the date hereof, in case he have twenty-eight days' notice thereof, to answer what wilbe objected against him on behalf of the Commonwealth. [203.] Orders made etc. On petition by the Surv'=. of Massam Bridge, certain specified ass", to be made in divers Wap''". ; ;^io to be estreated, etc. for the said bridge ; Mr. Will. Pinckney of Silton, elected by the Court to be Tr. for the Hosp". and L. S. for the whole Riding, to appear at the next Sess"'. and take upon him the said office, Mr. Frear, the now Tr., also to appear, and, on passing his acc'^, to be discharged ; in regard the parishioners of Osmotherley withdraw their charitie, which formerly they gave at their doores * to Alex. Swailes, a poor man, it is therefore Ordered that the Parish Off^. there shall, for the future, pay the said poor man i2d. weekly; a Sigston widow to have 20s. by reason she lost her son in the Parliament's service under the command of Col. Lassells before Scarbrough Castle; [203^] 20s. to another widow who lost her husband in the Parliament's service ; 20s. to another soldier's widow whose husband died etc. under Major-Gen. Lambert's command ; the Parish Oif''^ of Northallerton to provide relief etc. ; the same as to Catterick Parish Off". ; the parish of Cra- thome to show cause why they have neglected a like Order ; all C. C^ in arrear with their payments for the repair of Yarm Bridge forthwith to pay up the same to Geo. Marwood, Esq., on pain etc. ; [204.] Anth. Hudson of Maunby to make and allow a convenient way at the end of his house, through his garth or backside, to the river of Swale, at all convenient times to all the inhab". of Maunby, which if he refuse to do, it shall be lawful for the said inhab''. to go through his house, where the way is now challenged and has been customarily used ; on the in- * This was a practice or usage by no means exploded when the editor first came into this part of the country. He could name several persons who, considerably within his own time, made a regular progress from house to house weekly, often re- ceiving at each a stated dole of food ; — seldom money, however. In some cases there was a seat at the family table at stated intervals — once a week, in one case — for the poor person (or persons) referred to, and he (or she) was in all respects dealt with as one of the party, comprising master, children, farm-servants male and female, etc. THIKSKE, APRIL 4, 1654. 1 57 formation of the mhab'^ of Dalton that a Cowton man had goods stolen from him by one Rowtless, and that he has compounded with the felon contrary to law, the said man of Cowton to go before a J. P. etc. ; a warrant against a man for departing the Court and not prose- cuting the evidence of his Highness, the Lord Protector; ;^2o for Eure Bridge etc. ; ^i^ for Barker Bridge etc. ; the presentments against Ellerbeck and Osmotherley to be discharged ; [204^] Mr. Raiph Rymer to call the Parish Off", of Yafforth before him and en- quire why they have not provided for a poor impotent widow, and also why they have contemned an Order of Sess"^ of Jan ti, 164I, etc. ; John Welbury of Kirkleatham to be sworn C. C. for the Eastern Division of Langbarugh vice Capt. Will. Jackson, etc. ; on the certifi- cate of the Surv''. of Howsey Bridge it appears that ;^i6 of the money ordered for the repair of the said bridge is still in the hands of the C. C^ of Hang West ; — they are forthwith to pay up etc. ; los. to the widow of a soldier etc. ; [205.] Ordered that the Parish OS.'^. of Cat- terick relieve a woman with her three children, she being a widow, and her husband slain in the Parliament's service ; the Court is informed and certified that Luke Yearker of Laburne, gent"., can neither read nor write, he being C. C. of Hang West, and soe, incapable of that im- ployment, Ordered that Tho. Foster of Laburne, gent"., shall take the office in his place ; the Parish Off''- of Smeaton, being disobedient to an Order of Court, the Constable to take them etc. ; a warrant etc. against the Upleatham man and his wife named as indicted etc. ; L205^] the differences between a Cawton man and his wife referred to two gent", named, and a question touching some property disputes also dealt with in the Order ; Marm. Nortcliffe, gent"., late Tr, for L. S., represents that ;^35 was levied upon him as a charge against the N. R., and that there are diverse other charges against the N. R. forth of the Exchequer, which cannot be compounded for till Yarm Bridge be re- paired, and that the moneys so levied remain in the hands of the late High Sheriff, and no Order can be obtained for repayment until the aforesaid bridge is repaired,— Mr. Marwood is forthwith to call in the money ordered for the said repairs, which must be done with all con- venient speed, and the said gent"., with John Turner, Esq., two of the Justices etc., to view the bridge, estimate the cost of necessary re- pairs, and the danger of a greater charge if not speedily repaired, and recoiiimend the same to the Justices of the county of Durham, who are desired to join with the said N. R., and the Clerk of the Peace for the N. R. is to take care according to the former Order to compound for the said issues to the end an Order may be obtained [206.] forth of the Exchequer, and endeavour the speedy procurement of the moneys levied of Mr. Nortcliff, to the end he may not be delayed of IS8 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. the money disbursed for the Riding ; a man to be committed etc. ; a warrant etc. against the three Mennells indicted as above ; present- ments discharged in three cases ; a warrant etc. against the Constable of Eastdale-side for not executing a warrant etc. ; 20s. to be paid to a man named ; [2o6^] the Court considering the great want of money for paying pensions necessarie granted to poor impotent and lame soldiers, who have hazarded themselves on the behalf of the Common- wealth, and thereby deprived themselves of livelihood, and that there are very many impotent and poor people waiting at every Sess"^, who deserve to be looked upon with commiseration, and in some measure relieved, and also observing that the Hosp"'. money has not been levied in the N. R. for several years past — Ordered that the several C. C^ are forthwith to collect the several proportions of L. S. money, and the arrears thereof, and all the arrears of Hosp^ money from April 3, 1649, 3-"d pay the said money to the Treasurer at next Sessions ; all C. C^, present or late, are to make up a perfect freehold- book of all freeholders who are fit to serve at the Assizes and Sess"^, and show the same to the Justices of their own Divisions, or next adjoining, who are desired to peruse and perfect the same, and afterwards the C. C^ are to return such freehold-books, signed by such Justices, to the High Sheriff, with all convenient speed, [207. J that the Sheriff may have the same against Trinity Term next, to return able and fit persons etc. ; jQ6o additional to the sum formerly ordered for Willy Bridge to be estreated, and Surveyors named ; loss by fire — ;^5 allowed \ the Over- seers of Topcliff having been Ordered to provide a house for a poor woman and her fatherless children, and taken housing for the purpose, yet nevertheless, at the Court Leet held at Topcliff the owner of the said housing was fined for entertaining the said woman and children, — Ordered that the Bailiff there at once repair before a J. P. to show cause wherefore he should not restore his goods to the said house- owner; [207^] a great mistake having been made as to the payment of their several proportions of L. S. money between West Tanfield and Wath parishes, an Order accordingly, with many minute provisions as to the several sums to be paid by either party for the time to come • detailed Order touching the hanging of the man charged with stealing two oxen (See above), who is to be taken to some publique place of execution near Thirsk, on a given day, and there hanged etc. MALTON, JULY II, 1654. '59 [2 1 O.J MALTON. Qu. Sessions at, July 11, 1654. Before Sir John Bourchier, Luke Robinson, Geo. Marwood, Chr. Piercehay, Arthur Noell, Wm. Ascough, Wm. Weddell, Henry Hall, and John Heme, Esquires. Sir William Constable, Bart, High Sheriff; John Chapman, gent".. Deputy Sheriff. Names of the Jury to inquire Henry Simpson, Gent"., Rob. Fran eke, Yeom", Henry Easton, John Cowpland, Tho. Younge, RandulfBerriman, Rich. Harton, Chr. Fawcett, „ ^sworne. John Boyes, Chr. Crosby, Tho. Taylor, Rob. Robson, Tho. Kitchin, Wm. Barneby, Fr. Tranmire, for the Lord Protector, etc. Fr. Knaggs, Gent"., Jeremy Idle, Yeom" Martin Pennocke, ,, Tho. Wm. Marshall, „ Miles Mewburne, ,, Leon. Huntrodes, ,, Henry Scailes, ,, John Jackson, „ J-sworne. Jeremie Spavin, „ Eastasse Casse, „ Rich. Carline, „ Edw. Watson, „ Geo. Robinson, „ John Ward, ,, Peter Manners, ,, Geo. Smith, „ [2I0^] Without in felony at this Sessions: — A Skewsby lab', for stealing thirteen sheep (;£3. 5). Without in trespass : — A Roxby yeom". for shutting att a man with a fowling-peice and maiming him (to traverse next Sessions, submitted : noe fine [the last in another hand]) ; a Bransdaile gent", for extortion ; four men of Egton and one of Mulgrave for assaulting the watchmen (entered traverse, submitted and fined) ; a lab', and a woman of Skewsby for assault ; Sir Henry Vaughan, Knight, of Whitwell, and Dame Clara, his wife, for common barrators ; Rob. Covell of the Minster Yeard, lately belonging the Cathedrall Church of St. Peter's in Yorke, for extortion ; a Welburne man for taking and destroying partridges ; a yeom". of Heaton (Hutton) in the Hole for assault; [2 11. J three Bowforth persons for a forceable entry ; eight Goadland persons for a riot and assault (traverse next Sessions) ; three yeom". of Butterwicke, i6o QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. two of Brawby, and two of Lawton for riot and assault (all to traverse) ; a Bransby man for shutting in a gun. [211^.] Informations this Sessions : — Tho. Harper, lab'., late of Hunt- ington, for executing the office of Bailiff, not being sworn. Felonyes tried etc, : — A Butterwicke lab', and his wife for stealing forty dozen yards of ribbin (^5 : the woman guilty to 6s. 6d. — burnt in the hand) ; a Newton lab', for stealing a load of turves (8d. : not guilty) ; a Normanby lab', for stealing an ewe (4s. : not guilty) ; a man and woman of Skewsby for stealing fourteen kids of whinns (3d. : not guilty) ; a Murton lab', for stealing an ewe (6s. : not guilty) ; a New Malton lab', for stealing nine yards of black seardge (31s. : not guilty) ; a New Malton woman for steahng fourteen yards of green say (20s. : guilty to i8d. — burnt in the left hand) ; [212. J an East Ayton lab', for stealing one paine of glasse, belonging the parish church of East Ayton ; a Shipton lab', for stealing a calf (3s. : guilty to 4d. — whipt). Names of the Jury etc. Chr. Allanson, Gent"., Marke Wilson, Yeom°., Marke Catterton, ,, Rob. Wilson, „ Geo. Cockerill, ,, Tho. Mackpeace, ,, - sworne. Henry Cockerell, Yeom"., Chr. Waike, Rob. Wildon, Chr. Wilson, Jeoffray Nicholson, John Rutter, Who say as abovesaid. Trespasses acknowledged etc. : — A Risebrough man for assault (fined 3s, 6d.) ; a man and two women of Skewsby for a riot and assault (the man and one woman fined los. each) ; [212''.] three shoe- makers of Whitby for unjustly taking four paire of shoes (7s. : fined 6d. each) ; a Brotton yeom". for unjustly taking ten horse load of sea-wreck* (6d. : fined 6d.) ; an Allerston man for rescuing his goods distreyned for the monethly ass'^ (fined 20s.) ; a Pickeringe lab', for abusing the Pickering Overseers in a contemptuous manner (fined i2d.); three yeom". for rescuing a gelding distreined for ass", (submitted : fined, one 1 2d., the others 4d. each). [2 13.] Twelve bills ignored, one for conjuration. Presentments : — A Marton yeom". for inclosing part of Marton Laine ; a Great Dromonby man for not repairing Bense Bridge Laine (to be repaired by Aug. 31, upon pain of ^^) ; [2 13. J the inhab"^ of Farnedaile for not repairing * Sea-weed, almost certainly: not wreckage. "Wrack. A kind of sea-weed. Wrack, as a name for sea-weed, merely means that which is cast ashore. . . . Icel. rek {^oxvrek), also reki, anything drifted or driven ashore." (Skeat.) The word is in continual use in the sense of sea-weed in all the maritime parts of Cleveland. MALTON, JULY II, 1654. 161 their proportions of Blawith [sic] (Michaelmas next, upon pain of ^10) ; the inhab^ of Ingleby Arnecliff, Thimbleby and Lanmoth for not re- pairing their proportions of the highway between Stoaxley and Thirske (before Michaelmas, Ingleby, £6. 6. 8, Thimbleby £(i. 6. 8, Lanmoth £io : discharged) ; the owners or occupyers of Risebarugh Hag for not repairing a highway extending from the high closes unto Wrelton Cliff (to be repaired by Martinmas, upon pain of ^30) ; a Marton woman for refusing to pay her Constable ass'^ ; a Whenby woman for stopping up a gate at Whenby town-end ; a Pickering man for stopping up two common and small highwayes. Trespasses tried. Names of the Jury etc. ; as before : who acquit the prisoners. [214.] One recog'^'. respited. [2I4-2I5^] Recog"' entered in twenty cases; a man of Hutton upon Darwent in ;^ioo, to appear at the Midsummer Sessions in 1655, to answer etc., and meantime etc. ; a Thorneton gent", in ;2^2o to prefer an indictment against Mr. Miglon for consealing the Commonwealth's evidence. [216.] Orders made etc. Tho. Dickinson, gent"., to appear before the J.P'. at New Malton on Fryday next, and shew cause wherefore he refuses to pay his proportion of the money allotted for utensalls for the Ho. of Corr". at Pickering, which should have been paid long ere now to Mr. Hutchingson, out of his part of the Division of BuUmer ; a warrant against Hugh Lenge, Minister of Hutton, to appear at this Sessions, if he cann be apprehended in the time of the Sessions sitting, otherwise to be carried before some J. P. to enter bond etc. ; the Sessions to be adjourned till seven of the clocke in the forenoone on Fryday next and then to begin again at New Malton, that the country may be left at liberty to attend the ellection tomorrow at Yorke for Parliament men,* as they shall thincke fittinge ; a warrant against three Hutton Rudby men to appear etc. ; a warrant against a Gilling man to appear tomorrow morninge by eleven of the clock to give evidence concerning the unjust taking of a brown mare; [216''.] the Parish Off", of Helmsley to provide harbour for a poor man ; the presentment against Shipton highwayes to be respited till next Sessions, and a gent", appointed to take care they be repaired, and of the money imposed on the town he is to be satisfied of the disbursements; upon peruseall of the ace", of the Surv'. for Howsam Bridge, it appears that he hath £(>. os. i2d. in his hands, above his disbursements, which he used for his owne pains and travailing charges, he is to pay £1 to the Clark of the Peace to • A Minute which is remarkable, not only as reminding us of a date of some little interest, but as showing that the Justices were of opinion that some such regard to the occasion was needed— perhaps even looked for. VOL. V. -M 1 62 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. be disposed of as the Court shall order ; the several Surv". of Bridges to appear at the next Sessions and pass their acc'=., and bring in their acquitances, and the Clark of the Peace to search the Rolls and know who have been Surv"., and send them notice accordingly ; the Sheriff to attach Marm. Skelton of Bransdaile in the E. R. [sic], to appear at the next Sessions to answer an indictment for extortion by colour of his office of Coroner, and the Clark of the Peace to issue a warrant to that effect; [217.] Mr. Hugh Lenge, Gierke, Parish Register of Huttones Ambo, having confessed in Court that he, in December last, did {de facto) marry two persons together contrary to law, and thereby betrayed his trust, to be discharged of his said imployment, and the parishioners to elect and chuse afitt person to be their Parish Register, and present the same to the next J. P. to take the oath etc. ; a war- rant to be issued to the Sheriff and other publique OfiP'. against Rob. Covell of the Minster Yeard, York, to appear etc. ; Wm. Estleby of Spoforth to enter recog'^". to appear etc. to answer touching the murder and death of one Sowerby ; the Sheriff to set at liberty five persons who have received their tryalls and been acquitted ; a New Malton man to have the eight pair of stockins for which a woman was in- dicted, he having made his property therein appear ; [2I7^] whereas the inhab*' of Whorlton, of Great Busby, of Grathorne, "- " of Little Dromonby were presented at Thirske, April 4th last, fo'i repairing highways, and the sura of jC\o was charged upon each townshipp as a paine, the said highways being now sufficiently repaired, the sai(^ townshipps to be discharged of the said pains ; a like Order concerning; ;^io charged upon the inhab'^ of Whorlton for not repairing the com- mon pinfold ; a Writ of Restitution to be issued, an indictment of forceable entry being found against Anth. Gowper, Mary Blackelocke and Rob. Winsby of a parcell of ground called the Intake in Hutton in the Hole; [218.] two J.P'- to take the acc'^. of Mr. Wm. Frear, late Thre'. for Hosp'^ and L. S., and to certify etc. ; John Fetch, for his cursing and execrating and rude carriage in the face of the Court, to pay 3s. 4d. for the use of the poor of New Malton, or be set in the publique stocks the space of three hours, and enter bond to appear etc., and meantime be of good behaviour ; two gent", appointed Surv". of the highway between Newsam Bridge and Amotherby Moor and to give an ace', etc., and the C. being the remaining sum in arrears due at last Lady Day for the rent of the Ho. of Corr". ; [226.] a Long Cowton man, being convicted for swearing three oathes in Long Cowton, fined los. to the poor; Mr. Rob. Holborn, Clarke of the Peace, being behind for his sallarie, due fourth of Richmondshire, for one year, ended at Easter 1653, 53s. 4d., and also his sallarie for the whole N. R., ;^8. 6. 8 for one year and a quarter, after 33s. 4d. the quarter, Mr. Frear, late Thre'., to pay him the said sums, and Mr. Pinckney, the now Thre'., to pay him 33s. 4d. for his quarter's sallarie, due this Sessions, and to continue the like payment quarterly till further Order; two gratuities of 20s. to L. S. ; [226^] whereas diverse C. C^, being in arrear for L. S. and Hosp'^ money, doe alleadge that they conceive they have not power to distreyne for the same, so that they cannot soe punctually observe the Order of the last Sessions nor the duetie of their places in that particular, the said C. C^ to repair to the next J. P. and give information against such Parish Ofl". whoe doe neglect or delay the payment of their proportion of the said money, which J.P. is to take them bound etc. ; a poor woman of Thorneton in the Street, who hath relief from the parish, being in great want of harbour, to have 20s. from the parish the better to inable her to build herself a howse; a warrant for good behaviour against Geo. Rymer, gent"., of Scruton, to appear and answer a presentment, as also for saying he was presented and was to appear at this Sessions, but said he would not appear till next Sessions; [227.] the Court being informed that there is much of the country money in the hands of Geo. Rymer alehouse at Kingston in Surrey, who was accordingly placed in the chair and ducked in the river Thames, under Kingston Bridge, in the presence of two or three thousand people. The description of the ducking-stool at the bridge foot next Magdalen College, Cambridge, is as follows : — The chair hung by a pulley fastened to a beam about the middle of the bridge, in which the woman was confined, and let down under the water three times, and then taken out. The bridge was then of timber, before the present stone bridge of one arch was builded. The ducking-stool was constantly hanging in its place, etc. When the new bridge of stone was erected, about 1754, this was taken away. The Chamberlain's accounts at the place named give a bill for expenses for making one of these cucking-stools, which is interesting in its way, but need not be reproduced here. The date is 1672, l66 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. of Scruton, and John Marshall of Masham, late C. O. for Hang East, and that they refuse to give an ace', thereof, two J.P^ to call the said late C. C^ before them, to take their ace", and examine what money they received, and, if they give not a satisfactory ace'., to take them bound etc. ; the parish of Osmotherly to be discharged at the next Sessions for giving further relief to a poor woman, whose sonns are to provide for her wants, unless they show cause etc. ; the ;£i. 13. 4 Ordered last Sessions for Egleston Bridge to be forthwith estreated ; upon information that an alehouse-keeper of Little Hutton keeps a disorderly house and drawes company to drincke there upon the Saboth-daies, and other unlawfull times, he is to be discharged from brewing for three years, and the Constable to repair to him and declare unto him that he is suppressed; [227''.] two gent" to examine and find out, if they can, what moneys have been paid by the severall Petty Constables of Croft since the year 1650 to Mr. Chr. Smithson, late C. C. for Gilling East, for several bridges charged upon that Constablery, that further Order may be given therein, upon the desire of Mr. Hutton Gregory, who pretends that he hath disbursed, and is yet out of purse some money for the said Constablery ; the Parish Off", of Osmotherly to continue the payment of 6d. weekly to the petitioner, and, in case of refusal, the next J. P. to bind them etc.; whereas Mr. Rich. Collings and Mr. John Shaw, late C. C^ for Gilling West, being charged with arrears of L. S. and Hosp'^ money, doe alledge that they paid more moneys to Mr. Wray, late Thre'. for L S., than he doth charge himself withall in acc'^, wherein he confesseth the receipt of ;2£^2i. 11. 9 from Mr. Shaw and ^10. 4. 6 from Mr. Collings, the said Mr. Collings affirming that he paid Mr. Wray above ;^3 more, and Mr. Shaw saying that he paid him ^4. 9 more than he confesseth, all parties to appear before a J. P., who is to hear and peruse the allagations and acquittances on all parts, and to certify etc ; [228.] Mr. Benson, C. C. for Hang West, alleging that he hath noe estreates, or certain rule whereby to collect the moneys for Hosp'^ and L. S. in his Division, forasmuch as it appears by the ace", of the former C. C". that their proportions have usually been paid quarterly as follows : Hipswell 2S. 2d., Catterick 4s. 4d., Horneby 2s. 2d., Brunton 2s. 2d., Fleeton 4s. 4d., Scruton 2S. 2d., in all 17s. 4d., the said Mr. Benson and his successors to leavy the same according to the said proportions ; a woman in the Ho. of Corr°. to be whipt and sent to Witton in Weere ; the Thre'. for L. S. to pay to a soldier's widow 8s. quarterly for three years, in case she so long live ; upon information upon oath, given by John Carter of East Cowton, that Geo. Anderson did. May 20 last, at Cowton, sweare three severall oaths, the Parish Off"- there to leavy los. upon Anderson's goods and distribute the same to the poor ; [228^] upon the petition of Eliz'^ THIRSKE, OCTOBER 3, 1654. 167 Midleham, widow, togeather with a certificate under the hand and seal of his Highnes the Lord Protector, dated March 7, 1652, testifying that her husband dyed in the Parliament's service, the Thre'. for L. S. to pay her 6s. 8d. quarterly for three years ; the Parish OfP=. for Downe- holme to pay 4d. weekly to a poor ould man over and above the 8d. weekly formerly graunted, and, if they refuse, the next J. P. to bind them etc. ; a Writt of Restitution to be issued, to remove the force if any be, and establish the possession of a parcel of ground, called Langerton Moore End, containing ten acres, and another close called Ingdaile, containing seven acres, lying in East Cowton ; the Court, taking notice of the large pension graunted to Chr. Coates by former Order, and of his ability in bodie in some measure to earne his living, as also of the main pensioners' deploreable condition who have smaller pensions, do Order that ] os. a quarter of the former pension be sus- pended, and that, for the future, he receive only 20s. quarterly. The next Sessions to be at Thirske, Tuesday, Oct'. 3. [230.] THIRSKE. Qu. Sessions at, Oct'. 3, 1654. Before Sir John Bourchier, Luke Robinson, Wm. Ascough, Geo. Marwood, Math. Beckwith, Henry Hall, Wm. Thorneton, Wm. Weddell, Leon. Smelt, Tho. Lassells, and Benjamin Nortcliff, Esquires. Sir Wm. Constable, High Sheriff. Wm. Readhead, Gent"., ] Wm. Harton, „ Joshua Noble, Yeom"., Wm. Wright, „ Rich. Cass, ,, Wm. Plewman, „ Rob. Fawdington, „ M'm. Fountaines, „ Edw. Cowling, „ Wm. Woodward, „ Rob. Flower, „ John Wilkinson, „ Wm. Thompson, „ Henry Sharrey, „ Tho. Wilkinson, „ Ralph Hesle, Gent"., Will. Faireside, Yeom"., Rich. Harding, Rich. Wells, Fr. Cundall, Anth. Abbey, Tho. Nicholson, i- sworne. Rob. Cowling, Tho. Wright, Geo. Johnson, Wm. Mann, Wm. Owthwaite, Tho. Aiskew, Fr. Parvyn, Rob. Bellwood, Ralph Hewthwaite, John Martyn, ■ sworne. 1 68 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. [23o^] Without in felony :— Three Wensley lab", for robbing a man by the highway ; a Yorke lab'', for stealing a gray horse (;£3)> ''^^ goods of some person unknown. Without in trespass : — Rob. Bradley, Gierke, of Boltby, for scandal- izing and abusing two gent", with words (committed to the gaol) ; a man of Foss House for assault (admitted to traverse) ; the aforesaid Rob. Bradley for being a common swearer, drunkard and prophaner of the Saboth (committ) ; a man and woman of Crambe for inconti- nency (committ for three moneths, and to find securities for a year) ; a Towlesby taylor for being a common barrector (entered traverse) ; the Ballif of BuUmer for extortion (entered traverse) ; John Peirce, Esq., of Lazenby, for using severall provoking speaches unto the Deputy-bailiff for Allertonshire ; an Ouleston dyer for killing and destroying rabbits in Newbrough warren ; [231.] a gent", and two lab", of Marske for forcible entry (entered traverse) ; seven Marisk gent", for a riot and assault (entered traverse) ; four Marriske yeom" for opposing and holding out the Sheriff from executing a writ of Ha. fa. poss. (entered traverse) ; a Lazenby gent", for an assault upon the Bailiff in execution of his office (entered traverse) ; a yeom". and two lab" of Marriske for riot and assault (entered traverse) ; a ToUerton lab", for challenging two men to feight with him ; a Thorneton Beanes woman for suffering people to drincke and play in her howse on the Saboth day ; the Constable of Byland and Ouldstead for exaction ; a Newbrough woman for being a common drunkard and prophaner of the Saboth ; [231''.] a Hackney gent", and a Comebancke husb". for unjustly taking away two timber trees ; a gent"., a miller and a woman of Sowerby for assault upon a woman (submitted : fined 6d. apeece). Trespasses acknowledged ; — A Thorneton Risebrough man for an assault (fined i2d.) ; the Constable of Sutton upon Galtres for suffer- ing a prisoner to escape (fined 20s.) ; two Cowburne lab", for assault (fined 1 2d. each); three Cowton men for a riot and assault (fined 30s.). Felonies tried : — A Kirtlinton lab', for stealing a pair of leather britches (i8d. : puts himself guilty to 4d. — whipt) ; the same for steal- ing a leather dublett (2s. : guilty to 4d. — whipt) ; a Scorton woman for stealing a table napkin (lod. : not guilty) ; a Wasse lab', for steal- ing an iron gavelocke (2s. : not guilty) ; [232. J two Swaineby women for stealing three petticoats (5s. : guilty to 6d. — whipt) ; a Tollerton lab', for stealing a lamb (3s. : not guilty) ; a Shipton lab', and a Newton lab', for concealing the felony and not prosecuting (not guilty) ; a Deighton woman for stealing three yards and a quarter of green cloth (3s. 8d. : not guilty) ; a Midleham lab', for stealing three burthens of THIRSKE, OCTOBER 3, 1654. 169 hay (ss. : not guilty); a Skewsby lab', for stealing thirteen sheep {£3- o. 4 : not guilty) ; a Sand Hutton lab', for stealing an ewe (53. : not guilty). Names of the Jury etc. Rob. Cuthbert, Gent"., ' Chas. Parker, Gent' Fr.Armestronge.Yeom' Raiph Whitton, „ Tho. Coverdaile, ,, Rob. Reynoldson, „ Wm. Whitton, „ k John A wnewicke, Yeom° Simon Britton, „ Chr. Richardson, ,, Henry Bell, ,, Henry Craw, „ Who say as abovesaid. [232^] Bills ignored in fifteen cases. [233.] Presentments: — The inhab'"- of New Forrest for not paying their Constable ass'^ ; the inhab'^ of New Malton for digging pits or holes in the common highway between Malton and Thirske (to be amended by Dec'. 31, upon pain of ;,^io) ; the inhab'^ of Barton in the Street for the like (;^S pain) ; three Craike men for refusing to pay Constable ass". ; [233*".] the inhab". of Goulton for not repairing Goulton Laine between Thirske and Stoaxley (to be repaired by Dec'. 31) ; the inhab*^. of Easingwold for not repairing New Bridge at both ends ; the inhab"- of Apleton, Amotherby and Swinton for not repairing the common highway from their Common to Newsam Bridge (issue out summons) ; the late C. C. of Hang East for refusing to pay to the inhab'^ of Beadall and Firby the money remaining in his hands for ass*^. Trespasses tried. Names of the Jury to examine between his Highness the Lord Protector and Wm. Toomes, Fr. Barley and others, John Dove and others, John Starr and others, John Fetch, Trinian Shaw, Rob. Miles and his wife, upon pleas of trespass : (the same Jury.) [234.] Who say that the said Wm. Toomes, Esq., Fr. Barley and others are not guilty for digging up the highway in Comebancke ; that John Dove and the rest are guilty for a riot (to pay ^^13. 6. 8, and Wm. Lyeth and the rest to pay 20s. apeece) ; that Wm. Toomes, Esq., John Starr and others mentioned in the indictment for casting the slam of allom into Slapewath are not guilty ; that John Fetch is guilty of assault and therefore is fined 3s. 4d. ; also for the like, 3s. 4d. ; that Rob. Miles and his wife are guilty for assaulting and beating a woman, therefore fined 5s. each ; and that Trinian Shaw is guilty for assaulting and beating Eliz* Atkinson and therefore fined 20s. [234''.] Names of the Jury to inquire between the Lord Protector and Tho. Brown and others, upon pleas of trespass. I/O Wm. Sturdie, Gent"., Fr. Armestrong, Yeom"., Ralph Whitton, „ Tho. Coverdaile, „ Rob. Raynoldson, ,, Wm. Whitton, „ QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. 1 Rob. Cuthbert, Yeom"., John Awnwick, „ Simon Britton, ,, Chr. Richardson, ,, Henry Bell, ,, Henry Craw, ,, - sworne. Who acquit the prisoners. One recog" respited. [235-236.] Recog"^ entered in twenty cases. Orders made etc. The Sheriff to cause such proclamations as he hath to make against any persons upon exigents to be proclaimed in Court during the time of the Sessions ; the Sheriff to take Rob. Bradley, Gierke, into his custody until he find securitie for his good behaviour for a twelve- month ; a man and woman, convicted of living togeather in fornication, committed to gaole for three months, and afterwards to give security for their good behaviour for one whole year ; a warrant against a New Malton man for good behaviour and to appear etc. ; [236''.] issue out a Capias agamst John Chapman ; Order in a bastardy case ; Mr. Rob. Holborne, Clerke of the Peace, and late Gierke to the Commission of Pyous Uses, to search up the papers taken by the Commissioners for Pious Uses belonging Whitby Bridge, and bring them to the next Sessions after Easter, that the Court may view the same and make use thereof as they shall see cause, and the said Mr. Holborne to issue out summons to the partyes concerned, who are to pay moneys, to bring in the same against the same time ; no prosecution being had against Math. Topham of Midleham at this Sessions, he is to be discharged of further attendance ; a Writ of Restitution to be made for the delivery of £il (put iiito the hands of Mr. Hutchinson, C. C, to keep) unto Wm. Dowser, who deposeth the same to be his ; the Parish Off", of Thirske to pay a poor man 6d. weekly; a ToUerlon man to have los. as a present gratuity, and 40s. yearly for a pension beginning at Easter next; [237.] John Dove, committ upon the riot, Wm. Lyth, Ann Dove, Jaine Dove, Tho. Calvert and John Petch being all found guilty upon traverse, John Dove to stand committed till he pay £,-i.2>- 6- 8, and everie other person 20s. apeece, and till further pleasure of the Court, and a warrant to issue out to the Sheriff to attach the persons of Edm. Leighton and Rob. Hudson of Goadland, to keep them in custody for ten days, and afterwards till they pay, either of them, 20s. fine, they being guilty of the aforesaid riot ; four gent", to examine the truth of the petitioner's ace'., and what money is in arrears in the hands of any THIRSKE, OCTOBER 3, 1654. 171 of the wardens or other inhab". of Yearme, who are lyeable to the pay- ment of any rents belonging to the repair of Yearme Bridge, and to certify etc. ; a gratuity of 13s. 4d. to a soldier's widow ; Jaine and Joan Girlington, daughters of Mr. Henry Girlington, being in great want, the Parish Off", of Wykeliff to pay the said Jaine Girlington i8d. weekly, by reason of her weakness, and is. weekly to Joan Girlington, and in case any failing be herein Wm. Thorneton, Esq., to see justice done ; [^S?*"-] the Court being satisfied that the ^^ remaining in the hands of Mr. Tho. Hutchingson, which was delivered to him to keep, upon the apprehension of Rob. Gardiner and Nich. Jackson, belonges to Mr. Wm. Dowser, Mr. Hutchingson to restore it to him ; the difference betwixt the two Thirklebys concerning Church layes referred to four Justices ; the Gierke of the Peace to give a copy of the severall Jurors' names to the Sheriff, that they be not returned to serve at the Assizes or Sessions ; two Surv". for Newsam Bridge appointed ; a gratuity of 13s. 4d. to a L. S. ; the Parish Of^'^ of Strensile to pay 6d. weekly to the said L. S. ; a gratuity of 13s. 4d. to a soldier's widow ; [238.] John Bainebrigg of Croftwhaite to deliver into the hands of John Jordan of Bowbancke a gray horse, stolne by Wm. Lazenby, the goods of whom not known, by the said Jordan to be kept untill Lazenby be delivered ; a brewer of Deighton near AUerton to be discharged from brewing for entertaining wandering persons, and a woman charged with committing a felony ; a Shipton man to pay to the Sheriff 7s. he found in the high- way ; Mr. Wm. Pinckney, Thre'. for L. S., to pay Mr. Wm. Frear ;^3 ; Mr. Ehas Hutchingson to pay the money due to Tho. Goodall, or shew cause etc. ; Wm. Lazenby, late of the Castle of Yorke, commit to the gaole; a man of Upper Helmesley, who was commit to the gaole by two Justices, to be set at hberty; [238^] John Dove, Jaine Dove, and the others mentioned above, having been committ to the Sheriff untill they paid the fines imposed upon them, to be set at liberty if the said fines be paid ; forasmuch as a woman taken wander- ing in the Constablery of Pickering, who saith she was borne at Sand- bridge in Chester, and was the daughter of a carpenter there, being committ to the Ho. of Corr". as a rogue and a vagrant, doth appear to be a person under distraction and distempered in her senses, and nothing appearing to require further detention, to be conveyed from Constable to Constable to the town of Sandbridge aforesaid, there to be provided for :— To the Constables of Pickering, Malton, Hutton upon Darwent, Whitwell, Flaxton and all other Constables in the way leading to Sandbridge ; [239-] in pursuance of an Order, two Justices having taken and audited the ace", of Wm. Frear, gent°., late Thre'. for L. S. and Hosp^, produced the same into Court as justly and duely made, whereby it appears the said accomptant received in 172 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. his said imployment^237. 2. 2, and noe more, and that he paid and disbursed, according to Orders, ^£^237. 12. 6, and noe lesse, his dis- bursements exceeding his receipts by los. 4d., and that he attended eleven Sessions, for which he desired allowance of charges, the present Thre'. to pay him 10s. 4d. for his disbursements and Sos. towards his charges, being after 4s. 6d. for the Sessions, and he to be discharged from further attendance in the said imployment ; there being a great inequallitie and disproportion had in all ass'^ in the Weapentake of Gilling East, and an Order having been made by the Commissioners for six months' ass'=., July 19, 1654, for a survey to be taken through the said Weapentake according to the just and real value of everie town at rack, withall desiring nine gent"., or the major part of them, to setle rates in the said Weap"., and there being Httle or nothing done therein, the said gent"., or the major part of them, forthwith to meet at some convenient time and place, and setle equall and just rates as aforesaid, and certify etc. ; [239''.] The next Sessions to be at Kirby- mooreside the Tuesday after Epiphany ; and the Tuesday after that, at Richmond, by adjournment. Luke Robinson, Wm. Weddell, Geo. Marwood, Henry Hall. [241.J KIRBYMOORESIDE. Qu. Sessions at, Jan. 9, 1654. Before Luke Robinson, Wm. Ayscough, Chr. Piercehay, and Math. Beckwith. John Bright, Esq., High Sheriff; Martyn Wikeham, Gent"., Deputy Sheriff. Names of the Jury etc. Rob. Stope, Gent"., Nich. Pearson, „ Rich. Wetherel, Yeom"., Geo. Midleton, „ Wm. Hebden, ,, John Shippard, „ Rich. „ „ Henry Otterburne, „ Chr. Potter, „ Wm. Gibbons, ,, Wm. Butterwicke, ,, Rob. Conset, „ John Kitchingman, ,, Rich. Wilson, ,, John Boyes, Tho. Baites, Gent"., Rich. Johnson, Yeom". Eustace Casse, John Browne, Rog. Smith, Rich. Wawne, Henry Franke, Fr. Dickinson, Tho. Burton, Tho. Pennocke, Geo. Robinson, Henry Bradley, Wm. Sturdie, Anth. Whaites, sworne. KIKRYMOORESIDE, JANUARY 9, 1654. 1 73 [241''.] Without in trespass : — A Welburne alehouse-keeper for prophaning the Saboth ; two Gauthrope yeom". for assault ; a Terring- ton man for the like; a Newton yeom°. for the like; a Welburne yeora". for the like ; a Thorneton woman and a man and a woman of Seasey for fornication (committ to the gaole) ; a New Malton man for exacting and receiving severall sums of money under pretence of toll ; a New Malton yeom". for entering a house and taking away ten peice of pewter (22s.) ; a Yorke man for stopping up a staineway ; two Keabecke men for being [players of] interludes etc. ; the Constables of Helmesley for not punishing the said persons ; [242. J Wm. Toomes, Esq., of Hacknes and three others for taking away two loads of oak wood (40s.) ; two Ganthrope men for shutting [shooting] and destroying conyes ; two Kirbymooreside men for forcible entry ; two Sutton men and a Kilvington man for being [players of] interludes ; a Yearme man and thirty-five others for assault. Bills ignored : — Against the said Yearme man and the rest for forceably entering certaine peices of land called Bawkes. Trespasses acknowledged : — An Easeby gent", and a Skilderskew man for assault (submitted, fined 20s. each) ; a Skalby man for the like (fined 3s. 4d.) ; [242^] an Ampleforth lab', for the like (fined 3s. 4d.) ; a Craike yeom". for wounding and stabbing the Constable of Craike (submitted, fined ^5, committ) ; an Ebberston man for assault (submitted, fined 3s. 4d.) ; a Dalby man and two North Ings men for a riot and assault (the North Ings men fined 5s. and 3s. 4d. respectively) ; the said Dalby man for assault (at large) ; a Fademoor woman for the like (submitted, fined 3s. 4d.) ; a New Malton lab', for the like (sub- mitted, fined 2S.) ; two New Malton men for the like (submitted, fined 2S. each). Fellonyes tried : — A Comraondaile lab', for stealing six peeces of oakwood (6d. : putts himself not guilty) ; a Gisbrough woman for steaHng a loyne of mutton (6d : not guilty) ; a Welburne lab', for adultery ; [243.] a Lund man for stealing a black heiffer (40s.) the goods of a person unknown (not guilty). Names of the Jury etc. Wm. Foster, Gent"., John Hogg, Yeom"., John Martyn, ,, Geo. Pearson, ,, Tho. Gill, Wilfrey Dunninge, „ ^ sworne. John Smith, Yeom"., Tho. Sturdie, ,, John Wetherell, „ Tho. Hutchingson, „ John Harland, „ Tho. Hodge, Who say as aforesaid. 174 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Presentments :— The inhab" of Pickeringe for not repairing New Bridge ; a Kirby Misperton man for stopping up a common and usual highway through his garth ; the inhab". of the Constablery of Wilton in Langbarugh for not making a sufficient foot bridge over Dinsdaile Becke. [243".] Names of the Jury to inquire between the Lord Protector etc. upon a plea of trespass. Geo. Pearson, Yeom"., ' John Hogg, John Martyn, Tho. Hill, Wilfrey Dunninge, John Smith, Tho. Sturdie, Yeorn"., John Wetherell, ,, Tho. Hutchingson, f- sworne. ^ho. Hodge, John Harland, Adam Moyser, ■ sworne. Who acquit the prisoner. Names of the Jury to inquire between his Highness and John Weddell. Wm. Foster, Gent"., John Hogg, Yeom"., John Martyn, „ Geo. Pearson, „ Tho. Gill, „ Wilfrey Dunninge, ,, sworne. John Smith, Yeom"., Tho. Sturdie, „ Tho. Hodge, John Wetherell, ,, Adam Moyser, „ Tho. Hutchingson, „ Who say that the said John Weddell is guilty of extortion, therefore fined ;£^2o to his Highness. Names of the Jury to inquire between the Lord Protector and John Moyser and Ja^ Potter and others. Wm. Foster, Gent"., John Hogg, Yeom"., John Martyn, „ Geo. Pearson, „ Tho. Gill, Wilfrey Dunninge, „ sworne. John Smith, Yeom"., 1 Tho. Sturdie, ,, John Wetherell, ,, Tho. Hutchingson, ,, Sam. Walker, ,, John Harland, „ ■■sworne. Who say that John Moysier is not guilty ; and that Ja^ Potter and the rest are guilty, therefore are fined 20s. apeece. [244.] Recog'" respited in four cases. [244''-24S.J Recog"'. entered : Simon Thorpe of Yearme in ;^ioo to answer concerning the death of Anth. Butterwicke, and to be of good behaviour; eleven other cases. KIRBYMOORESIDE, JANUARY 9, 1654. 175 [246.] Orders made etc. Rich. Collings, Coroner, to appear etc. and certify the Court all his proceedings upon his inquisition taken at Yearme about the death of Anth. Butterwicke; Martyn Wikeham, gent"., sworn Under Sheriff; John Grimston and Rob. Johnson s\¥orn Bailiffs in Ridall ; Ralph Dowthwaite and The. Lumlay, Bailiffs for Birdforth ; John Weddell, gent", and Wm. Wood and John Foster, Bailiffs for BuUmer ; John Smith, Deputy Bailiff for Pickering Lyth and Whitby Strand; the intended marriage between John Coates of Easingwold and Dorathy Dobson of Husthwaite to be suspended till the next Sessions, at which time the exceptions made by Marie Horner of Newbrough to be further proceeded in, and the Registers of Easingwold and Husthwaite, and likewise all other parties, concerned to forbear to give any certificate or to make any further proceedings thereupon till the next Sessions have declared what shall be done therein ; John Chapman of Sutton and The. Bell jun'. of Fawdington to be C. C\ for Birdforth, upon pain of ;^io, vice Wm. Kitchingman and Wm. Lumley, gent". ; [246^] a man having been twice convicted for brewing and selling ale contrary to law, and lawfully suppressed, yet doth persist in the said offence, the Gov', of the Ho. of Corr". to take him into his custody to be dealt with according to the order of the said House, there to remain till he find sureties not to brew or sell any ale or beare for three years ; a presentment having been made against the owners and other inhab" of Farlington for not repairing Pratcar Bridge, to be repaired by May Day upon pain of _;^5 ; a warrant against a York man to appear etc. ; the Parish Off", of Craike to provide for a poor impotent man (he affirm- ing that he hath been last settled there, and having lost his sight), or shew cause etc. ; the warrant of good behaviour to be renewed against a New Malton man to appear etc. ; the Order of two J.P^ (in pursuance of an Order of the Commissioners of the Militia) to which the consent of the inhab'=. of Craike by subscription of there names was had in reference to the settlement of the proportion of rates in all ass". [247.] betwixt Sir Wm. Allenson, Knight, and the rest of the inhab"., to be observed till the next Sessions, Sir Wm. Allenson being to pay the sixth part in all ass"., and publique notice of this Order to be given to the inhab" by the Parish Clark that they may appear and shew cause etc. ; there being some difference between the Minister of Kilvington and his late servant about wages, the Minister being found guilty upon traverse for not paying the same, a J. P. to mediate an end thereto if he can, otherwise to see justice done ; the Order of two J.P^ concern- ing the poor of Helmesley and Beadall [? Bilsdale] to be entered in the Sessions Rolls and confirmed accordingly ; in pursuance of an 176 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Order to us directed, upon hearing the matter in difference between Helmesley and Bilsdaile touching the maintenance of the poor of that parish, and upon hearing parties on both sides, and with the consent of both parties, we Order that from Easter last the inhab". of Bilsdale shall pay unto the Parish Off", of that parish £\ yearly for the future [247".] towards the relief of the poor of Helmesley, and shall pay no more for that purpose, saving that it is hereby intended and Ordered that the said inhab'^ of Bilsdaile shall, over and above the said 20s. yearly, well and sufficiently relieve and maintain the poor of Bilsdaile Chappellry, and this Order is to be certified to the Sessions and there to be entered as a record. Given under our hands and seals at Kirby- mooreside, Jan. 31, 1654, Luke Robinson, Geo. Marwood. May it please your Lordshipp, Sir Hen. Vaghan, Knight, and Dame Clare, his wife, were in- dicted at the Sessions held at Malton, July 1 1 last, as by the copy of the indictment herewith humbly presented may appear, which indict- ment was found by the Grand Inquest in the same Sessions, and the persons indicted did not appear to plead to the said indictment till this Sessions, and until they did produce a writ of Certiorary, to which wee desire humbly to tender that we have adjourned all proceedings con- cerning the said indictment till next Sessions after Easter, by which time we hope to receive further directions from your Lordshipps, with a fair interpretation hereof that wee doe not intend hereby to refuse obedience to your Lordships' commands, but desire to lay before your Lordships and receive your solutions thereupon : that in case Sir Henry Vaghan and Dame Clare have not objected matters of errors in the proceedings in this Court in that particular or corruption in persons, [248.] which, if any can be justly alleadged, wee shall desire to submit to your Lordships or any superior Court to be censured according to merit, and that it will be future incouragement to persons offending whoe will endeavour to make it difficult for any persons prosecuting offenders, in case they cann obtain the removing of the matter to London, where persons pursuing justice, in many cases, in respect of distance of place or necessary charges, will not be able to make further prosecution, and that we, being sworn to execute our places according to law to the utmost of our skill, doe finde some Statutes, as wee humbly conceive, very much imposing upon us, as A°. 2°. cap. 8, i8th Edw. HI., 20th Edw. HL cap. i, with some others which we desire to have soe much favour as to tender to your Lordships' better Judgment to be reformed in, in case wee be mistaken in our weak judgment, we professing that in this or anything els, we desire and humbly beg that wee may not be understood to be dissobedient or awanting in our duety to authority set over us (but in this and all KIRBYMOORESIDE, JANUARY 9, 1654. 177 Other things whereunto we may be called to serve the publique) desirous to approve ourselves faithfull and consientious, for which wee presume thus farr upon your Lordships' favour, to whome we make our redress as able to advise us in difficult cases, for which purpose wee doe w.th humditie present this unto your Lordships, from your Lordships' most humble servants. Jan. 9, 1654. [248^] May it please your Lordships,* Sir Hen. Vaghan and Dame Clare his wife stand indicted at the N. R. Sessions as common barrectors, as your Lordships will see by the copy of the said indictment and letter to the Lord Chief Justice Rolls. ■' A warrant to issue out against the Constable of Hutton Moulgrave for not executing a warrant. [249.] To the Lord Eure. May it please your Lordship, Favour us with the troubling your Lordship in the presentment of the inclosed to the Lord Chief Justice Rolls and effectually to second our desires therein, it being (as we believe) well known to your Lordship what inconveniencyes businesses of this nature may bring upon this country, which will be a very strong obligation to Your humble servants. Gent"., Wee dayly meet with complaints of the great inconveniences by servants and lab'^ by their excessive exactions in points of wages, now the rates of commodities are low, and therefore we desire you meet for the regulation thereof according to the [blank] and rates of corn and other commodities of the country. [249*=.] Ordered that the Sheriff take into his custody Rob. Mowbray of Crake and him keep for one month and further till he pay ^^c and give security by two able persons of this Riding, himself in ;^ioo and the securities in ^^50 apeece, to appear at the next Sessions after Epiphany next ; the occupyers of Risebrough Hagg, formerly presented to have time given till next Sessions to bring in certificate of the suffi- cient repair thereof, or further Order will be given, and notice hereof to be given forthwith ; Ordered that it be recommended to the High Sheriff that the Grand Juryes and the Juryes that served this Sessions may be excused from serving at the next Assizes; Tho. Savill to be Constable for Welburne, or shew cause etc., and if he shew sufficient cause, the next J.P. to nominate a fitt man to be Constable ; John Hesleton of Hutton to pay 40s. 8d. to the Overseers of New Malton due before April 4, 1651, with consideration for the same, or shew * No identification of the parties to whom this is addressed. VOL. v. N 1/8 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. cause etc., and in case of refusal to be bound etc. ; the Parish Off", of Gilling to pay 8d. weekly, to begin from Dec', i last, to a poor infirm child, and in case of refusal to be bound etc. ; [250.] whereas the Bailiff of Easingwold was indicted and found guilty upon traverse for unjustly and unduely demanding and receiving ^4, by virtue and colour of his office, and hath therefore forfeited ;^4o, the one moiety to the Commonwealth, and the other to the parties greived, and shall sue for the same, the ;^2o belonging the Commonwealth to be estreated into the Exchequer ; the Overseers of the parish of Kirkdaile, and particularly of Wombleton, to pay a poor woman 8s. 2d. in arrears, due to her this day, and 8d. weekly for the future, and in case of refusal to be carried before the next J. P. etc. ; the like Order for 6d. weekly to a man and his wife ; a J. P. to inquire of the condition of a woman of Helmesley alleadged to be a poor impotent innocent, and to give Order for her present relief and certify etc. [251.] RICHMOND. Qu. Sessions (by adjournment) at, Jan. 16, 165^. Before John Wastell, Fr. Lassells, Geo. Smithson, Wra. Thorneton, Leon. Smelt, and Tho Lassells, Esquires. Sheriff etc. as before. Names of the Jury etc. John Eshall, Gent"., Chr. Pybus, Yeom"., Tho. Scruton, ,, John Lucas, ,, Geo. Foster, „ John Beckwith, „ Wm. Waite, „ Geo. Gibson, ,, Tho. Sutton, ,, Tho. Hill, „ Wm. Johnson, „ Wm. Leightfoote, „ John Bell, „ Rich. Daggitt, Rich. Collinge, „ Ralph Cowley, Yeom"., " Wm. Adamson, Rog. Wilson, Chr. Plewes, Tho. Foster, John Smelt, Leon. „ -sworne. John Brettaine, „ ^sworne. Tho. Flower, John Ketlewell, Math. Wilkinson, Ja=. Wharton, Wm. Dobbison, Geo. Squire, Raiph Crosby, [2SI^] Without in trespass :— The Overseers of Smeaton for con- temning an Order ; a Sn[m]mersides man for giving scandallous, urging RICHMOND, JANUARY l6, l6s|. 179 and provoking words ; a man of Barneholme House for killing kipper salmons ; a Bellarby brewer for suffering people to drink in his house on the Lord's Day (suppressed, and fined 5s. to the poor) ; a GiUing man for assault ; three Hutton men for a riot and assault. One bill ignored. Trespasses acknowledged :— A Hudswell man for assault (submitted : fined 2S. 6d.) ; a Hudswell man and a Bellarby man for assaulting and wounding a woman (submitted: fined respectively los. and ^10). [252.] Felonies tried :— A man and woman of Aiskew for stealing a sheep (9s. : the man guilty to 6d., the woman not guilty) ; a Hunton woman for breaking into a house and stealing £^. 16 (not guilty). Names of the Jury etc. - sworne. Rob. Pynder, Tho. Whitfeild, John Robinson, Math. Lightfoote, Oliver Iveson, Wm. Talbot, - sworne. John Nicholl, Gent"., Wm. Etherington, John Burrell, Anth. Ward, Rich. Watson, Fr. Wetherell, Who say as abovesaid. [252^] Recog=« respited in six cases. [253, 253''.] Recog"'. entered in twelve cases. Orders made etc. ;£'i3. 6. 8 allowed for Leeming Bridge ; John Booth sworn Deputy Bailiff for Allerton ; a warrant for good behaviour against Chr. Beaverley, Gierke, of East Witton, for marrying Rich. Hambleton and Eliz*. Pratt contrary to law ; [254.] a pension of 40s. to a L. S. ; the Constable of Croft to assess, collect and leavy ^4. 5 charged upon the Constablery of Croft for the repair of severall bridges ; a pensioner, who had ^4 yearly, being dead etc. (made void) ; a pension of 13s. 4d. a quarter to a L. S. ; a pension of ,^^3 to a soldier's widow ; 20s. to a L. S. for his relief till next Sessions, when further consideration shall be taken of his petition ; a gratuity of 20s. to a soldier's widow; [254^] the Parish Off", of Kirby-hill to provide habitation for the petitioner, or appear and shew cause etc. ; Tho. Jobson of Barden to be Overseer in the parish of Hauxwell, and the Parish Off", of Hauxwell to provide harbour for a poor woman ; a warrant against Hungate Consitt, Clarke, of Barton Mary, to be carried before the next J.P. to find securities for good behaviour, if the J.P. shall see cause, certificate being made against him by Rich. Conyers, Esq., and others ; a Hudswell man and a Bellarby man committed to the Sheriff, the former to pay los. and N 2 l8o QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. the latter;^ lo,* and to find securities for good behaviour for a year and to appear at the next Sessions after Epiphany next; [255.] a Bellarby brewer suppressed for three years and fined los. to the poor for keeping a disorderly house ; the goods and chattells given by will unto Wm. and Marg*. Harker by Eliz'". Harker, late of Staineton, being apprised to the value of ;^6. 6 to be safely preserved and kept by the Parish Ofi"" for the maintenance of the children ; a Cowburne man sent back to the Ho. of Corr". ; a prisoner now in the Ho. of Corr". to be sent from Constable to Constable to Garsin in Scotland ; a warrant against a Danby Wiske man for being charged to live with the wife of his son, late deceased, in an incesstious manner; a warrant against the Overseer for Newbiggin for contemning severall Orders, and the CoRStable of Thoralby for not executing Col. Wastell's warrant to find securities to be of good behaviour and to appear etc. ; [2S5^] a gratuity of los. to a soldier's widow; John Kilburne of Hunton to pay izd. weekly to his daughter in law and one child till May, and in case of refusal the next J. P. to bind him etc. ; whereas Mr. Rob. Geslinge of Richmond was appointed Gov'- of the Ho. of Corr". at Richmond and hath continued in the said place for three years, but in regard of his own private occasions he is desirous to resign the government of the said House to any whom this Court shall think fitt, and the Court, having taken into consideration the good service which Math. Gregory, son of Hutton Gregory, hath done as a soldier in Scotland against the common enemy of this Commonwealth, do Order the said Math. Greggory to be Gov"', of the said Ho. of Corr". in the leiu of the said Mr. Geslinge and to receive the stipend or wages formerly Ordered for the Maister or Gov', of the said House ; [256.] a soldier's widow, who had ;£\ yearly as a pension towards the relief of herself and her children, being lately dead, and one of her children being but of the age of ten years and destitute of all means of livelihood but what he receives of his elder brother, who is not able to maintain him, the Thre'. for L. S. to pay 20s. of the said pension which was in arrears, and also 20s. quarterly for one year, that the boy may be bound to some trade and be no further chargeable to the country ; the next Sessions to be at North- allerton, April 24th next by eight of the clock in the forenoone. Rolls signed by John Wastell, Fr. Lassells, Wm. Thorneton, Tho. Lassells. [262^] The Oath of Abjuration. I, A. B., doe abjure and renounce the Pope's supremacie and authoritie over the Cathohque Church in general!, and over myself in particuler, and I doe believe that there is not any Iransubstantiation in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper or in the ellements of bread and wyne after consecration thereof by any * See above. NORTHALLERTON, APRIL 2!)., 1655. I8I person whatsoever, and I doe alsoe beleive that there is not any Purgatory, and that the consecrated Hoast, crucifixes or images ought not to be worshipped, neither that any worshipp is due unto any of them, and I doe alsoe beleive that salvation cannott be merretted by workes, and all doctrines in affirmation of the said points I doe abjure and renownce without any equivocation, mentall reservation, or secrett evasion whatsoever, taking the words by me spoken according to the common and usuall meaning of them. Soe help me God [A". I.] NORTHALLERTON. Qu. Sessions at, April 24, 1655. Before John Wastell, Fr. Lassells, Geo. Marwood, Wm. Aiscough, Rob. Watters, Math. Beckwith, Geo. Smithson, Wm. Thorneton, Leon. Smelt, Tho. Lassells and Benjamin Nortcliff, Esquires. Sheriff etc. as before. Names of the Jury etc. John Kay, Gent"., Rich. Walker, Yeom"., Herny Crow, ,, Fr. Nicholson, „ Dan. Wilson, „ Ja^ Dunn, „ Henry Jackson, ,, sworne. Tho. Dobson, „ Rog. Humble, „ Tho. Barugh, „ Nich. Medd, „ Chr. Fawcett, ,, Edw. Kirton, „ Geo. Boyes, „ Rob. Thompson, „ sworne. Rob. Colthurst, Gent".. Rob. Peckett, Yeom" Henry Hewerdine, ,, Fr. Wetherell, Raiph Crosby, ,, Rich. Sadler, „ John Robinson, „ Leon. Harrison, ,, John Besswicke, „ Rob. Crawforth, „ Tho. Coates, „ Wm. Sidgswicke, „ Marm. Todd, „ Wm. Pearson, „ Wm. Martin, „ [i".] Without in trespass :— Three Famedaile persons for rescuing goods distreined for Church dueties and ass'=. (Rid) ; two TopcHffe men for unlawfully destreining and deteining a horse (entered traverse) ; a Rainton lab', for killing and destroying rabbits (Hall) ; Ruth Barton of Cawton for keeping a bawdy house and living incontinently (Ryd) ; a Cawton man for the like (same) ; three Langthorpe men for pulling down a house (new recogn".). IS2 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. In felony : — A Northallerton man for secretly taking and stealing a purse and gd. in money (committ to the gaole) ; an Aiskew man for stealing two ewes and two lambs (los.). Bills ignored in seven cases. [2.] Trespasses acknowledged : — A Kirbymooreside skinner for assault upon Rob. Dobson (submitted : fined 3s. 4d.) ; Rob. Dobson and Rog Dobson for the Hke upon the skinner aforesaid (fined 2S. 6d. each) ; an Eston man and his wife for being common disturbers of the peace (fined either of them 2s. 6d.). Felonies tried : — A Grimston lab', for stealing a black calf (9s. : guilty to gd. — whipt). Tho. Martyn, Yeom" Rich. Merrington, Rob. Cundall, Wm. Pratt, Wm. Gamble, John Harrison, Names of the Jury etc. Marke Hall, Yeom"., " h Geo. Flower, Tho. Greensides, Jos. Husthwaite, John Richardson, Wm. Nelson, •■sworne. Who say as abovesaid. Presentments : — The inhab". of Connisthorpe for not repairing their highway from Slingsby Moore Gate to a gate that leads to Hinderskelf Parke (Midsummer, ^2) ; an Acklam man for stopping up a highway in the Constablery of Midlesbrough (a warrant) ; the inhab'^ of Bagby and Sowerby for not repairing the Long Laine, Long Bridge, and scouring the ditches adjoyning (Midsummer, ^1^40) ; the occupyers of the grounds adjoyning of both sides the River Fleet for not repairing the New Bridge and the highway from Shipton Moore to Tollerton Laine End (;i^4o next Sessions ; time given till Michaelmas) ; [2''.] the inhab". of Easingwold for not repairng the highway between New Bridge and Tollerton Laine-end (^40 next Sessions ; time given till next survey at Michaelmas) ; the same for the hke at the south end thereof to Shipton Gate (^40 next Sessions) ; the inhab" of Overton for the like from Shipton Pond to the gate leading to the New Bridge (;^4o next Sessions) ; the inhab". of East Rownton and Hutton Rudby for the like from thence to Northallerton, Stoaxley and Yearme (;^2o each. Midsummer) ; the inhab". of Crathorne and Kirkleavington for the like to Yearme (Crathorne ^^5, Kirkleavington ;^3o. Midsummer); the inhab". of Hutton Lockrice House for the like towards Gisbrough (;^io. Midsummer); the inhab'^ of Seamour and Hilton for the like from Leaven Wath to Stoaxley (Seamour ^10, Hilton ^£'20, Mid- summer) ; a gent", and the inhab^ of Yearme for the hke from Scittericke Bridge to Nodding Close-end {£2, Midsummer) ; two Hutton men and an East Rownton man for not scouring their stells NORTHALLERTON, APRIL 24, 1655. 183 in Hutton Tame (one man discharged, the others 40s. apeece. Mid- summer) ; a Kirbymooreside man for not scouring his ditches and watercourses adjoyning of Little Dromonby highway {£7,. 6. 8, Mid- summer) ; the inhab". of Thorneton for not repairing their proportion of the highway between Stockton and Stoaxley {£2, Midsummer ; dis- charged) ; the inhab'', of East Rownton for the Uke between Stoaxley and Northallerton (^^^'is. 13. 4, Midsummer); the inhab" of Hinder- well for not repairing the bridge at Staithes (;£2o by the 5 Aug. next); [3.] Edm. Hindesley, Clarke, of Terrington for not paying his Con- stable ass'=- (submitted, Thirske, Oct'., 1655, fined lad.). Names of the Jury to inquire between the Lord Protector and the inhab". of New Forrest, Tho. Marshall, Math. Lambe, Geo. Cowper, Rich. Garth and others, Phil. Blenkarne, Geo. Cowper, Wm. Bullmer, Esq. and others, Ralph Beane, John Hutton and Tho. Clarke, of pleas of trespass whereof they were indicted. As before. Who say that the inhab". of New Forrest are not guilty ; that the said Tho. Marshall and Math. Lambe are guilty, therefore fined 2d. apeece ; that Geo. Cowper is not guilty ; that John Marshall is not guilty ; that Rich. Garth and others are not guilty ; that Phil. Blenkarne is not guilty ; that Wm. Bullmer and others are not guilty ; that Ralph Beane and another are guilty to los. each; that Tho. Clarke, is guilty, fined 20s. and suppressed for three years. [3''.] Recog'". respited in seven cases. [4-6.] Recog"" entered. A man of Walcoates in Lincolnshire in ;^ioo to appear at the next Assizes ; Tho. Welbury and Eliz'^ Welbury of Danby in ;^2oo each, John Welbury and Rob. Talbot of Danby in ;^ioo each to appear at the next Assizes ; thirty other cases. [7.] Orders made etc. Upon hearing the petition of Ruth, wife of Mr. John Barton of Cawton, it appeareth that Geo. Watson, her father, hath unduely got into his possession the lands of the said Mr. Barton to the value of _;^200 a year, by which his unjust practice his said daughter Ruth and her daughter Barbara are altogether dissabled of themselves to live or subsist without being chargeable to the parish of Gilling, in pursuance of an Act of Parliament of the 43 of Eliz*. it is Ordered that the said Geo. Watson of Cawton do pay 20s. a month to his daughter and grandchild till further Order ; a warrant of good behaviour against Ralph Shyers late of Cawton and Ruth Barton to answer such indict- ments as are or shall be preferred against them and to appear etc. ; Order in a bastardy case ; the Court being informed that the Surv'=. for Normanby Bridge want their proportion of £6. o. lo in Richmond- 184 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. shire, being ^^ 2. o. 7, the Gierke of the Peace to estreat the same; [7''.] the Court, upon hearing proof on behalf of Mary Horner of Newbrough and John Coates of Easingwould concerning the contract betwixt them, pretended by the said Mary, do Order and declare that the matter alleadged by the said Mary upon a full hearing of her witnesses is not a sufficient exception or barr against the intended marriage of the said John Coates with Dorathy Dobson, or any other woman, and that the Register of Easingwould may proceed and certify accordingly in referrence to the marriage of the said John with the said Dorathy, or any other, after lawfuU publication ; ;i^io having been Ordered to John Myers towards his loss in repairing Howsam Bridge, and Capt. John Ettie having ^3 in his hands Ordered to be paid to Mr. Holborne, Capt. Ettie to pay the said £2, to John Myers, who is content to receive it as full satisfaction of all former Orders and demands touching the said bridge ; upon information that referrence was made by the Commissioners of the six month assesse to two J.P'- to setle an equall proportion of rates between Scorton and North Cowton and that they have setled rates accordingly, Scorton to be rated after ^34 yearly and North Cowton after ^18. 13. 4, this Court doth Order the same ; a prisoner in the Ho. of Corr". to be set at liberty ; [8. J upon oath made by some of the inhab'^ of Apleton, Swinton and Amotherby that they are not ready to proceed in the traverse they entered last Sessions, some of the witnesses being ould and infirm, and there being money leavyed upon Newsam for repair of the highway in question, if at the next Sessions upon traverse it go against the inhab". of Apleton etc. they are to repay the money to the inhab" of Newsam ; a prisoner to be returned to the Ho. of Corr". till next Sessions ; a Brunton tailor to deliver to his apprentice his inden- tures and bond and the apprentice to deliver in his bond ; there being ;j^30 and consideration for two years in the hands of Leon. Huntroyds of Skakesby, as appears by a certificate hereto annexed under the hand of John A\'ood, Minister of Brafferton, which was given by Wilfrey Webster of Helperby to the parish of Brafferton, if Leon. Huntroyds refuse to pay the same to the Parish Off", of Brafferton, the next J. P. to do therein as to justice appertains ; a gratuity of 20s. to a soldier's widow ; [8^] a warrant for good behaviour against John Lyth, Clarke, of Murton, for taking upon him to delude and deceive the people by pretending to marry them ; a pension of 40s. to a L. S. formerly Ordered increased to Sos. ; a pension of 40s. to a L. S. ; a warrant against two Smeaton men to appear etc. ; the owners or occupyers of Cotcliff Grounds to repair Cotcliff Bridge or appear and shew cause etc. ; a Cleasby man and a Thirske woman, living, as is supposed, in- continently togeather, and being of lewd life and evell behaviour, NORTHALLERTON, APRIL 24, 1655. 185 committed, the man to the Pickering Ho. of Corr". and the woman to the Richmond Ho. of Corr"., till next Sessions ; [9.] the peace of timber-wood belonging the Commonwealth of England, for which two Whitby men were indicted by Mr. Nich. Wigginer, to be restored to the said Mr. Wigginer to keep for the use of the Commonwealth ; upon hearing the proofe produced and sworn on behalf of the parish of Coxwould and Husthwaite about the setlement of a poor impotent man, and for that by an Order of Jan. 9, 1654, the Parish Off'^ of Crake should provide for him, the said Parish Off", to provide for him, he being there last setled, till next Sessions, and further unless they shew sufficient cause to the contrary then, and to give notice to the Parish Off" of Coxwould and Husthwaite to make their defence at the aforesaid next Sessions ; the rates and the proportion of Constable rates amongst the inhab*^ of Craike to be observed as formerly till further Order; a gratuity of 20s. to a soldier's widow; three J.P^ to send for the Minister of Danby and the midwife to Eliz*. Welbury, and the servants of EHz*. and Tho. Welbury, and to send to the Ald[erman] of Richmond to know whether there was a marriage be- tween the said Tho. and Eliz*. Welbury, or what he knows of it, and to inquire what evidence may be found for defence of their supposed living in incontinency ; [9*".] the late Bridgewardens at Yearme to pay _^2o to the two next J.P^, who are to receive the same and to examine the ace", of Mr. Rob. Thorpe, and if it appears that so much is due to him, to pay him the said ;^2o ; the Thre'. for L. S. and Hosp'". to pay 5s. to a soldier's widow as a gratuity, and she never to trouble the Court hereafter; ^10 Ordered for Murton Bridge; Wm. Kitchingman and Wm. Lumley, gent"., having served three years as C. C". for Bird- forth, to pass their ace", within eight days to two J.P=., and then to be discharged, and Tho. Bell of Fawdington and John Chapman of Sutton to be C. C^ in their place, within twelve days, upon pain of ^10 each; ^^13. 6. 8 Ordered for Scawton Bridge; the Surv'. of Smeaton Bridge to pass his ace" before the next Sessions upon pain of ;^2o and to bring acquittances for the moneys he hath received, according to a former Order; [10.] the Constable of Eston to convey a poor man and his family to Ravensworth in the parish of Kirby Hill, where the Parish Off", are to provide for him, or shew cause etc. ; ^13. 6. 8 having been Ordered last Sessions for Leeming Bridge, in case it should appear to be a country bridge, and it appearing to have been formerly repaired by the country, the said sum to be forthwith estreated and paid to such Surv"- as shall be appointed ; Sessions ad- journed to New Malton, July to next, and by adjournament to Beadall, July 1 7 ; Math. Beckwith, Fr. Lassells, Leon. Smelt, Ben. Nortcliff, Geo. Smithson, Tho. Lassells. 1 86 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. [ii.T MALTON. Qu. Sessions at, July lo, 1655. Before Luke Robinson, Geo. Marwood, Chr. Piercehay, and Wm. Weddell, Esquires. Sheriff etc. as before. John Robinson, Rob. Mayson, „ Wm. Ward, Tho. Hutchingson, „ Jos. Heslerton, ,, Martyn Pennocke, Yeom"., Rob. Marshall, „ Wm. Sellar, „ Fr. Berriman, „ John Cowpland, „ Rob. Skelton, ,, Wm. „ „ Fr. Huntrodes, ,, Wm. Younge, ,, Rob. Ripley, „ Names of the Gent"., 1 Jury etc. John Nary, Gent"., John West, Yeom°., Tho. Frier, „ Rich. Harwood, „ Rob. Postgate, „ Joshua Noble, „ Wm. Geere, ,, . sworne. Wm. Annyson, ,, Rob. Lyth, ,, Tho. Nesse, ,, Simon Arnott, ,, Rich. Duckett, „ Wm. Hebburne, ,, Math. Hall, Rob. Robson, ,, -sworne. [II^] Without in felony: — A Sheriff Hutton lab', for stealing a grey gelding {£3. 10). Without in trespass : — Two Yearme yeom° for plowing part of the Common balkes* in Yearme Field ; a Brompton gent", for stopping up a highway ; a yeom". of Gunfitt Croftes for common barratry ; a Normanby man and woman for incontinency (committ for three months) ; a Farlington man for forceably entering a close and treading down the grass ; a New Malton man for unjustly distreining a bay mare (^10); an Ould Malton yeom". for exacting of toll; a New Malton yeom". for the like ; two Scackleton Grainge men for assault. * The "Common-balks " were the raised banks or unploughed ridges of land between the separate strips of land — acres, or half acres, or even less, as the case might be — into which the Common field, or a given portion of the Common field, of any given vill was divided. Inasmuch as the separate strips, divided by the said balksj were, more frequently than not, of the holdings of two different persons, the ploughing down of the balks, or even encroaching on them in the act of ploughing y/as really an act of dishonesty, as amounting to what was, in point of fact, land- stealing. MALTON, JULY lO, 1655. 187 [12.J Trespasses acknowledged: — A Fryup yeom" for assaulting a man and unjustly taking from him a fowling peece (submitted, fined 20s.) ; another Fryup yeom". for assault (submitted, fined 20s.) ; the Constable of Southolme for the like (submitted, fined i2d.) ; two Whitby men for assaulting and scandalizing one John Eyes, Clarke (to find securities) ; a lab', and his wife and two yeom°. of Wombleton for assault (submitted, fined 2s. each) ; a Craike man for threatening a man (submitted, fined 2s); a. Colton lab'', for assault (submitted, fined 20s.). Bills ignored in six cases. [I2^] Presentments : — A Whorlton man for not scouring his beck front and a ditch called Gibson-close-gutter ; the inhab". of Whorlton for not repairing their highways at Gibson-close-nooke ;^5 pain) ; the inhab". of East Rounton for not repairing their pinfold. Names of the Jury to inquire between the Lord Protector and Wm. Metcalf and others, Eliz*. Stonehouse, Ralph Shyers, Ruth Barton, Marke Catterton, the inhab". of Apleton, Amotherby and Swinton and others. Chr. Power, Gent"., Geo. Hopperton, Yeom"., John Symon, „ John Teasedaile, „ Marm. Harrison, ,, Andrew Wilkinson, „ ^ [, sworne. Rob. Wilson, Yeom"., Chr. „ Chr. Crosby, ,, John Oxard, „ John Day, „ Tho. Pennocke, ,, [13. J Who say that Wm. Metcalf and the rest in the indictment are guilty to the roole [sic] onely in the said indictment, therefore are fined i8d. each ; that Eliz'^ Stonehouse is not guilty ; that Ruth Barton is not guilty, for keeping a bawdy house ; that she is not guilty for forni- cation ; that John Thomas is guilty of fornication (committ to the gaole) ; that Raiph Shyers is not guilty for living incontinently with Ruth Barton ; that Marke Catterton is guilty for unjustly taking a gray gelding ; that the inhab". of Apleton etc. are guilty and ought to repair Newsam Laine ; and that Nath. Wilson is not guilty. [13^.] Recog°". respited in four cases. [14.] Recog"'. entered in eight cases; Tho. Carlton of Sutton in ^20, Anth. Chapman in £eo, John Chapman, gent"., in ;^io, Simon Arnett of Sowerby in ^^'lo, not to act staige playes or interludes* during their lives in this Commonwealth. * The players of Interludes have been noticed on more than one former occasion, and the matter for notice here is the sweeping nature of the prohibition enacted, and which, we may be sure, would be rigidly enforced. 1 88 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. [14''.] Orders made etc. A warrant to John Chapman of Sutton to apprehend Anth. Chapman and Tho. Carlton of Sutton to appear etc. ; upon the receipt of a letter from the J.P'. of the E. R. about Yeddingham Bridge, two gent", to view the spurr* in Yeddingham Bridge, being in decay and insufficient, belonging to the N. R., and to certify what are the decayes and what the charge of repairing will be, that speedy course may be taken ; Geo. Watson of Cawton to pay Ruth Barton, his daughter, and her daughter Barbara, the 20s. a month in arrear, according to an Order of April 24th last, and 40s. as a penalty the law imposes on him for dissobeying the said Order, according to an Act of Parliament of 43 Eliz"'., and if he refuse to pay, the sum to be leavyed by way of distresse and saile of his goods, and for want of distress the said Geo. Watson to be com- mitted to the gaole, there to remain without baile or maineprise untill he shall pay the said sums ; John Gibson and Rob. Micklefeild having been appointed Surv". for Newsam Bridge at Thirske Sessions, Oct. 3, 1654, and it being alleadged that the said Rob. Micklefeild is at present Collector of the monthly assesse and is excused, Chr. Nendike, gent", of Great Habton, to be Surv'. and the C. C^ to pay the money estreated for the said bridge to Mr. Gibson and Mr. Nendike; [15.] a pension of 40s. to a L. S. ; upon complaint made by John Taylor that whereas he was the legall hyred servant of John Worsley, Esq., in the year 1654, nevertheless he detains and withhoulds his wages, theis are therefore to require yow, the said John VVorsley, to pay the said servant his waiges according to covenant, or to appear before the two next J.P^ to shew cause wherefore yow detain the said waiges ; upon hearing the com- plaint about the Gov', of the Ho. of Corr". at Pickering, about giving security for the stock of moneys in his hand, and with his consent, it is Ordered that the said Gov', shall give bond for so much money as he hath received to Luke Robinson and Chr. Piercehay, Esquires ; upon information made upon oath by Mr. Nich. Wigginor of Whitby that Mrs. Sarah Thompson hath contemned an Order, in riot delivering a peece of timber to him to be kept for the use of the Commonwealth, the Constable of Whitby to require her to deliver the said timber to him, and if she refuse, to carry her before the next J. P. to be bound with sufficient sureties, etc. ; [iS*"-] the Overseers of Kirkdaileto appear at the next Sessions and prove the coppie of Thd. Ellerton's will, and Mr. Tho. Savin, or his assignes, to appear and shew cause wherefore they doe not pay 20s. yearly, given to the poor, as is alleadged by the * The spur of a post is a strut set against it on one side so as to strengthen it against pressure on the opposite side. The spur of a bridge is a buttress, possibly of no very great dimensions, set so as to strengthen the fabric against the forces most trying to its stability. MALTON, JULY lO, 1655. 189 said Overseers ; the Court being informed that the highways in Easing- would, presented last Sessions, are in repairing, the moneys which were to be leavyed on the inhab". of Easingwould for repair of the New Bridge and the Laine from thence to Easingwold to be forborne till Michaelmas, and the C. O. of Bullmer to forbear to leavy the moneys estreated against the inhab'^ of Easingwould for not repairing the high- ways aforesaid ; the like Order concerning the moneys estreated against the owners and occupyers of the lands adjoyning on the north end of New Bridge over the Flight and soe to Tollerton Gate ; the Court being informed that the highways in Easingwould, presented last Sessions, are in repairing and cannot possibly be repaired without a further time given, the inhab'^ to have tinia given till the next Sessions for the doing thereof, and no estreates to go forth to the C. C\ of Bullmer to leavy the money against the inhab" for not repairing their highways till further Order; [16. J the like Order for the owners of the lands adjoyning on the north end of the Flight Bridge ; whereas the inhab". of Thornaby were presented last Sessions for not repairing their propor- tion of the highway betwixt Stockton and Stoxley, the said way being now repaired, the said inhab'^ to be discharged of the fine imposed upon them ; the like Order for the inhab". of Hutton ; John Pybus, gent"., to prove the acc'=- of Mr. Wm. Hebden when he was Thre^ for L. S., and ascertain the sum in arrears unto him against the next Sessions, that the same may be paid him ; a Normanby man committed to gaol for three months and to remain there till he give security to be of good behaviour for a year, being convict for committing fornication ; the Sheriff to set a Craike man at liberty, committed to gaol by a warrant from a J. P. for not finding security to keep the peace, if he be kept in custody for the said offence and none other ; upon certificate that the highways of Golton and Crathorne are repaired, they to be discharged ; the Oath of Abjuration was tendered to Clement GilHngs (who heard it redd and refused to take it), he lives at Grimston Intack- house in the parish of Gillinge; [I6^] upon information from Edw. Watson of Hutton Bushell that Wm. Keath of the same town is dis- tracted in his senses, and not fitt to travell abroad, and that there is about ;^3o due unto him in the hands of the said Edw. Watson, the parishioners of Hutton Bushell to take care the said Wm. Keath be kept in the said parish from going abroad, and Mr. John Fareside to joyne with Edw. Watson in ordering Keath to have relief out of the said money according to his necessity; a gratuity of los. to a L. S. ; ;^io ordered for that part of Yeddingham Bridge which belongs to the N. R. upon certificate of its decay from the C. O. of Pickering Lythe ; the Order concerning Geo. Watson and Ruth Barton of Cawton [14''.] is here repeated ; [17.] the Parish Off", of Craike to convey a poor igo QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. man to Thormanby, and the Parish Off'K there to provide for him, that being the place where he was last settled as an inhab'. with his wife and family, and he having had no habitation since, but as a hired servant ; a warrant against Mr. John Worsley to appear and answer for not suffering a warrant from Luke Robinson, Esq., to be executed ; [I7^] upon hearing the petition of the inhab'^ of Kirby Mooreside, it appears that in the late troublesome times, when the country was full of warr, they were forced to relieve the poor forth of the stock they had raised, being ;^27, that by Order of Sessions of Jan. 9 last, the Parish Off*^ were injoyned to make an ass', upon the parishioners for raising the former stock, and that upon examinations of the ace", of the Overseers for four or five years it doth appear that there is much money in arrears and not collected, in diverse parishioners' hands, formerly assessed for the relief of the poor, and towards the raising of the former stock, as doth appear by a schedule hereto annexed, under diverse of the parishioners' hands, the Parish Off ^ to collect and leavy, by distress upon the refusers, the severall sums upon the severall persons in the paper hereto annexed, and confirmed by this Court toward the raising of the abovesaid stock of ;£2'j, and to give ace', thereof to the next J.P^ before the next Sessions ; the Constables and Overseers of Gillinge to leavy 55. on the goods of the Lord Fairfax to be distributed to the poor according to Ordinance of Parliament, for that it hath been proved that he was present when Tho. Carlton, Anth. Chapman and others acted a comedy or staige play at Gilling at Christmas last ;* the like Order to the Constable and Overseers of Oulton against Lord Castleton ; the like Order to the Constables and Overseers of Bransby against Mr. Cholmeley; by virtue of an Order of Jan. 9, 1654, for the setting forth of the stock of the poor of the parish of Kirby Mooreside, it doth appear that the severall persons undernamed have in their hands, of the stock of the poor, and ass'^ in arrears and not collected, for the rehef of the said poor the severall sums to their names annexed, seventy-two names with various sums annexed, total ;!£'24. 4. 8 ; Sessions adjourned to Beadall. Rolls signed by Luke Robinson, Chr. Piercehay, Geo. Marwood, Wm. Weddell. * This, as well as the two next entries, is worthy of a moment's passing notice, especially as taken in connection with the name of the person dealt with in this summary way. If, however, it be borne in mind that the bulk of these comedies or interludes were not only of a political nature, in some parcels or particulars, but that the powers that were were dealt with not in the most complimentary way in them, any little surprise that might be otherwise felt immediately disappears. BEADALL, JULY 1 7, 1655. 191 [18.] BEADALL. Qu. Sessions, by adjournment, at, July 17, 1655. Before John Wastell, Fr. Lassells, Math. Beckwith, Wm. Ayscough, Geo. Smithson, Leon. Smelt and Tho. Harrison, Esquires. High Sheriff as before. John Lucas, Gent"., ^ John Dunn, Yeom°., Wm. Treapland, ,, Geo. Binsley, ,, Geo. Fothergill, „ Raiph Horsman, ,, Marm.Wintergill, ,, Rich. Geldart, ,, Tho. Beck, „ Rich. Mann, ,, Rob. Kitchinge, ,, Geo. Scruton, „ Chr. Maukin, „ Wm. Hodgson, ,, Geo. Binsley, ,, Names of the Jury etc. Jos. Chapman, Gent"., Tho. Clark, ,, John Clerke, Yeom"., John Raper, Chr. Smith, John Mayson, Marke Plewes, sworne. Raiph Porter, Wm. Garth, Wm. Leightfoote, Fr. Hutchingson, John Pybus, Rich. Claxton, Mich. Robinson, Geo. Cowper, sworne. [18^.] Without in trespass : — A Topcliffe inholder for assault (entered traverse, submitted after, and fined 3s. 4d.) ; a Crak-inge man for erect- ing a cottage and not lying four acres of ground thereunto (entered traverse) ; a Woodhall yeom". for breaking into a close and mowing and cutting down and carrying away the grass ; three Gillinge persons for riot and assault ; two Hawes yeom". and four people of Gaile for a forceable entry (the first, entered traverse, process against the rest) ; a Tunstall woman for perjury; an Ouldstead man for the like (entered traverse) ; two Birkeby men for forceable entry into a close ; a Sumer- sides yeom" for giving scandallous, urginge* and provoking words (entered traverse) ; two New Malton men for unlawfully distreining a bay gelding ; a Camshead yeom". for assault (entered traverse). * The occurrence of this word in a sense distinctly diflfering from that met with in the dictionaries, and, so far as I am aware not recorded in any local glossary, seems to be quite worthy of a note. The meaning clearly is "persistently vexa- tious and irritating." 1 have heard the word used in this district as descriptive of the lasting irritation which results from getting oneself badly stung with nettles, and it is easy enough to transfer the idea to the action on the temper of continued and spitefully intentioned irritating language. 192 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. [19.J Presentments :^The inhab". of Brompton for not repairing a highway from Brompton to Winton through the East Barrowes from the end of a causey to the end of HaUikeild Laine ; a Beadall yeom". for not sufficiently cleansing a water sewer running through his garth ; the Overseers of Hauxwell for contemning a warrant or Order from two J.P'. ; a Sand Hutton gent", and Nathaniel Jackson of Ellmitt, Clarke, for not repairing the highway called Swalethorne Laine in the Lordship of Sand Hutton. Four bills ignored ; one for chaceinge and dogginge sheep, and another for divertinge an ancient sewer or milne-race from its ancient course. [19''.] Trespasses acknowledged : — A Topcliffe yeom". for assaulting a man and challenging him to feight (submitted, fined 4d.); a Topcliffe yeom". for receiving 3s. 4d. of a woman for his own use for composi- tion for her offence for brewing without licence (submitted, fined 20s.). Felonies tried : — A Firby yeom". for stealing a burthen of sheaves of corn (6d.) the goods of some person unknown (putts himself not guilty). Names of the Jury etc. Ralph Cowley, Gent"., Rob. Clerke, ,, John Walker, Yeom"., Rob. Thompson, ,, Tho. Witton, „ | Fr. Harrison, „ J y sworne. Chr. Pybus, Yeom"., John Wardrope, ,, Henry Sidesworth, ,, Rich. Cooke, ,, Marm. Lambert, ,, Tho. Millner, y sworne. Who say as abovesaid. Names of the Jury to inquire between the Lord Protector and Geo. Thompson, Tho. Casse, Anth. Wind, Rich. Twisleton and John Grant. Wm. Simpson, Yeom"., " Rob. Clerke, Fr. Harrison, Chr. Pybus, John Wardrope, Geo. Sidesworth, ■ sworne. Rich. Cooke, Yeom".,' Marm. Lambert, Tho. Millner, John Smith, Tho. Wright, Tho. Awton, - sworne. [20.] Who say that the said Geo. Thompson, Tho. Casse, and Anth. Wind are guilty of assault (fined 30s., los. and 20s. respectively) ; and that Rich. Twistleton is guilty of unjustly distreining a horse ; and that John Grant is not guilty. |2i.] Recog'=". entered in' thirteen cases. BEADALL, JULY I/, 1655. I93 [22.] Orders made etc. Upon hearing the petition of the inhab'^ of Fawdington about the proportion of rates within the Constablery of Bagby, it is Ordered that two J.P^ do examine the real yearly value of the lands in Bagby and Fawdington, that an equall proportion may be setled betwixt them, and publique notice to be given to the inhab". of Bagby to appear at Thirsk upon Munday, 23 July instant (to shew cause wherefore the ancient rule or custom betwixt them and Fawdington should not be altered) before the said J.P^, who are to call such other persons to their assistance for the setlement of the disproportion of ass'^ as they shall thincke fitt, and to mediate an end if possible, otherwise to certify etc. ; John Colton of Burtreside to be Churchwarden for Ask- ricke, or appear before the next J.P. and shew cause etc. within eight days, and if he refuse, to be bound etc. ; upon complaint made that the Churchwardens of Wath have not observed the Order made at Thirske, April 4, 1654, they are to be carried before the next J.P. to shew good cause wherefore they have not observed the said Order, and paid according to it, and in case they do not shew good cause, to -be bound etc. ; [22^] the inhab" of Thimbleby to be discharged of the presentment against them ; the Overseers o.f Smeaton fined 20s. apeece for neglect of executing their office, the Churchwardens and the Con- stable to leavy the same within fourteen days, and distribute it to the poor, and to certify the names of the poor who receive it to the next J.P. ; John Atkinson, late of Thorneton, to pay to the Parish Off", of Aisgarth ;^i5, with consideration, which sum John Spence, late of Thorneton Rust, gave to the poor of Aisgarth, and if he refuse, to be carried before the next J.P. to shew cause etc. ; Ordered upon a peti- tion on behalf of the distressed people of Allerton who had their houses burnt, being about twelve, that the Thre'. for Hosp''. pay ^^ and the Overseers of Allerton to give an ace', to Col. Lassells ; the Parish Off'^ of Pickall to pay 8d. weekly to a poor man or to shew cause etc.; [23.] a warrant against the Parish Off*' of Kirby-hill for contemning an Order of Jan. 16, 1654, and to provide habitation for a poor man and his family ; the Parish Off"", of Sowerby to pay 8d. weekly to a poor man, and whereas it hath been alleadged that his sonn is ready and willing to maintain him, the Parish Off*', to pay the said sum until they make the aforesaid suggestion appear ; two gent" to view Wath Bridge and certify etc. ; a woman sent back to the Ho. of Corr". ; Raiph Cowley to be Surv'. for Leeminge Bridge, and the C. C=. to pay him the sums estreated ; Geo. Metcalf of Askrig, for forging a false pass and counterfeiting two J.P.s' hands, to stand in some public place in Beadall this day, in Richmond on Satturday next, and in Midleham VOL. V. o 194 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. next Munday, in the time of the markett, in every of the said places half an hour with the said words in his hatt ; [23''.] three J.P=. to ex- amine what sum has bin charged upon this N. R. for the repair of Willy Bridge and Croft Bridge, as also what has been disburst, and in whose hands any of the moneys are, and to call to ace', the persons in whose hands they shall find any of the same, and likewise to view the decay of the said bridges and certify etc. Rolls signed by John Wastell, Fr. Lassells, Tho. Harrison, Leon. Smelt, Geo. Smithson. [24.] THIRSKE. Qu. Sessions at, Oct'. 2, 1655. Before Luke Robinson, John Wastell, Fr. Lassells, Rob. Walters, Geo. Marwood, Wm. Ayscough, Math. Beckwith, Wm. Thorneton, Chr. Piercehay, Wm. Weddell, Leon. Smelt, Benjamin Nort[h]cliff, Tho. Lassells, and Tho. Harrison, Esquires. High Sheriff as before. Jo^ Beverly, Gent"., Chr. Lownsdaile, ,, Rich. Colling, Yeom"., Wm. Tollerton, ,, Tho. Kilvington, ,, Henry Hall, „ Henry Craw, ,, Tho. Swailes, „ Tho. Hodge, „ Lancel. Johnson, „ Edw. Robinson, „ Chr. Hay, ,, Wm. Tyndaile, ,, Henry Swailes, „ John Hogg, Names of the Jury etc. Rob. Berryman, Gent"., Fr. Tranmer, Yeom" John Kitchingman, ,, Geo. Husthwaite, ,, Ja^ Nelson, ,, Jeremy Idle, „ John Ward, „ sworne. John Richardson, „ Mich. Postgate, ,, Fr. Armestrong, ,, Ja^ Duninge, Chr. Gaile, „ Henry Boyes, ,, Wm. Harland, „ Tho. Barugh, „ . sworne. Who present as follows : — [24^] Without in trespass : — Luke Lownes- dale for wilful and corrupt perjury ; a Litle Claxton yeom". for break- ing and pulling down a hedge ; a Slingsby yeom". for assault and affray (admitted to traverse) ; a Yorke merchant for assault ; a man of Ellerton upon Swaile for assault and affray (admitted to traverse) ; a THIRSKE, OCTOBER 2, 1655. I95 Cropton alehouse-keeper for suffering persons to drink, tiple and prophanely sing in his house on the Lord's Day ; a Helperby yeom". for assault and affray (traverse next Sessions) ; the Constable of Crop- ton for not levying the fines and pennaltyes upon several persons for prophanely tipling, roaring and singing in an alehouse on the Lord's Day ; a Spaunton man for brewing without licence ; a gent", and a yeom". of Sowerby for refusing and neglecting to pay ^6. 13. 4, being the proportion of the town of Sowerby due by them to the Churchwardens of Thirske for the repair of Thirske Church ; the inhab". of Hutton for that the common highway for cart and carriage from Malton towards Yorke, extending from Freckondaile Gate to Crame Beck is in great decay, and worn very straite and uneven, and full of rocks in severall places (^30 will repair the same) ; a Butter- wick man for assault ; a Whitby woman for her house or shop over- hanging the bounders* of Nich. Wigginer (if the nuisance be not reformed within four days £,20 to be leavyed) ; [25.] the inhab'^ of Kirbymooreside for that a highway leading from Pickering and Scar- brough to Kirbymooreside over the river of Dove, by reason of the ' wearing of the wathf of the said river, is in great decay ; an Ugthorpe yeom". for assault and affray. Presentments : — The inhab*^. of Easington for not repairing their half or proportion of Staithes Bridge (to be repaired before next Sessions upon pain of £^'^0) ; a Scorton man for stopping up a high- way in a place called Garth-end Flatt ; and for the like into a close called the Barugh, in Beck Close, in a close called the further Pease Lands, and in a close called Pott Lands ; an East Rounton man for inclosing and stopping up part of a highway in severill,t and taking away * This is, in many particulars, an entry of considerable interest. At a period not long anterior to the date of these Minutes it is an ascertained fact that the "streets " of Whitby — in the modern sense of the word — were in a very elementary condition ; inchoate, but little or nothing more. There were long spaces in some of the most thickly built streets of the present day with wide intervals between house and house, and others with only a house or two along the line, and those irregularly placed. The present entry gives us an intimation not only that the process of build- ing up the spaces hitherto without structures upon them was commenced, but that the value of ground for "building purposes" was more than beginning to be realized. A few of these overharging houses may still be found in the old parts of Whitby, and any one who has seen the same — and especially as of late frequently reproduced in the divers E.xhibitions which are a great feature of our present times — will have a lively picture offered to his mind of what the encroachment presented in this Minute actually was, and how very real, de facto, was the damage complained of. t " Wath " is the North Yorkshire word for a ford, and is a purely Scandinavian word; O.N. , Swed., Dan., vad, etc. J The later phrase is " in severalty," with the meaning — it hardly need be added — of one's own separate property. In the second instance the sense is clearly that of his own apart from his neighbour's. Halliwell gives the word "Severals," O 2 ig'i QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. the benefitt of a horsebridge there leading between Northallerton and Yearme (to be repaired by Easter Sessions upon pain of £20) ; a Sutton man for not repairing the highway and laine adjoyning on his grounds between Osgoodby and Sutton (respited till Jan. Sessions 1656; [zs^] a man of Streetehouse in the Constablery of Exelby for not repairing, making and upholding his several bridges and fences ; the inhab*^. of Thorneton in the Street for not repairing the laine and highway between Thirske and Northallerton, adjoyning of the north side of Ewe Leaes, and soe to Thorneton town (respited) ; two Rudby yeom". for their forefronts* lying down adjoyning on the high road (submitted, Kirby, Jan. 1656; fined lad. apeece). Bills ignored in eight cases. [26.] Trespasses acknowledged : — Five Whitby yeom". for assault (submitted, fined 20s. each) ; a Welburne man for assault, and for giving urging and provoking words (submitted, fined 3s. 4d.) ; a Fryup man for giving several threatening languages to a man and shootting his greyhound bitch (submitted, fined los.) ; a Brompton lab', for threatening a woman that he would have her life (submitted, fined 3s. 4d.) ; a Spaunton lab', for taking the key and locking the congrega- tion out of the church (submitted, fined 5s.) ; a Burniston yeom". for a forceable entry into severall parcells of land (submitted, fined 5s.); the inhab". of Warthill for suffering one Nich. Oxard, a murderer, to escape, and not making fresh pursuit and apprehending him (pleaded not guilty, afterwards submitted, and fined 100 merks) ; a Kirbymoore- side yeom", for assault upon one of the Overseers for the poor in the execution of his office (submitted, fined 13s. 4d.). [26''.] Felonies tried : — Four persons, late of Morton, for being begging vagrants and wandering rogues (not guilty) ; a woman of Sutton under Whitsoncliff for stealing a half yard of linninge cloth, a pynner with lace, a coife, a purse (gd.) and 2d. in money (putts her- self not guilty) ; a Sorasikes man formerly indicted (puts himself not guilty; ; a Brawby woman for being accessory to the felonious taking of fower sheep (putts herself not guilty). Names of the Jury to inquire between the Lord Protector and John with the definition " Portions of common assigned for a term to a particular pro- prietor, the other commoners waiving for the time their right of common over them." * In my Cleveland Glossary I have defined " Frontstead " as " the site on which a house stands, or has formerly stood," and of this I have said in a note to p. 759 of the Whitby Charhdary, "it is correct, as far as it goes ; but it should be under- stood as limited to the site of a house of sufficiently ancient date to carry with it vifhat are called 'common rights.'" In the volume just cited the sentence "unum fronte vel toftum " is found at p. 758, and the toft was just the site of a house, whether buiU upon or not. The " forefront " of this entry must be simply the enclosing fence of the " front " itself. TUIRSKE, OCTOBER 2, 1655. T97 Horsman, Ralph Moone, Wm. Halliday and Wm. Flesher upon pleas of trespass. Rich. Scarth, Gent"., Chr. Calvert, „ Geo. Pallraer, RaiphSughill, Gent".,' Edw. Oastler, „ Edw. Cowling, „ Tho. Viccars, „ i-sworne. ^^^ j^^^^^ Rich. VVetherell, „ Tho. Jackson, Tho. Wright, Wm. Cowper, sworne. [27.] Who say that John Horsman is not guilty ; that Raiph Moone is guilty of stopping up a highway in the East-feild in the Constablery of Midlesbrough, therefore fined 3s. 4d. ; and that Wm. Halliday and Wm. Flesher are not guilty. [27^] Recog'^^. respited in eight cases. [28.] Recog"'". entered in twelve cases. [29.] Orders made etc. A subpoena to be sent against two Stockton persons, a Foston man, and the Minister of Warthill ; the fines imposed upon the inhab'^ of Brunton for not repairing the highway between Brunton and Winton to be respited till next Sessions, the Court being informed that a great part of the said highway is repaired ; Wm. Halliday, late of Thirske, came into Court, and upon hearing the indictment read pleaded not guilty and desired that a Jury might be returned, and that he might traverse the same this Sessions, which is accordingly granted him ; Sir Wm. Allanson, Knight, J. P., to call Katherine Leadall before him and require her to enter sufficient security to appear and make good her suggestion about the intended marriage of Tho. Jones, and to certify etc. ; the Register of Whitby to make no certificate about the marriage of Tho. Jones of Whitby with Mary, daughter of Chr. Dunnington of Whitby, till next Sessions ; all Parish Registers in this N. R. to take notice that as often as any exceptions shall be made against any intended marriages, that they advise and direct those who shall offer any exceptions against any marriages to repair to the next J. P., to enter security to make good their exceptions at the Sessions next following, and the Sheriff to cause this to be published in all market towns in the N. R.* ; [29''.] for that Edw. Hindesley, Gierke of Terrington, was presented for not paying Constable layes (submitting to the presentment, fined i2d.), Ordered that he do pay Constable layes and rates, being assessed proportionably with the rest of the * This is a very noteworthy regulation, and should be collated with what was stated in a note at a former page touching the solemnization of matrimony under the Commonwealth. iq8 quarter sessions records. inhab". of Terrington, from henceforward, and pay the last for which he was presented ; the p/^30 formerly in pain* to be estreated against the inhab". of Easingwould to be imployed for the repair of the high- way presented at the north end of New Bridge, and the C. C^ of Bullmer to leavy the same and pay it to two gent", named, who are to imploy it for the speedy repair of the said way and certify etc. ; also the moneys in pain upon the south end of the said bridge to be estreated, leavyed and paid to the Surv". aforesaid, if good cause be not shewed to the contrary this Sessions ; the ^20 to be estreated and leavyed on the inhab'^ of Hinderwell and paid to two gent"., appointed Surv'*. for the bridge; the pain of ;!^2o against the inhab'^ of Easing- ton, to repair Staithes Bridge before next Sessions, after that the money to be leavyed and paid to the Surv'= aforesaid; the ^20 to be estreated against the inhab**. of Sowerby and Bagby, and leavyed and paid to two gent"., who are to imploy the said sum for the repair of the way presented, and certify etc. ; time is given to the inhab''. of Shipton till March 25 next for repairing the highway presented, and the moneyes estreated is not to be leavyed till then; [30.] a pain of ;£2o to be leavyed on the inhab"- of Conniston if sufficient proofe be not made that the highway is sufficiently repaired next Sessions ; the ^^5 to be estreated against the inhab". of VVhorleton, and to be imployed for repair of the highway presented, the money to be paid to two gent"., who are to certify etc. ; a warrant against Grace Moone to be had before the next J. P. to be bound to appear and answer an indictment of perjury and to be of good behaviour; two men to find securi- ties for good behaviour ; Rich. Barton, otherwise Chapman, was Ordered to sitt in the stocks three howers, for that he was convict of prophane swearing, and did undergoe that punishment att Thirske this Sessions ; the presentment for taking two load of wood to be discharged ; the like Order concerning a presentment which was to be traversed this Sessions ; Ralph Moone and Mr. John Robinson doe desire a Jury, and with consent agree the presentment be traversed this Sessions ; two women committ for felony ; gratuities of 30s. each to a L. S. and to two soldiers' widows ; [30^] a man committ till he find new securities ; Order in a bastardy case ; the presentments against the inhab'^ of East Rounton to be discharged for that there is preferred another presentment against Wm. Maisterman, who ought to repair the same way ; John Robinson, gent"., of Middlesbrough, to be C. C. for Langbarugh vice Mr. Tho. Peers, who is to pass his acc'^ before next Sessions ; the Gierke of the Peace to enter the coppie of the letter from the Councell and the form of the certificate of Sept. 3, " That is, ordered or inflicted as a penalty. From Latin, pa'na, a punishment, penalty. THIRSKE, OCTOBER 2, 1655. 199 1655, concerning putting the laws in execution' against papists, Jesuits, and convicting popish Recusants ; an alehouse-keeper of Staires Foote at Whitby suppressed for three years ; the inhab'^ of Warthill were indicted for suffering one Nich. Oxard, a felon, to escape, and did not make fresh pursuite to apprehend him, whereby the felon escaped justice, the said inhab'^ have appeared and submitted to the indict- ment and were fined 100 markes, to be estreated and returned into the Exchequer ; [31.J thep^'40 in pain against the owners and occupiers of the lands adjoyning on the south end of New Bridge to be estreated, leavyed and paid to the gent", appointed Overseers for the repair of the said highway; ;^roo Ordered for Wath Bridge; the Order for leavying 5s. of Mr. Cholmeley to be directed to the Constable of Westerdaile ; Wm. Younge, Procter, and Geo. Younge to find securi- ties for good behaviour ; the acc'^ of Mr. Wm. Hebden, late Thre'. for L. S., having been perused according to a former Order, and the Court having received a return of the said Order, whereby ;^io. 16. 9 is due to Mr. Hebden, the present Thre'. to pay him the said sum ; the Sheriff to pay 5s. for howseroom, fire and candle to Mr. Berryman's Jury ; the like sum to Mr. Beverly's Jury ; for that with the consent of Mr. Nich. Battersby, Gov', of the Ho. of Corr". at Pickeringe, it was Ordered at New Malton, July 10, 1655, that the aforesaid Mr. Battersby should give bond (for so much money as he hath received) before Luke Robinson and Chr. Piercehay, Esquires, and for that it appeareth by their certificate of Aug. 14, 1651, that they tendered bonds to him, which he refused to seal, the Sheriff or his Deputy to carry the said Mr. Battersby before the next J. P. to be bound in ;^ioo principle, and ;!f 20 apeece securities, to appear and answer his contempt, and in case of refusal the Sheriff to convey him to the common gaole; [3I^] a Murton alehousekeeper suppressed for three years ; a Well man to find securities for good behaviour ; two men sent to the Ho. of Corr". for a month, and then to be sent to their habitations ; a wandering disorderly fellow sent to the Ho. of Corr", for a month ; Rob. Holborne, Gierke of the Peace, to be authorized and required to compound for the issues forfeited at the Assizes at Yorke for not repairing of Yearme and Kirkham Bridges, and estreated into the Exchequer, with what convenient speed may be, either by himself or some other person, and to give an ace', thereof to the N. R. Sessions, and if any money be paid into the Exchequer which was leavyed of the inhab*^. of the N. R., to endeavour the regaining the same ; whereas Mrs. Sarah Thompson of Whitby stands indicted by the Grand Inquest for suffering a howse or shop to overhang the frontstead and bounders of Nich. Wigginor 22 inches, whereby the said Nich. hath been and is hindered from raising his building on his 200 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. freehould, it being a great nusance, the Court imposeth ;^2o as a pain to be leavyed on the goods and chattells of the said Sarah Thompson, if she do not remove the nusance aforesaid within fourteen days of the sight of this Order, or the copy of it, left at her house ; [32.] com- plaint having been made by the Thre'. for L. S. that some of the C. C". do not pay the just proportion of L. S. and Hosp''- money charged in their Weapentakes, some Weapentakes having paid double to others, three J.P=. to call the C. O. before them and examine what C. O. have not leavyed and paid their proportions of the said money and certify etc. After our hearty Coraendations, — Whereas his Highnes hath taken notice that his proclamation lately published for putting the laws in execution against Priests and Jesuits, and for the speedy conviction of popish Recusants," is not likely to produce that good effect as was intended, for that the certificates, thereby directed to be made, may probably want such formalitie as in this behalf is requisite, it is therefore his Highness' pleasure, that the certificates of the several J.P" throughout England and Wailes shall be made in the premisses after the form now herewith sent yow, which is approved by his Highnes with the advise of the Councell, and there- fore it is comannded that his Highnes' J.P'- resident within your County be speedily advertised of this his Highnes' pleasure, by send- ing unto them the printed copies of the said form of certificates, according to which form the certificates concerning the premisses allready sent up by some J.P' are to be made anew, and, that this service may be the better and more easily performed, it is further required that his Highnes' pleasure be openly declared as to the next Sessions, and that the Clerke of the Peace [32^] there doe enter in the Sessions Rolls the said form of certificate, with these our letter, to remaine off Records [j-zV], and herein his Highnes doth and will expect reddy obedience and a due ace', as the importance of the service requires, and soe wee bid yow heartily farewell. From White- hall, Sept. 3, 1655. Signed in the name and by the order of the Councell, Hy. Lawrence, President. [Side-note. — This is a true coppie of the Letter which I received with several coppies of the forme of the certificate to be used as above- said, witness my hand the 3rd day of Oct., 1655. Chas. Smith, Deputy Sheriff.] and ex[amined] by me Wm. Sowerby. The Forme of a Certificate to be used by J.P*. and others through England and Wailes in the case of Popish Recusants, refusing to take THIKSKE, OCTOBER 2, 1655. 201 the Oath of Abjuration, and neglecting to appear before the said J.P'. to take the said Oath. Wee, C. B. and G. F., J.P'. for the County of Buckingham, whose names are subscribed, in pursuance of his Highnes, the Lord Protector his Proclamation, pubhshed April 26, 1655, entituled : a Proclamation declaring his Highnes' pleasure and command for putting in execution the Lawes, Statutes and Ordinances made against Jessuits and Preists, and for the speedy conviction of Popish Recusants, according to an Ordinance of Parliament in the said Proclamation mentioned, doe certifie to the Right Hon"', the Lord Cheife Barron and the rest of the Barrons of his said Highness' Court of Exchequer, that the severall respective persons whose names, places of abode and titles or additions are particularly mentioned in a certaine Schedule hereunto annexed, attested under our hands and seals, being suspected to be Popishly affected, were therefore required to [3 3. J attend us att [blank] in the said County of Bucks, and upon their appearance before us the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord 1655, we, the said J.P^, did then and there tender unto them and everie of them the Oath of Abjuration in the said Ordinance and Proclamation mentioned, in theis words following, that is to say [here follows the Oath of Abjuration as given above (p. 180)] which said Oath being soe tendered, they, and every of them, did refuse to take. And wee the aforesaid J.P^ further certify to the said Lord Cheife Baron and the rest of the Barons above-mentioned that the several persons whose names, etc., are likewise specified in another Schedule, or Schedules, hereunto annexed, being also suspected to be popishly affected, and they and every of them being legally required (as by oath made thereof before us appeareth) to attend us the aforesaid J.P^ at [blank] in the said County of Bucks, the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord 1655, then and there to take the said oath in the said Ordinance and Proclamation mentioned, but they and every of them did refuse and neglect to attend us accordingly, in witness whereof wee, the aforesaid J.P'., have hereunto sett our hands and Seals this [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord 1655. [33^] Bucks. The Title of the Schedule to be— The names of the several persons suspected to be popishly affected, who upon summons appeared before us J.P^ named in the certificate whereto this Schedule (or these Schedules, if there be more then one) is annexed and refused to take the Oath of Abjuration in the said certificate expressed, tendered to them, that is to say : A. B., Esq., of [blank] in the County of Bucks., Mary Howse, wife of Rob. Howse, gent", of [blank], Alice Turner, widow, of [blank], Ann Simpson, spinster of [blank]. 202 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. The Title of the other Schedule. The names of the several persons suspected to be popishly affected, who, being legally required to appear before us J.P^ mentioned in the certificate whereto this Schedule (or Schedules) is annexed, to take the Oath of Abjuration in the said certificate expressed, did neglect to attend us accordingly, that is to say : C. D., gent"., of [blank], M. O., yeom°., of the same. Mem. The certificate and Schedules to be truely and fairely written and signed by the J^P., to be made in parchment, and to be sent sealed up to the Barons of the Exchequer, delivered upon oath that they are as they were received from the hands of the J.P^ that signed the same. The Sessions adjourned to Kirbymooreside, Jan. 17, next, by 8 of the clock in the forenoon, and at Richmond, by adjournment, Jan. 24. Rolls signed by Luke Robinson, Rob. Walter, Wm. Ayscough, Fr. Lassells, Wm. Weddell, Tho. Lassells. [34.] KIRBYMORESIDE. Qu. Sessions at, Jan. 17, i65f. Before Luke Robinson, Geo. Marwood, Rob. Walters, Wm. Ays- cough, and Benj. Northcliff, Esquires. High Sheriff as before. Ralph Hestle, Gent"., John Pyper, Yeom"., Rob. Hardlnge, „ John Hogg, „ John Morrell, „ Wm. Hartuss, „ Henry Jackson, „ John Cockerill, ,, Henry Otterburne, „ John Harrison, ,, Geo. Robinson, „ Rob. Peckett, „ Marm. Poole, „ Tho. Francke, ,, John „ „ Names of the Jury etc. Nich. Pearson, Gent"., Rob. Mayson, Yeom"., Stephen Russell, Edw. Watson, Gawan Allattson, Alex. Nesbecke, Wm. Martyn, ► sworne. John Husthwaite, Wm, Reavely, Jo^ Moore, John Sturdy, Geo. Richardson, Tho. Burton, John Sotheran, Chr. Watson, Tho. „ Rich. Shippard, sworne. KIRBYMORESIDE, JANUARY 1 7, 165!^. 203 Without in trespass : — Wm. Moore, gent"., Attorney at law, for refusing to give a Bill of charges to his clients ; a Dalby yeom° for shootting att a quicke,* contrary to the Statute ; a Coald Inglebyt gent", for assault ; two Yearesly men for the Hke; [34^] Ja'. Judson of Kirbymooreside for unjustly destreining a pewter dubler (2s.) ; the same for another pewter dubler (2s. 6d.) ; a man and a woman of Sinnington, a man and a woman of Newlass, a man and a woman of Thormanby, and a man and a woman of Kilburne, all for fornication ; Ja'. Judson for brewing without licence ; John Bright, Esq., Sheriff of the County of York, for suffering a prisoner negligently to escape. Without in felony : — Three Raskelf persons for breaking into a house and stealing a read carsey petticoat, a vylet-coloured waistcoat, three sheets, and other small linninge close [clothes], to the value of 5s. Trespasses acknowledged : — Rob. Henley of Sinnington, Parish Register, for betraying his trust and abusing the Register books committed unto him, and deceiving the people (submitted etc. and to loose his place) ; two New Malton gent", for assault (guilty upon traverse, fined ;£'3. 6. 8. each) ; an Uglebarnby yeom". for the like (submitted, fined 3s. 4d.) ; a Liverton yeom". for the like (submitted, fined 20s.); [35.] an Amotherby man for the like (submitted, fined 3s. 4d.) ; John Storr of Malton, Gierke, for abusing the people, pretending to have power to marry them (submitted, fined 20s.) ; a Hutton Bushel! man for assault (submitted, fined ss.) ; a Crake man for the like (submitted, fined 30s.). Five bills ignored. Presentments : — -The highway between Boleby and Staithes upon the sea-coast to be in great decay (;^s : to be repaired by the next Sessions) ; the highway between Griraston and Stearesby to be in great * The meaning is shooting at a living object. In u. 14, 2 Edward VI., after reference to an enactment of 33 Henry VIII., to the intent that no man should shoot in any handpiece or gun, but at a bank of earth, and not at any dere or fowle unless he had ;£'ioo a year, the Statute proceeds: — "forasmuch as the said Act having bene devised, as it was then thought for necessary exercise, tending to the defence of the Realme, is growen sithen to the mainteinance of much idlenesse, and to such a liberty, as not only dwelling houses, dovecotes and churches, are daily damaged by the abuse thereof, by men of light conversation, but also there is growen a customable manner of shooting of haileshot, whereby an infinite sort of fowle is killed, and much game thereby destroyed, to the benefit of no man, whereby the meaning of the said Statute is defrauded, for that the said use of hailshot utterly destroyeth the certainty of shooting ; which in wars is much requisite : Be it therefore enacted that no person under the degree of a Lord of the Parliament, shall from henceforth shoot in any handgun, within any city or towne, at any fowle or other marke upon any church, house or dovecote ; neither that any person shall shoot in any place any haileshot, or any moe pellots than one at a time, upon paine etc." This extract will probably be sufficient to explain the present entry. t Otherwise known as Ingleby Barwick or Ingleby Loringe. 204 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. decay by reason of great holes for lyme pitts {£5 pain, to amend the nusance by next Sessions : discharged) ; the highway between Ebberston and Snayneton being in the hke decay (the Hke pain and tyme) ; [35^-] the inhab" of Whitby for not repairing Upgang Layne between Whitby and Gisbrough (;!^4o pain, Aug. 1st next) ; the inhab". of East Rounton for not paying their ass*^. for repairing Hutton Rudby Church (discharged) ; the inhaV- of East Nesse, West Nesse and South Holme for not cleansing and scouring their propor- tions of Houlebecke (July ist, 3s 4d. a rood) ; the inhab'^ of Roxby for not paying their proportions towards the repair of Staithes Bridge. Felonies tried : — A Wrelton lab', for stealing an §we (2s. 6d. : putts himself guilty to lod., whipt). Names of the Jury etc. Rich. Scarth, Gent°., Wm. Readhead, ,, Nich. Wigginor, ,, Geo. Robinson, Yeoni"., John Smith, „ Chr. Fawcett, ,, "■ sworne. Ja'. Cowston, Tho. Foster, Rob. Cuthbert, Rich. Hobson, Rich Carlyn, Wm, Wood, Yeom"., ■sworne. Who say as abovesaid. The same Jury tried a Skelderskew man and say that he is guilty of assault and attempted robbery ; [36.] that a Cameshead man is guilty of assault (fined 20s.) ; that two New Malton gent", are guilty of assault, therefore fined ^^3. 6. 8. each ; that the other two prisoners are not guilty. Recog'". respited : — A Kirkleatham man in ;!^io to answer for endeavouring to inhabit in the parish without the consent of the parishioners there* (G[eorge] M[arwood], Esq., discharged) ; and two other cases. [36*".] Recog"^ entered in thirteen cases. [3 7. J Orders made etc. Whereas Tho. Ellerton of Welburne, gent"., did by his last will and testament, bearing date Feb. 19, 1609, give 20s. yearly to the poor of the parish of Kirkdaile, to be paid out of Mytton House and Mytton Holme, situate within the parish of Kirkdaile, los. thereof to be paid • This is a very singular case, and alike without parallel hitherto and unexplained by the context. The party is bound in £$0 himself, which is sufficient to show that he was a man of some substance. It may further be noted that no sureties are bound with him. KIRBYMORESIDE, JANUARY 1 7, l65f. 205 on the Feast of St. Thomas next before Nativitie of our Lord, and other los. on Good Fryday, by Tho. Savill, sonn of Geo. Savill of Welburne, as appears by the said will, but this Court is informed the house and ground is come to Tho. Savill, gent"., of Welburne and Mr. Hugh Savill his sonn, and that they do refuse to pay the same, Ordered that they do forthwith pay the arrears to the Churchwardens of Kirkdaile to be distributed to the poor, and to continue payment of the same for the future, and to give ace', to the next J.P. how the arrears paid have bin distributed; [37^] upon a petition of Lawr. Jackson and Ellen Younge of Kirkeleadham, whereby they set forth they have been published three times at the Markett Cross of Stoaxley, and that the Parish Register of Stoaxley certifies the same, and that they desire to proceed to marriage. Ordered that they may proceed to marriage accordingly ; a gent^ and a grocer of New Malton being indicted for assault, and having pleaded not guilty, both parties being desirous to proceed to traverse this Sessions, Ordered that they proceed to traverse accordingly ; Mr. John Robinson of Midlesbrough, having appeared and refused to take upon him the office of C. C. for Langbarugh vice Mr. Tho. Peers, according to Order, to pay to the Commonwealth ^^20 as a fine, and the same to be estreated into the Exchequer ; Mr. Ja=. Best of Apleton to serve as C. C. for Langbarugh, and a return to be made unto next Sessions what is done therein ; the Parish Off", of GilHnge to leavy of the goods and chattells of Mr. Geo. Watson 20s. monthly, according to an Order made at North- allerton, 'April 24 last, in case he shall refuse to pay the same monthly to Mrs. Ruth Barton and Barbary, her daughter, for their maintenance, the said Ruth being his daughter and Barbary his grandchild, and in case they shall be forced to leavy for the same, then to appriz and sell the goods, rendering to the said Mr. Geo. Watson the overplus that shall remain upon sail thereof; [38.] one of the parishioners of Hinder- well maketh oath that after the inhab'^ of Easington were presented at Thirske Sessions, Oct. z, 1655, for not repairing their proportion of Staithes Bridge, he did acquaint Mr. Nich. Conyers of Boleby there- with, and^tould the said Mr. Conyers that £^2q was imposed on the inhab'^ of Easington as a fine if the said bridge were not repaired before the next Sessions, and that he, the said parishioner, was appointed Surv'. ; a presentment having been preferred against an Acklam man at Allerton, April 24, 1655, for stopping up a highway betwixt Midles- brough and Stoaxley, in a place called East Feild, and he being found guilty upon traverse at Thirske, Oct. 2, 1655, to forfeit £,t^. 6. 8. for every month till he open the said highway, from the date of this Order; a J.P. to call the parties concerned in this petition before him and to do therein as to justice appertaineth ; whereas Ellinor 206 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Bellass was, by her own confession, hired servant with Wm. Parker of Easingvvould the last year, and departed from her maister's service about Martinmas last without giving him a quarter's warning, or a testimonal certificate as the law directs, and that one Bryan Thompson of Thirkelby hired her to be his servant in Easingwould Markett, without the consent of the said Wm. Parker, or seeing a testimonial certificate, the said EUinor Bellass to be committed to the Sheriff for one and twenty days for her offence, and afterwards to be sett at liberty without paying of fees, and the said Bryan Thompson, for his offence, to forfeit ^5 to the Commonwealth for hiring such a person without testimonial from her maister ; [sS*".] whereas an Order was granted that Sir Wm. AUenson, J. P., should call before him Katherine Leadall of Yorke to find security to make good her exception against the intended marriage of Tho. Jones and Mary Dunnington, and should certify the same to the next Sessions, and forasmuch as the said Katherine doth not appear, nor any certificate from the said Sir Wm. Allenson, Ordered that the said Tho. Jones hath liberty to proceed in his intended marriage; John Storr, Gierke, of New Malton to pay 20s. as a fine to the Commonwealth, being indicted and found guilty for pretending to joyne in marriage Wm. Hardwicke and Mary Smith, both of Sinning- ton ; a soldier, late of Col. Salmon's Regiment in Scotland, having made legall proof that he was lawfully settled as an inhab'. in the Parish of Scawton at the time he was listed a soldier, the Parish Off" of Scawton to provide a settlement for him ; the Parish Off", of Stilling- ton to pay i2d. weekly to a poor man ; the Parish Off'^ of Covvburne to pay a poor woman i2d. weekly ; a like Order to the Parish Off", of Hovingham ; i6d. weekly to a Staithes man ; a warrant against a New Malton man to pay los. to the poor for suffering company to tiple in his house; [39.J three New Malton gent", fined 3s. 4d. each, for sitting tipling in the said house ; Rob. Henley, Parish Register of Sinnington, to be discharged of his office, being indicted and found guilty for betraying his trust and deluding the people in the execution of his office, and the parishioners to proceed to chuse another Register ; a Craike man to find securities for a year, and to be of good behaviour ; a warrant against Ja^ Judson of Kirbymoon-side to pay 20s. for brew- ing without licence, or to be publiquely whipped, and to be discharged from brewing for three years ; a warrant against Wm. Hardwicke and Mary Smith of Sinnington to be carried before the next J. P. to enter bond to answer an indictment ; a Skelderskew man to find securities for good behaviour the Sessions next after Epiphany next, and, in case of refusal, to be committed to gaole till he find security as aforesaid ; the Sheriff" to make a return of the prisoners sent to the Castle of York, which were to be brought and tryed this Sessions ; Chr. Allenson RICHMOND, JANUARY 24, l6S|. 20/ late Constable of Craike, to stand Constable this year alsoe, instead of John Craike ; three persons of Raskelf, who were brought by the Sheriff to this Sessions according to a warrant from a J. P., to remain committed to the said Sheriff for the offence whereof they are accused till they shall be delivered by due course of law; [39''.] the pain against Mrs. Sarah Thompson of Whitby respited till next Sessions ; the severall C. C^ of the N. R., in their severall precincts, to inform themselves of all alehouses in out-places in any township in their divi- sions, afterwards to repair to the next J. P. and acquaint him therewith, that they may be suppressed in order to the peace of the Common- wealth ; the Sheriff to excuse those that served at this Sessions as Jurors, for the year following at Assizes and Sessions ; the Surv'. for Yearme Bridge to prepare his ace", against next Sessions, and to pay what money remains in his hands to Mr. Marm. Northcliff, as part of the money is leavyed on him, and the Clerk of the Peace to hasten the discharge of the issues in the Exchequer, and to give an ace'., that course may be taken to satisfy Mr. Northcliff the remainder ; a warrant against a Ferlinglon man to answer an indictment and to be of good behaviour ; two Helmesley men fined 20s. each to the poor, and an ace', of the distribution thereof to be given ; a gratuity of los. to a soldier's widow ; the Sessions adjourned to Richmond on Thursday next. Rolls signed by Luke Robinson, Geo. Marwood, Rob. Walters, Ben. Nortcliff [40.] The sum of ;^i3. 6. 8. mentioned in the petition to be equally proportioned upon the respective townshipps, occupyers and inhab'^ in Apleton in the Street, and a J. P. to call the parties before him, and the respective Constables, and so many of the inhab*^. as he shall see necessary, and to cause the same to be proportioned and paid to such persons so much as shall be due to them. [41.] RICHMOND. Qu. Sessions, by adjournment, at, Jan. 24, i6s|. Before John Wastell, Fr. Lassells, Wm. Thorneton, Geo. Smithson, Ben. Northcliff, Math. Beckwith and Leon. Smelt, Esquires. High Sheriff as before. 208 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Gyles Leightfoote, Gent"., Wm. Etherington, Yeora"., Rich. Walker, Henry Grant, Wm. Dobbinson, John Mason, Tho. Pybus, Chr. Wray, Fr. Morland, Chr. Plewes, Rog. Dawson, Chr. Snawden, Rich. Watson, Math. Leightfoote, Rob. Thompson, Names of the Jury etc. John Nicholl, Gent"., Rob. Pynder, Yeom"., Rich. Kendray, „ Wm. Addamson, ,, John Raper, ,, Rog. Smith, „ Tho. Scruton, „ ■sworne. Rob. Kitchinge, „ Fr. Walker, „ Oliver Iveson, ,, Ja^ Wharton, „ Wm. Leightfoote, „ Tho. Whitfeild, „ Chr. Mawkye, ,, Tho. Harrison, „ [4I^] Without in trespass: — A Tunstall woman for perjury; four men for unjustly taking twenty-eight sheep (;^i5 : entered traverse); the same for injuriously and unlawfully taking and driving away four oxen {£,20), six oxen {£26), two steers (^3), a whye (40s.), two geldings and a colt (^17), and forty bushells of oats {^■^ : entered traverse) ; a Croft man for unjustly taking away two botles of hay (2s.) ; another Croft man for breaking into a close and treading down the grass (entered traverse) ; a Skeeby man for erecting a cottage contrary to the statute ; another man for the like (entered traverse) ; Tho. Dun- ninge of North AUerton for officiating as Bailiff, not being sworn (entered traverse) ; a West Langthwaite man for speaking several words tending to the breach of the publique peace (entered traverse) ; a Bar- forth man for prophanation of the Saboth (entered traverse) ; a Barforth man for the like, and for selling ale without licence (fined 20s. for selling ale without licence, and los. for prophaning the Saboth). [42.] Two bills ignored. Felonies tried : — A Well lab', for stealing two pieces of beef, a cheese and 2lbs. of butter (2s. : putts himself not guilty nor did flye for it) ; a Hornby woman for stealing a green coloured safegard (2s. 6d. : putts herself guilty to lod., whipt) ; a Melmerby man for stealing three barley sheaves (3d. : putts himself guilty, whipt) ; two men of Sunni- thwaite and four of Ridmer for stealing six loads of hay {^£,6 : put themselves not guilty) ; the two Sunnithwaite men aforesaid for stealing two loads of hay (30s. : putt themselves guilty to i2d., both whipt); [42''.] a Brompton upon Swaile man for stealing two coope cappings* * K coup ox coup-cart is " a cart with a pole but only two wheels" [Cleveland RICHMOND, JANUARY 12, l6S| 209 of iron (2s. 8d. : putts himself not guilty) ; a man of Marten on the Moore for stealing four quarters of mutton (3s. : putts himself not guilty, nor did flye for it). Names of the Jury etc. Gent"., 1 Rich. Fawcett, Wm. Barwicke, „ Math. Holmes, „ John Cootherston, „ Raiph Crosby, „ Raiph Blackburne, Yeom". - sworne. Wm. Barker, Yeom"., Ja^ Carter, „ Rob. Broad, „ Henry Smith, ,, John Conyers, „ Wm. Wilson, ,, sworne. Who say as abovesaid. Trespasses tried. The same Jury : Who acquit one prisoner, con- vict the other. [43.] Three recog'". to be estreated. Recog"'. entered in seventeen cases. [44.] Orders made etc. Eight men to be whipt, being, on their own confession, convict for being common Players of Interludes, and rogues by the Statute, and to have certificates and to be sent from Constable to Constable to the places of their severall abodes ; committ to the Sheriff : Luke Lownes- daile being indicted for perjury, with consent of Chr. Dixon, the Prosecutors on behalf of the Commonwealth are content to have it traversed this Sessions ; two gent", to view Pierce Bridge and certify etc. ; a warrant against the Constables of Snaipe and Beadall, and all other Constables where any common Players of Interludes have acted or played any common plays since last Sessions, for not apprehending of them, they being rogues by the Statute, and have them before the next J. P. to be proceeded against for the neglect of their office : this to be directed to the C. C^ ; whereas ;^6o was to be estreated as an additional sum for Willy Bridge, and ;^2o thereof hath been estreated in Richmondshire, ^^40 to be estreated upon the East Division of the N. R. and upon Allertonshire, and paid to the Surv'^ ; three J.P'., with a Ripon man, to view the said bridge whether sufficiently repaired or no, and to take the ace''- of the said Surv'^ and certify etc. ; [44''-] John Cleaseby, gent"., of Cleaseby, to be C. C. for Gilling East vice Mr. John Rypon, who is to pass his ace''. ; upon complaint that the Glossary, sub voce), and a capping of iron would be, quite possibly, the iron defence for the end of the pole. Halliwell, however, defines Cap as " a piece of iron which covers the end of the axle-tree." This is, it will be thought, not a very explanatory definition. VOL. v. P 210 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Parish Off", of Cattericke refuse to pay a L. S. the 6d. weekly formerly Ordered, they are to pay the arrears forthwith, and 8d. weekly for the future, and if any failing bee, the next J.P. to see justice done; a Cowburne man, being an incorigeable dangerous rogue to the peace and quiet of the people, and a loose, wandering, pilfering person, com- mitted to the Ho. of Corr". at Richmond, to continue till further Order ; two gent", to take the acc'^ of the Surv". of Scawton Bridge, and to view the repair of the same, and certify etc. ; [45. J the C. C^ of the several Divisions to make up a true and perfect Freehold Book of all freeholders in their Weapentakes who are fitt to serve at the Assizes and Sessions, with their additions and yearly value of lands, and to present the same at the next Sessions, that the same may be viewed by the J.P'., and a perfect book given to the Sheriff for pre- venting misstakes, and that the service of the country may be carried on in an equal way, and not by some few persons as hath been for- merly ; for that complaint hath been made by the wife of Rich. Peacocke for want of bowsing, and Mr. Adrian Metcalfe's servant gives consent on his maister's part that the Spennithorne Parish Off", shall on the waistes of Bellerby erect a cottage for habitation for the said Rich. Peacocke, and the said Mr. Metcalfe ingageth that he will joyne with the rest of the parish in the charge of erecting the house proportion- ably, in case there be no other bowsing ready built to be hyred for them, the Parish Off", in the mean time to provide harbour for the said man, his wife and children ; a man of Thorpe under Stone to be had before the next J.P. to be bound to appear and answer to an infor- mation exhibited against him for speaking scandallous words against a J. P., and in the mean time to be of good behaviour ; discharge the presentment against the inhab" of Brompton for the repair of a high- way, which is certified to be sufficiently repaired ; ^4. 3. 4 Ordered for Reeth Bridge; i6s. 8d. in Birdforth, 35s. in Langbarugh, and 53s. 4d. in BuUmer for Gillmanby Bridge ; [45''.] 33s. 4d. for Deepdaile Bridge ; the Parish Off", of Manfeild to provide harbour for a poor impotent man, and to pay him 6d. weekly, and if they refuse, the next J.P. to see justice done ; Henry Smith, father of Henry Smith of Hunton, being an impotent poor man, unable to maintain himself, his said son, being able to relieve him, to pay him 6d. weekly, as the law in such case hath provided ; a warrant against a woman to appear and answer an indictment ; John Raper of Burniston sworn Balliffe for Hallikeld ; a North Staineley man committ till he find securities for good behaviour about buying four quarters of mutton ; a Crake man's traverse respited till next Sessions ; three men to find securities for good behaviour ; a man to find new securities for good behaviour ; a Sutton man's recog". to be discharged ; the inhab". of Askricke dis- THIRSKE, APRIL IS, 1656. 211 charged ; [46.] upon perusal of the petition of Math. Greggoiy, Gov', of the Ho. of Corr". att Richmond, which sheweth that the utensalls belonging the said House are in great decay, and that the House itself wants repair, as also that there is no stock belonging to it, as there doth to all other Ho^ of Corr°., four gent", to repair to the House and search the Orders at the institution of the said House, as also to inquire what stock and utensalls have bin provided and delivered to the former Gov", and what is become of the stock, and to certify what is necessary for stock, utensalls and repair of the House, that provision may be made next Sessions for the supply of the wants and defects ; Philip Brunskill of Bowes to be C. C. for Gilling West upon pain of ;^io vice Mr. Anth. Bailes, who is to pass his ace". ; the Parish Off", of Melsonby to pay a poor widow izd. weekly, and in case of refusal, the next J. P. to see justice done. [47.] THIRSKE. Qu. Sessions at, April 15, 1656. Before Luke Robinson, John Wastell, Fr. Lassells, Wm. Ayscough, Math. Beckwith, Geo. Smithson, Rob. Walters, Tho. Harrison, Wm. Weddell, Wm. Thorneton, Ben. Northcliff, Henry Hall, Leon. Smelt and Tho. Lassells, Esquires. High Sheriff as before. Names of the Jury etc. John Pybus, Gent".^ Rob. Bell, „ Wm. Kitchingman, „ Chr. Fawcett, „ Wm. Seller, „ Chr. Wake, „ Geo. Faceby, „ Rowl. Betson, „ !■ sworne. Geo. „ „ John Key, „ Symon Dunn, „ John Wilkinson, „ Rob. Hunter, „ Wm. Foster, „ Greg. Wilson, „ J John Nary, John Smith, Geo. Hopperton John Dickinson, John Nelson, Chr. Allanson, Phil. Scarth, Rob. Binckes, Tho. Coates, Wm. Worfolke, Tim. Wigginor, Wm. Jackson, Fr. Knaggs, Geo. Meeke, Wm. Carter, Gent". \- sworne. [47".] Without in felony ; — A North Staineley lab', for stealing a sheep (5s.); a Northallerton woman for stealing two paire of harden sheets (lod.). p 2 212 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Without in trespass :— A Mooreheades yeom". for giving threatening words and speeches (entered traverse) ; a Wykeham husb°. for forcible entry ; a Stonegrave gent", and two Hovingham yeom". for riotously ringing the bells in Hovingham Church att the dead time of the night (entered traverse) ; a Stonegrave alehouse-keeper for suffering severall persons to tiple and drincke in his house, and to commit many out- rageous actions (to be discharged from brewing, and his recog"^. to be forfeited) ; a Hovingham man for practising as a wandering minstrel or fidler (committ to the Ho. of Corr".) ; a Pickall man for assault (entered traverse) ; the Stonegrave gent", aforesaid and a gent", and a yeom". of Hovingham for tipling and drinking in an alehouse (to find securities) ; a Kirby man for extortion ; a Baulk man for acting an Interlude or stage play; [48] the inhab'^ of Newton near Benning- brough for not cleansing their proportion of the south side of the River Fleete, between Stanke wood and Hallgarth-nooke (to be cleansed by Michaelmas upon pain of 5s. a rood) ; a man of Sutton upon Galtres for taking and distreining several goods of the inhab'^ of Brompton, not shewing any authority for the same ; Chr. Medd of Lastingham for deluding the Commissioners for ejecting scandallous and ignorant Ministers and schoolmasters, and refusing to prove what formerly he offered to prove (traverse next Sessions) ; a Kirtlinton man for assault ; a Gierke and two lab", of Ould Malton for riot and assault ; a Hin- derwell man for rescuing several goods or arms taken by Order from the Commissioners for securing the peace of the Commonwealth ; three linninge clothworkers of Sutton for beating and stritching linninge cloth ; the Balliffes of Allertonshire for extortion of fees ; the Churchwardens of Hovingham for not repairing the church-leads,* walls, bell strings, etc. [48^] Trespasses acknowledged :— The Constables of Midleham for suffering the Lord's Day to be prophaned and not informing the next J.P. (submitted, fined 20s. each to the poor) ; John Bright, Esq., High Sheriff, for deputing Tho. Harper, Bailiff, not having sufficient land in the county ; a man and his wife of St. Mary Gate for brewing with- out licence, and suffering disorder in their house (submitted, fined 20s.) ; a West Rowneton lab', for unjustly taking a burden of young esh-trees (6d. : fined 6d. to the owner) ; a Pickering weaver for assault (submitted, fined 3s. 4d.) ; two Hovingham women for a fould [sic] breach (submitted, fined 2od. each); a Stonegrave butcher for assault * That is the lead covering the roof, or part of the roof, of the church. The word used to be of frequent occurrence in this part of the country, and among other connections in which I have heard it, may be mentioned the idea, quite prevalent not so very long ago, that there was virtue in " church-lead-water," or the water that ran off the leaded parts of the church-roof, for the cure of more than one of " the ills that human flesh is heir to." THIRSKE, APRIL IS, 1656. 213 (submitted, fined i2d.) ; a man and woman of New Malton for receiving stolen goods (submitted, fined 3s. 4d. each) ; a Beadlam weaver for threatening and abusing a man (submitted, fined los.) ; a Stonegrave man for contempt of a warrant from a J. P. (submitted, fined 3s. 4d.) ; a Cowburne man using certain threatening tearmes against a gent", (submitted, fined 26s. 8d.). [49.] Felonies tried : — A Nosterfeild lab', for stealing a pair of britches, colour sparrow-gray* (53. : putts himself not guilty) ; a Harton lab', for stealing two bushells of unwinnowed barley (2s. : putts himself notguilty);a North Staineley lab', for stealing a sheep (5s. : putts himself not guilty) ; an East Rounton man for stealing a burden of hay (lod. : putts himself not guilty) ; a Clifton lab', .for feloniously cutting the hair of four horse-tails to the value of los. (putts himself not guilty); an Easingwould woman for steahng a burden of turves (id. : putts herself not guilty) ; a New Malton lab', for stealing a pewter dubler (i6d.) belonging to some person unknown (putts himself guilty to 4d.). Names of the Jury etc. [Blank]. Who say as abovesaid. [43*".] Bills ignored in thirteen cases. [50.J Presentments : — The common street or laine nigh Daile House in the parish of Hinderwell (Midsummer, ^5) ; the common town- gate of Skelton near the bridge (Midsummer, j^k,) ; the common highway between Gisbrough and Skelton (Midsummer, ;^5) ; the laine adjoyning upon the Karrs at the west end of North Loftus (Midsummer, ;^5) ; an Ingleby man for not scouring a water-sewer beginning at East Inges and so running down to a stell called Holt (Midsummer, ;£$ : discharged) ; the inhab'^ of Hutton Rudby for not repairing the highway between Midleton and Rudby (Midsummer, ^20) ; the inhab'^ of Wilton for the like between Wilton Castle and Kirkleadam (Midsummer, ;^io) ; the inhab'^ of Broughton for the like between Ingleby Greenhow and Stoaxley (Midsummer, ;^i3. 6. 8); [50''.] the inhab*^. of Ingleby under Arneclifif for the like from Harperley House to Ingleby (Midsummmer, ;^20 : discharged) ; an Ingleby Moor man for the like over the said moor (Midsummer, ;^io); the inhab"- of Easeby for the like from Battersby in the edge of Blaka- moore to Stoaxley, and for not scouring the water-sewer from Easeby to Ayton Fields (Midsummer, _;£'io : discharged) ; the laine between Rook-bancke and Waterfall in the Constablery of Skelton (Lam[m]as, ;^3) ; the inhab'^ of Little Brompton for not repairing the highway from Ingleby Greenhow to Stoaxley (Midsummer, ;,f 5) > the inhab'^ of Hutton • A somewhat novel term for a shade of colour, and one which admits of collation with more than one of the modern like terms, as, for instance, "crushed- strawberry," etc. 214 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Rudby for the like from Hutton Rudby to East Rounton (Midsummer, ;^4o) ; the inhab". of Kirkleavington for the like in a place called Lands Moor-end between Kirkleavington and East Rounton (Mid- summer, ;£'5) ; the inhab". of Stoaxley for the like between Tanton and Stoaxley (Midsummer, ;^4o) ; Hutton Lane from Yearom and Stoaxley (Midsummer, £,20) ; Acklam Laine from Gisbrough to Stockton (Midsummer, ;!{^2o) ; Ludgate Way from Gisbrough to Yearme (Midsummer, £,20); Gisbrough Laine to Slapewath in the roadway to Whitby (Midsummer, ;£2o) ; the highway from Amotherby to Newsam Bridge (Midsummer, ^20) ; the way from Thorneton to Malton (Midsummer, ;£2o) ; the inhab". of Kirkdaile for the highway from Slingsby to Kirbymooreside (Midsummer, £21°) > [S^-] ^"^^ inhab"- of Hovingham for the highway from Hovingham to Spithe Bridge (Midsummer, ;£6. 13. 4); the said inhab". for not bancking up the river running in and through the said highway and scouring a water-sewer running through the Carr of Hovingham ; the highway in the lordship of North Kilvington and parish of Thorneton in the Street, between Thirske and Northallerton (Midsummer, ;^io ; respited till Midsummer 1657); the inhab'^ of Kilburne for Trenker Laine (Midsummer, -£6. 13. 4) ; the way from Osgoodby Wood-gate to Coxwould town end (next Sessions, ^^30) ; the inhab'^ of both Thirklebys for not making a sufficient horse-bridge near Thirkleby Milne, and the way from the said bridge to Thirkleby Church (next Sessions, ;£io) ; the inhab'^ of both Balkes for the highway from Osgoodby Grounds to Bagby Moore (next Sessions, ;£?,) ; the inhab". of North Kilvington, Thorneton in the Beanes, and Thorneton in the Moore, for their highways between Thirske and Northallerton (Mid- summer, ;2£'io each township; the two first respited, the other discharged) ; the inhab'^ of Thirske for the highway between Sowerby or Thirsk and a place between Flatt Stile-gate and the entrance to Sowerby Fields (Midsummer, ;^io : discharged) ; the inhab". of Hustwhaite for the way between the Leafields and Elphin Bridge (Midsummer, ;^2o : respited) ; the highway between Sutton and Whittsoncliff (Midsummer, _;^3o ; respited); [5I^] the highway from Keabecke to the gate at the Laine-end (Midsummer, ;^3o) ; the inhab"- of Beadall, of East Rounton, of Ruswarp, of Raskelf, and a man of Alne for not repairing highways ; a Tholethrope man for lying manure on Tholethrope cawsway; the cawsway and highway through Huntington; the high- way between Tirrington Bancke and Shirriff Hutton ; the highway in Thorneton le Beanes over part of a close called Purgatorye ; [52.] a Sigston man for the highway between Thimbleby and Thirske ; the inhab". of Brunton, of Leake, of West Harlsey, of Sawcocke, of North Otterington, of Maunby and Kirkby Wiske, of Pickill and of Easeby, THIRSKE, APRIL 15, 1656. 215 and a Siddell man, for not repairing their highways ; the occupyers of the grounds adjoyning upon Wiske from Warlaby to the river Swaile for not cleansing their proportions of Wiske ; [Sz*".] a laine in the parish of Pickering ; the highway from Pickering to Whitby etc. from the low end of Virgoe Laine ; the Churchwardens of Kirbymooreside for neglecting to leavy money according to Order ; a Kilton alehouse- keeper for suffering people to tiple in his house and to commit many missdemeanours ; Lawrence Sayer, Esq., Peter Metcalf, gent"., Rob. Barry, Papists in arms against the Commonwealth ; Geo. Stott, gent"., of Cowburne for riding togeather in arms to the great terror of the well- affected ; Officers and persons presented not fitt to be allowed to practise according to the Lord Protector's last Declaration, Attorney att Law : John Smith of Snenton, Wm. Wood of Stonegrave, Nich. Pearsdaile, Geo. Harland of Hellperby, Nich. Lodge and Ja^ Moore of Angram ; J.P, Wm. Weddell, Esq., of Earswicke. [53.] Names of the Jury etc. Chr. Lownesdaile, Gent". "^ Wm. Jackson, „ Rob. Moore, „ Rich. Harton, „ John Swailes, ,, Raiph Snawden, sworne. Wm. Younge, Gent". Rob. Ripley, „ Wm. Hebburne, „ Wm. Gere, „ Simon Arnett, ,, Rich. Hodge, Yeom"., . Who acquit the prisoners. [53^-54''.] Twelve /ecog"'. to be estreated. One recog^' [55-66^] Recog"'. entered in twenty-eight cases. respited. [57. J Orders made etc. A warrant against Chr. Metcalf of Mercett and Mich. Robinson to be carried before the next J.P. to become bound to prosecute against Alex. Lambert and Fr. Lambert, his sonn, for seducing the said Mich. Robinson to suffer his son Ja". Metcalf to joyne with the said Fr. Lambert to take the writings of one Cicilly Tennand from her to the value of _;^2,ooo, and other missdemeanours mentioned in the paper hereunto annexed ; a brewer of Mary Gate to be suppressed for three years, and to stand committ till he pay 20s. as a fine for selling ale without licence, and to enter bond in p^2o to be of good behaviour for three years ; gratuities of 30s. and T3S. 4d. to two soldiers' widows ; Mr. Tho. Simpson of Brafferton to be C. C. for Bullmer vice Mr. John Lockwood, who is to pass his ace", to Rob. Walters and Wm. Weddell, Esquires ; Mr. Leon. Robinson of Wensley to be C. C. 2l6 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. for Hang West vice Mr. Luke Yearker, who is to pass his ace". ; [57^] a Stonegrave alehouse-keeper suppressed for three years and his recog"'. to be estreated for keeping a disorderly house; a Hoving- ham man, being a wandering rogue, to be sent to the Ho. of Corr°. at Richmond for a month ; a Hacknes gent"., submitting to his indict- ment, fined ;Q(i. 13. 4, and to stand comitted till he pay the same, and to find sureties for his good behaviour for a twelvemonth ; Mr. John Key of Cathrope and Mr. Tho. Barugh of Disforth to be C. C=. for Hallikeld vice Mr. Chr. Wilkinson and Mr. Edw. Browne, who are to pass their acc'=. ; . . . . Conyers of Roker to be C. C. for Gilling East vice Mr. John Rippon, who is to pass his ace". ; John Apleby, gent"., of Thirne and Tho. Fawcett, gent"., of Tunstall to be C. O. for Hang East vice Mr. Rich. Smirthwaite and Anth. Benson, gent"., who are to pass their acc'^ ; Ja^ Dobson, Constable of Stonegrave, to pass his ace". ; [58.] Order in a bastardy case; the Gierke of the Peace to send forth two writts for the electing of two Coroners, which may be persons residing in this Riding, and the Sheriff to dissburse such moneys as shall necessarily be expended in the said suites ; a pension of 40s. to a L. S. ; Order in a bastardy case ; three persons of Gillinge to be discharged out of Sessions proces ; a gratuity of 13s. 4d., and another of los. to soldiers' widows ; in case any Papist or Delinquent be elected Constable, the next J. P. to appoint some other fitt person, and the said Papist or Delinquent to be at charge thereof; [58''.] whereas at Thirske Sessions, Oct. 2, 1655, ;^2o was imposed upon Mrs. Sarah Thompson of Whitby for suffering a house or shop to overhang the frontstead or bounders of Mr. Nich. Wigginor, except she do remove the said nusance within fourteen days, the said fine to be respited till next Sessions, and then ^^40 to be imposed as a fine except the said nusance be removed in the meantime or cause shewn to the contrary ; an additional rate of ^£20 quarterly for the mainte- nance of L. S. to be estreated throughout this N. R. until further Order, and the same to be rated according to the Acts and Ordinance of Parliament made in that behalf ; the Thre'. for L. S. to pay Mr. Marm. Northcliff such sums of money as he shall make appear to this Court he hath dissbursed for releife of L. S. and Bridge-money ; the indict- ment preferred against Wm. Barton of Scawton by John Wilden to be, by consent of both parties, traversed this Sessions, and a Venire to be granted to summon a Jury for that ; the Certiorary tendered to this Court by Wm. Moore for removing an indictment against him into the Upper Bench to be allowed of, and the Gierke of the Peace to certify the indictment into the said Court accordingly ; the Sheriff submitts to the indictment against him and is fined thereupon 20s., and the Clarke of the Peace is to take care that the said fine be MALTON, JULY 1 5, 1656. 217 estreated ; a Stainegrave man suppressed for selling malt, for a year ; [59.J the presentment against a Carking man for erecting a cottage to be discharged ; Rob. Bednell and Edw. Harrison of Stoaxley to be suppressed from brewing, being papists; the Sheriff not to summon any Jurors to serve next Sessions or Assizes that served, or was summoned to serve, att this Sessions ; a poor man of North Loftus to have i8d. weekly; a Nunnington man to have 8d. weekly; a traverse respited till next Sessions ; £,20 Ordered for Peirce Bridge ; pensions of 30s. each to four L. S. ; the J. P. to whom the disproportion of ass"^. in several townships in the Weapentake of Gilling East was referred, at Richmond Sessions, Jan. 24, 1655, having made certificate, the Court Orders that the proportion setled by them be observed for the future. [60.] MALTON. Qu. Sessions at, July 15, 1656. Before Sir Wm. Strickland, Bart., Luke Robinson, Chr. Piercehay, Henry Hall, and Ben. Northcliff, Esquires. High Sheriff as before. Names ef the Jury etc. Wm. Hebden, Gent".,^ Fr. Smith, , Jeremy Idle, , Rob. Postgate, , Wm. Glover, ,, John Storr, ,, Rich. Craven, „ Chr. Younge, „ Wm. Oliver, „ John Warde, „ Rich. Shippard, „ John Harrison, ,, Fr. Ellerton, „ Sam. Robinson, „ !- sworne. Arthur Stringer, Gent"., 1 Wm. Readhead, „ Edw. Robinson, „ Chr. Hay, „ John Smith, „ Chr. Waike, „ Rich. Harwood, „ John Sturdy, „ John Day, ,, John Smith, „ Leon. Harrison, „ Rob. Munckman, „ John Prissicke, „ Chr. Manners, „ John Hesle, „ sworne. The verdict follows. [eo''.] Without in trespass :— The Gierke of Ould Malton for assault upon a Gierke ; the same for breaking the pinfold att Ould Malton and taking his goods away ; a Butterwicke man for assault (entered traverse); three Farlington men, a Low Tholthrop man, and two 2l8 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Marton men for taking and killing three deere ; Ja'. Judson of Kirby- mooreside for executing proces not being sworn Bailiff; a Stonegrave man for making a bett to wrestle on the Saboth Day ; an Ould Malton woman for perjury (entered traverse) ; Wm. Kidney of New Malton being a papist in armes for keeping arms in his house ; a gent", for stopping up a highway; Rob. Blackwell, gent"., Parish Register of Malton, for publishing Wm. Grainge and Jaine Poslgate, contrary to the Act etc. ; the Clarke of Ould Malton aforesaid for rescuing his goods being in driving to the pinfold; a Strencile man for giving threatening words ; two Craike women for breaking into a house and stealing severall goods and moneys ; [6i.] an Overton man for assault ; a Sutton man for stopping up a highway ; two Tollerton men for steal- ing a brown cow, property of some person unknown ; Wm. Kidney of New Malton for assault ; Wm. Grainge and Jaine Postgate for fornica- tion ; a Butterwicke man and his wife for assault. Trespasses acknowledged : — A Wombleton lab', for assault (sub- mitted, fined 40s.) ; three Farnedaile persons for chasing and biting sheep with doggs (submitted, fined i2d. apiece); a Whengby man for assault (submitted, fined 20s.) ; a Snaineton woman for the like (sub- mitted, fined 40s.) ; a AVhitby man for the like (submitted, fined i2d.) ; a Levisham man for the like (submitted, fined 20s.); an AUerston man for the like (submitted, fined 3s. 4d.) ; [6I^] a Whitby man and his wife for assaulting and threatening the Constable in the execution of his office (submitted, fined los. apeece) ; the Constable of Egton for suffering a man to escape out of his custody (submitted, fined 45s.) ; a Helmesley man for abetting a rout and unlawful assembly (submitted, fined 6s. 8d.) ; two Haxby men for assault (submitted, fined 40s. apeece) ; a Strencile man for the like (submitted, fined los.) ; a Clifton man for the like (submitted, fined 9s. 6d.) ; a Slingsby man for the like (submitted, fined 20s.) ; a Bransdaile man for the Hke (sub- mitted, fined I OS.) ; a Hovingham man for the hke (submitted, fined 2s. 6d.) ; a Lillinge man for the like (submitted, fined 12s.) ; a Kirby- mooreside man for being a petty minstrel and wandering abroad (sub- mitted, whipped) ; a Cayton man and a Fyley man for unlawfully seizing and taking a beast hyde, goates and other goods (fined los. and 24s. respectively) ; a Gierke of Huntington for being a common drunkard and assaulting and beating his wife (submitted and confessed, fined 40s.). [62.] Presentments : — Rob. Johnson of New Malton for executing proces not being sworne BaUiff ; the inhab". of Crambe, of Whorlton, of Nunthrope, of Faiceby, of Whitby, and of Lastingham, for not repairing highways ; the inhab'^ of Easingwould, Newton, Tollerton, Lynton, and Beningbrough for not scouring Fleet from Newparke payles to the river MALTON, JULY 1 5, 1656. 219 Ouz[e] (Oct. 10, 6s. 8d. a rood), the inhab*=. of Yearme for not repairing the cawsway from Spitle Gate unto the Fryerage cawsway-end ; four Mowthrop fermers for not scouring their proportions of Mowthrop Beck (discharged) ; the inhab'^ of Haxby for not making their fences between Haxby grounds and the grounds of SUngsby Bethell of London, merchant, called Sewitt Carr ; the inhab"- of Lastingham for not repairing a horse-bridge over the River Seaven. [62''.] Felonies tried : — An East Coatham man for stealing a winder- cloth (8d. : putts himself guilty to 4d., whipt) ; a New Malton woman for stealing a pair of lynninge sheets and a pillowbeere (9s.), a bushell of coals (8d.), and four pieces of leather (2s. 6d. : putts herself not guilty) ; two New Malton lab"- for stealing a quye stircke (20s. : the first putts himself not guilty, the other guilty to los., — burnt in the hand.) Names of the Jury, etc. Rob. Otterburne, Gent". John Harrison, „ Tho. StifBn, Tho. Vaysey, ,, Ralph. Bullmer, „ Rich. Duckelt, „ Who say as abovesaid. - sworne. Sam. Campion, Gent". John Harte, „ Myles Mewburne, ,, Chr. Wilson, ,, Wm. Baker, ,, Rob. Franck, -sworne. Names of the Jury to inquire etc. upon pleas of trespasses. Rob. Otterburne, jun., Gent". ■ Tho. Stiffin, „ Tho. Vaysee, ,, Ralph. Bullmer, ,, Rich. Duckett, „ Sam. Campion, ,, sworne. John Harte, Gent". Myles Mewburne, „ Chr. Wilson, „ Wm. Baker, „ Rob. Franck, „ John Harland, „ - sworne. Who say that Chr. Medd is not guilty for deluding the Commis- sioners for ejecting scandallous and ignorant ministers and school- masters ; that the inhab'=. of Roxby are not guilty to the repair of Staithes Bridge^; and convict two prisoners. [63.] One recog". to be estreated. Two recog"'. respited. [63^] Ten recog*^". entered. [64.] Orders made etc. Upon hearing the petition of Wm. Peacocke of Whitby, which followeth in theis words : — that one Mr. Marm. Wilson of Whitby, deceased, did by his last will give a parcell of ground in Whitby called Tenter Garth towards the maintenance of the bridge there, by virtue of 220 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. which guift the Bridge-masters for the tyme then being entered there- upon and granted a lease thereof for twenty-one years, which was injoyed accordingly, part of which time your petitioner possessed the same, but now the lease being expyred, and Mr. Cholmely, challenging a right therein, the now Bridge-masters, for feare of trouble and charge, refuse to grant the same as formerly, so that it is likely to be lost, and the petitioner, who hath bestowed much thereon, ejected, the present Bridge-masters to certify the whole staite of the matter to the next Sessions, and to appear there and give an ace', of their office of Bridge- masters, and what moneys they have received of the profitts belonging the said bridge, and how they have dissposed of the same, and to take care that the revenues of the said bridge be not alienated, missem- ployed, or converted to any other use then for the repairs of the said bridge ; upon complaint of a poor man of Whitwell on the Hill that he wants his weekly allowance of 8d., and that there is 4s, due unto him by one of the Overseers for Crambe, the said Overseer to pay him his arrear, or shew cause etc. ; [64''.] the Parish Off", of Wigginton to provide harbour for a poor ould man, who is to pay such rent as he is able out of his labour ; the Parish Off", of Cawton to provide housing for a poor impotent man, according to his necessities ; a Capias to issue out against a man and a woman of Nunnington for fornication ; the moneys in pain on Easby waies in Cleaveland to be estreated and paid to the gent", appointed Surv'^, who are to dispose of the same for the repair of the said waies, and give ace', thereof next Sessions, and the inhab'^ to procure certificate of the sufficiency of the repair of the said highwaies att the Sessions next after Christyde* next ; the Parish Ofl''. of Helmesley to pay a poor widow 8d. a week instead of 4d. a week as formerly Ordered ; whereas a Stonegrave alehouse-keeper was, by Order of Easter Sessions last, suppressed for three years for keeping a disorderly house, and this Court is informed that his sonn hath pro- cured a licence to keep an alehouse in his father's house, which is appre- hended by the Court to be done by the father and the sonn as a collu- sion to deceave the law, the sonn to be likewise suppressed for three years from the date hereof for keeping a common alehouse, inn or victualling house; [65. J the Sheriff to discharge five persons who have been duely acquitted by course of law ; all those Popish relicts, vest- ments, crucifixes, surp clothes, alter-clothes, quishins, bookes and oynt- ment, challice plate, wafer-molds, wax-candles, girdles and all other the relicts which were seized on by John Nary, gent"., Tho. Stranguage, Quartermaster Smith and Tho. Hutchingson, gent"., to be burnt on the * This is a curious and by no means uninteresting form ; one moreover of not very frequent occurrence. It may be collated with Whitsuntide, and one or two other elliptical terms of the same kind. MALTON, JULY IS, 1656. 221 markett-place in New Malton by the Sheriff, July 16, 1656, betwixt the howers of four and five in the afternoon, and the crucifix and moulds for wayfers to be first broken and then burnt* ; a Kirbymooreside man, indicted for being a petty minstrel, to be whipt etc. ; the traverse con- cerning the inhab". of East Rowneton to be respited and adjourned till Michaellmas Sessions at Thirske, and this Order to be sent to them ; Mr. Tho. Butters and the rest indicted to stand upon their former bounds for their traverse till next Sessions, and the Gierke of the Peace to cause the wittnesses to appear then and prosecute the Com- monwealth's evidence ; a man to be sent from Constable to Constable to Auldbrough near Peirce Bridge, where he saith he last lived, there to be provided for according to law ; the presentment against Marton about their highways to be respited till Michaellmas Sessions, and att Candlemas Sessions the inhab"'. are to bring certificate of the ways being sufficiently repaired, or the fines imposed to be estreated ; the like Orders for the inhab'". of Shipton, Stillington and Alne ; [6s^] a recog". to be discharged ; for that complaint hath been made, by the Overseers of Helraesly concerning a poor impotent woman, like to be thrown on the parish, that Geo. Watson, gent"., of Cawton hath received ;^2 2 15s., many years since, due to the said woman, and for that the said Geo. Watson cannot discharge himself of the said money, the said Geo. Watson to enter recog^'- to appear and shew cause where- fore he doth not pay to the said woman such sums as he is owing her, and to pay her 2s. a week till next Sessions, and in case he refuse, the Overseers to complain to the next J. P. ; for that it appears by the Th'. for L. S. that by an Order of April 4, 1654, all the arrears of the Hosp'. money since 1649 was Ordered to be collected, and that the Weapentakes of Rydall, Bullmer, Birdforth and Pickering-Hthe have paid the same, and the rest of the Weapentakes of the N. R. have not paid, and whereas there was an Order made last Sessions for an addi- tional sum of £^20 a quarter for the use of L. S., the several C. C^ to forbear the collecting of the said ;^2o till next Sessions, and this Order to be recommended to the J.P^ at the Sessions to be held by adjournment at Northallerton to joyne herein, that the Ryding may pay alike to the L. S. and Hosp'^ money, that thereby the Thre'. may * This is an entry which, besides serving as an explanation of the way in which the general mass of the articles named have, to so great an extent, altogether dis- appeared, shows likewise the manner in which the repressive laws directed against Popery and Prelacy were put into execution, and carried out, by those who had the active part assigned to them. No doubt the things here named were the spoil secured after a successful raid made on some hitherto undiscovered place of meeting, or concealed chapel frequented by the oppressed Romanists of the district. The special vengeance wreaked on the crucifix and wafer-mould cannot fail to be re- marked. The surp-cloth must, I think, be taken to be the surplice, and none of the other teims employed seem to cab for special notice. 222 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. be enabled to pay the L. S. etc ; [66.] the Bailiff of Rydall to attach the person of a woman and bring her before the J.P^ to answer an indict- ment ; forasmuch as it appears by the confession of an apprentice that he hath diverse times opened his master's doors in the night time, and hath purloyned goods and given them to others, the said apprentice to be conveyed to the Ho. of Corr". at Pickering, to be duely chaistised and set at work till next Sessions ; upon the petition of the inhab*^- of Kirbymooreside, the ;^2o, which they have raised towards the £2"] parish-stock, which, in the time of the warr, was imployed for the relief of the poor, to be accepted in full thereof, and John Dent to pay the said ;^2o to the Overseers May 24 next, with consideration for the same henceforth, and John Dent and Wm. Sturdye to be acquitted and discharged of their ingagements to this Sessions ; forbeare the estreat- ing the fine on Muscoffts till Candlemas Sessions ; the Sheriff to pay 6s. 8d. to each Grand Jury to pay for their houseroom, fire and candle ; 1 8s. I id. to be estreated in the East Division of BuUmer for How Bridge ; a warrant against a Malton man to appear etc. ; Tho. Dun- ninge of Northallerton sworne Sheriff's Bailiff in the Weapentake of Langbarugh. [67.] NORTHALLERTON. Qu. Sessions, by adjournment, at, July 22, 1656. Before John Wastell, Fr. Lassells, Math. Beckwith, Wrn. Ayscough, Tho. Harrison, Geo. Smithson, Leon. Smelt, Ben. Nortcliff, Wm. Thorneton and Tho. Lassells, Esquires. Sheriff as before. Names of the Jury etc. Edw. Willy, Gent".-| Tho. Flower, ,, John Hudson, „ Wm. Staines, ,, Wm. Key, „ Rich. Smith, „ Wm. Garth, ,, Ralph Snawden, „ John Stephenson, „ Wm. Nelson, „ Tho. Etherington, „ Rog. Marshall, „ Tho. Hill, Wm. Mann, „ Cha'. Robinson, sworne. Shadrake Dunninge,^ Gent". Tho. Flower, Gent". Tho. Greenside, ,, Edw. Bowes, ,, Rob. Langley, ,, Wm. Addamson, „ Rob. Bickers, „ John Harrison, „ Geo. Flower, ,, Wm. Sheerewood, „ Rich. Kendray, „ Henry Apleby, „ Oswould Cotton, „ sworne. NORTHALLERTON, JULY 22, 1656. 223 Without in felony : — A Topcliff man and his wife for stealing a grene say apron with other new lynninge, as.... quishing (5s.), a silver ringe and bodkyn (3s.), and 2s. in money ; the same for stealing a read cradle-cloth, a lynninge sheet, and a pillowbeere (12s. : committ to the gaole, to be tried at the Assizes). [67''.] Without in trespass : — Eight Askrigg men for a riotous assault and battery upon Geo. Frear, gent"., in the execution of his office ; a woman of Brunton upon Swaile for enticing a man to purloyn his master's goods (to find securities for the good behaviour) ; Edm. Blaids for arreasting three men for the like upon the same warrant ; a Midleham man for perjury ; a Firby man and woman, being common disturbers of the peace, for doing harm to other men's goods ; an East Cowton man for forceable entery (entered traverse) ; three East Cowton men for forceable entry into a wynd-milne ; the Constable of Thirkleby for executing a warrant upon the Lord's Day (traverse) ; five women for entering grounds and pulling down fences (traverse) ; a man and woman of Raskelf for the like (traverse) ; [68.] two Askrigg men for rescuing a distress, and assalting and imprisoning the collectors (entered traverse) ; the Constable of Askrigg for contempt of a warrant (entered traverse) ; a Northallerton man for unlawfully taking a mare (p^io : entered traverse); a man of the Castle of York for speaking scandallous and seditious words against the Lord Protector (committ to the gaole to be tryed) ; a Northallerton man for taking and unlaw- fully distreining goods ; a Midleham man for forcible entry ; a Wass man for assaulting and beating a woman. Trespasses acknowledged : — A man for assaulting the Deputy Bailiff of Hallikeild in execution of his office (submitted, fined 20s.) ; two Bellerby men and two Midleham men for extorting 7s. 3d. by threats of imprisonment (the first fined 30s., the two last 6s. 8d. each); three Ainderby Steeple men for a riotous assault (submitted, fined 3s. 4d., 2d., 2d.) ; four Low Worsall men for killing the fry of sallmons and other fish (submitted, fined 20s. each and the nets to be burnt) ; [68^] an Exelby Grainge man for assault (submitted, fined 13s. 4d. to the Commonwealth, and 53., being drunke, to the poor). Felonies tryed : — An Ovington man for stealing a stone and a half of hay (3d. : putts himself guilty, whipt) ; an Ilton lab', for stealing a pewter can (7d. : putts himself guilty, whipt) ; a Northallerton woman for stealing a pair of harden sheets (lod. : putts herself guilty to sd., whipt) ; a man and two women of Easingwould for stealing two yards of brown broadcloth (8s.), the goods of some person unknown (putts himself not guilty, the women guilty to 55., whipt) ; two Harneby men for stealing an ewe (4s.), the goods of some person unknown (the first putts himself guilty to lod., whipt) ; a Midleton woman for 224 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. stealing a purse and izd in money from her maister (putts herself not guilty); another woman for receiving the same (putts herself not guilty) ; a Massam woman for stealing a read petticoat and several lynninge clothes (gd.). Names of the Jury etc. Rob. Smithson, Gent". '^ Wm. Stephenson, Yeom". Rich. Carter, ,, Geo. Squire, ,, Cha'. Dunninge, ,, Rich. Hudson, ,, - sworne. Ja^ Loftus, Rob. Ryder, Tho. Cundall, Rich. Walker, Rich. Haddinge Wm. Topham, Yeom". "1 )- sworne. Who say as abovesaid. [69.] Bills ignored in eleven cases. [69^] Presentments :— Two Great Broughton men for stopping up a highway ; the inhab". of Thorneton Rust for not making sufficient their walls and fences betwixt Thorneton Common and the East-end of Waisterling Pasture; the inhab''. of Croft and Dalton for not repairing their highways (Michaelmas, ;^3o). Recog"'. respited Names of the Jury etc. As before. Who acquit the one prisoner tried. [70-7 1''.] Recog"^ entered in thirty-two cases. in four cases. [72 ] Orders made etc. A gratuity of 30s. to a blind L. S. ; John Snawden of Northallerton and Edw. Willy of Holme, gent"., to be C. C^ for Allertonshire vue Fr. Key, gent"., and Edw. Dunninge, gent"., who are to pass their ace*". ; John Clerkeson of Askrigg took the Oath of Abjuration ; Tho. Lassells, Esq., having brought before us Tho. Thorpe and Rich. Purs- law for being convict of travelUng on the Lord's Day,* and he not approving of their excuse, they having confessed the said fact, the Court concurrs with him therein, and thinckes it fitt that Mr. Lassells doe issue his warrant to leavy los. of each of them, and for want of sufficient distress, the said parties to sitt six hours in the stocks; Ja^ Calvert to have 40s. paid him by the Thre'. for Hosp'=. for his paynes about presenting bad highways ; the Thre'. for L. S. to pay a Cornet's widow 20s. as a gratuity, and the J.P' at the next Sessions desired to consider her and her children's condition and to grant her a pension according to their discretion ; a Barforth man submitted and is fined * Another striking illustration of the nature of the restraints under which people lived in Puritan times, and of the manner in which they were made effectual. NORTHALLERTON, JULY 22, 1656. 22$ I OS. to the poor of Forcett, a warrant to the Constable and Church- wardens of Forcett to distribute it to the poor, save a third parte to the prosecutor; [72^] The. Fawcett and John Apleby, gent"., sworn C. C. for Hang East ; a warrant of good behaviour against two men ; Rob. Conyers, gent"., sworn C. C. for Gihing East 7'ti:e John Ripon ; three men sent to the Ho. of Corr". till next Sessions ; an Easingwold man to be whipt and sent to the Ho. of Corr". ; the Thre'. for L. S. to pay 13s. 4d. to a soldier's widow; the Parish Off", of Hutton Rudby to pay a poor woman 8d. weekly in future, and the arrears due unto her of the 8d. weekly formerly ordered ; a man and a woman to be sent to the Castle of York to be tried at the next Assizes ; the Parish Off", of North Cowton to pay a man and his wife 8d. v/eekly ; Mr. Ayscough is desired to punish a Wasse man ; the presentment against the inhab''. of Thirske to be discharged, certificate and oath being made of the sufficient repair thereof; the fine against the inhab*^. of South Kilvington to be respited, and tyme given them till Michaelmas for repair thereof; [73.] the fine against the inhab'^ of Thorneton respited from being estreated, and tyme given till Michaelmas for the repair thereof, it being known to this Court that there have been much thereof repaired this summer, and promised by Mr. Geo. Metcalf that, if more repair be adjudged fitt, that they shall be done ; by the vote of this Court it is Ordered that the fines of j£^. 6. 8 apeece, imposed on the C C. of Birdfourth at the Sessions at New Malton, July 15, 1656, for their not appearing there to attend the service of the Com- monwealth, be mittigated and lessened to 33s. 4d. apeece, and the Gierke of the Peace to make out the estreat accordingly ; a man late of the Castle of York committ to the gaole till the Assizes ; Mr. Math. Beckwith to send a warrant for a woman to appear at the Assizes and prosecute an indictment ; the fine against the inhab'^ of Sutton under Whittsoncliff respited till Michaelmas, it being certified etc. ; the like Order for North Kilvington ; a man and woman committ to the gaole for three months for fornication and to find sureties for the good behaviour ; a Northallerton man, who contemned the authority of this Court, to be brought into the Court to answer his contempt and to be bound to the good behaviour ; a pass for a man to go to Ferensby in the E. R. where he was last settled ; a woman to be bound to good behaviour ; Mr. Greggorie's business for repairs and stocke for the Ho. of Corr" at Richmond, and the certificates concerning the same, to be recommended to the next Sessions ; a warrant for good behaviour against an Ampleforth man for a year, and he to pay los. for harbour- ing wandering rogues and beggars; [73''.] certificate being made by Order of Sessions that ;£6. 13. 4 will but repair Scawton Bridge, and that if not done by Michaelmas, in all probability the mpney VOL. V. Q 2 26 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. already disbursed will be lost, two gent", having offered to disburse the said sum, it is recommended to the Court that the said sum may be estreated and the gent", aforesaid impowered to act as Surveyors. [74.] THIRSKE. Qu. Sessions at, Oct. 7, 1656. Before John Weastall, Geo. Marwood, Tho. Harrison, Rob. Walters, Math. Beckwith, Wm. Aiscough, Wm. Thornton, Wm. Weddell, Leon. Smelt, Ben. Norcliff, Geo. Smithson, and Tho. Lassells, Esquires. High Sheriff as before. Rob. Morrell, Gent"., John Jackson, ,, Henry Skayles, „ Rob. Peckett, „ Rich. Robinson, „ Rob. Sedman, „ John Keld, ,, John Parsley, „ Wm. Wylie, Wm. Wright, „ Geo. Hunter, ,, Wm. Skelton, ,, Marm. Wintersgill, ,, Ralph Horsman, ,, Oswold Dawson, ,, Tho. Becke, „ Tho. Doulton, ,, Names of the Jury, etc. Tho. Peirs, Gent"., Ja'. Nelson, „ Ralph Bell, Rich. Wilson, ,, Henry Easton, „ Henry Craw, „ Wm. Jackson, ,, Tho. Kitchin, „ l^sworne. jho. Stonehouse, „ Tho. Harrison, „ Geo. Cockerill, „ Bryan Thompson, „ Jos. Richardson, „ Peter Gierke, „ Jos. Allinson, „ sworne. Without in trespass: — Three New Malton men and a Welburne yeom". for arreasting and unwarrantably deteyning a man ; Symon Webster of Askrigg, Gierke, for unlawfully marrying of Rich. Hodges and Cicily Blenkhorne, whereby he did defraud and deceive them ; a Stillington man for swearing several oaths; three men for unjustly taking a gray gelding ; [74^] a Bainebrigg man for committing false, wilfull and corrupt perjury ; a Laburne yeom". for forcible entry ; the inhab". of Lining for not making up their hedges and ditches ; the inhab". of Strensall, of Sheriff Hutton, of Haxby and of Sutton on the Forest, THIRSKE, OCTOBER /, 1656 227 for the like ; two men for assault ; a Lastingham man for making an escape after arreast ; a Carperby man for assault ; a Counterside man for taking in an inmate ; five persons of Crake for disturbing cattle ; a Swaineby gent", for stopping up a watercourse called Pickell Becke ; a man of Magriffe Park* for forcible entry ; three Helperby yeom". for riot and assault ; [75. J a man of Laveracke Hall for taking of diverse parcells of timber ; Leon. Conyers of Lastingham, Gierke, for dis- turbing of Wm. Locke, Clarke (entered traverse) ; two Skewsby lab", for assault (entered traverse) ; the same for shooting at certain rabbits (entered traverse) ; a Lastingham man for assault, and also for being a common swearer (entered traverse) ; three Faceby persons for a tres- pass ; Math. Gregorye, Gov', of the Ho. of Corr". at Richmond, for suffering a prisoner voUuntarily and negligently to escape (entered traverse) ; a Burniston yeom". for speaking contemptuous words of authority (entered traverse). Without in felony : — A woman for committing the detestable sin of adultery (entered bond to appear next Sessions after Easter) ; a man of Tadder in Durham for stealing a sheep (rod.) ; an Ovington woman for stealing a pound of wool. Trespasses acknowledged : — A man and two women of Helmesley for viciously beating a man (the first woman submitted, and fined los., the others acquitted) ; a Pinchingthorpe butcher for assault (submitted, fined 5s.) ; the Allerton Baliffe for summoning a man to the Assizes, not having any warrant so to do (submitted, fined 6d.) ; [ys^] a North Ings man for assault (submitted, fined 4d.) ; a Howthropp man for speaking contemptuous words against authority (submitted, fined 20s.) ; a Faceby woman for assault (submitted, fined 2d.) ; a Fulrize man for the like (submitted, fined 2s.) ; a Faceby man for beating and wound- ing a woman (submitted, fined los.). Seven bills ignored : one against Rob. Gayle of Thruntofte for taking upon him to inkant and charme. Presentments : — Four Tollerton men for suffering their fences on Newton Common to lie down ; a Wigginton man for not scouring a watercourse, and for suffering his fences to lie down against the Eller- law ; [76.] a Tollerton man for unjustly removing bounders in the * This is a local name — the place specified by it being in the parish and near vicinity of Guisborough — about the orthography of which considerable uncertainty seems to have prevailed. I have seen it written in half a dozen different ways ; as, for instance, Margrove, Maggra, Maggery, etc., etc. The present entry, no doubt, suggests the true form, and for illustration of the conversion of the original -griff into -grove (which was later worn down into gra, gery, or the like), compare the modern name Skinningrove with the original Skinnergrive, Skinergrefe, etc., and also the existing Kemplah or Kempley with its prototype, Kemp Cliif, the name of an eminence in the same vicinity. Q 2 228 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. parish of Alne, to the deceit of the people ; a Burterside man for fraudulently and deceitfully extorting money. Felonies tried:— An Alne lab', for stealing a sheaf of rye (2d. : putts himself guilty, whipt) ; a North Stainely lab', for stealing a sheep (5s.), the goods and chatles of a person unknown (putts himself guilty to 8d., whipt) ; a Knaton lab', for stealing a botle of grass (putts himself not guilty) ; a Nunnington lab', for stealing a botle of hay (4d. : putts him- self guilty to a farthing, whipt) ; a Dishforth man for stealing a barley sheaf (4d ; putts himself guilty to id., whipt); two men and their wives, late of the Ho. of Corr"., for stealing an ewe (2s. : putt them- selves guilty every one to id., and all whipt) ; a Dishforth woman for steahng^ a barley sheafe (4d. : putts herself guilty to id., whipt); a Cold Kerbye man and his wife for stealing a sheep (2s. : the woman guilty, to be whipt). Names of the Jury, etc. Gent"., 1 Fr. Jeffrey, Edw. Ostler, ,, John Morrell, Yeom". Wm. Fawdington, „ Rich. Wells, Oliver Calvert, ,, ■ sworne. Mich. Fawcett, Yeom"., Geo. Collyer, ,, Wm. Riveley, „ Fr. Carter, „ Ralph Tindall, ,, Tho. Allanson, ,, Who say as abovesaid in the margine. [76^] The same Jury tried five cases of trespass, acquitted one prisoner and convicted the others. Names of the Jury to inquire between the Lord Protector and the parties indicted or presented. Oliver Jackson, Gent"., Fr. Jeffrey, Edw. Ostler, Yeom"., John Morrell, „ Wm. Fawdington, ,, Rich. Wells, ► sworne. Anth. Thwaytes, Yeom"., John Awmocke, ,, Oliver Calvert, „ Mich. Fawcett, „ Geo. Collyer, „ Wm. Riveley, ,, Who convict two prisoners and acquit the rest. [77-78.] Recog"^ respited in seventeen cases. [78''-79'',] Recog"'. acknowledged in twenty-two cases. [80.] Orders made etc. The presentment against the inhab'^.of Easingwould for highways to be estreated ; a Malton man to be discharged of his apprentice by consent HFXMSLEY, JANUARY IS, l65f. 229 of all parties, and the indentures of both sides to be delivered up to be kancelled, and the master to repay to a gent". 30s. more then formerly paid for the use of his said apprentice ; a Butterside man committ for three months for confessing he had the carnall knowledge of a woman's body ; a Firby man to be discharged from making any malt to sell ; an Ampleforth man to pay los. for harbouring of vagrants, and to be of good behaivour till next Sessions ; the inhab'^ of Haxby to have tyme till June i, for making up their fences, upon pain of 3s. 4d. for every rood then in default ; four gratuities of 20s. each to soldiers' widows ; Rich Harton, gent"., to be C. C. for Pickering I.yth vice Mr. Bower, who is to pass his acc'^ ; a Sunderland man to be conveyed there ; Mr. John Waynde to be C. C. for Pickering Lyth vice Tho. Hutchinson, gent"., who is to pass his acc■^ ; three J.P^ to view Buttercrambe Bridge over the river Darwent, and to inform themselves, if the same shall be made of stone for cart and carriage, whether the benefitt that comes to the country thereby will countervale the charge thereof, as also how the same hath been repaired formerly and by whom, and to certify etc. ; [8o^] John Smith, gent"., of Malton, and John Gibson, gent"., of Welburne, to be C. C^ for Rydall vice John Bradley and Claudius Best, gent"., who are to pass their acc'^ ; in pursuance of former Orders, Geo. Marwood, Esq., to pay ;^25 to Mr. Marm. Nor- cliffe forth of the moneys received of the Bishoprick of Durham towards bypast repairs of Yearme Bridge, which sum of ;^25, with ;^io paid before by Mr. Marwood to Mr. Norcliffe, makes ;^3S, which was levied of him when he was Thr'. for issues or fines against the inhab"'. of the N. R. for not repairing Yearme Bridge ; the Thre'. for L. S. to pay ;£i6 to Mr. Marm. Norcliffe, remaining due to him upon his acc'°. as Thr'. for L. S. [81.J HELMSLEY. )T- Qu. Sessions at, Jan 15, 1654 Before Geo. Marwood, Will. Aiscough, Chr. Piercehay, Rich. Darley, Rob. Walters, Will. Thornton, and Henry Hall, Esquires. High Sheriff, Tho. Harrison, Esq. ; Deputy Sheriff, Martyn Wikham, Gent". 230 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Tho. North, Gent".; John Sotheran, „ Tho. Watson, ,, John Welburne, „ Will. Moore, „ Rich. Wright, „ John Simpson, ,, Rich. ,, John Hogg, John Sedman, ,, Philip Edw. Agar, „ John Smith, ,, Geo. Hill, • sworne. Henry Wilden, Gent"., Geo. Sunley, ,, John Lotherington, „ Eustace Casse, ,, Bryan Beswicke, ,, John Foster, ,, Joseph Moore, ,, Will. Coverdale, „ John Kitchingman, „ Rich. Shipherd, ,, John „ „ Geo. Robinson, ,, Tho. Browne, ,, Rob. Johnson, ,. John Waynes, ,, sworne. Without in trespass : — Will. Bransby of Thirske, gent", for unjustly and unduely extorting of excessive fees ; Marm. Norcliffe of Oswold- kirke, gent"., for unjustly taking away his mare, being distreyned for Bridge money ; a milner of Kirby Mills for assault (to be traversed) ; a New Malton gent", for making an unlawful distress (to be traversed) ; four persons of Little Thirkleby for contemning an Order made by a J. P. (to be traversed) ; a New Malton yeom". for extorting of fees unduely (to be traversed); [Si*".] Buttercrambe Bridge in great decay, but unknown what persons ought to repair the same (to be traversed). Trespasses acknowledged ; — A Sutton yeom". for suffering his dike in Murton Fields to lye down (submitted : fined i2d.) ; a Clifton lab', for assault (submitted : fined) ; two Cowton lab", for a trespass (submitted : fined 2d. each) ; a Sutton yeom". for unjustly extorting money (sub- mitted : fined los, ) ; three Cowton lab", for assault (iined 20s. apiece) ; a Goadland lab', for the like (submitted : fined los.) ; two Sutton yeom". for unjustly and unduely extorting money (submitted : fined los.); an AUaston woman for assault (submitted : fined i2d.) ; a New Malton taylor for the like (submitted : fined 3s. 4d.). Four bills ignored. Presentments found : — The inhab'^ of Clifton for not making up their stoupe and ryles (to be done by Feb. 12, upon pain of £,2). [82. J Felonies tried : — A woman for stealing a wastcoat, a petti- coat, a coate, a pair of linnen sheets and a pair of shooes (guilty to 2s.) ; a Hustwhate lab', for stealing a bridle (4d. : not guilty) ; a Hus- twhate woman for stealing a peck of unwinnowed wheat (4d. : guilty to 4d.) ; a woman and her son for stealing a red pettycoat (i6s.) and a HELMSLEY, JANUARY 15, 165!. 23 f gray cloak (los. : the woman guilty to is.) ; a Slingsby lab', for stealing a mare (^^5 : not guilty) ; a New Malton yeom". for stealing a silver spoon (6s. : not guilty) ; a Wombleton lab', for stealing a mare {^£4 : com mitt to the gaole). Names of the Jury etc. Chas. Man, Genf., Geo. Hopperton, Yeom°., Tho. Ducke, „ Tho. Tunstall, „ Tho. Goodricke, „ Anth. Harrison, „ ^ sworne. Rich. Tindale, Yeom"., ' Edw. Ivison, ,, Anth. White, „ Humphrey Garbutt, ,, Will, Turner, ,, John Sowleby, ,, J [82''.-84.] Recogn^". acknowledged in twenty-five cases. Traverses this Sessions : — The inhab'^ of Newton for not scouring the watercourse in the middle of the Fleete soe far as Newton land extends (guilty) ; Leon. Conyers of Lastingham for disturbing of Mr. Locke, Minister (not guilty) ; the inhab"'- of East Rounton for not helping to repair Hutton Rudby Church (guilty) ; a Skewsby man for assault (guilty : fined 6s. 8d.) ; a Skackleton man for the like (guilty : fined 40s.) ; a Skewsby yeom"". for shooting haleshott in a gun (guilty : fined ;!^'io and committ) ; a Lastingham yeom". for threatening the Constable (guilty : fined 20s.). Names of the Jury that tried those traverses. Cha'. Man, Gent"., 1 Tho. Goodricke, Yeom"., Tho. Ducke, „ Tho. Tunstall, Rob. Robson, „ Anth. Harrison, „ sworne. John Sowleby, Yeom"., Rich. Tindall, „ Edw. Ivieson, ,, Anth. White, „ Humphrey Garbutt, „ Geo. Hopperton, ,, - sworne. [84^] Orders made etc. The /^6. 13. 4 formerly ordered for Scawton Bridge to be forth- with estreated; Mr. Fr. Driffield to be discharged of the office of C. C. for Bulmer, and Mr. Bell to pass his ace'", before next Sessions, and then to present a fitt person to be his successor; Mr. Rob. Otterburne, jun'., to be C. C. for Rydall vice Mr. John Bradley; Mr. John AVaynd of Kirby Misperton sworn C. C. for Pickering Lyth vice Mr. Tho. Hutchinson, and Mr. Rich. Harton to be C. C. vice Mr. Will. Bower ; the presentment against a Sutton man for not repairing a -32 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. highway to be respited till next Sessions; the ;^i3. 13.4 estreated for the repair of the North End of Malton Bridge to be paid by the C. C". for the N. R., in whose hands it is, to Mr. Rob. Blackwell, formerly named Surv""., and to Tho. Crosby of Malton, instead of Mr. John Narye, who are to give ace', from Sessions to Sessions of their doings theirin ; ^3. 6. 8 to be paid by the Thre'. for Hosp^ to a Sheriff Hutton man as a gratuity, by reason of his poverty and his house being burnt by fire ; a woman to be settled at Ebberston, where she formerly lived, according to a warrant from twoJ.P'., and the Parish Off" to take care thereof accordingly ; the presentment against four persons for not scouring their proportions of Mowthroppe Beck to be discharged ; the presentment against the inhab'". of Sutton for their fences and ditches to be respited till next Sessions by consent of both parties, and either to traverse the same or submitt ; hke Orders for the inhab" of Lilling and of Sheriff Hutton ; John Grimston of New Malton sworn BaUffe ; [85. J the difference about the hedges and fences between Mr. Horsland and the neighbours of Sutton referred to two Justices ; the inhab". of East Rounton to pay the arrears towards the repair of Rudby Church, and likewise to pay their proportion of the repairs of the said church for the future ; the presentment against the inhab'^ of Ingleby Arncliff for the lane leading from Harperley House to Ingleby, and likewise the presentment against an Ingleby Arncliff man to be discharged ; a warrant for good behaviour against a Stilling- ton man to answer an indictment for departing the Court without licence in a contemptuous manner, and his last bond to be respited by reason of his sureties ; Mr. John Lockwood, late C. C. for Bulmer Weapentake to pass his ace". ; Mr. Henry Scott of Wall-towne in Cumberland and Archibold Burne of Wellbridge, being persons sus- pected of to be of evill behaviour and riding about the country armed to the terror of the people and suspected to be robbers by the high- way, and such as are called mosse troopers, shall stand committed to the Sheriff till they find good sureties for the good behaviour, and to appear at the next Sessions, and for not now giving security ; a Gilla- moor brewer discharged for three years, and to find securities for good behaviour for keeping a disorderly house, and the C. C. for Rydall, with the Petty Constable, to see this Order put in execution ; a man and woman of Sinnington who are single persons and unmarried having confessed that about a fortnight ago they had carnal knowledge each of other, committ to the gaole for three months, and afterwards to continue there till they give good securities to be of good behaviour for one year afterwards ; a Wombleton , man committed to the gaole till the next Assizes to answer an indictment for stealing a mare ; a process and an indictment to be discharged ; [8s^] restitution of a reed petti- RICHMOND, JANUARY 20, 1656. 233 coat, a brown waistcoat, a green waistcoat and a shete to a woman who deposeth them to be hers ; forasmuch as Mr. Geo. Watson of Cowton had a sum of money in his hands of one Ann Leddell of Helmesley, a very poor woman, and that he was Ordered at the Sessions at Malton, July 15, 1656, to pay her 2s. weekly for her life, and afterwards an Order for i2d. weekly was made at Thirske, Oct. 15, 1656, which last Order he hath contemned and neglected to perform. Ordered that he doe forthwith pay the said Ann Leddell the said arrears due to her, and likewise pay her 2s. weekly for the future, and in case of refusal, the next J. P. to bind him to appear etc. ; the Sheriff to free those that have served of the several Juries at this Sessions from service at the next Assizes and Sessions ; a Crake gent", to call before him such persons as are material witnesses, and to inform himself thorow whose grounds in Marton Lordshipp the ways for cart and carriage and passengers have laid, from the town of Marton to the closes called Greenehows and Butcher's Closes, the lands of Mr. Tho. Calvert of Yorke, and to certify etc. [86.] RICHMOND. Qu. Sessions, by adjournment, at, Jan. 20, 1656. Before John Waistell, Will. Thornton, Math. Beckwith, I.eon. Smelt, Geo. Smithson and Tho. Lassells, Esquires. Names Giles Lightfoot, Gent". Tho. Etherington, Yeom". Anth. Lightfoote, „ Will. Tho. Plommer, „ Rich. Winde, ,, Math. Wilkinson, „ Tho. Foster, „ John ,, )) Rich. Brewster, ,, Will. Roe, Cha=. Flower, „ John Raper, „ Will. Dun, Symon Plewes, „ of the Jurors etc. Geo. Welbanke, Gent". Raiph Snawden, Yeom". Rich. Sadler, Will. Etherington, Geo. Squire, Rob. Cowling, John Heslop, Leon. Smelt, Ja'. Hutchinson, Stephen Kitchin, Edw. Johnson, Fabius Walker, John Skelton, Rich. Nicholson, Geo. Ivison, 234 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Without in trespass : — A Middleton Tyas man for receiving in of certain inmates. In felony : — An Ovington lab', for the felonious stealing of an iron socke (6d.), two new hemp trases (4d.), four ropes of haire, and a horse teame (2s.) ; a Thornton Bridge man for unjustly taking away a pair of wayne fleaks* j Will. Jackson of Wilton, gent"., for not paying of moneys to Mr. Tho. Appleby, the Collector for Smeaton Bridge, when he was C. C. ; [86^] a Middleton Tyas gent", for receiving of in- mates ; a Pennington lab', for unlawfully and viciously arresting and deteyning a man ; a Bushepdale lab', for stealing a mare ; an Aikebar yeom". for assault ; two lab'^ for forcible entry ; two Hawes yeom"- for unlawfully and unjustly imprisoning of a man and his wife ; three Finghill yeom". for riot and assault. Trespasses acknowledged : — Four Hornby yeom". for riot and assault (submitted : fined 6s. 8d. apeece) ; a yeom". and two lab", for [blank] (submitted : fined 6s. 8d.) ; a Midleham man and his wife for assault (submitted : fined 2d.). Three bills ignored. Presentments found : — A man presented for the highway from Tunstall to Beadall being in decay ; the inhab*^- of Skeeby for not repairing their highway ; a Beadall man for not scouring his common water-sewer, according to a pain laid of 3s. 4d. a rood ; [87.] the inhab"- of Maske for not repairing the highway between Maske and Richmond time till next Sessions after Easter, 1658). Felonies tried : — A Dayle Foote yeom". for stealing a mare (not guilty) ; a Cattericke lab', for stealing of six peeces of iron called harrow teeth (i2d.), two old horse-shoes (2d.), and a lyn-pin (2d. : guilty to 4d.) ; a Cattericke lab', for being accessory to the said felony (not guilty) ; a Cattericke lab', for stealing two pecks of rye (is. 6d.), and a bushell of barley (2s. : guilty to 8d. : whipt) ; a woman for receiving of them (guilty to 8d. : whipt) ; her husband for the same (not guilty). * " Flakes. Hurdles or stack-bars ; properly such as are composed of wattled- work, or sticks interwoven together : and second, the hurdle-formed sort of shelf, suspended horizontally below the ceiling in old-fashioned houses, and in use for supporting bacon, etc." {Cleveland Glossary]. The wayne-flake probably would be sides or rails made flake-wise and applied to the sides of the wain in the same manner as are what are called the railings of the waggon, and in use for making the ■vehicle more capacious for the carriage of articles of a comparatively light description, such as hay, straw, corn, etc. RICHMOND, JANUARY 20, 1656. Names of the Jury that tried the aforesaid felonies. 235 John Shaw, Anth. Benson, John Lownsdale, Tho. Wilkinson, Will. Adamson, Rich. Claxton, Will. Whitwell, John Gierke, L/- .n Will. Jackson, 1 ^ i-Gent"., sworne. , '■ , . ^Gent"., sworne. Rob. Bishoprigge, Raiph Porter, Tho. Flower, [87^] Traverses tried :— A Tunstall woman upon an indictment for perjury (acquitted) ; a Northallerton man for [blank]. Names of the jury etc. John Shaw, Gent"., Anth. Benson, „ John Lownsdale, „ Tho. Wilkinson, ,, Will. Adamson, Yeom°., Rich. Claxton, „ ■ sworne. Will. Whitwell, Yeora"., ' John Gierke, Will. Jackson, , Rob. Bishoprigg, , Raiph Foster, ,, Tho. Flower, Y sworne. Recog"=. acknowledged in five cases. [88.] Orders made etc. A warrant for good behaviour against a Wensley blacksmith ; Mr. Tho. Bell of North Laton to be G. G. for GiUing West vice Mr. John Shaw of Newsham, who is to pass his acc'^ ; a gratuity of 24s. to a L. S. ; a warrant against a Laburne man for good behaviour etc. ; a warrant against a Garperby man for the like ; a warrant against Ja^ Gape of Northallerton for good behaviour, and for not prosecuting the Gommonwealth's evidence against Anth. Skarlett, and offering to take 20s. for an agreement after he had a warrant, and for playing at cards on the Lord's Day ; a man and woman of Gattericke committed to the Ho. of Gorr". till further Order; a man to be discharged out of the Ho. of Gorr". ; a woman and her children to be continued in the Ho. of Gorr". ; Order in a bastardy case ; the Gierke of the Peace to have a third part of the moneyes which shall be received at the Brewsters' Sessions for licences ; [88^] the Sheriffs fines to be taken off and remitted. The next Gen. Sessions to be held at Northallerton, April 7 next. 236 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. [89.] NORTHALLERTON. Qu. Sessions at, April 7, 1657. Before Sir John Bourchier, Luke Robinson, John Wastell, Fr. Lassells, Math. Beckwith, Will. Aiscough, Geo. Smithson, Will. Thornton, Will. Weddell, Ben. Norcliffe, Leon. Smelt, and Tho. Lassels, Esquires. Tho. Harrison, Esq., High Sheriff: Martyn Wikeham, Gent"., Deputy Sheriff. Will. Young, Rich. Merrington, John Skelton, Fr. Berryman, Rob. Gierke, Ambrosse Fisher, Tho. Hall, Rog. Wilson, Rich. Flower, Tym. Hudson, Rob. Postgate, Tho. Dobson, Rich. Harthropp, Rich. Goston, Tho. Wright, Symon Arnett, Names of the Jury etc. Will. Harton, Rob. Barber, Tho. Pearson, Cha=. „ Jos. Kitchm, Jos. Diconson, Tho. Gibson, ChaS Parcivell, Geo. Fosse, Tho. Nesfield, Rich. Stubbs, Jos. Pickersgill, Geo. Binsley, Tho. Walker, Rich. Rowlands, j Edw. Bowes, Jos. Wells, ■ Gent". Gent". Without in trespass : — Two Kirby Mooreside men for stopping a milne race ; a Cowsby man for locking the church door and keeping out the Minister and people ; the Constable of Spaunton for refusing to execute a warrant from a J. P. ; a Maunby man for assault ; [89^] a Massam man for a common nusance ; three Eppleby men for a foul breache etc. ; a Spaunton man for assault ; a Sutton man for not making up his hedges and fences ; five persons of Hunderwhate for a riot ; a Hunderwhate man and an Arkendale man for the like ; a man and three women of Hewry [Hurry] for a riot ; a Helmesley woman for fornication ; a Kesebecke man for neglecting his duty on the watch and suffering wandering rogues to depart unpunished ; a Northallerton man for begging with counterfeit pass ; a Thoralby man for assault (to be traversed) ; a Staythes man for words against his Highnes the Lord Protector (to be traversed) ; Leon. Conyers of Lastingham for assault upon Phil. Peckett, Gierke (to be traversed) ; the same for the like NORTHALLERTON, APRIL 7, 1657. 237 (to be traversed) ; the same for withlwlding possession of the Vickaridge house from Phil. Peckett, Gierke (to be traversed) ; the same again for forfeiture of a recog'^ (to be traversed) ; three men of Stoxley and one of Brawith for a rescue (to be traversed). Presentments submitted to this Sessions : — A Towthropp man for assault (fined 5s.); amanfor the like (fined ;^ 13 13. 4.); aWensleyman for the like (fined 3s. 4d.); a Thornaby man for the hke (fined 6s. 8d). [90.] Presentments found this Sessions : — Sir John Bourchier and Slingsby Bethell, Esq., for the highway between Tollerton yate and the new bridge, upon the late forrest of Gaultrees ; a publique bridge leading from Gillamoor to Castleton to be in decay etc. (to be repaired by Midsummer on pain of ;£^) ; the inhab". of Croft, of Darnton, of Horneby, of Smeaton, of I^ovesome Hill, of Newton under Roseburye, of Hutton Lockeris, of Gisbrough, of Hewthwaite in the parish of Whorlton, of Northallerton, and of Stoxley for highways in decay ; the inhab'l of Great Broughton for suffering their pinfold to He down ; a man of HoUins in the parish of Sigston for suffering his gatestead and gutters to be in decay; a Thimbleby man for not scouring his gutters ; [go''.] the inhab'^ of Midleton upon Leven, of Hilton, and of Crathorne for their highways ; a Foxton man for not scouring his stell. Three bills ignored. Felonies tried : — An Oswoldkirke lab', for the felonious stealing of two silver spoons (6s. : guilty to lod., — whipt) ; a Helmesley lab', for stealing two silver spoons (14s.: not guilty); an Allaston man for feloniously and burglariously breaking and entering into a house (not guilty) ; a Scruton man for stealing a certain quantity of hay (2d. : not guilty) ; two women for causing two persons to escape, being suspected for felony (not guilty) ; two Flawith lab" for stealing a whip- saw* of iron (i2d. : not guilty) ; two Kirby Wiske lab'=. for stealing a certain parcell of hay (i2d. : not guilty); [91.] a Renton lab', for stealing a bible (4s. : guilty to 6d.,— whipt) ; two Kirbymooreside women for steahng a legg of pork (is. 6d. : the first not guilty, the other guilty to 6d., — whipt) ; two men for horse-stealing (not guilty) ; a Lownesdale woman for stealing a yard and three-quarters of grey kersey cloth (rod.), and her mother as accessory (both guilty to 2d. : to be whipt) ; an Easingwold woman for stealing two handkerchiefs (i6d.), and a pair of sheets (6s. 8d. : to find sureties for good behaviour) ; a Levisham taylor for the felonious ravishing of a woman (not guilty) ; a Northallerton lab', for stealing a certain quantity of malt (lod. : guilty, whipt). * A whip-saw is the saw used in an ordinary saw pit or, as it is called in North Yorkshire, " saw-horse," which is worked by two men, one above, and the other below in the pit or cavity devised for the purpose. 238 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Names of the Jury etc. Greg. Wilson, Gent^, Geo. Cooke, Will. Stringer, Marm. Flower, }- Yeom", John Russell, Will. Stephenson, Rich. Smyth, John Richardson, Fr. Bell, John Marshall, Geo. Dun, Rob. Boyes, Yeom". [92. J Recog"=. respited in three cases; [92'=, 93.] recog"'. entered in eighteen cases. [94.] Orders made etc. John Burshame of Stockton to be C. C. for Buhner vice Mr. John Bell, and the two next Justices to take his ace"., and certify etc. ; Order in a bastardy case ; Geddion Chapman to be C. C. for Lang- baurgh vice Mr. John Welbury ; a Thormanby man being convict of profaine swearing, a warrant to go to the Constables and Overseers of Thormanby to levy 3s. 4d. on his goods, or to sitt in the stocks ; Sir David Fowles, Barronet, and Tho. Lassells, Esq., to agree of a tyme and to send their warrants to those Petty Constables of Langbaurgh who were Constables there in the yeares 1652 and 1653, and to examine what moneys they have paid in those yeares to the C. C^, and which of them, for the repair of Smeaton, Masham and Eure Bridges, and to certify who received the money estreited for the repair of the said bridges, and to whom the C. C. paid the said money, and Rob. Holborne, Clarke of the Peace, to send to the said Justice the particuler of what moneys was estreited in the years 1652 and 1653, and they are to certify etc. ; a woman who stands convict of fornication committed to gaol for three months, and afterwards till she give security to be of good behaviour for one year ; the traverse concerning the highway in Sutton Fields and all proceedings thereupon to be respited till next Sessions, and three Justices desired to call before them Rich. Harland, gent"., and John Gubby, yeom"., and such other of the inhab'". of Sutton as are concerned touching the stopping up of a highway in Sutton Fields, and to heare both parties, and to mediate an end or certify their oppinions at the next Sessions, at which tyme the indictment is to be traversed in case it be not ended by the said Justices ; [94^] whereas Henry Scott, Archibboll Burne, and Alexander Thomson are all three committ to the Sheriff till they find sufficient sureties to be of good behaviour untill next Sessions at Malton, for that the Court is informed that they are dangerous persons to the peace of the Commonwealth, and of lewd life and evill behaviour, and to appear at the next Sessions to be held at New Malton, or otherwise delivered by due course of law ; a man's recog" to be discharged if NORTHALLERTON, APRIL 7, 1657. 239 nothing else be in the Sheriff's hands against him ; the money estreited for the repair of the highway in Easingwould to be levied forthwith, and paid by the C. C". to the Surv". appointed ; two pensions of 40s. each to L. S. and a pension of 20s. to a soldier's widow ; Edw. Willye of Holme and Rich. Walker of Brompton, gent"., to be C. O. for Allerton vice Fr. Key and Edm. Duning, who are to pass their acc'=. ; [95.] Anth. Fothergill of Brughill to be C. C. for Hang West vice Geo. Freir, gent"., who is etc. ; Anth. Awderson, jun'., to be C. C. for Hang West 2'ice Luke Yorke etc. ; the two next Justices to examine the disproportion of ass', touching Church-layes in the township of Fingall, and to settle the difference, and certify etc. ; Mary Lanchester of Northallerton to be suppressed for three years for brewing ale or keep- ing an alehouse, she having given intelligence from the Court to Ja^ Nesse whereby he escaped the justice of this Court ; oath being made that the highway in the lordship of Hawnby formerly presented was sufficiently repaired at Christmas last, and soe remaineth, the estreit and presentment against the inhab"- to be discharged, and the estreite forborne if any be against it ; a woman who stands convict of fornication committ to the gaole for three months, and not freed from thence untill she enter recog" with sufficient sureties to be of good behaviour for twelve months ; ;i^iSo Ordered for that part of Croft Bridge that is in the North Riding; a pension of ;£i. 6. 8 and another of ;^2 to two L. S. ; [95^] a gratuity of 40s. to a soldier's widow ; the Parish Off'''- of Croft to provide for a poor woman, or shew cause etc. ; John Kilborne of Hutton to pay lad. weekly to Dorathy Kilborne, till further Order, towards the relief of her fatherless children, to whom he is grandfather; a gratuity of los. to a L. S. ; whereas Tho. Garbutt of is a poor man and Ja^ Garbutt of Scaleing is his own sonn, and is of ability to supply his wants, the said Ja'. Garbutt to pay henceforth unto the said Tho. Garbutt 2s. 6d. by the week, which is adjudged by us to be necessary and fitting for the livelyhood and subsistance of him, the said Tho. Garbutt, and to perform this Order unless he shew cause to the contrary at the next Sessions, upon the payne of 20s. the month; the Parish Off'", of Kirby Knowle to provide housing for a poor man ; a like Order for the Parish Off"- of Sowerby ; the Parish Off", of Kirby Wiske to provide maintenance for a woman and her two children ; [96.] a gratuity of 40s. to a man who hath suffered greate losse in house lately by fire, and hath been a soldier in the Parliament's service ; a gratuity of 20s. to a soldier's widow ; Ja=. Calvert having done great service about the repairing of highways, the Thre'. for Hosp^ and L. S. to pay him 40s. as a gratuity for his great pains taken therein ; the Parish Off" of Hutton Rudby to pay a poor woman 8d. a week till further Order, with the arrears since the former 240 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Order, and to appear before the next J.P. ; a Thormanby man not having given security to this Court to be of good behaviour, and to pay to the Sheriff the sum of twenty marks as a fine imposed on him this Sessions for the use of the Commonwealth, the Sheriff to keep him in safe custody till he give good security to be of good behaviour till the next Sessions after Easter, and till he satisfy the said fine ; forasmuch as Mr. John Dent, Ja^ Knaggs, Rich. Judson and Rich. Clay have been at greate expences and charges in apprehending of Henry Scott, Archibald Burn, Alex. Thomson and Rich. Nesse, and carrying them before authority, being persons suspected to be highway-men and dangerous persons, and have ridd armed to the terror of the people, and by reason they have been at two Quarter Sessions to give evidence and prosecute against them : Ordered that if they have goods, to levy on them the sum of ^2. 16. 8, it appearing to the Court they have been at so much charge they shall by way of distress levy of their said goods the said sum, rendering to them the overplus which shall remain upon sale thereof, as the law in such case appoints ; Will. Hardwick and Mary Smith of Sinnington who \vere committ to the gaole from the last Sessions at Helmesley for three months and after- wards to give security to be of good behaviour for a year for com- mitting fornication together, having given security etc. to be set at liberty if they have remained in custody for three months; [96^] upon hearing the petition of John Deakon and Will. Butler, carpenters, whereby it appeareth there is money due to them for the repair of Kirby Church, which they cannot gett by reason of the difference amongst the parishioners about the proportioning of the same, and for that John Wastell and Fr. Lassells, Esquires, did, amongst other things move and order that Tho. Smithson, gent"., Geo. Heddon, Math. Taylor, Rich. Fawcett, and Tho. Foster, gent"., or any three of them, should settle the proportion that every township should bear towards the repairs of the said church, and for that the said gent", have not yett mett nor effected the said valuation or settle- ment, the moneys due to the said workmen to be paid, and that and all other moneys already agreed on for the repairs aforesaid to be raised in the said parish by an equal pound-rate, and according to the valuation of the several townships and grainges as they stand and are valued in the book of rates for the monthly ass^, and in case any town or place thereby pay more than their proportions, the aforesaid gent"., or any three of them, shall have power to order that those townes and places that have paid lesse shall make the same good by paying it to those that have paid more than their part ; a pension of 40s. to a L. S. ; Mr. Rob. Mason of Ruswarp to be C. C. for Whitby Strand vice Mr. Rob. Bushell, who is to pass his ace" NEW MALTON, JULY I4, 1657. [97.] NEW MALTON. Qu. Sessions at, July 14, 1657. Before Luke Robinson, Chr. Piercehay, Will. Aiscough, Will. Thorn- ton, Ben. Norcliff, Will. Weddell, and Henry Hall, Esquires. High Sheriff etc. as before. Names of the Arthur Stringer, Gent". Andrew North, John Dobson, John Cockerill, Tho. Harrison, John Storye, John Piper, Tho. Hicks, Math. Maisterman, Fr. Payne, Cha^ Dayle, John Herbert, Rob. Knags, Tho. Franke, John „ Geo. Robinson, Marke Stockton, Jury etc. Will. Worfolke, Gent". Gent". Tho. Burton, Tho. Hutchinson, Bryan Thompson, Tho. Morell, Cha^ Barnard, Tho. Foster, Jo^ Read, Edw. Robinson, Will. Coverdale, Rob. Frizell, Raiph Thompson, Rob. Franke, Will. Baker, Rich. Waynde, Cha^ Medd, Will. Craven, - Yeom". Without in trespass : — Rog. Wilsoti of Easingwould for neglecting to execute a warrant from a J. P. ; a Thormanby man for harbouring diverse vagabonds and rogues ; [97^] an Easingwould man for suffering a prisoner after escape to be secured in his house; five men of Kirby for breaking and entering into a close in Great Busby; a woman for assault and affray ; a Stonegrave shooemaker for the like ; three New Malton yeom". for riot and unlawful assembly and for assault and affray (pleaded) ; a New Malton yeom". for assault and affray (pleaded) ; a barber chirurgion of Easingwould for assault and affray ; a Wikeham yeom". for the like; a joiner and three marriners of Whitby for taking away a certain post of wood adjoining on the end of a mansion house of Nich. Wigginer ; five Ingleby Arncliff men for not scouring their water-sewer; four persons of Farlington for forcible entry and for assault and affray ; a Thormanby man for a trespass ; a New Malton woman for fornication ; the occupiers of the lands and grounds ad- joining on the common highway lying from the North end of New Bridge upon the forest of Gaultrees by the parke side on the next moore to Tollerton Layne end, for not repairing it, etc. VOL. v. R 241 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Without in felony : — A Latham man for stealing a grey gelding. [98.] Trespasses submitted to : — A Wigginton man for assault and affray (fined 3s. 4d.) ; a Thormanby woman for fornication (quashed) ; a Sheriff Hutton woman for taking a certain quantity of wool (i4d. ; fined 3s. 4d.) ; a Lastingham milner for assault and affray (fined 6s. 8d.) ; the Constable of Wrelton for not apprehending a man ac- cording to a warrant for good behaviour (fined los.) ; a Kirby Misperton man for assault and affray (fined los.) ; a Gilly Parke* gent", for the like (fined los.) ; a woman of Whitby for speaking scandalous and seditious words against a man of the same place (fined 2s.); two Thorrabyt women for assault and affray (fined 6d. each) ; the gent", of Gilly Parke aforesaid for assault and affray (fined 2s.) ; two Glasedale husb". for assault and affray (fined 3s. 4d. each) ; a fellmakerj of Thornton for the like (fined 6s. 8d.) ; a Scalby man for beating and wounding a woman (fined 2s.) ; the Constable of Easingwould for neglecting to execute a warrant (fined los.) ; two Kinthroppe yeom". for assault and affray (fined 30s. each) ; a Goadland yeom". for the like (fined 3s. 4d.) ; two Ayton yeom". for the like (fined 5s.' each). Felonies tried : — A Shipton lab', for stealing a cow (30s. guilty : burnt in the hand) ; a Cold Kirby lab', for stealing a gelding (^10 : turned over to the Assizes) ; an Easingwold man and his wife for steal- ing a parcell of hay (2d. : not guilty) ; [98^] a New Malton woman for stealing ten yards of lynnen cloth (16s.), a hempen smocke, and a hempen apron (i8d. : guilty to 3d.) ; two Lillinge women for stealing a waistcoat (4s.) and a red petticoat (5s. : one guilty to 2s., — to be whipt, the other not guilty) ; a yeom" of Sutton on the Forest for stealing a cow (34s. : not guilty) ; an Easingwold man for stealing a pair of sheets (not guilty). Names of the Jury etc. Chr. Allanson, Gent". Will. Mennethorpe,Yeom". Tho. Pennocke, Martin „ Rowland Betson, Geo. „ l>Yeom". John Watson, Rob. Wilson, Will. Sellar, Rob. Robson, John Atkinson, Marke Medd, Yeom". * This is July park, more correctly Julian's park, or St. Julian's, in the parish of Goathland, formerly a moated castle belonging to the Mauleys of Mulgrave, and at 'east occasionally occupied by members of that important family. Thus an ancient deed closely connected with Grosmont Priory — in fact conveying a certain mill in Egton to the Priory — is sealed and dated by the third Peter de Mauley at St. Julian's in the year 1294. + Thoraldby. J Halliwell quotes Fe/ as an equivalent of fel/, and as still in use in Shropshire. NEW MALTON, JULY I4, 1657. 243 Traverses entered :— Four Ayton gent". ; a Pickering lab'' for assault and forcible entry ; three West Ayton gent", for a trespass ; a New Malton yeom". for a trespass ; a Snainton woman for assault ; a Ken- nithorpe yeom". for breach of the peace ; Leon. Conyers of Wrelton, Gierke, and Will. Mason of Ampleforth, for forcible entry ; a man of West Barmbye, his wife and his daughter, for riot; the said ^Vest Barmbye man for a common nusance done against the inhab'^ there. Traverses tried :— The inhab"^- of Newton (not guilty) ; four Stoxley yeom". (guilty : fined 20s. each) ; a Thormanby yeom". for assault (guilty : fined 3s. 4d.) ; a Staythes man for words against his Highnes the Lord Protector (not guilty). The names of the Jury that tried those traverses, the same as before. [99. J Eleven bills ignored. Presentments found :— The inhab'=. of Helmesley and Bilsdale for not repairing Laskell Bridgeleading between themarkett townes of Helmesley and Stoxley. [99^ loo.J Recog"^ entered :— Rob. Stampe of Marrishes bound to his Highnes the Lord Protector in ^20, Rob. Awderson in ^^^20, to appear at the Assizes and give evidence on the behalf of his Highnes against Math. Vassy e for laboring to seduce them to assist Charles Stuart. — Recog"' respited this Sessions or default : John Jackson of Danby on the Forrest bound to his Highnes the Lord Protector in ;Q\o to ap- pear at this Sessions to answer what will be objected against him on behalf of his said Highnes (entered before July 1656) ; eight other cases. — [ioo''-io2.] Recog'^'^ acknowledged : Rich. Harland, jun'., of Sutton, gent"., acknowledgeth to owe to his Highnes the Lord Protector ^40, Will. Faceby of Stillington ;^2o, upon condition that Rich. Har- land, his father's bonds be respited till next Sessions, and that he performe the ensuing Order (that is to say) Ordered that Rich. Harland, sen'., of Sutton, gent"., do make and allowe to John Gubby of Thrushes, and all others who have right to a common highway through the parcell of ground the said Rich. Harland, sen'., hath lately inclosed, called the Peaselands, being on the south side of the town of Sutton towards the Grainge Laine, and that within ten days hereof, he, the said Rich. Har- land, sen'., cause the ditches where the way annchiently was, to be fild up so as the same thereby be made good and passable, and so to continue the same untill such tyme as the traverse now depending about the said way be determined ; twenty other cases. Orders made etc. The Parish Off'^ of Haxby to make demand of the moneys in arrear and due by the parties mentioned in the petition, that the same may be imployed as a stocke for the poor, and in case of refusal, the next 244 OUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. J. P. to bind the refusers etc. ; the presentment against the inhab'". of Coxwold to be discharged, oath being made that the same is sufficiently repaired, and the C. O. for Birdforth to pay the money to the said inhab"- which they have levied of them ; [102^] Fr. Pratt of Alne, being convict of cursing, to pay 3s. 4d. to the Overseers, of the poor of New Malton, and if he refuse, to sitt three hours in the stocks ; John Harrison of New Malton to be C. C. for Rydall via Claudius Best, who is to pass his ace". ; the Churchwardens and Overseers, together with the Minister of Whitby, to examine the truth of the petition annext, and to make an agreement betwixt them of the pew in the church, if pos- sible, otherwise to certify the two next Justices what they conceive fitt to be done therein, that the publique peace may be kept ; a gratuity of 20s. to a soldier's widow; whereas Mr. Gibson hath given satisfaction to the Court at present for being Thre'. for L. S. and Hosp''., this Court thinks fitt and Orders that Mr. John Pybus of Thirske be Thre'. instead of Mr. Will. Pinckney, for Hosp'^ and L. S. ; Phillip Scarth of Hinder- well to be C. C. for Langbaurgh to'« John Welbury ; the township of Kirby Misperton to make choice of a fitt person to be Constable rtce Tristram Harrison ; the i8d. weekly Ordered to be paid by the Thre'. for L. S. to a Farmonby man for his relief, to be paid to the Parish Off", of the said town ; upon hearing Rog. Dickinson of Gisbrough and the Overseers for the poor of Seamor concerning the relief of Grace Field otherwise Belgrane which the said Dickinson was to maintain, and received ;^io for the same. Ordered by consent of both parties that Rog. Dickinson shall within ten days time give security to the Parish Off", of Seamor for discharging the parish of the said Grace Field, or .within one-and- twenty days time pay ^10 to the said Parish Off", for the use of the said Grace Field, and the said Dickinson to provide for her in the interim ; [103.] the Court being informed that a Hovingham man hath lately kept an alehouse and sold ale, although he hath within three years last past been legally suppressed, the Bailiff of Rydall to take him into his custody and him bring before the Justices at this Sessions to answer etc. ; forasmuch as it appears to this Court that Tho. Wood- worke of Glaisdale in the parish of Danbie entered into a farm worth ;£6, and ^27 in money, and for that he sold the tenant-right thereof for_;i^5o, all which were left by the father of one Ralph Harland, an idiott, who was to provide meate, drinke, cloathes and other neces- saries for the said Ralph during his life, and for that the said Tho. Woodworke married the sister of the said Ralph, and hath hitherto kept the said idiott — Ordered that the said Tho. Woodworke enter good bond to the Overseers of Danby with condition to find meate, drink and lodging for the said idiott during his life, as also to keep the parish harmles and indeinpnified of the said Ralph Harland ; Mr. NEW MALTON, JULY I4, 1657. 245 John Pibus to be desired to gain into his hands ;£6o. 13. 4 estreited formerly for repair of Yaram Bridge upon the Weapontake of Birdforth against the next Sessions that the same may be paid to Mr. Marm. NorcUffe, as part of the money due to him from the country ; the Hovingham alehouse-keeper above mentioned, having been several times formerly suppresed, to pay to the poor of Hovingham 20s., to be levied on his goods, for keeping a common alehouse, and to be utterly suppressed for three years next ; John Wood of Crake to pay to ... . Wood, his son, of Helmsley, who is not able to maintain himself, his wife and children, he being infirm, i2d. a week, and also to pay all the arrears of money formerly Ordered after i2d. a week, and if he refuse, to be bound etc. ; the Thre'. for L. S. and Hosp'^ to pay to a Helmsley man, who hath suffered great loss by fire, 40s. towards the repair of his loss, as a gratuity; [103''.] for that it appears that Henry Scott and Alex. Thomson, late of the Castle of Yorke, are suspected to be guilty of several felonies and to have held correspondence with diverse notori- ous felons in England and Scotland, and for that the said persons cannot give security sufiScient for their appearance at the next Sessions to answer those things that they are charged wiih and suspected for, and in the mean time to be of good behaviour — Ordered that the said Henry Scott and Alex. Thomson stand committ to the publique Gaole at the Castle of Yorke untill they shall give sufficient security by recog"- with able suerties, in ^^50 apiece suerties, and ^100 apiece principalis, to appear etc., and there to remain till they give security as aforesaid, or otherwise be delivered by due course of law ; the Court being in- formed that Will. Faceby, gent"., C. C. for Bulmer, hath, by vertue of an estreit, levied the sura of ^35 of the goods of Rich. Robinson and Peter Collye of Tollerton, which was Ordered to be levied upon the inhab"- of the parish of Easingwold, for to bee imployed towards the repair of the highway presented nere the New Bridge in the said parish, two Justices to call the inhab". of Easingwould and the Con- stables before them that they may make an ass', for the raising of the said sum, and to charge and assess every owner and occupier of land in the said townshipp equally for and towards the raising of the ^^35 aforesaid, and the said Constables to collect and levy the same and pay it to the said Rich. Robinson and Peter Collye, deducting their own proportions ; the Sheriff to set a New Malton tanner at liberty, he hav- ing given security to appear etc. ; a man, late of Hutton in Lancashire in the parish of Deane, having been punished as a wandering rogue, to be sent from Constable to Constable to the place aforesaid, there to be set at worke according to law ; a hke Order for a man from Osmotherly; [104.] whereas the Thre'. for L.- S. and Hosp'=. hath made [ate*.], it appears to this Court that there is the sum of ^^208 3s. 246 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. in arrear of Hosp^ money in Richm". formerly Ordered at the Sessions at Thirske, April, 1654, for the necessary payment of L. S and pen- tioners, and for that it appeareth that the pentions to the L. S. amount to the sum of ^38. 16. 6 quarterly, and that the C. O. of Richm'°- have and do only pay their proportion of ^18. 16. 2 quarterly, although the Weapontakes of Rydall, Bulmer, Birdforth, Pickering Lith, Whitby Strand, Langbaurgh and AUertonshire have not only paid their proportions of the said ^i&. 16. 8 quarterly but have also paid their proportions of ;^i8. 16. 8 quarterly charged for eight years last past, being arrears of Hosp'. money by the afore recited Order, and for that the Weapontakes afore mentioned do complain, and have been discouraged, that they should pay more then the inhab'^ of Richm™. do (which burthen by law ought to be equally borne) and for that it is not possible that the L. S. and pentioners can be supplied without the aforesaid money in arrear in Richm'^., there being much money already in arrear to the aforesaid L. S., as v/e are informed, and the withholding thereof tends much to the obstruction of the future levies in the other Divisions, the inhab". thereof considering themselves agreaved : Ordered and recommended to the Justices at this Sessions to be held by adjournment at Rich- mond July 21, instant, that they will concurr herein that the said sum of ;^2o8 3s. in arrear in Richm". may be forthwith paid to the Thre'. according to the afore-recited Order, and that the C. C^ who have contemned the said Order may be proceeded against according to the statute and laws in that case made and provided, and that for the future the sum of ^^37. 13. 4 may be estreited through the whole North Riding for the L. S. and Hosp"^. and be paid to the Thre'. quarterly, from time to time, as the law appoints. The names of the Surveyors of the several Weapontakes following Langbarugh : — Will. Carter of Varum, gent"., Will, Foster of Tollesby, gent"., John Coats of Thornton, gent"., Rob. Colthurst of Upleatham, gent"., Chr. Potter of Stoxley, gent"., Rob. Wilcocke of Stainton, gent". Birdforth : — Tho. Tomlinson of Birdforth, gent"., John Bell of Eld- mire, gent"., Will. Dynmoore of Gristwhate, gent"., Sam. Key of Newsom, gent". Bulmer : — Will. Freir of Crake, gent"., Geo. Midleton of Shipton, gent"., Leon. Ash of Strensall, gent"., Henry Graves of Myton, gent". Rydall : — John Smith of Old Malton, gent"., Rich. Morrett of Harum, gent".. Will. Hebden of Apleton, gent". The C. C^ of the Weapontake aforesaid are hereby Ordered to pay the moneys they have already levied to the aforesaid Surv". upon sight of this Order, and they are to get the said ways presently repaired with the money levied, and to give an ace', of their doings. RICHMOND, AUGUST 4, 1657. 247 L105.] RICHMOND. Qu. Sessions, by adjournment, at, Aug. 4, 1657. Before John Wastell, Fr. Lassells, Will. Thornton, Math. Beckwith, Geo. Smithson, and Leon. Smelt, Esquires. High Sheriff etc. as before. John Robinson, Will. Hartley, Oliver Ivison, John Cooke, Will. Poore, Peter Clarke, Tho. Etherington, Rich. Carter, Will. Dobbison, John Bell, Will. Rawe, Fabin Walker, Will. Mann, John Spenceley, Ralph Hutchinson, Names of the Jury etc. Gyles Lightfoote, Will. Garth, Peter Rawe, Phil. Taylor, Ralph ,, Ralph Snawden, Ja'. Stubbs, f- Gent". John Heslopp, Rob. Cowling, Marm. Bincks, Ja^ Ivison, Edw. Raper, John Booth, Raph Horseman, Rich. Massy, -Gent". Without in trespass : — An Askrigg man for forging and counterfeit- ing certaine deedes ; the Constables of Eppleby, Melsonby, Ravens- worth, and Skeeby, and the Churchwardens of Melsonby and South Cowton ; [los^J five yeom". for assault; a yeom". and two lab", for forcible entry ; a Midleham yeom°. for breach of the peace ; a Bain- brigg lab', for assault ; a Dent widow for forcible entry ; four yeom". and two lab'^ for forcible entry. Indictments submitted to this Sessions : — A Burniston lab', for assault (fined ;£$. 6. 8 ) ; a Harmby yeom". for forcible entry (fined i2d.); two Newsome yeom". for assault (fined rad.) ; the Burniston lab', aforesaid for assault and affray (fined zed.) ; a lab', and two yeom". for riot and assault (fined 1 2d. apiece). Without in felony : — Two Butterside yeom". for stealing a grey mare and a foal (£s)- Felonies tried : — Two yeom". for feloniously and burglariously breaking into a house and taking £4 of money numbered (not guilty) ; [106.] the same for breaking a house and taking out ;^3 (not guilty) ; 248 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. an Ikon lab', for stealing a brass pan, a wooden peck, and a sack (i2d. : guilty to 8d. : whipt). Jurois that tried the fellons aforesaid. Chr. Flower, -j Will. Walbanke, Tho. Hutchinson, Ja'. Hutchinson, Rich. Pibus, Rich. Wharton, Fr. Hall, <" Yeom". WiU. Cusson, Rob. Bishopricke, Humfrey Wren, John Scrafton, Chr. Broadley, r Yeom". Traverses to be next Sessions :— A Midleham gent'', being suspected to keep a bawdy house, and disorder to be kept in his house on the Lord's Day ; the same gent"., Baliff for Hang West, for taking up a waife stott and selling the same within a fortnight ; the same for un- lawfully imprisoning a man ; a Midleham yeom". for an assault made on a deputy Bailiff in the execution of his office etc. Two bills ignored. Presentments found : — The inhab". of Ingleby Arncliffe for not repairing a highway (p^2o will but repair the same) ; a Beadall yeom". for not scouring a water-sewer of the length of ten roods ; the inhab". of Downeholme for not repairing a highway ; an Aiskew gent", and three Leeminge husb". for not scouring Beadall Becke; [106''.] an Aiskew gent", and the inhab'^ of Barrowby in the parish of Leeke, of Crosby, and of Thornton in the Beanes for not repairing Cotcliffe Bridge. [Io6^-Io8] recog^"^. respited in eighteen cases; a Hunton gent", bound in p^2oo to be of good behaviour towards all men and especially towards his father; [108-113''.] recog'". discharged in seventy-three cases. [114.] Orders made etc. Fr. Garth of Long Cowton, gent"., to be C. C. for Gilling East vice Mr. Rob. Conyers deceased ; a woman sent to the Ho. of Corr". as a disorderly person ; the Parish Off'^ of Askarth to pay a poor man 5d. weekly, and in case of neglect the next J. P. etc. ; a Stanwicke man committed to the Ho. of Corr". at Richmond for six months for uttering severall blaspheamous speeches in a verry high nature in open Court to the dishonnour of God, contrary to the Acte of Parliament, and to give him correction according to the orders of the said House, and afterwards to find sufficient sureties to bee of the good behaviour for a year ; a woman committed to the Ho. of Corr". till next Sessions for fornication ; an Askrigg woman of lewd and evill behaviour commited to the Ho. of Corr". till next Sessions ; Tho. Husband of Midleham to serve as Constable with Chr. Warde for the same township ; a Jack- RICHMOND, AUGUST 4, 1 657. 249 dyke brewer discharged from selling ale for three years, for keeping a disorderly house ; the Parish Off'^ of Midleham to pay 8d. weekly towards the maintenance of a woman and her four children untill they show cause to the contrary; the Parish Off", of Aiskarth to pay 8d. weekly to a poor lame man; [114''.] upon the petition of Anth. Wright and Thomasine, his wife, of Long Cowton, having nothing to main- tain themselves and five children, and not able to worke, and that John Todd of Sydall, father of Thomasine Wright, being able in estate, and hkewise having toward ^40 of the same Anth. Wright's in his hands, and denyeth to give him his own mone}', so that he is in great want and ready to starve : Ordered that the said John Todd shall pay to the said Anth. Wright towards the maintenance of his wife and children 4s. weekly upon paine and penalty that will fall upon him by the Statute ; the highway presented this Sessions in the Constablery of Maske, leading to the market town of Richmond, to be forborne to be estreited till Michaelmas next ; the Parish Off", of Downeholme to pay 1 2d. weekly towards the maintenance of an old lame decreped man and his wife, an old decayed woman ; upon the certificate of three gent", that the inhab'^ of Hutton nere Rudby hath disbursed for the repair of their highways (formerly presented) ^44. 18. 5, Ordered that they be discharged of the fines imposed upon them, and the C. C^ of Langbaurgh to forbear to leavy the same if not already leavied; Order in a bastardy case ; [115.] the Sheriff to pay a Jury 5s. disburst by them at this Sessions for necessaries for them when they were in the public service; the C. C^ of Allertonshire to forbear to levy the money estreited against Harlsey for a way lying in Meare Moore, the Court being informed it is in sufficient repair ; the several Surv". for Bridges in this North Riding to call for the moneys forth- with out of the C. C^'. hands, that the work may be finished according to the intention for which it was to be imployed ; the Sheriff to set a Newsam man at liberty, he having given security to appear etc., if he be deteyned for nothing else ; the Thre'. for L. S. to pay a poor widow of Knayton ^3. 6. 8 as a gratuity by reason of the great loss she hath had by fire ; the Sheriff to set a Crathorne man at liberty, he having given security etc. ; the Sheriff to be fined ^^20 for suffering two men committed to his custody to escape, except they be appre- hended and brought before a J. P. within twenty days ; a woman now in the Ho. of Corr"- to find sufficient sureties to appear etc. ; a man in the Ho. of Corr°. to be set at liberty and conveyed from Constable to Constable the nearest way to Newcastle under Lyne in Staffordshire, where he ought to be provided for and set on work ; [i I5^] John Raper's fine imposed upon him for that indictment Will. Burton indicted him on to be remitted to ^3, and that fine upon the indictment Gabriell 250 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Burton indicted him on to 40s., and, in case he shall give over to exercise the office of Bayliffe in this N. R. before Michaelmas next, and do not meddle in the same, then the aforesaid fines to be totally remitted ; the presentment estreited against Kirby Wiske to be respited till next Sessions, the Court being informed the highway is sufficiently repaired ; Mr. Geo. Fothergill of Broughill to be C. C. for Hang West vice Mr. Geo. Freir ; two gent", of Murton to view the River Wiske between Warlaby and the River Swayle, and the highway leading between Maunby and Kirby, and to certify the next Sessions of the sufficiency and insufficiency thereof. The next Sessions to be held at Thirske; Oct. 6 next ; the execution or further proceeding upon the Order whereby a fyne was imposed on the Sheriff at Malton this present Sessions to be suspended and respitt till the Sessions next after the Feast of St. Michaell next coming, that the Court may then take further consideration thereof. [II6^] THIRSKE. Qu. Sessions at, Oct. 6, 1657. Before Luke Robinson, John Wastell, Fr. Lassells, Will. Ayscough, Rob. Walters, Math. Beckwith, Henry Hall, and Leon. Smelt, Esquires. Sheriff as before. Rog. Hunter, Tho. Young, John Jackson, Ja'. Metcalfe, Edw. Ostler, Henry Wilson, Rich. Mason, Leon. Wright, Tho. Gibson, Rob. Finder, John Bland, Geo. Broadrigg, Geo. Parker, John Lyth, Tho. Sutton, Will. Bell, Names of the Jury etc. Rob. Denton, Jos. Beverley, John Gibson, Will. Skelton, Tho. Lacocke, Rog. Westerdale, Will. Hebburne, John Nelson, Will. Johnson, Guy Geo. Binks, Rob. Hutchinson, John Raper, Jos. Burnett, Raph Hewthwhate, Rich. Cowpland, Jos. Pibus, Gent", ' Gent". THIRSKE, OCTOBER 6, 1657. 25 1 Presentments found :— Two yeom". for contempt of an Order of Court ; the inhab'=. of Huby upon Wiske for their pinfold being in decay ; a gent", of Durham for not repairing the Queirr of the parish church of Ingleby ; the inhab". of Newsam and Breckonbrough for not repairing the churchyard of Kirby Wiske ; the inhab'=. of Thirsk and Easingwould for keeping unjust weights and measures; [117.] Indict- ments found in felony at this Sessions : A New Malton tanner for steal- ing a grey mare (^4) and a great white gelding (^5 : prisoner) ; a Skakleton lab', for stealing a bay mare (30s. : prisoner) ; a man of Limber Hill for stealing a bay mare (40s.), and a bay colt (30s. : prisoner) ; Sir Will. Blakeston, late of Old Byland, knight, otherwise Rob. Roberts of Royston in the County of Cambridge, gent"., other- wise Will. Blakeston of Gibsett in the County of Durham, Esq., with three other persons unknown, for that they, Aug. 26, 1657, with force and arms etc., in the common highway, upon Black Hamleton, upon one Ralph Halliday an assault and affray did make, and a sorrel geld- ing {£3) fi'om the person of the said Raiph Halliday then and there with force and arms felloniously did take, steal, and lead away, con- trary to the publique peace. Presentments submitted to : — A Thornton man for assault and affray (fined 3s. 4d.) ; an EUinstring man for the like (fined los.) ; a Little Baurgh yeom". for the like (fined 3s. 4d.) ; a Sutton gent", for not making up his fences (fined i2d.) ; three men for breach of the Saboth (fined IDS. each) ; a Settrington gent", for forcible entry (fined ^£2) ; [II7^] Without in trespass : A Byland lab', for taking a Mittimus from the Constable of Old Byland ; the Constable of Old Byland for suffer- ing Sir Will. Blakeston, otherwise Rob. Roberts, willfullye to escape ; Sir Will. Blakeston, late of Old Byland, otherwise Rob. Roberts, etc., Aug. 26, 1657, with force and arms att Old Byland, in and upon the Constable there in the publique peace an assault and affray did make, and the said Constable then and there did beat, wound, and evilly in- treate to his great damage, contrary to the publique peace ; Philip Howsman, late of Farlington, gent"., with three men and two women of the same place, for riot and assault etc. ; Will. Riveley, late of the Mount of St. John, in the parish of Felixkirk, yeom"., for selling ten stone weight of fresh butter for los., whereby he in the weight of the said butter did cheate ; a North Kilvington gent", for refusing to pay the ass', towards the repair of the Church or Chapel of Sowerby ; a Butterwick yeom". for certain threatening words and speeches ; a gent". of Hilton, owner of the lands and grounds adjoining of a common highway being to[o] strait for cart and carriage ; a Butterwicke ayle seller for suffering people to sitt tipling in his house on the Lord's Day etc. ; the inhab'^ of Buttercrambe and Skeringham for not repairing two 252 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. bridges over the River Darwent ; [118.] a Hinderskelf lab', and a woman of Hutton upon Darwent for forcible entry into a messuage ; three joiners, three marriners, and two carpenters of Whitby for riot and forcible entry ; an Aiskrigg woman for harbouring vagrants etc. ; Philip Howsman, a woman, and two men of FarHngton for assault ; the inhab*^- of the Constableryes of Grisby and Hornby for refusing to pay their ass", for Hosp^ and L. S. money ; an Asonby man for taking upon him the trade of a butcher etc. (entered traverse) ; Rob. Roberts of Royston, Sept. 12, 1657, with force etc., upon Black Hambleton, in and upon Ralph Halliday in the publique peace an assault etc. did make, and then and there did beat etc. and a sorrel gelding (^^3) from his person unlawfully did take etc. ; an Aiskrigg yeom". for harbouring vagrants etc. ; a StlUington gent", for errecting a cottage contrary to law; [118''.] Traverses entered this Sessions : — Four Bagby yeom". for graiveing* of one cart load of turfes on the common of Sowerby and carrying the same away, to the damage of Rich. Trotter, Esq., and the rest of the inhab". of Sowerby ; a husb". and a yeom". of Old Malton, out of a certain parcel of land, nine stooks and ten sheaves of wheat did unlawfully and unjustly take and carry away ; a Sutton gent", for stopping up a highway ; a Beadall mercer for challenging a man to the feild etc. ; a woman of Birkby and a man of South Cowton for inticing a girl of fourteen away from her father, whereby the said man did marye her etc. ; Felonies tried : — A Filingdales skinner for stealing three lambs (6s. : not guilty) ; a Kirbymooreside tanner for stealing three stooks of oats in the sheaf (4s. : not guilty) ; a Northallerton shooemaker for stealing six sheaves of barleycorn (6d. : guilty to 2d. — whipt) ; a Thorn- ton lab', for stealing a weather (4s. : guilty to 3s. : burnt in the hand) ; [119.] a husb°. and his wife for stealing two geese (2s.), a turkey-cock (is.), two capons (is.), a hen (6d.), a haire pad or pannell (6d.), a bridle (4d.), a smock (6d.), a childe shirt (8d.), a wallet (4d.), a white coyfe (2d.), two neck clothes (6d.), and a linsey wolsey apron (6d. : guilty to 3s. each, and both burnt in the left hand) ; a Mount Grace man for stealing two black oxen {£q : guilty — burnt in the left hand) ; a Thirkleby lab', for stealing a wallet with two yards of cotton in it (2s.), a quarteran of pepper (4d.), two pennyworth of sugar candye, half a yard of red pennystone cloth (i2d.), two yards and a half of cursey (5s.), a pound of dipps (is.), a piece of bend leather (is.), a yard of hempen lynn (i2d.), and a sheepskin (8d. : guilty — burnt in the left * This is the term still in use in this district to express or describe the action of cutting or paring the turf intended for use as fuel The " turf-spade " is a triangular blade of steel, with one side turned up and sharpened in front, so as to sever the sod that is being cut from its next neighbour. The blade is affixed to a long curved handle or shaft, with a strong cross-handle, which affords the means of pushing it vigoroiLsly forward in the operation of "graving " turf. THIRSKE, OCTOBER 6, 1657. 253 hand) ; a lab', for stealing thirteen sheaves of barley corn (i2d. : guilty to lod. — whipt) ; a Shipton woman for stealing a lynnen smock (lad.), three handkerchiefs (6d.), and a coyfe (i2d. : not guilty); a Nawton woman for stealing eight sheaves of oats (6d. . not guilty) ; a Darling- ton woman for steahng a greene say apron (6d.), a handkirchife ('2d.), and an old smock (3d.: guilty to iid.— whipt); [119".] a Stillington :ab'. for stealing a black cow {£t, : not guilty). The names of the Jurors that tried the aforesaid prisoners, saiving John Freir was on one trial instead of Henry Skayles. Rob. Bell Will. Scarth The. Wright Tho. Hutchinson Jos. Humfrey Tho. Bickers Tho. Hall Will. Nelson Chr. Calvert Alex. Nesbitt Henry Skayles Will. Riveley Seven bills in felony ignored ; bills ignored in trespass : one against a Clerk of Silton, who said he was in arms upon the late plott on Hessey Moore ; * [120.] thirteen bills ignored. Traverses tried :— A West Ayton gent", for assault (fined 20s.) ; a Midleham gent", for false imprisonment of a man (guilty : fined 20s.) ; the same for misde- meanours done in his house (guilty : fined 20s.) ; the same upon the indictment about a waif stott (not guilty) ; a Scruton woman for assault (guilty : fined 40s., att large). The names of the Jurors that were upon those traverses (as before). Recog'" respited in five cases; [I2I-I22^J Recog"'. entered in twenty- three cases. Orders entered this Sessions. A Moorehead alehouse-keeper to be discharged for three years for keeping a disorderly house ; eight presentments for highways to be discharged, certificate being made etc. ; [123. J a writ of restitution to a North Cowton man; Will, Beckett of Heworth suspected to be popishly affected did appear in Court solemly and took the Oath of Abjuration ; three presentments for highways to be discharged ; the traverse against Leon. Conyers, late of Wrelton, and also the bonds to be discontinued ; * In 1655, ^nd after, there were insurrections plotted, and, in some parts of the kingdom, attempted, with the object of overthrowing the Protector's power, and indeed of offering violence to his person. One of these had been locahzed near Marlborough, another at Salisbury, and yet again in Yorkshire, where a few shots were fired, and more than one of the leaders seized— among them Sir Henry Slingsby, and a member of the Mauleverer family In one of the speeches addressed by Cromwell to the Parliament, he refers to a rising in North Wales, to another at Rufford, to a third on Marston Moor, to disturbances in Northumberland, and else- where. It will be remembered that this is by no means the first reference to these movements met with in ihese Minutes. 254 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. the presentment against five persons of Ingleby Arncliff to be dis- charged, their water-sewer being scoured ; a Distringas against the goods of Sir John Bourchier, knight, and Slingsby Bethell, Esq., con- cerning the repairs of the highway at New Bridge-end ; two Justices to view Skeeby Bridge and to certify etc. ; the presentment against the township of Maske to be respited till next Sessions ; a Midleham ale- house keeper suppressed for three years for suffering misdemeanours to be commited in his house; [123''.] the Court being informed that there is some charge likely to come against the inhab*'. of the N. R., by reason of the two bridges at Buttercrambe being in decay, and it appearing that the same ought to be repaired by Henry Darley, Esq., and the inhab'^ of Buttercrambe : Ordered that if any moneys be levied of any of the inhab". of the N. R. by reason thereof, the same shall be reim- bursed to them again, and what other disbursements and charges shall be occasioned thereby, out of the said N. R. ; Ordered that the Surv". here-under-named, appointed at Malton Sessions, July 14, 1657, be hereby impowred to receive the moneys levied, and to be levied, by the C. O. of Langbaurgh on the inhab'^ of the said Weapontake by vertue of several estreats to them directed, dated July 15, 1656, or since, which said moneys the aforesaid Surv'^ are hereby impowered to dis- pose of for and towards the repair of the said highways presented, and they are to give an ace', of their doings from Sessions to Sessions, and to return the surplusage of the money to the inhab"- of the i)laces where the same hath been levied ; like Orders for those appointed for Birdforth, Bulmer and Rydall ; oath being made that the highway in the lordship of Kepwicke is sufficiently repaired, the Constables of Birdforth to repay the sums they have levied on the inhc^b'^, and the presentment against them to be discharged; certificate being made that the way from Brawith Lane-gate over Purgatory to Thornton le Moore Feild-gate is sufficiently repaired, and also that the way from Theife Hole to Millflatt Gate is sufficiently cawsied, the presentment to be discharged ; a like Order for the way between Eshalls Yeate and Bur- rowby in the lordship of I.eake ; a like Order for the way leading over the water or milne-raice running to Daylehouse Mills in the Constablery of Hinderwell, the mill-raice being well paved and sufficiently repaired ; [124.] a man, late of Melbrigge in Northumberland, committed to the gaole for suspition of stealing a bay gelding, the goods of a person un- known ; a New Malton man found guilty by the Grand Inquest of steal- ing a grey mare and a white gelding committed to the gaole till next Sessions ; a man of Scackleton and a man of Wall-town in Northum- berland found guilty of horse-stealing and committed to gaole; theinhab". of Thornton le Beanes and of Borrowby have pleaded that they are not guilty of the repair of Cotcliffe Bridge, but that tlie inhab'^ of Crosby THIRSKE, OCTOBER 6, 1657. 255 and John Danby, gent"., the other parties named in the presentment, ought to repair the same as they suggest, and they do enter their tra- verse, and John Danby aforesaid and the inhab". of Crosby are to have notice thereof that they may make their defence at the next Sessions ; Marke Bardon of Felixkirke, yeom"., to pay to Will, his brother, the arrears of 4s. a week Ordered to be payd to him by his father, the Court being informed that Marke Bardon entered to the goods of his father, and the said Marke to appear at this Court on Fryday morning to shew cause in case he refuse to pay his brother the said arrears, and the Parish Off"- of Felixkirke from henceforth to take care that the two eldest children of the said Will, bee put forth apprentices, and his four youngest children to be provided for etc. ; the Parish Off", of Kildaile to provide harbour for a poor man ; whereas it appears to this Court that Will. Brafoot of Shipton has in his face the canckre, which hath occasioned five bones to be taken out of his face, and is so spred over his face that it is likely to prove mortall without heipe, and the chirurgeon demands ;i^io for his cure : Ordered that the Parish Ofi". do pay him 2s. a week till further Order ; a gratuity of 20s. to a soldier's widow; [124''.] upon hearing the petition of Jane Wood on behalf of herself and two poor children, John Wood of Crake to pay, towards the education of his two grandchildren, 2od. to the Overseers of the poor of Helrasley weekly till next Sessions, and so further, unless cause be shewed etc. ; upon hearing the petition of a woman whereby it is sug- gested that she lived in Helmsley ten years and in Ould Kirby for fifteen weeks last past, and for that neither the Overseers of the one or the other town will provide her settlement, the two next Justices to call the said woman and the Overseers of both towns before thera, and settle her according to law ; four Justices named to call the Parish Off", of Midleham and Aysgarth before them and examine the differ- ence concerning the settlement of the woman named in the petition ; the Parish Off", of Kirkeby Wiske to provide bowsing for a poor woman and to pay her 6d. a week towards her two children's main- tenance till further Order; two gent", to view the decays of Cover Bridge and to certify etc. ; the presentment against the inhab'=- of Hovingham to be discharged, oath being made that the highway is repaired and the water-sewer sufficiently scoured ; a woman of Hutton Rudby, being a wandering beggar, to be whipped by the Constables of Thirske, and so sent to the next Constable to be whipped, and so from Constable to Constable to Rudby ; the presentment against the inhab'^ of North Ottrington for their hyeway hedge from Smile-flatt gate to Spittle to be respited, and the C. C\ to forbear to levy the sum estreated till Easter Sessions next; [125.] the Clerke of the Peace, or some other freeholder of this Riding, to appear in the Exchequer to answer what 25 6 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. shall be objected against the inhab'^^ of the N. R. for not repairing Buttercrambe Bridge, and for that the said Riding ought not (as it is conceived) to repair the same, and what sum of money he, or they, shall disburse about the same shall be repayd them ; Edw. Wythes of Witheram, gent"., took the Oath of Abjuration in open Court; Mr. Rob. Otterburne, who is C. C. in the stead of Mr. John Bradley, in whose name several estreats_have issued forth from the Justices, for levying moneys estreated for repair of the highways and bridges in the Weapontake of Rydall, is hereby impowered to levy the said money, and he is to pay the same according to the appointment of the said estreats; the proposition (with the free consent of Lieut.-Col. Nich. Battersby, Gov', of the Ho. of Corr"- at Pickering), that the whole busi- ness in reference to the articles and covenants betwixt him and the inhab". of Pickering and Thornton, and the Justices of this Riding on the behalf of the said Riding, to be referred to Luke Robinson, Fr. Lassells, Chr. Pearcehay and Will. Aiscough, Esquires, or any three of them, whose Order all the said parties are to observe as a fynall deter- mination of all the differences amongst them, or any of them, and to certify etc. ; for that it hath appeared to this Court by the Thre'. of L. S. and Hosp"^. that there is great sums of money to be payd upon several Orders (as also divers pentioners who remayne unpayd their quarterly pention) occasioned by the misconstruing of the Orders about single and double proportions of L. S. and Hosp'^ money, and for that it hath also appeared that the inhab'^ of the East Divisions of this Riding, that is to say : Langbarugh, Bulmer, Rydall, Pickering-Lyth, Birdforth, Whitby Strand and AUertonshire have and do pay a double proportion, or twice as much severally as the \Veapontakes in Richm'^. do pay, or have payd since Easter Sessions 1649, although there have been severall Orders requiring the C. C^ of Richm"'. to levy the like proportion of L. S. and Hosp'^ money as the C. C^ for the East Divi- sion aforesaid have donne, and for that it hath now clearly appeared that the moneys which hath hitherto, since the aforesaid recited Order in 1649, been payd in Richm". hath been but their proportion of L. S. money (although the same sums have been said to be their single pro- portion of L. S. and Hosp'* money) or, however, hath been but half so much as the other Weapontakes have payd for that purpose : Ordered that the C. C=. of Richm'■^ do, upon receipt of this Order, issue forth their warrants to the Churchwardens of the several parishes within their respective Weapontakes, thereby requiring them and every of them to pay all the arrears of E. S. and Hosp'^ money due since Easter Sessions, 1649, that is to say, they are to pay as much more money quarterly, and for every quarter, for the Hosp'^ money since the afore- mentioned Sessions as they have hitherto payd for L. S. money, and so HELMESLEY, JANUARY 12, 1657. 257 contynue to pay the said double suras quarterly for L. S. and Hosp'^ money till further Order [I25^] and the said Churchwardens are hereby required to pay the aforesaid arrears to the C. O. fourteen days before the next Sessions, and the C. C=. are to pay all the aforesaid L. S. and Hosp^ money arrears as aforesaid to the Thre'. for the said Riding at the next Sessions upon the penalties in the Statutes in that case made etc. The Court is adjourned to Helmsley to Tewsday in the first whole week after the Epiphany, being the 12th day of Jan'''., and by adjourna- ment at Richmond 19th January. — Fr. Lascells, Will. Ayscough. [126.] HELMESLEY. Qu. Sessions at, Jan. 12, 1657. Before Geo. Marwood, Will. Ayscough, Rob. Walters, and Ralph Rymer, Esquires. High Sheriff etc. as before. Tho. Denton, ]a.\ Orricke, Geo. Jackson, Tho. Watson, Rob. Consett, John Trewhitt, Will. Tollerton, Chas. Fawcett, Sam. Robinson, Tho. Harrison, John Robson, Rob. Franke, Rob. Sampson, Will. Bland, Henry Dickinson, Names of the Jury etc. John Pursglove, Will. Foster, Will. Bates, Rob. Ripley, Fr. Hodgson, Rob. Knags, Andrew Waynde, Gent". Fr. Tranmire, Rob. Postgate, John Medd, Geo. Pearson, John Hogg, Edw. Hossler, Jos. Daye, Rich. Foster, . Gent" Felons tried at this Sessions : — An East Rounton man for stealing four hens (is. 4d. : guilty to 6d.); the same for stealing a window cloth (4s.), a sadle cloth (6d.), a stirrup iron and a stirrup (8d.), a scith and shaft and strickle (3s.), and a frying-pan (6d. : guilty to lod.) ; [I26^] the same again for steaHng four black heiffers (;!^ii : guilty to ;^io — burnt in the left hand) ; two Newton Mulgrave men for stealing two VOL. V. s 258 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. ewes (6s. 8d. : one not guilty, the other guilty to lod. — whipt) ; a Sowerby woman for stealing twelve yards of woollen cloth (24s. : guilty to 9s. — benefit of the statute) ; a Maunby lab', for stealing a black heiffer (20s. : guilty to 9s. — burnt in the left hand); an Easingwould chandler for stealing a goose (not guilty) ; a Boltby lab', for stealing 8s. in monies numbered (not guilty). The names of the Jury that tried the aforesaid prisoners. Conyers Ayscough, John Oxard, Tho. Fletcher, Gabriell Nicholson, Ja^ Sawdon, Math. Keld, Gent". Yeom". John Parkin, Ralph Robinson, Chr. Richardson, Nich. „ Rob. Sedman, Jeffrey Peacocke, . Yeom". Sir Will. Blaikeston, late of Old Byland, otherwise Rob. Roberts, etc. for an assault and atfray on Raiph HalHday being in the publique peace, and stealing a sorrel gelding (;^3) from the person of the said Raiph Halliday. [127.] The names of the Jurors that tried the said Sir Will. Blaikeston. Conyers Askwith, Tho. Hutchinson, John Oxard, Tho. Fletcher, Gabriell Nicholson, Ja^ Sawdon, Gent". Yeom". Tho. Harding, Will. Parkinson, Math. Keld, John Perkin, Raiph Robinson, Chr. Richardson, Yeom". The names of those that were indicted or presented and submitted and were fined : — Five Kirby men submitted and fined 6s. apiece ; a Kirbymooreside gent", for assault (submitted, and fined 20s. to His Highnes, and los. to the party); a Thornton taylor for assault and affray (submitted and fined 5s.) ; two Kirkebymooreside gent", for assault (submitted and fined, either of them, 40s.) ; a Nunnington lab', for assault and affray (submitted, and fined 2d.) ; Mich. Black- beard for not being a sworne bayliffe and did serve a proces (submitted, and fined 40s. : 20s. to the Commonwealth and 20s. to the party greived) ; a New Malton man for a trespass (submitted, and fined 6d.) ; a Scawby man for assault and affray (submitted, and fined 2d.); the Bayliff of Bulmer, for neglect of his office (fined 20s.) ; a man and a- woman for forcible entry (submitted, and fined 6d.). Summons against the parties presented : — A Wykeham lab', for assault and affray against HELMESLEY, JANUARY 12, 1657. 259 his wife ; Rob. Conyers, late of Gisbrough, gent"., being charged with certain detestable arts called witchcraft and sorcery wickedly to prac- tise the same. [127.] Presentments found this Sessions :— A Barton man and a Pickering woman for lying and living together as man and wife, contrary to Act of Parliament (to be traversed) ; a Ruston man for certain threatening words and speeches (namely that it was no more sin to cutt a man's throat then a dog's throat : to be traversed) ; the inhab''- of Kirke Leavington for their lands leading from Crathorne Feilds to Yaram Feilds being very ruinated and dangerous for passage : 40s. will but repair the same (discharged) ; five men for their gutters at the sides of the lane leading to Yaram ; a man for leaving the street but fourteen yards wide lying at the Wood Bridge on the hollow in the east side leading to Yaram ; the inhab''^ of East Harlsey and Sawcocke for their lands leading from Northallerton to Yaram and Stoxeley (20s.); the inhab'=. of Eureby for their lands leading from East Harlsey to West Rounton (ss.) ; the inhab" of Osmotherley for their lands from Mount Grace to Thirske (5s.) ; the inhab*". of Stonegrave for their highway leading from Hemsley to Malton (los.) ; the inhab'" of Little Drumonby for their land and sewer leading to Stoxley (5s.) ; the inhab*^ of Great Broughton for their way leading to Kirkeby Moore- side ; the inhab". of Farndale and Bransdale for their way leading from Blawith to Kirkeby Mooreside (los.) : one bill ignored. More indict- ments found this Sessions : — Two Kirkeby Mooreside husb". for re- fusing to obey a Superseadeas of Geo. Marwood, Esq. ; [128.] a man late of Deighton in the parish of Escrigg for entering into a man's garth and putting his family in fear in the night-time and remaining there two hours (sent to the Ho. of Corr".); the inbab" of Sutton in Gaultres for suffering their gates and fences to lye down ; a widow for refusing to pay her ass'., being 3s. lod., assessed by the substantialest men of Cawton ; the inhab'^ of Skelton for refusing to pay their just and due proportion of L. S. and Hosp"^. money charged by Order of Sessions. Eleven bills ignored. [i28''.-i30.] Recog"". entered in twenty-five cases. [I3o^-I3I.] Recog"'. forfeited or respitted in five cases. [131''.] Orders made etc. A warrant against a Glaisdale man to appear etc. for contempt of a late Order ; the occupiers and owners of the land adjoining on the north end of the New Bridge on the Forest of Gaultres to repair the highway there presented, betwixt now and Midsummer, upon pain of _;^ioo to be then estreited ; John Robinson of Middlesbrough, gent"., having been lawfully elected to serve as Constable for the said town for the year ensuing, and having refused to take upon him the said office, s 2 26o QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. to repair before the next J. P. and take the oath of Constable for the said town and county of Middlesbrough, and in case he refuse, to be had before the said next J. P. to shew cause etc. ; upon hearing the petition of the inhab'^ of Shipton ; Ordered that the inhab'^ of Over- ton do pay their just proportion with the rest of the Constablery of Shipton for and towards the relief of the poor there and the charge of repairing the highways in the parish of Overton, and parts within Ship- ton, it being a part thereof, or shew cause etc. ; a man of Midlewith in Cheshire and another of Macklin in the county of Relsmoore in Scot- land for wandering in the country as players, and counterfeiting Gen. Moncke's hand to the deceipt of the people, to be stript from the middle upwards and whipt, in the markett place of Hemsley, and after- wards to be conveyed from Constable to Constable etc. ; a Thirske man to be sent back to the Castle of York, there to remain to the next Assizes which shall first happen, untill he shall be from thence delivered by a due course of law, for the offence mentioned in the Mittimus upon which he was formerly committed to the gaole, being for suspition of the felonious clipping of the currant coyne or money of the nation ; a Boltby man, being convicted of brewing and selling ale without license, to be suppressed for three years and to pay 20s. for the use of the poor; [132.] gratuities of 20s. each to a L. S. and to a soldier's widow ; Will. Trueman of Marderbye, gent"., and Edm. Clough of Skipton to be C. C^ for Birdforth vice Tho. Bell and John Chapman, who are to pass their acc'^ to two Justices ; whereas Mr. Rob. Colt- hurst with others were appointed Surv". for several highways in Cleave- land, and that Mr. Colthurst saith he received ^\o of Mr. John Wel- burye, late C. C. for Langbaurgh levied for the repair of the highways, and that £^(> 12. was disbursed for repairing the said highways with charges at the Sessions : Ordered that the said Mr. Colthurst be dis- charged of the said £^6 12., and repay the remaining sum of ;^3 8. to the inhab". of Skelton ; a gratuity of los. to a soldier's widow ; a war- rant for good behaviour against two Sutton men for not prosecuting evidence on behalf of the Commonwealth ; the inhab**. of Newton with Roseberye having been presented at the Sessions held in April, 1657, for their highways, and having appearde this Sessions and desired to plead the next Sessions or repair the way betwixt now and then : Ordered that they so do, otherwise the money to be estreated ; like Orders for the inhab'^ of Hutton I.ockeris and of Craythorne ; the Sheriff to pay 6s. 8d. to the Jury of which Mr. Denton is the fore- man, and 6s. to the Jury of which Mr. Pursloy is the foreman ; [132*".] whereas there was an estreit made for the raising of ^^5 in Langbarugh for repair of Smeaton Bridge to be paid to Tho. Appleby, Surv'., which estreit came to Will. Jackson, gent"., then Constable there, HELMESLEY, JANUARY 12, 1657. 26 1 about the time he was discharged of being C. C, nevertheless Tho. Appleby aforesaid hath presented the said Will. Jackson for not pay- ing his proportion to the same, and although he never received the same as is suggested, nevertheless he doth pay in the moyety thereof to the assignee of the said Tho. Appleby and is thereupon discharged of the said presentment, and it is Ordered that the C. C. of the next division of Langbarugh do collect the said schedule formerly estreited and pay the same to Will. Jackson ; £7,0 Ordered for Eastle or Easley Bridge and Surv'=- appointed ; the Thre'. for Hosp''. to pay to Geo. Blanshard, Attorney-at-Iaw, the residue of ;£'26, being to discharge the issues against the inhab". of the N. R. ; Rich. Nesse of New Malton, Henry Scott of Walton in Northumberland and Rob. Fehxkirke of Scackleton to be returned to the public gaol for the several offences whereof they have been indicted, there to remain till next Assizes ; Alex. Thompson of Melbrigg to be sent back to the gaol for suspicion of horse-stealing ; Chr. Walker, who pretended to be a soldier and went about the country armed, being a dangerous and suspitious person, to be sent to the Ho. of Corr". at Pickering till next Sessions, to be chas- tised according to the Order of the said House; upon hearing the allegations of the Parish Off", of Shipton wherefore a poor man should not have 2s. a week paid him, the said Parish Off'^ to pay him i8d. a week only, till further Order : to be sent to Mr. Middleton ; [133. J whereas there is a difference betwixt Conyers Askwith, gent"., on behalf of the poor of Kilburne and Geo. Garbutt of Hemsley, which differ- ence is refered to the doome and judgement of this Court : Ordered that Geo. Garbutt do forthwith pay to the said Conyers Askwith the residue of 20s. for the use of the poor of Kilburn, and Mr. Askwith to deliver in the bond to Geo. Garbutt ; John Wood of Craike to pay to his two grandsons 8d. a week and the arrears thereof from last Sessions, and, in case he refuse, the Parish Off*^. of Hemsley to have the aforesaid John Wood before the next J.P. to be bound etc.; upon certificate that Tyle-house Bridge is in decay, 30s. ordered and Surv". appointed ; a woman of Dalton or Ambray near Hallifax, who was ap- prehended at Welburne Nov. 11, 1656, at a suspitious house, and was sent from thence to the Ho. of Corr° at Pickering, to be sent back thither till next Sessions, to be set at work etc. ; an indictment for trespass quashed ; the Constables of Kirkeby Mooreside to stand bound upon their former recog". to appear etc. to answer the contempt of a Superseadeas from a J.P. ; upon certificate of the Surv'"- for Highways in Langbaurgh that the highways presented in Wilton are sufficiently repaired : the said presentment to be discharged ; a gratuity of 20s. to a pensioned L. S. who hath been sick and wants money to carry him to London to his Colonel ; a poor woman to be provided for by the 262 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS. Parish Off", of Nunnington ; upon hearing the petition of Ann Leedall who complaineth that whereas by an Order, made at Hemsley, Jan. 13, 1656, it was Ordered that Geo. Watson should pay her all her arrears and 2s. weekly for the future: Ordered, by consent, that only i2d. a week be paid to her by Geo. Watson's executors ; a Constable appointed for Craike ; [133".] Margery Watson of Whitby, being a scold, to be ducked by the Constable, unless she within a month do ask Ja'. Wil- kinson and his wife of Sneaton forgiveness in Whitby Church pub- liquely and at the Cross in the market town there ; * Phil. Hunton of Hemsley and John Smith of Cropton to be sworn Deputy Bailiffs for Rydall ; Jordan Bentley to pay 15s., the Constable of Old Byland 5s., and the Constable of Hemsley los. towards the charge of carrying a felon to the Castle ; touching the difference betwixt a man and his apprentice in order to a separation, and as touching all suits and con- troversies betwixt his sureties : Ordered, by consent of the parties, that Rob'. Denton, gent"., and Rob'. Garbutt, grocer, do hear and deter- mine all differences betwixt them, and, in case they cannot agree, then to the doom and umpridge of Rob. Otterburne, jun'., so as the said award or umpridge be said or made within ten days ; a gratuity to a soldier's widow ; upon hearing the certificafe of Ja^ Calvert : Ordered that the present suit against the inhab". of Hustwhate for the insuf- ficiency of the highways in the Town-gate there be discharged ; Will. Thompson, a dangerous rogue, to be whipt, and the Sheriff to have him to the Ho. of Corr". at Richmond, there to be chastised etc. ; a man sent to the Ho. of Corr" till next Sessions ; the petition of Darrington who sustained great loss by fire to be recommended to the charitable consideration of this Riding. * An entry of 5ome local interest. The option between a ducking, and tlie public asking of pardon, both in the church and at the market cross, is well worthy the archaeologist's notice. INDEX Accessory in cases of felony, etc., 2, 4, 14. 37. S3. 99. 196, 234, 237 ,, Fined as being, 54 Act of Oblivion pleaded, n6, 117 Adamson, Will, 89 Adultery, Cases of, 77, 85, 93, 1 10, 129, 143, 173, 227 Agar, John, 63 Alderman of Richmond, 9, 15, 24, 185 Alehouse, Keeping a disorderly, 20, 50, 52, 67, 78, 86, 94, 96, 105, 106, 133, 141, 166, 180, 212, 216, 232, 253 ,, ,, without licence, 147 ,, sign to be removed, 98 Alehouse-keepers fined for keeping on their houses after suppression, 245 ,, refusing to entertain travellers on the plea of inability, 47 ,, selling ale above stat- ute-price, 47, 109, 116 ,, suppressed, 50, 52, 61, 67, 78. 86, 94-96, 98, 119, 133, 141, 149, 166, 190, 212, 215, 216, 220, 232, 244, 254 ,, suppressed for being Recusants, 126,217 suppressed, as an offi- cer in the service of the late King, 1 10 Alehouses in out-places to be suppressed, 207 ,, Tippling in, 212 Ale without Hcence, Selling, 61, 113, 125, 139, 208, 215 Allanson, Allenson, AUinson, Chr., 63, 74. 150 ,, Francis, 39, 40 Mr., 76 Anderson, Ann, 94 ,, George, 164 Apleby, Appleby, John, 225 ,, Thomas, 234 Apprentice, His indentures and bond to be delivered up to an, 184, 229 ,, A man discharged of his, 229 ,, purloininghis master's goods sent to Ho. of Corn, 222 ,, Refusing to take an, 121 ,, Time served as a. soldier to be allowed to an, 119 „ permitted to leave, his master ha^'ing failed to teach him his trade, 114 ,, the master having died, to have his trade taught by the widow, or else have his premium returned, 120 Apprentices, Children to be put forth as, 72, 25s Arbitration, Cases referred to, 2, 5, 6, 19, 20-22, 28, 40, 45, 50, 52, 55, 72, 73, 81, 149, 157, 170, 172, 233. 238. 239, 261, 262 Armed, Going about the country, 261 Arms of the late King to be taken down, 54 264 INDEX. Armstrong, William, 44 Arnett, Simon, 187 Arresting and detaining a man unjustly, 226, 234 „ three men on one and the same warrant, 223 Ashton, Robert, 61-63, 85, 88 Askwith, Conyers, 261 Assault, Cases of, 2, 4, 14, 25, 34, 38 48, 50, 52, 57, 59, 64, 65, 68, 70, 80, 83, go, 92, 99, 100 102, 106, no, 113, 115-117, 123, 128, 130, 131, 135, 136 142, 147, 151, 154, 159, 160, 163, 168, 169, 179, 182, 186, 187, 191, 192, 194-196,203- 205, 212, 217, 218,223, 227, 230, 231, 234,236, 237, 241- 243. 247, 251-253, 258 ,, by a Clerk, 109, 123, 212 ,, upon a Clerk, 217, 236 „ Coming armed to a house and making an, 106, 173 ,, on Collectors, 223 „ and affray, 2, 25, 70, 78, 130, 13s. 147, I94> 19s. 258 ,, in Church on the Lord's day, 116 ,, in view of the Court, 30 Assaulting and scandalizing a Clerk, 187 ,, a man and taking away his hat, 142 ,, an Overseer in the execution of his office, 196 Assessing and receiving more than was due, 128 Assessment for a Church Bible, 21 ,, for Church and Poor, 34 Assessments, Differences as to, settled, 2, 5, 16, 19, 21, 24, 27, 54, 146, 175, 184, 217 ,, referred, 193 ,, Non-payment of, I, 4, 6, 15, 21, 24, 57, 60, 71, 77, 85, 100, loi, 123, 128, 132, 140, 151, 155, 161, 183, 195, 251, 252 ,, Non-payment of, by C. Constables, 10, 155 ,, Non-payment of, by Con- stables, II, 15 ,, for L.S. and the Marshal- sea, 42 Assessments, Levying too large, on ac- count of. Dragoon Horse, 90 ,, Orders touching, 5-7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16, 18-21 24, 27, 28, 33, 34, 41 42, 44, 47, 50, 54, 58, 67, 156, 162, 172, 185 207 ,, imposed by Ordinance of Parliament, 7 ,, Refusing to collect, i ,, Question touching, inArk- engarthdale and New Forest, 51, 58, 63, 81 „ Question touching, in Bagby and Fawdington, 193 , , Question touching, in Barn- ingham Constablery, 16 ,, Question touching, in Bur- ton Constable, Spenni- thorne, and Thornton Steward, 2 ,, Question touching, in Clif- ton and St. Marygate, 145, 149 ,, Question touching, in Con- stablery of Balke, 62 Question touching, in Con- stablery of Bedale (or Beedall), 62 ,, Question touching,inCorne- brough and Stitnam, 19, 27, 41. 50, 54 ,, Question touching, in Crakehall, 74 ,, Question touching, in Faceby, 28 ,, Question touching, in Fin- gall, 239 , , Question touching, in Lask- dale Pasture and Rais- dale Grange, 22, 28 , , Question touching, in Little Ayton and Tunstall, 7 ,, Question touching, in Mid- dleton, Aislaby, Wrelton, Cropton, and Lockton, 20 , , Question touching, in Rose- dale, Lastingham, and Hutton, 6 INDEX. 26s Assessments, Question touching, in Scor- ton and North Cowton, 184 ,, Question touching, in Sea- mour and Brawith, 45 ,, Question touching, in Sin- nington, 51 ,, Question touching, in Snaipe, 51 ,, Question touching, in Thirkleby, 16 „ Question touching, in Thorpe, 20 ,, Question touching, in Wapentake of Gilling East, 172 ,,, Question touching, in Wath and Oswald- church, 6, 19 , , Question touching, inWens- ley and Hudswell, 27 Assizes, A man freed of service at, 119 Atkinson, Elizabeth, wife of John, 164, 169 ,, John (Thornton), 193 ,, Michael, 119 Attorney taking fees and refusing to account for the money, 130, 147, 203 Attomeys-at-Law, Persons presented as not fit to practise.as, 215 Aulderson, John, 86 Awman, Joseph, 137 B. Baihff of Allertonshire presented for ex- tortion, 212 ,, „ Sworn Deputy, 179 „ Blrdforth (Sworn), Ralph Dowthwaite, Thomas Lum- lay, 175 „ Bulmer, 95, 150, 168 (Sworn), John Foster, Will. Wood, 175 ^, „ Deputy, in default, 123 ,, Easingwold, Action by, under colour of his office, 1 78 „ Hallikeld (Sworn), Raper, John, 210 Bailiff of Langbarugh (Sworn), Tho. Dunninge, 222 ,, New Malton (Sworn), Grim- ston, John, 232 ,, Northallerton, Thomas Dun- ninge, officiating without being sworn, 208 ,, Pickering Lyth and Whitby Strand, John Smith, 17s ,, ,, „ Rob. Burton, 133 ,, Rydale, 162 ; (Sworn), John Grimston, Robert Johnson, 175, 222; (Deputy), Philip Hunton, John Smith, 262 ,, Scarborough, Mr. Jeratt, no ,, Assault upon a, 223, 248 ,, Executing the office of, without being sworn, 160, 258 ,, neglecting his office, 258 , , summoning a man to the Assizes without a warrant, 227 Bailiffs in the several Wapentakes, All their names to be given in, 125 Bainebrigg, John, 174 Baites, Katherine, 133 Baker, Peter, 149 Balk, Ploughing up a, 144, 186 Barber chirurgeon, A, 241 Bardon, Mark, 255 „ WilUam (brother of Mark), 255 Barker, Richard, 125 „ William, 30 Barley, Francis, 169 Barnes, William, 53 Barratry, etc., 38, 44, 76, 92, 159, 168, 177, 186 Barton, Andrew, 51 „ Barbara, daughter of Mr. John and Ruth his wife, 183, 188, 205 „ John, 125, 183 „ Ruth, 66, 125, 181, 183, 187- 189, 205 ,, alias Chapman, Richard, 198 Bastard, Warrant against reputed father of a, 98 Bastardy, Cases of, 2, 4, 5, 8-10, 13, 21, 27, 36, 39, 47. 52. 62, 72, 82, 86, 94-98, 104, III, II4> 125. 132, 133. 141, 149, 152, 170. 183. 198, 216, 235. 238 Battersby, Nicholas, 107, 108 266 INDEX. Bawdyhouse, Keeping a, 187, 24S Baxter, Elizabeth, 41 Beane, Ralph, 183 Beating and abusing one's neighbours, 133 ,, a man, 227 Beckwith, Christopher, 54 ,, Leonard, 94 Beetling, beaming, and stretching cloth, 12, 77 Begging with counterfeit pass, 236 Belassis, Charles, 95, 96 ,, Mrs. George, 27 Belgarane alias Field, Grace, 244 Bell, Frances, no ,, John, 136 ,, Raph, 46, 47, 104 ; 85 ; 104 ,, William, 155 Bellass, Elinor, 206 Belt, Christopher, 55 Berryman, Mr., 199 Best, Captain James, 88 Bethell, Slingsby, 219, 237 Betraying a client, 92, 95 Beverley, Mr., 199 Bigamy, 151, 154 Blacker, Robert, 65 Blackelocke, Mary, 162 Blackwell, Robert, 34, 62 Blaids, Edmund, 223 Blakeston, Sir William, alias Rob. Roberts, a/Mi Will. Blakeston, 251, 252 Blanchard, Geo. (Attorney-at-Law), 261 Blasphemous speeches. Committed for, 248 Bound over to good behaviour towards his father, A man, 248 Boundaries, Removing, 227 Bourchier, Sir John, 95, 254 Boynton, Sir Francis, 135 Brabbiner, Nicholas, 132 ,, Robert, 144 Branding in the hand, 43, 48, 54, 65, 90, 99, no, 124, 142, 143, 160, 164, 219, 252 ,, on the shoulder, 69, 99, loi Brandsby, Bransby, Mr., 3 ,, William, 60, 230 Breach of the good behaviour, 76, i r6, 212, 236 ,, the peace, 70, 95, 102, 130, 164, 182, 208 Breaking a barn, 109 Breaking a close, 13, 191, 24I apinfold, 2, 133, 136, 155, 217 ,, into a house and committing a riot, 123 , , into a house and carrying goods away, 139, 149, 179, 203, 218, 237 Brett, Thomas, 39, 40 Brewing ale after suspension, 175 ,, ,, ,, Compounding the of- fence of, 192 ,, without licence, "jd, 89, 109, 123, 195, 203, 206, 212 ,, Suppressed or suspended from, 20, 94, 95, 133, 171, 179, 180, 183, 206, 249, 260 ,, Suppressed from, for entertain- ing wandering persons, 171 Bridge-money, Refusing to pay, 60, 230 Bridge, Chain for a, 54, 77 ,, to be made, 69 ,, over a ditch. Taking away a, 6S ,, at Whitby, Land given by will towards the maintenance of the, 220 Bridge-warden at Yarm, 185 ,, Whitby, 220 Bridges, Orders touching assessments for, 7, 17, 19, 33, 37, 45, 184, 209, 238 ,, C. Cs. to pay to the Surveyors all moneys in arrear for, :oo ,, C.Cs. to render accounts con- nected with, 9 Bridges, Surveyors of : — Agar, Mr., 10 Appleby, Arthur, 37 ,, Thomas, 119, 234, 260 Bell, Joseph, 10 Blackwell, Robert, 232 Blyth, William, 41 Cardikes, Mr., 10 Cowley, Ralph, 193 Crosby, Thomas, 232 Ettie, Captain John, 112, 184 Gibson, John, 188 Hall, Henry, 112 Harwood, Miles, 10 Hebden, William, 33 Hesle, Samuel, 133 Hutchinson, Thomas, 45, 52 Kettlewell, John, 41 Micklefield, Robert, 18S INDEX. 267 Bridges, Surveyors of: — Narye, John, 232 Neiidike, Christopher, 188 Newton, Peter, 41 Norcliffe, Matmadulce, 245 Pearte, Samuel, 10 Pickersgill, Mr., 88 Pybus, John, 10 Reynolds, Thomas, 149 Richardson, Thomas, 10 Ringrose, Fairfax, 34 Swailes, Thomas, 45, 52 Waistell, Luke, 10 Warcope, Thomas, 155 Weddell, William, 112 Whitwell, Raiph, 33 Bridges, Surveyors of, to call in moneys due, 249 ,, ,, to pass their ac- counts, 102, 185, 210, 232 Bridges needing or under repair : — Ayton, 34, 77 Balder, 144 Barker, 157 Beck, 36, 41 Blaypoole, 71 Bow, 17, 47 Burne, 88, 106 Buttercrambe, 229, 230, 254 Catterick, 114, 134 Cotchff, 184, 254 Cover, 255 Croft, 17, 73, 194 Dalton, 25, 27, 73 Dauney, 66 Deepdale, 57, 73, 210 Eastle or Eastley, 261 Egleston, 129, 144, 166 Egton, 56, 72 Esh-hill, 41 Eure, 70, 106, 134, 152, 157, 238 Fleete, 60 Gilmonby, 47, 210 Gromond, Growmond, 56, 72 Grunton, 81 How, 48, 77, 222 Howden, 45 Howram (Owram), 38, 72, 106, 112, 145, 161, 184 Howsey (Ousey, Ulsey), 157 Kilgram, 63, 121 Kirby Misperton, 31 Kirkham, 34, 199 Langton, Langhtonkirke, 36, 42, 61 Bridges needing or under repair : — Laskill, 243 Lealholme, 22 Leeming, 6l, 179, 185, 193 Lune, 15, 24, 30 Malton, 30, 232 Masham, Massam, 9, 88, 100, 166, 238 Morton, 40 "Mount, 61 Murton, 38, 195 New, 54, 122, 169, 174, 182, 188, 199 Newsam, 33, 48, 162, 171, 188 Newton, 19 Normanby, 45, 88, 121, 137, 145, ISS. 183 Nowt-sike, 60 Pierce, 209, 217 Pratcar, 147, 175 Reeth, 15, 36, 57, 73, 210 Rutherford, Rutherforth, 47, 52, 87 Scawton, 185, 210, 225, 231 Skeeby, 27, 72 Smeaton, 13, 27, 37, 51, 185, 238 Staithes, 183, 195, 198, 204, 205, 219 Stoxley- (Stokesley-) beck, 11 Sunbeck, 13 Thorneton, 78, 86, 105, 145 Three-mile, 15 Tyle-houses, 261 Topcliff, 9, 41, 83, 105, 121 West Ayton, 60 Wath, 193, 199 Whitby, 7, 8, 72 White-house, 60 Willey, 10 15, 86, 88, 105, 134, 152, 158, 194, 209 Yafforth, Yeafforth, 8, 70 Yarm, Yearme, 73, 156, 157, 170, 199, 229 Yeddingham, 188, 189 Bridges, Not repairing, 248, 252 Cade, Bartholomew, 150 Calvert, James, 224 „ Marmaduke, 100 ,, Thomas, 170; (York), 233 268 INDEX. Cancer, A man afflicted with, to be helped by the parish authorities, 255 Cant, John, 104, 105 Cape, James, 235 Carise, Mary, 114 Carlton, Thomas, 187, 188, igo Carter, John (Shipswell), 106 ,, ,, (East Cowton), 166 Casse, Thomas, 192 Catterton, Mark, 187 Causeway, Laying manure on a, 214 ,, Not repairing a, 219 Challenging a man to fight, 164, 168, 192, 252 Challenour, Edward, 154 Chancel of Gillamoor Church, 143 ,, KirbyMoorside Church, 119, 125 ,, Sutton Church, 32, 39, 104 ,, Wigginton Church, 117 Chapman, Anthony, 187, 188, 190 „ John, 179, 187, 188 ,, "William, 103 Cholmley, Henry (Tunstall), i, 2, 84, 100 ,, Major, III ,, Mr., 190, 199 Church leads at Hovingham, Not repair- ing, 212 Church, Locking the congregation out of, 196. 236 ,, Money due for repair of a, 240 ,, ,, Measures taken to ensure payment of, 240 ,, Neglecting to repair Hutton Rudby, 231, 232 ,, Neglecting to repair Kirby Moorside, 119, 125 ,, Not repairing the Queir (Choir) at Ingleby, 251 ,, Refusing to pay assessments for repair of Thirsk, 195 , , Refusing to pay assessments for Hutton Rudby, 204 Churchyard, Not repairing, 251 Churchwardens of Askrigg, 58; appoint- ed (John Colton), 193 „ Cowton, South, 247 ,, Hovingham, 212 ,, Kirby Moorside, neg- lecting to levy money, 215 ,, Kirkdale, 205 , Marske, 6 Churchwardens of Melsonby, 247 „ Northallerton, their accounts to be ex- amined, 82 ,, Wasse, 132 Wath, 193 Clark, Thomas, 54, 183 Clay, Richard, 240 Cleaveland, Joseph, 61 ,, William (Attorney), 130, 149 Cleeve, Cleave, John, 39, 40 Clerk of Lastingham, Leonard Conyers, 236 ,, Silton, in arms at Hessey Moor, 253 ,, ,, George Seale, 130 ,, ,, Philip Peckett, 236, 237 ,, Wrelton, Leonard Conyers, 243 Clerk of the Peace, Robert Holborne, 133. 146, 150. 165, 170, 184, 199, 238 ,,_ Deputy, Raiph Yorke, 136 ,, to appear in the Exchequer, 256 ,, Salary to be paid to, ,, tocompound for fines for non-repair of highways and bridges, 148, 157, 199, 256 , , to have a third part of the money for brewers' licences, 23s Clerkeson, John, 224 Clipping the coin of the nation, 260 Clough, George, 74, 82 Clows, Not setting, 104 Coates, John, 8 Cockerell, Thomas, 53 Coleby, Richard, 109 CoUye, Peter, 245 Collecting money and not applying it to the uses intended, 128 Colours, Desertion of, 100 Colthurst, Robert, 18 Comedy or play. Fined for being present at a, 190 Commission of Pious Uses, 170 Commissioners for ejecting scandalous Ministers, Disturbing the, 212, 219 INDEX. 269 Commissioners of the Scottish Army, lo Committal of a man lately bailed, 86 ,, to gaol, 54, 62, 69, 77, 83, 86-88, 95, 97, 129, 151. 168, 170, 171, 173, 182, 188, 189, 222, 225, 231, 232, 238, 261 Committee of Sequestration, 55 Common day's-work, Refusing to dis- charge, 32 Common Prayer, Using or publicly read- ing, 83, 85, 97 Common of Askrigg, The, 23 Commonwealth's evidence. Not prose- cuting, 81, 235, 260 Compounding a felony, 157 Concealment of a felony, 128, 168 Conjuration, 160 Consitt, Robert, 150 Constable of Aldwark, 149 ,, AUerton, 165 Askrigg, 23, 81, 223 „ Bainbrigg, 2, 23 ,, Beadall, 61, 62, 209 ,, Bilsdale, 19 ,, ,, Kirkham, 7 ,, Borrowby, 16 ,, Bowes, 114, 129 ,, Bransby, 190 ,, Burniston, 6 „ Burton, 47, loi ,, ,, Constable, 2 „ Butterwick, 15, 16, 20, 126 „ Byland, 168 ,, Old, 262 ,, Carleton, 20 ,, ,, Miniott, 2 „ Catton, 15,21, 22 „ Clifton, 95 ,, Cowton, South, 82, 98 ,, Crake, 67, 173 (AUenson, Chr., and Clarke, John), 206, 207 „ Crambe, 149 ,, Croft, 166, 179 ,, Cropton, 19s , Eastdale- (Eskdale-) side, 158 „ East Witton, 15, 37, 140 ,, Ebberston, 62 Egton, 132, 218 „ Eppleby, 247 „ Eston, 185 Fingall, 2 Constable of Firby, 165 ,, Flaxton, 171 ,, Forcett, 225 ,, Gilling, 190 „ Harlsey, 34 ,, Helmesley, 6, 20, 21, 34, 173, 262 ,, Hovingham, 42 ,, Hunton, 85 ,, Husthwaite, 116 ,, Hutton, 16, 171 ,, ,, upon Derwent, 171 „ Bushell, 33 „ ,, Little, 166 ,, ,, Mulgrave, 177 ,, Kilburne, 76 ,, Kilton, 7 ,, Kirby, 61 ,, ,, Misperton, 244 ,, ,, Moorside, 261 ,, Kirkham, 10, 83, 92 ,, Kirtlinton, 73 ,, Lastingham, 20 ,, Lealam, 10 ,, Leeming, 61, 63 ,, Libberston (Lebberston), 34 ,, Malton, 137, 171 ,, Middleham, Midlam, 5, 212 ,, Middleton, 7 ,, Marske, I, 6, 15 „ Marten, 77, 133 ,, Melmerby, 23 „ Melsonby, 247 ,, New Malton, 7, 11, 19, 50, 63, 67, 137 „ Newton, 18 ,, Northallerton, 50, 114 ,, Oswaldkirk, 18, 34 ,, Ouldstead, 118 ,, Oulton, 193 ,, ,, cum Ampleforth,20 ,, Pickering, 171 ,, Ravensworth, 247 „ Redcar, 13 ,, Reeth, 28, 163 ,, Ruston, 96 ,, Seamer, 16 ,, Seizey (Sessay), 130 ,, Shipton, 67 ,, Skeeby, 247 Skelton, 5 ,, Slingsby, 21 2/0 INDEX. Constable of Smeaton, 157, 193 ,, Southolme, 187 „ Snaipe, 57, 209 ,, Sowerby, 9, 16, 49 „ Spawnton, 20, 236 ,, Spennithorn, 2 „ Startforth, 47 „ Stillington, 51, 55 ,, Stokesley, 16 , Stone^rave, 5' •'> 216, (James Dobson), 216 ,, Sutton upon Galtres, 168 ,, Terrington, 126 „ Theakston, 154 ,, Thirkleby, 223 „ Thirske, 10, 30, 40, 52, 73, 84 „ Thoralby, 180 ,, Thornaby, 136 ,, Thornton Steward, 2 ,, Topcliffe, 66 „ Welburne, 5, 177 Well, lOl ,, West Ayton, 34 ,, West Tanfield, 24, 36, 47 ,, Westerdale, 199 „ Whitby, 7, 8, 188, 218 ,, Whitwell, 67, 171 II Wigginton, 40 ,, Wrelton, 242 Constable appointed for Harlsey, 34 ,, ,, Cowton, South, 82 ,, ,, Crake, 262 „ ,, Pickall, 28 ,, ,, Stillington, 29 „ ,, Welburne, 177 ,, ,, Yearsley, 30 ,, Another to be appointed in place of a Papist elected as, 216 ,, Assaulting or attacking the, 165, 218, 251 ,, Defaulting, his accounts to be examined, 10, 28 ,, Deputy, appointed for Reeth, 57 ,, executing u warrant on the Lord's day, 223 ,, not apprehending players of interludes, 209 ,, not executing a warrant, 81, 163, 180 ,, Payments by a, 73 Constable neglectingto execute his office, 116 ,, Refusing to assist a, 76 ,, ,, to render accounts, 2, 28 ,, ,, to serve as, 259 ,, Sending persons from Con- stable to, 57, 58, 72, 88, 180, 209, 224 249, 260 ,, Setting the hand of a, to a billet, 47 , , suffering a prisoner to escape, 251 ,, ,, profanation of the Sabbath, 212 ,, ,, a tumult, 96 ,, Taking a Mittiinus away from a, 251 ,, Threatening a, 231 ,, to give in his accounts 5, 7, 16, 24, 37 ,, to restore certain cattle to the owners, 98 ,, out of purse, Bilsdale Kirk- ham, 7 ,, ,, Borrowby, 16 ,, ,, Carleton, 20 ,, ,, Catton, 22 ,, ,, Helmesley, 20 ,, ,, Marske, 6 „ ,, Oswaldkirke, 34 ,, ,, Skelton, 5 ,, ,, Stonegrave, 5 ,, ,, West Tanfield, 47 Constablery of Aldbrough, 24 Aldwark, 93 Bagby, 16, 151, 193 Barningham, 16 Barugh, 93 Croft, 179 East Witton, 37 Gilling, 24 Habtons, 93 Helmesley, 67 Hudswell, 27 Kirkleatham, 5 Lastingham, 20 Midleham, 248 Midlesbrough, 182 Oswaldkirke, 34 Pickering, 22, 174 Ravensworth, 58 INDEX. 271 Constablery of Rudby, 21 Ruswarp, 93 Spawnton, 2 Stanwick, 24 Stokesley, 21 Thirske, 75 Wensley, 27 West Tanfield, 24 Yearesley, 93 Constable's charges to be paid, 5-7, 12, 15, 20, 21, 23, 30, 34. 37, 41, 63 ,, „ Refusing to pay, 2, 32, 47, 48, 51, 55, 60, 65, 67, 81, 169, 197 Contempt of Justices' Warrants, 33, 39, 50, 165, 213, 223, 230, 236 „ of Orders of Court, 3, 7, 9, 14. i5> 33. 38, 43. 5°. 65. 70, 85, 153, 188, 225. 232, 233. 251 Chief or High Constables, List of :— Allertonshire : Cowper, John, 81, 88, 141, 146 Dunninge, Edw., 141, 224, 239 Foster, Tho., 72, 81 Gamble, Will. , 72 Key, Fr., 146, 224, 239 Metcalf, Chr., 88 ,, Geo., 81, 141 ,, Rob., 72, 81 Potts, Tho., 72, 81 Snawdon, John, 224 Walker, Rich., 239 Willis, Edw., 141 Willy, Edw., 224, 239 BiRDFORTH : Bell, Tho., jun'., 175. 1^5, 260 Chapman, John, 175, 185, 260 Clough, Edm., 260 Goulton, Chr., 88, loi, 105, 125 Kitchingman,Will., loi, 105,175, l8S Lumley, Will., loi, 105, 150, 175, 18S Pybus, Jos., 88, loi, 105, 126 Trueman, Will., 25o BuLMER : Bell, John, 119. 125. 15°. 231. 238 Burshame, John, 238 Dickenson, Tho., 12, 88, 98, 122, 149 Chief or High Constables, List of : — (BULMER continued) : Driffield, Fr., 231 Faceby, Geo., 33 .. Will., 245 Halliday, Rich., 55, 88, 119, 125, 149 Horseman, Howseman, Phil. , 12, 33, 55, 5o, 63, 95, 126 Lockwood, John, 98, 150, 215, 232 Simpson, Tho., 215 GiLLiNG East : Cleaseby, John, 209 Conyers, Rob., 21 5, 225, 248 Garth, Fr., 248 Lumley, Rob., 88, 145 Meeke, Nich., 3 Ryder, Rypon, John, 152, 209, 210, 225 Shaw, Jos., 88, 152 Smith, Will., 145, 153 Smithson, Chr., 10, 16, l66 Wilson, Raph, 10 Willy, Simon, 3, l5 GiLLiNG West : Awderson, Jas., 16 Barnes, Tho., 144 Bayles, Anth., 152, 211 Bell, Tho., 144, 235 Brunskill, Phil., 211 CoUings, Rich., i5, 88, 144, 152, 1 65 Shawe, John, jun'., 152, 235 Jos., 88, 145, 152, i66 Todd, Chr,, 144 Hallikeld ; Barugh, Rob., 87 „ Tho., 216 Blyth, Will., 87, 88, 100, 115, 128 Brown, Edw., 115, 2i5 Will., 128 Burniston, Geo., 16 Carter, Chr., 10, 30, 52 Key, John, 216 Nelson, Rich., 100 Raper, Will., i5 Warcopp, Tho., 10, 87, 88, 100, "5, 128, 133 Wilkinson, Chr., 87, 100, I15, 128, 2l5 Hang East : Apleby,John, 87, 2i5, 225 2/2 INDEX. Chief or High Constables, List of : — Hang East [continued] : Benson, Anth., 133, 166, 216 Binsley, Geo., 87, 129 Brasse, Tym., 16 Fawcett, Rich., 87 ,, Tho., 216, 225 Lucas, John, 16 Marshall, John, 87, 88, 129, 166 Rymer, Geo., 87, 88, 129, 165 Smirthwaite, Rich., 87, 129, 133, 2l6 Hang West : Alderson, Awderson, Anth., 69, 139 Dighton, Henry, 24 Dodsworth, Geo., 16 Foster, Tho., 157 Fothergill, Anth., 239 ,, Geo., 250 Frear, Geo., 69, 88, 155, 223, 239. 250 Jobson, Tho., 16 Marshall, Geo., 69, 88, 129, 151 PuUeyne, Rich., 41 Robinson, Leon., 215 Theakston, Marra., 27 Todd, Chr., 24, 27, 28, 152 Watson, Edw., 69 Vearker, Yorke, Luke, 129, 133, 157,216,239 Langbaurgh : Appleby, Tho., 260 Best, Ja*., 205 Chapman, Geddison, 238 Jackson, Will., 122, 125, 150, 157 Lownesdaile, Chr., 67 Marshall, Will., 30 Pearce, Peers, Tho., 67, 88, 150, 198, 205 Robinson, John, 198, 205 Scarth, Phillip, 244 „ Rich., 30, 33 Welbury, John, 157, 238, 244, 260 Worfolke, Will., 32, 88, 122, 125 Pickering Lyth : Bower, Will., 150, 231 Fairside, John, 10, 97 Harding, Rob., 10, 55 Harton, Rich., 231 Hebden, John, 63, 67 Heild, Tho., 67, 88, 97 Hobson, John, 61 Chief or High Constables, List of : — Pickering Lyth [continued) : Hutchinson, Tho., 88, 150, 170, 171, 229 Readhead, Will., 10, 55, 61, 63 Swailes, Tho., 10 Waynde, John, 229, 231 RiDALL : Best, Claudious, 119, 150, 229, 244 Bradley, John, 146, 150, 229, 231, 256 Butter, Tho., 10 Denton, Rob., 10 Gibson, John, 229 Halliday, Chr., 56, 64, 88, 119 Harrison, John, 244 Hebden, Will., 40 Johnson, Rich., 64, 88, 146 Morritt, Rich., 10 North, Tho., 10, 40, 56 Otterbume, Rob., 231, 256 Smith, John, 229 Sturdie, Will., 10, 12 Whitby Strand : Bushell, Rob., 146, 149, 150, 240 Harton, Will., 88, 146, 149 Jackson, Will., 97, 234 Knaggs, Fr., 10, 15, 20, 26, 27 Mason, Rob., 240 Robinson, Fr., 10, 15, 20, 26, 27 Sedman, Sidman, John, 20, 23 High Constables, Appointments of, 3,10, 20, 24, 27, 34, 56, 61, 63, 67, 69, 72, 81, 87, 98, 100, loi, 105, 115, 119, 121, 129, 133. 141. 14s. 146, 152, 157, 175, 185, 198, 205, 209, 215, 216, 224, 229, 231. 235, 238, 239, 240, 244, 248, 250 ,, ,, Accounts to be taken, 96, loi, no. III, 133, 138, 152, 166, 231, 232, 235 „ ,, Contempt of Order by, in not passing accounts, 126, 144 „ ,, discharged of office, 10, 231 ,, ,, discharged on account of sickness, 97 INDEX. '-n Chief Constables, Discharged, unable to read or write, 157 Fined for refusing office of, 23, 27, 205 Fines for not, appear- ing at the Sessions mitigated, 225 Not paying bridge- money, 234 Not paying Ho. of Corr"- money, 164 Orders touching pay- ments by, 10, 13, 16, 34, 36, 40, 61, 62, 74, 100, 145, 149, 156, 158, 162, 165, 166, 198, 238, 239, 244, 245, 246, 254, 256 ,, ,, Refusing to serve as, 27 ,, ,, of Bulmer, neglecting to collect ass'^, 12 ,, ,, of Langbaurgh, War- rants of Commis- sioners of the Scotch Army neglected by, 10 „ ,, of Pickering, exacting more money than authorized by war- rant, 97 Gotham Hospital, Land belonging to, 5 Cottage upon the Common, Building a, 114 ,, Converting a com-milne into, without laying five acres of land to it, 123, 132 , , Converting a ruinous dwelling- house into &c., I ,, Erecting a, without &c., 114, 191, 208, 217, 252 ,, to be erected for a poor man, 210 Council of State, 156 Counterfeiting General Monk's hand, 260 Court, Deluding the, 103, 129 ,, Contempt of, 193 Court, William, 119 Cozenage, 99 Curdnes, Richard, 63 Cuthbert, Robert, 5 Cutting com illegally, 1 16 „ down and carrying away trees, 2 VOL. V. D. Daggett, Henry, 119 ,, John, 119 Dale, Henry, 98n. Damage by fire, Compensation for, 118, 153. 193, 232, 239, 249, 262 Darley, Henry, 254 ,, Sir Richard, no Darnton, Mr., 23 Davison, Sir Walter, 85 Dawson, Mr., 76 ,, William, 89, 103 Deaneham, George, 154, 156 Deighton, William, 164 Dent, John, 222, 240 Denton, Robert, 262 Deputy Sheriff, Artush, Nicholas, 42 ,, ,, Baite, John, 139 ,, ,, Blanshard, George, 122, 142, 153 ,, ,, Chapman, John, 146, 150, 159 ,, ,, Hinckes, Thomas, 89, 98, loi, 109, 113, 115 ,, ,, Lazenby, Seth, 127 ,, ,, Marwood, George, 17 ,, ,, ,, Henry, 8 „ ,, Smithyes, John, 52, 134 ,, ,, Wickham, Wykeham, Martin, 64, 70, 74, 80, 83, 172, 175. 229, 236 Destroying partridges, 159 ,, rabbits, 168 Dickens, Richai'd, 63 Dickinson, Richard, 74, 82 ,, Thomas, 161 Dispute between a woman and four men of Hutton Rudby, 6 ,, for possession of a close settled, 112 Distringas against Sir John Bourchier, 254 Disturbing cattle, 227 Ditches, Not making, 81 ,, Not scouring, 76 81, 182, 183 Dixon, Christopher, 209 Dobson, Dorothy, 175, 184 ,, Robert, 182 ,, Roger, 182 Dove, Ann, 170 „ Jane, 170, 171 T 274 INDEX. Dove, John, 169-171 ,, Thomas, go, 96 Dowson, William, 170, 171 Dowthwaite, Raiph, 71 Driffield, Maiy, wife of William, 1 10 ,, Thomas, no, 116 Drink on the Lord's day, Suffering people to, 117 Drinking King Charles' health, 65 Drunk, Fined for being, 223 Drunkard, Common, 71 Dunninge, George, 36 Dunnington, Mary, daughter of Chris- topher, 197, 206 Dwelling-house, Breaking into, 36 ,, ,, in the day- time, 59 Earl of Newcastle's Army, 74 Easterby, Bartholomew, 70 Edwards, Jane, 55 EUerton, Thomas, 188, 204 Enticing a girl of fourteen from her father and marrying her, 252 ,, a man to purloin his master's goods, 223 Escape, Making an, 227 ,, Suffering a prisoner to, 47, 50, 80, 116, 128, 131, 218, 241 Escaping from the Constable, 84 Esh, Elizabeth, 39, 40 ,, Philip, 39, 40 Estleby, William, 162 Eure, Lord, 177 Ewebancke, Mr., 6 Exaction, 76, 173 ,, of fees for serving a J. P. warrant, 112 ,, of money for receiving pri- soners, 76 ,, under pretence of toll, 173 , , upon prisoners by the gaolers, no, 120 Extortion, 38, 76, 100, 123, 132, 136, 137, 151. 154. 159. 168, 174, 212, 223, 228, 230 ,, by colour of the office of Coroner, 162 ,, of fees, 230 F. Fairfax, Lord, 40, 190 Fairside, Fareside, John, 189 ,, Mr., 6 False imprisonment. Fined for. III Farmers of Castle Milnes to be pre- sented for a nuisance, 51 Fawconberge, Christopher, 27 Fellmaker {fell=felt), 242, 242n. Felony and commerce with felons. Sus- pected of, 245 Fences, Not miking sufficient, 123, 124, 196, 219, 224, 230 ,, Pulling down, 223 „ to be unrepaired, Suffering, 66, 196, 227, 230, 251 Fined, and fine remitted, 249 ,, for not giving security for the good behaviour, 240 Fire, Loss by, see Damage. Fishacke, Ellin, 153 Fisher, Dorothy, 154 Flesher, William, 197 Footbridge, Not making a, 174 Footway, Not repairing, 93 ,, Stopping up a, 11, 132 Forging a billet, 47 ,, a certificate, 69 ,, deeds, 247 „ a pass, 85, 93, 193 ,, or counterfeiting a letter, 43 Forcible entry, 2, 8, u, 14, 18, 22, 31, 35. 38, 39. 44. 48. 50. 53. 59. 68, 84, 99, 102, 109, no, 116, 128, 130, 135, 139, 142, 147, 154, 159, 162, 168, 173, 186, 191, 196, 212, 223, 226, 227, 234, 243. 247. 251. 258 Forgiveness, Asking publicly, in the church and at the market cross in Whitby, 262 Fornication, Cases of, 83, 88, 92, 130, 170, 173, 184, 187, 189, 203, 218, 220, 225, 232, 236, 238, 240, 241 ,, Committed for, 248 Foster, Ann, 129 ,, Christopher, 149 ,, Henry, 136, 148 ,, Thomas, 52 ; (Grimsby), 78 Fowles, Sir David, 238 INDEX. 275 Foxton, Thomas, I2i Francklancl, Sir Henry, 16 ,, Thomas, 23 Frear, Fryer, William, 73, 74, 106, 120 Freehold-book, A man not worth 40 shillings yearly to be put out of the, SI Freeholders excused from attendance at Sessions, 123, 207, 217. 233 ,, ,, from service at next Assizes, 177, 207, 217, 233 ,, List of such as are fit to seiTe to be given to the Sheriff, 146, 158, 171, 210 Gaming, Fined for suffering, 95 Gaol, Embezzling warrants and records belonging to the, 124, 134 Gaolers: Lealand, Richard, 116, 120, 124, 134 ,, Read, Reed, Thomas, 76, 116, 120, 124, 134 Garbutt, George, 261 ,, Robert, 262 Gardice, Jane, 50 Garth, Richard, 183 Gayle, Robert, 227 Geere, Robert, 83, 85-87, 89, 103 Geldart, Christopher, 36 Gentleman, Francis, 1 19 ,, decayed in his estate to be maintained by his son. A, 141, 144 ,, fined for being drunk. A, 119 ,, keeping a bawdy-house, 248 ,, ,, a tavern. A, 104 Gessling, Mr., 82 Gilly Park, Julian's or July Park, 242, 242 n. Girlinton, Henry, 141, 144. '53 Jane, 171 „ Joan, 171 ,, Nicholas, 141, 144, 153 Goodfellow, Ann, 135 Goulton, Christopher, 125, 126 Gower, Sir Thomas, 27 Gowland, Thomas, 21 Grain, Buying growing, 4 Grainge, William, 218 Grant, John, 192 Graving of turf, Illegal, 252, 252 n. Gray, WiUiam, 120, 121 Greenhill, William, 144 Gregory, Hutton, 24, 55, 166 Gubby, John, 23S, 243 Gutters uncleaned, 259 H. Hall, Captain, 137 Halliday, Christopher, 88 Mr., S ,, William, 197 Hambleton, Richard. 179 Hanging, Sentences of, 77, 79, 84, 87, 143, 146, 154, 158 Harbouring an escaped prisoner, 241 ,, felons, 87 ,, inmates, 142, 163, 227, 234 ,, persons of ill behaviour, 2, 36, 123 ,, rogues and beggars, 154, 225 ,, another man's servant, 35 a traitor, S3, 85, 93 ,, vagrants, etc., 57, 229 Harding, Robert, 51, 90, 96, 107 Harker, Elizabeth, 180 ,, Margaret, 180 „ William, 180 Harland, George (Attorney), 147, 215 ,, Ralph (an idiot), 244 ,, Richard, 144; (Sutton), 238; sen'., 243 ; jun'., 243 Harper, Thomas, 160 Harrison, John, 5 ; 62 ; 67 ,, Marmaduke, 137 ,, Mathew, 24 Harton, Mr., 125 Hawkins, Adam (Carperby), 36 Headlam, WilUam, 98 Hebblethwaite, James, 103 Hedges, Breaking, 24, 194 ,, Not making, 76, 80, 132, 144, 226, 236 , , Refusing to repair, 8 ,, Rooting up and removing, 13 Helm, Vincent, 65 T 2 276 INDEX. Helmesley Park, Destroying the deer in, 40 ,, Parish church of, 5 Heslerig, Sir Arthur, 93 Hesleton, John, 177 High Slieriff fined, 249 High Sheriffs, List of : — Bethell, Hugh, 122, 127, 139 Bright, John, 172, 203, 212 Constable, Sir William, 146, 150, I53> 159. 167 Harrison, Thomas, 229, 236 Marwood, George, 89, 98, loi, 109 Rhodes, Sir Edward 64, 70, 76 Saville, John, 8, 42, 73 St. Quintin, Sir William, 17 High Treason against the Commons of England, 53 Highway robbers or moss-troopers, 232 ,, robbery, 251, 252 ,, through a man's enclosure, 243 ,, too strait for carriages, etc., 251 Highwaymen, Arrested on suspicion of being, 240 Highways certified as duly repaired, 133, 162, 189, 210, 225, 249, 250, 254, 259, 261 ,, Digging pits in, 136, 155, 169 >. ,, up, 154 ,, Good service rendered in re- pairing of, 239 ,, Justices to view, 78, 104 ,, Not repairing, 25, 26, 31, 39, 40, 43. 45. 47-49. 53. 54, 57, 60, 63, 66, 68 69, 71, 76, 77. 81. 85, 86, 93, 94, 100, 103, 104, no. III, 114, 118, 119, 121, 124, 128, 130, 132, 134, 136, 140, 143, 144, u7, 148, 155, 160-162, 169, 182, 183, 192, 195, 197, 213- 215, 218, 224, 232, 234, 241, 248 ,, not repairing, Fine for, dis- charged, 189, 213 ,, presented as out of repair. 4, II, 15, 25, 28, 32, 48, 60, 61, 69, 76, 81, 85, 86, 93, 94, 140, 195, 203, 204, 213-215. 234, 237, 245, 254, 259, 260. 262 ,, Presentmenls for, discharged, 253. 255 Highways, Stopping up, 17, 38, 48, 49, 54, 60, 68, 85, 93, 103, 104, 119, 136, 140, 143, 151. 161, 173, 174, 182, 186, 195, 197, 205, 218, 224, 238, 252 ,, to be repaired, 29, 61, 66, 68, 69, 75. 94. 103, 121, 143. 160, 161, 196, 198, 203, 204, 213, 214. 220 Highways, Surveyors of : — Baker, John, 137 Colthurst, Robert, 260 Jackson, George, 137 Reynolds, Thomas, 122 Highways, Surveyors' accounts to be ex- amined, 88, 126 Hillyer, Simon, 40 Hobson, Jane, 97 n. Holborne, Marie, 175, 184 ,, Mr., 112, 121 Horner, Francis, 65 „ George, 36 Horse-bridge at Lastingham, 219 at Trainham (Trenholm), 76, 119 Horse-stealing, Cases of, 2, 4, 43, 47, 59, 68, 70, 77, 79, 84, 90, 128, 140, 142, 143, 146, i68, 186, 231, 232, 234, 237, 242, 247, 251, 254, 258 Horse-tails, Cutting the hair of, 313 Horsland, Mr., 232 Horsman, John, 197 House to be built for the poor. 21 ,, or harbour to be provided for a poor man, 255 ,, for the poor at Lastingham, 62 House of Correction, Arrears of rent for, to be paid, 2, 36, 41, 73, 106, 145, 152, 165 ,, ,, Committal to, 30, 51, 57, 82, 88, 114, 126, 132, 137, 141, 145, 152, 17s, 180, 185, 193, 199, 210, 212, 216, 225, 23s, 248, 261, 262 House of Correction : — Correction at, 248, 261, 262 INDEX. 277 House of Correction : — „ Master or Governor of, Bat- tersby, Nicholas, 107, 108, 138, 199 ,, ,, Gessling, Robert, 87, 145, 180 ,, ,, Gregory, Hutton, 50, 55, 77. 82, 87, 106, 164 ,, ,, ,, a delinquent, 78 ,, ,, ,, suspended, 82 ,, ,, Gregory, Mathew, 180, 211, 225, 227 ,, ,, Shaw, George, 9 ,, ,, (Deputy), Sayer, Robert, 82, 87 ,, Order touching, iii ,, ,, touching money to be collected for, 41, 55, 87 ,, at Pickering to be erected, 56 ,, ,, Agreement con- cerning, 108, 256 ,, ,, Agreement con- cerning referred to certain gentle- men, 256 ,, Stock for, 121, 211, 225 ,, Utensils to be provided for, 55. 161, 211 ,, Wages of Governor of, to be paid, 2, 7, 9, 87, 106, 126, 138 Howseman, Philip, 63, 94, 96, 97, 104, 105, III, 112 Howson, William, 95 Hudson, Anthony, 156 ,, George, 135 John, 125 „ Robert, 170 Hugill, Robert, 55 Hunt, Roger, 78 Hunter, Robert, 90, 91, 96, 97 Huntroyds, Leonard, 184 Hutchingson, Thomas, 51, 52, 107, 161, 220 Hutton, Dame Anne, 38 ,, Mrs. Dorothy, 104 I. Illegal exaction, 90, 96 ,, imprisonment, 253 Illegal seizure, 25, 50, 53, 57, 65, 89, 93. 102. "3. 123, 130, 135, 139. 147, 151, 154, 155. 160. 163, 168, 173, 181, 186, 187, 191, 192, 203, 208, 212, 218, 223, 226, 227, 234 Immervi'icke, Elkana, 25 Impounding goods unlawfully, 115 „ sheep „ 135 Incantations, Making, 227 Incontinence, 168, 186 „ Living in, 77 Informations for beetling, beaming, &c. cloth, 12, 39 ,, ,, ingrossing butter, 12, 18 .. ,, ,. cattle, 4, 18, 26, 39 1, ,. ,, corn or grain, 12, 18,26,32, 39,44 ,, ,, growingcorn, &c. , 12, 26, 44 ,. ,. ,. tallow, 47 ,, ,, keeping a tippling- house, 39 ,, practising a trade etc., 4. 12. 39. 47. 50 ,, „ usury, 26 Informer-General, Thomas Ingledew, 45 ,, acting as clerk of the market, 51 ,, Barnard, Seth, 71, 73 ,, sworn, 73 „ Wetherall, William, 73 Ingledew, Myles, 81 Ingram, Peter, 59 Inhabitants of : — Acklam, 60 Ainderby, 71 Aiskew, 49 Aiskrigg, 58, 155, 210 Aislaby, 20 Aizenby, 49 Aldbrough, 24 Aldwark, 93 AUerston, 49, 76 AUertonshire, 256 Alne, 66, 76, 85, 221 Araotherby, 49, 67, 169, 184, 187 Appleton, 67, 169, 184, 187 ,, in the Street, 207 Wiske, 48 Arkengarthdaile, 58, 63 Bagby, 60, 182, 193, 198 ,, cum Fawdington, 151 278 INDEX. Inhabitants of :— Bainbrigg, 2 Baldersby, 49 Balkes, 214 Barforth, 60 Bari'owby, Borrowby, 248, 254 Barton in the Street, 169 Bawsker, 116 Beadall, 118, 169 214 Beningbrough, 54, 218 Bilsdale, 19, 20, 176, 243 ,, Kirkham, 7 Birdforth, 254, 256 Birkby, 49, 103 Bossall, 50, 60, 66 Bowes, 24 Brackenbrough, Breckonbrough, 50, 251 Brafiferton, 76 Bransdale, 20, 259 Brawith, 45 Brompton, 50, 192, 210, 212 ,, Little, 213 ,, upon Swaile, 50 Broughton, 213 ,, Great, 237, 259 Brunton, 13, 197, 214 Bulmer, 148, 256 Burniston, 6, 81 Buttercrambe, 251, 254 Butterwicke, 126 Carleton, 20, 49 Carlton Miniott, 40, 50 Castle Leavington, 51 Catton, 50 Clifton, 26, 29, 69, 76, 104, 145, 149, 230 Connisthorpe, 182 Conniston, 198 Cowton, Long, 103 „ North, 60, 100 ,, South, 60, 82 Coxwold, 103, 144, 244 Crake, 49, 76, 104, ill, 175, 185 Crakeall, Crakeliall, 50, 74 Crambe, 94, 218 Crathorne, 155, 162, 182, 237, 260 Croft, 50, 61, 81, 224, 237 Cropton, 20 Crosby, 248, 254, 255 Dalton, 157, 224 Dalton on Tease, 50, 61 Danby, 60 ,, Little, 71 Inhabitants of :— Danby Wiske, 60, 103, 117 Darnton, 237 Deighton, 49 Dishforth, 49 Downeholme, 248 Dromonby, Great, 155, 162 ,, Little, 155, 162 Easby, 19, 50, 114, 213, 214 Easington, 195, 198, 205 Easingwould, 15, 49, 169, 182, 189, 198, 218, 228, 245, 251 East Harlsey, 259 East Witton, 37 Ebberston, 76 Edston, 49 EUerbecke, 140 EUerton Bolton, 23 ,, upon Swale, 81 Eureby, 259 Exilby, 155 Eyreholme, 50 Faceby, 19, 28, 218 Farlington, Ferlington, 93, no, 147, 175 Farmanby, 54, 76, 162 Farnedaile, 160, 259 Fawdington, 50, 193 Felixkirke, 50 Firby, 169 Fkwith, 76 Fremington, 130 Fyley, 143, 155 Gatenby, 81 Gilling, 23, 47 Gisbrough, 237 Goulton, 169 Great Barugh, 54 ,, Busby, 155, 162 Grisby, 252 Habtons, 54 Hausgarth, Hawsker, 93, 112 Hauxwick, loi Hawnby, 56 Haxby, 104, 219, 226, 229 Helmesley, 20, 21, 38, 49, 67, 86, 243 Helperby, 76 Hewthwaite, 237 Hilton, 182, 237 Hinderwell, 183, 198 Hopes, 16 Horneby, Hornby, 49, 50, 237, 252 Hovingham, 50, 214, 255 INDEX. 279 Inhabitants of : — Huby, 15, 39, 66 ,, upon Wiske, 251 Huntington, 32, 49 Husthwaite, 103, 117, 118, 214,262 Hutton, 6, 148, 189, 195 ,, Bonville, 49, 103 ,, Bushell, 6 ,, Lockeris, 182, 237, 260 ,, on the Hill, 49 ,, Rudby, 44, 127, 182, 213, 214, 249 Huttons Ambo, 94 Ingleby Arncliff, 161, 213, 232, 248 Keildholme, 49 Kilburne, 76, 214 Kilvington, 60 ,, North, 214, 225 ,, South, 60, 225 Kirby, 49 ,, Misperton, 49 ,, on the Moor, 15 „ Wiske, 71, 214 Kirbymoorside, 190, 195, 222 Kirkdaile, 77, 214 Kirkleatham, 4 Kirk Leavington, 15, 182, 214 Knaton, 47 Langbaurgh, 254, 256 Langthome, 8i Langthorpe, 49 Langton, Langhton, 36, 42 ,, Great, 50 „ Little, 81 Lanmoth, 161 Lastingham, 6, 2 1 8, 219 Lazenby, 103, 120 Leake, 214 Leeming, 49, 155 I.illinge, 232 Linton, 11, 218 Lockton, 20 Lovesome Hill, 237 Lowthrop, 49 Malton, 136 Marishes, 49 Marton, 60, 78, 133, 221 Maske, 234 Maunby, 156, 214 Mickleton, 24 Midd-cavill, Bilsdale, 21 Middleton, 20 ,, cum How, 49 ,, upon Leven, 237 Inhabitants of: — Milby, 49 Morton, 118 ,, cum Fairholme, 81 Nesse, West, 204 Newby upon Wiske, 71 Newbrough, 103 New Forest, 51, 58, 63, 169, 183 New Malton, 50, 169 Newsame, 23, 50, 60, 71, 184, 251 Newton, 54, 155, 212, 218, 231, 243 ,, Morrell, 114 , , under (or with) Roseburye, 237, 260 Normanby, 45 , Northallerton, 13, 30, 50, 60, 120, 237 North Ings, 50 North Riding, The, 8, 70, 83, 86, 112, 121, 137, 148, 199, 229, 2S4> 256 Norton in Luto, 15 Nunthorpe, 7, 218 Old Malton, 77 Osmotherley, 140, 259 Oswaldkirke, 18, 34, 50 Otterington, Little, 76 ,, North, 76, 214 „ South, 50, ,71 Overton, 182, 260 Ovington, 60 Pickering, 38, 49, 116, 174, 256 Pickering-lith, 256 Pickill, 214 Pottoe, 75, 119 Rainton cum Newby, 49 Raskall, 76, 116 Raskelf, 214 Reeth, 27 Rocliff, 77, 155 Romanby, 13, 71 Rossedaile, 6 Rounton, East, 76, 182, 183, 187, 198, 214, 221, 231 West, 49 Roxby, 204, 219 Rudby, 21 Ruswarp, 214 Rydall, 256 Sand Hutton, 50 Sawcocke, 214 Scruton, 118, 132 Seamour, 45, 182 Sexhow, 28 2;-;o INDEX. Inhabitants of : — Sheriff Hutton, 226, 232 Shipton, 155, 198, 221, 260 Skeeby, 234 Skelton, 3, 5, 25, 28, 53, 155, 259, 260 Skeringham, 251 Skipton, 60 Slingsby, 50 Smeaton, 50, 237 ,, Great, 81 Southolme, 204 Sowerby, 56, 182, 198, 252 Sproxton, 49 Stainescarr, 112 Stillington, 104, 221 St. Mavygate 145, 149 Stockton, 49 Stonegrave, 259 Stoxley [Stokesley], 11, 214, 237 Strencile, Strensall, 50, 226 Sutton, 104, 232 ,, on the Forest, 49, 226, 259 ,, upon Galtres, 71, 259 ,, under Whittsoncliff, 50, 225 Swynton, 67, 169, 184, 187 Terrington, 198 Thimbleby, 161, 193 Thirk'eby, 16, 50, 214 Thirske, 6, 40, 50, 52, 75, 214, 225, 251 Tholthorpe, 76 Thormanby, 76 Thornaby, 189 Thornebargh, Thornebrough, 60, 117 Thornton, 76, 183, 225, 256 ,, in le Moore, 50, 214 ,, in the Street, 196 ,, le Beanes, 60, 214, 248, 254 ,, Rust, 224 Tollerton, 66, 69, 85, 218 Topcliffe, 50, 73 Traineham, 76, II9 Upsall, 47 Warlaby cum Sowber, 71 Warthill, 196, 199 Welburne, 76 Welbury, 49 Well, 117 West Ayton, 60 ,, Barmeby, 243 ,, Harlsey, Inhabitants of : — West Tanfie'd, 24 Whitby, 204, 218 ,, Strand, 256 Whitwell in the Whinns, 119 Whorleton, Worlton, 155, 162, 187, 198, 218 Wigginton, 11, 32, 40, 104 Wilton, 174, 213 Wrelton, 20 Wykeham, 60 Yarm, 155, 171, 182, 219 Yearsley, 93 Inquisition taken at Egton, 18 II I, Thirske, 39, 40 II I, Yarm, 175 Interlude, Acting an, 212 J- Jackson, Francis, 52 „ Henry, 132 ,, Lawrence, 205 ,, Nicholas. 171 ,, Thomas, 60 ,, William, 41 ; 73 Jaques, Francis, 2 Jermine, Francis, 112 Johnson, Christopher, 154, 156 ,, Richard, 2 ,, Robert, 218 Jones, Lewillin, 141 ,, Thomas, 197, 206 Jordan, John, 171 Judson, James, 203, 206, 216 ,, Richard. 240 Jury to be paid for house-room, &c., 199, 222, 249, 260 Jurymen giving in a verdict without knowledge of tlieir fellow Jurors, 124 Jurymen, List of : — Abbey, Anth., 14, 167 ,, John, 102 Adams, John, 143 Adamson, Addamson, Will., 38, 39, 127, 150, 178, 208, 222, 23s Agarr, Edw., 230 ., Rob., 48 „ Will., 53 Aiskew, Tho., 167 Alderson, Tho., 102 INDEX. 2SI Jurymen, List of :— Allanson, Allenson, Chr., 53, 66, 75. 84, 134, 160, 211, 242 Edw , 3 ,> John, 163 ,, Jos., 226 II Tho.i 228 ,, Will., 48, 102 Allatson, AUattson, Chr., 44 ,, Gawan, 202 Guy, 53 Allen, Fr., 113 Anderson, Geo., 66 Annison, Annyson, Will., 142, 186 Appleby, Henry, 222 Tho., 35 Armestrong, Will., 44 Arnett, Amott, Rich., 39 ,, Simon, 37, 70, 118, 131, 132, 142, 154, 186, 215, 236 Arrundell, Jas., 46 Atkinson, Fr., 103 ,, Jas., 113 ,, John, 75, 164, 242 ,, Rich., 32 „ Rob., 80 Will., 14, 25, 32, 37, 59, 70, 85, 118, 131, 132, 143. 154 Audasi Rob. I 75 Aughton, Awton, Tho., 46, I02,]i92 Avington, Rob., 99 Awderson, Rog. , 80 Tho, 35 Awmocke, John, 228 Tho., I, 14, 37, 59, 72 Will., 25, 37, 59, 72, 103 Ayscough, Askwith, Conyers, 258 Awnewicke, John, 169, 170 Bagwith, Luke, 134 Baker, John, 75, 89, 92 ,, Will., 4, 43, 64, 75,219,241 Barber, Rob., 236 Bardon, Mark, 53 Barker, Geo., 35, 57 „ Henry, 1 13 „ John, 4, 14, 17, 25, 43, 48, 64. 75 „ Tho., 3, 4, 17, 31. 481 75; 77. 79 ,, Will., 209 Barnard, Chas. , 241 Jurymen, List of : — Barneby, Will., 1, 38, 39, 142, 159 Barrowby, Rob., 140 Barstoe, Tho., 150 Barugh, Tho., 181, 194 Barwicke, Will., 209 Bates, Baites, Geo., 4 I, Tho., 172 I, Will., 257 Batteri Rob., 14, 64 Bayley, John, 128, 130 Beale, Cuthb., ii Becke, John, 22, 130 ,, Tho., 191, 226 Beckforth, Chr., 150 Beckwith, John, 163, 178 Bell, Fr. , 238 ,, Henry, 14, 48, 70, 169, 170 ,, John, 8, 22, 89, 178, 247 ,, Leon., 131 ,, Math., 46 I, Raph, 14, 118, 226 ,, Rob., 14, 85, 211, 253 .. Rog-i 43 ,, Will, 144, 250 Bellwood, Belwood, Rob., 25, 37, 39. 48, 59. 70, 142, 155, 167 Benson, Anth., 113, 235 Bentley, Will,, 4 Berriman, Berryman, Fr., 186, 236 John, 75 I, Randolf, 130, 159 ,1 Rob., 115, 147, 194 Best, Claud, Claudious, 66, 103 Beswicke, Brian, 17, 109, 230 Fr., 64 ,, Henry, 31 ,, John, 109, 181 Betson, Geo., 211, 242 ,, Rowl., 154, 211, 242 Beverly, Jos., 154, 194, 250 Bickers, Rob., 222 Tho., 253 Binckes, Binkes, Geo., 250 ,, Marm. , 247 ,, Rob., 154, 211 Binlasse, Will., 46 Binsley, Geo., 191, 236 Birkill, Tho., 18 Bishopricke, Bishopridge, Bishop- rigg, Jas., 35 John, 127 ,, Rob., 56, 68, 140, 163, 235, 248 282 INDEX. Jurymen, List of :— Blackburne, Raiph, 209 Blackwell, Rob., 53, 89, 122, 147 Bland, John, 113, 250 ,, The, 154 ,, Will, 257 Blansherd, John, n Blenckharne, Edw. , n Bollron, Will., 128 Bolton, Will., 43, 53 Booker, Tho., 31 Booth, John, 247 Bossall, Bossell, John, n ,, Rich., 31,49, 154 Bossman, Rich., 103 Bosvile, Rich., 42 Bowes, Edw., 222, 226 Boyes, Geo., 31, 42, 181 ,, Henry, 194 „ John, 64, 159, 172 „ Rob., 238 „ Steph., 31, 42 Brabbiner, Edw., 31 Bradley, Henry, 84, 124, 136, 172 ,, John, 75, 89, 136 Bransby, Tho., 26 Brathwaite, Chr., 143 Brettaine, Bretten, Britton, John, 13, 37. 48, 70. 80, 99, 130, 142, 178 Peter, 37, 59, 71, 72 ,, Simon, 142, 169, 170 Brewster, Rich., 233 Brignell, Tho., 99 Brinsley, Geo., 139 Broad, Rob., 209 Broadley, Chr., 248 Broadrigg, Geo., 250 Brough, Layton, 22 ,, Mich., 100 Brown, Browne, John, 139, 143, 172 ,, Rich., 164 „ RoK, 31 „ Tho., 4, 26, 230 „ Will, 89 Brunskell, Phil., 113, 128 Brunton, Geo., 164 Buckle, Fr., 48, 80 „ Geo., 46 BuUmer, Raiph, 219 „ Rob., 150 Burland, John, 1 1 Burne, Chr., 23 Jurymen, List of : — Burnett, Jos., 250 „ Tho., 8, 37, 80, 139 Burrell, Cuthb. , 46 ,, John, 56, 80, 99, 113, 179 Burth, Latan, 46 Burton, John, 3, 17, 31, 43, 64 ,, Tho., 122, 142, 172, 202, 241 Bushell, Rob., 122, 147 Buttericke, Will., 25, 37 Butterwicke, Will., i, 14, 147, 154, 172 Calvert, Chr., 154, 197,253 ,, Henry, 57 ., Jas., 151 ,, Oliver, 228 ,, Rob., 151 Camplin, Raph, 18 Campion, Sam., 219 Carline, Carlyne, Rich., 159, 204 ■Carlisle, Tho., 66 Carter, Chr., 9, 25, 130 ,, Elias, 46 „ Fr., 228 „ Ja'., 209 ,, John, 85 ,, Rich., 224, 247 ,, Tho., 102 „ Win., 56, 211 Cass, Casse, Eastasse, Eustasse, 159? 172, 230 ,, Rich., 167 Castle, Fr., 17 Catterton, Marke, 160 Cawton, Tho., 57 Challenor, Fr., 42, 130 Chapman, Jos., 35, 191 ,, Rob., 102, 147 Chimney, John, 1 1 Clackston, Claxlon, John, 115 Rich., 139, 191, 23s Clapham, Rich., 140 Win.,35, 46, 48 Clarke, Gierke, Fr. , 140 „ John, 70, 80, 139, 191, 235 ,, Peter, 140, 226, 247 ,, Rob., 99, 192, 236 „ Tho., 25, 191 „ Will., 49, 89 Clough, Fr. , 9 ,, Geo., 59, 85 „ John, I, 25, 37 Coates, Geo., 23 INDEX. 283 Jurymen, List of: — Coates, Ja'., 71, 72 ,, John, 109 .. Tho., 13, 80, 83, 150, 181, 211 Cockerell, Cockerill, Geo., 32, 160, 226 ,, Henry, 160 ,1 John, II, 202, 241 Colling, CoUinge, Rich., 80, 163, 178, 194 Collyer, Geo., 228 Colson, Ja'., 130 Colthurst, Rob., 77, 79, 83, 109, 122, 181 Consett, Rob., II, 53, 75, 109, 172, 257 v^onyers, Geo., 31, 64 ,, John, 209 ,, Nich., 122 Cooke, Geo., 238 John, 46, 247 ,, Rich., 192 Cooley, Cowley, Raph, 46, 68, 178, 192 Cooper, Arthur, 68 Cootherstone, John, 209 Coverdale, Peter, 18 „ Tho., 44, 169, 170 ,, Will., 230, 241 Cowlinge, Edw., 14, 37, 59, 70, 167, 197 ,, Rob., 8, 167, 233, 247 Cowlson, Tho., 31 Cowlton, Tho., 22 Cowper, Chr., 18, 32, 66, 89 Fr., 14 „ Geo., 127, 191 „ Rob., 31 Tho., I, 9, 37, 59, 130 ,, Will., 131, 197 Cowpland, John, 49, 159, 186 „ Rich., 250 Cowston, Ja'. , 4, 17, 204 Craven, Rich., 217 „ Will., 31,44, 7S, 136, 147. 241 Crawe, Henry, 144, 169, 170, 194, 226 Crawforth, Rob., 150, 1 81 Croe, Crowe, Henry, 37, 103, 122, 155, 181 „ Will., 148 Crosby, Crossby, Chas., 64 Jurymen, List of: — Crosby, Chr., 53, 75, 89, 92, 159, 187 „ John, 14 ,, Ralph, 178, 181, 209 „ Rich., 25, 70 „ Rob., 150, 181 ,, Will., 14 Crosley, John, 39 Crosse, Will., 54 Cundall, Fr., 25, 48, 70, 167 ,, Rich., 70 „ Rob., 25, 102, 182 ,, Tho., 224 Cussan, Cusson, John, 109 Miles, 77, 79 Will, 248 Cussills, John, 70 Cuthbert, John, 46 ,, Rob., 169, 170, 204 Dagge, John, 1 1 Daggett, Daggitt, John, i ,, Rich., 25, 178 Daile, Dayle, Chas., 241 ,, John, 31, 43 „ Will., I, 14, 31, 37, 59 Danby, Rich., 22, 46, 56, 68, 80 Davison, Geo., 128 Davye, Marke, 109 Dawson, Chr., 100 ,, Oswould, 185, '226 ,, Rog. , 208 Day, John, 148, 187, 217 „ Joseph, 257 Deane, Will., 136 Deeton, Tho., 4 Denton, Rob., 54, 250 Dickins, Rich., 59 Dickenson, Dickonson, Arthur, 122, 147 ,, Fr., 122, 148, 172 ,, Henry, 257 John, 38, 39, 83, IIS, 211 Jos., 236 ,, Rich., 9, 14 ,, Steph , 147 Tho., IIS Deighton, Dighton, Henry, 80 Tho., 49, 70 Denton, Tho., 2S7 Dobbinson, Will., 208 Dobbison, Dobison, Will., 140, 150, 163, 178, 247 284 INDEX. Jurymen, List of; — Dobson, John, 241 Rich., 4, 17, 31 Tho., 18, 25, 59, 83, 102, 181, 236 ,, Will., IIS Dodson, Tho., 43, 48, 64 Douchman, Rich., 43 Doulton, Tho., 226 Dove, Tho., 83 Dowsinge, Andrew, 89 Dowson, John, 128 Ducke, Anth. , 31 ,, John, II ,, Tho., 231 Duckett, Rich., 134, 186, 219 Dun, Dunn, Geo., 80, 238 „ Ja^, 181 ,, John, 102, 191 ,, Symon, 211 ,, Will., 233 Dunninge, Duninge, Chas., 224 Ja»., 8, 13, 35, 68, 99, 127 ,, Shadracke, Sidracke, 8, 48, 83, 113, 115, 222 Wilfrey, 173, 174 Dynmoore, Will., 89 Eagle, John, 17 Easton, Henry, 159, 226 „ Rob., 4 Eden, Henry, 48 Ellerton, Fr., 217 ,, John, 102 Emerson, Philip, 148 Will., II Esh, Math , 54 Eshald, Eshall, John, 99, 178 Etherington, Eytherington, John, 70 ,, Tho., 46,68, 80, 127, 222, 233, 247 ,, Will, 8, 22, 46, 57, 68, 80, 99, 113, 128, 163, 179,208, 233 Ettie, Ettye, Jas., 17 ,, John, 83, 115 Faceby, Geo., 53, 211 Will, 142 Faireside, John, 53 Will, 167 Farneham, Emanuel, 85 Fawcett, Chas., 257 Jurymen, List of: — Fawcett, Chr., 3, 17, 53, 134, 159, 181, 204, 211 ,, Mich., 228 ,, Rich., 127, 209 Rob., 1,9, 14, 39, 48, 59, 71, 72, 118 ,, Tym., 22, 84 Fawdington, Rob., 17, 102, 167 Will, 228 Feetome, Rich., 22 Feetone, Rich., 46 Ferd, Rob., 54 Ferryman, Miles, i Fisher, Ambr., 70, 236 M Fr., 49 „ Will, 35 Flawith, Rich., 43 Fleetham, Rich., 56 Fletcher, Rich., 18 Tho., 258 Flintoft, Anth., 31 Flower, Chas., 233 ,, Chr., 248 ,, Edw., 164 ,, Geo., 13, 150, 182, 222 ,, Marra., 139, 238 ,, Rich., 236 ,, Rob., 102, 150, 167 Tho., 150, 178, 222, 235 Foard, Will, 113 Foggerthorpe, Will, 48 Foggerthwaite, Will, i, 14, 37, 59, 70, 103 Foreman, John, 151 Forrest, Rob., 9 Fosse, Geo., 8, 236 Foster, Geo., 154, 178 „ John, 230, 233 Peter, 32 ,, Ralph, 235 ,, Richard, 257 ,, Rob., 18, 46 „ Tho., 43, 150, 178, 204, 233. 241 „ Will, 84, 173, 174, 211, 257 Fothergill, Futhergill, Geo., 191 Tho., 57, 68, 113, 139 Fountaine, John, 14 Fountaines, Fowntaines, Rob., 70 ,, Tho., 38, 39, 102 Will, 14, 37, 38, 39, 167 INDEX. 28s Jurymen, List of : — Foxton, Fr., 109 France, Henry, 142 Francke, Henry, 115, 172 ,, John, 17, 31, 202, 241 Rob., 17, 31, 53, 64, 109, 159, 219, 241, 257 „ Tho., 3, 17, 31, 122, 148, 202, 241 „ Will., 75 Frankland, Rob., i8, 164 Frear, Freer, Frier, Fryer, Ja'., 23 ,, John, 4 ,, Rob., 23 „ Tho., 38, 39, 89, 134, 186 ,, Will., 8, 89 Frizell, Rob., 241 Gaile, Chr., 68, 194 Gamble, Will., 38, 39, 83, 102, 113, 155, 182 Gantley, Ja°. , i Gaole, Rich., 150 Garbut, Chr., 4 „ Geo., 4 ,, Humphrey, 231 Garnett. Gyles, 113 Garth, Will., 191, 222, 247 Geere, Gere, Will., 122, 186, 215 Geldart, Rich., 113, 191 Gesling, Rob., 84 Gibbon, Will, 89 Gibbons, Will., 142, 172 Gibson, Geo., 8, 178 „ John, 54, 250 ,, Tho., 236, 250 Gilburne, Chr., 22 Gill, Chr., 99, 113 ,, John, 53 „ Tho., 154, 173, 174 Gillinge, Will., 99, 115 Glover, Will ,217 Goodriche, Tho., 231 Goodyear, John, 83 Goston, Rich., 236 Gothericke, Tho., 64 Gowerley. Will., 70, 102 Grant, Henry, 208 Graves, Will., 18 Greene, Tho., II Greenside, Greensides, Tho., So, 102, 182, 222 Grime, Edw., 118 Grindwell, Ja'., 3 Will., 3 Jurymen, List of : — Grundell, Will., 17 Grundon, Ja^., 3 Grundwell, Will., 31 Haddinge, Rich., 224 Hagge, Tho., 4 Haider, Henry, 64 Hall, Fr., 248 ,, Henry, 39, 194 „ Ja^, 102 „ John, 3, 17, 31, 45 ,, Mark, 13, 182 ,, Math., 54, 186, 236, 253 Halliday, Chr., 53 Hamilton, Simon, 18 Hardinge, Rich., 130, 167 ,, Rob., 89, 92, 122, 202 Tho., 59, 131, 132, 136, 258 Hardwicke, Tho., 11 Hardy, Tho., 11, 17 Hareijy, Will., 59 Harland, Henry, 46 „ John, 109, 124, 148, 173, 174, 219 „ Will., 194 Harrison, Anth., 231 Edw., 147 Fr., 99, 192 „ John, I, II, 23, 46, 56, 65, 89, 102, 122, 147, 163, 182, 202, 217, 219, 222 ,, Lancelot, 22, 127. 151 ,, Leon., 109, 181, 217 ,, Marm., 187 Rich., 35, 139 ,, Tho., 22, S3, 68, 102, 127, 134, 208, 226, 241, 257 Will., 99 Harsman, Ralph, 191 (see Horsman). Harte, John, 219 Hartley, WiU., 99, 113, 127, 247 Harton, Rich., 70, 83, 124, 159, 215 Will., 167, 236 Harthropp, Rich., 236 Hartuss, Will., 202 Harwood, Miles, 18 Rich., 3, i86, 217 Hawman, Geo., 31 Hay, Chr., 142, 194, 217 Hebburne, Will., 186, 215, 250 286 INDEX. Jurymen, List of ; — Hebden, Ja'., ii John, 83, 89, 92 „ Rog-. 75 89 „ Will., 134, 177, 217 Heilde, Fr., i, 48, 59, 64 ,, Will., 14, 59, 64 Hensworth, Will., 43 Herbert, John, 241 Hesle, Hassle, Hugh, 134 ,, John, 217 ,, Ralph. 83, 167, 202 ,, Sam., 83 Heslerton, Jos., 186 Heslop, Heslopp, John, 233, 247 Hewerdine, Henry, 83, 89, 117, 118, 181 Hewthwaite, Huthwaite, Ralph, 14, 25. 37, 48, 59. 131. 132. "67, 250 Hey, John, 14, 109 Hicke, Raph, 31 Tho., 109 Hickes, The, 44, 241 Hill, Geo., II, 64, 85, 109, 136, 230 ,, Orpin, 3 ,, Tho., 18, 174, 178, 222 ,, Will., 3, 17, 31, 139 Hillarie, Chr., 80 Hindesley, Peter, 54 Hobson, Rich., 115, 134, 204 Hodge, John, 103 ,, Rich., 14, 25, 59, 70, 103, 215 ,, Tho., 26, 143, 147, 173, 174, 194 „ Will , 49 Hodgson, Fi., 257 ,, John, 35, 68 „ Will., 22, 46, 56, 83, 113, 154, 163, 191 Hogg, Hogge, John, 131, 132, 147, 154, 173, 174, 194, 202, 230,257 Holmes, Math., 209 Hoopes, Tho., 59, 70 Hopkins, Raiph, 75 Hopperton, Geo., 187, 211, 231 Nich., II, 59, 75 Horneby, Rich., 37 Tho., 37, 44 Horner, Rob., 26 ,, Tho., 25 Horsman, Raph, 8, 46, 99, 226, 247 Jurymen, List of : — Horsmm, Will, 68 Horton, Rich., 147 Hossler, Edw., 257 Hovington, Tho., log, 130 Hudson, John, 222 ,, Rich., 80, 100, 113, 224 ,, Tym , 236 Humble, Rog., 154 181 Humphrey, Jos., 253 ,, Tobias, 142 Hunsworth, AX'ill., 4 Hunter, Bethell, 124 ,, Geo., 226 ,, Rob., 211 „ Rog., 83, 115, 250 Hunton, Fr., 8 Huntrodes, Fr., 186 ,, Leon., 159 Hurwood, Tho., 49 Husthwaite, Geo., 14, 37, 59, 154, 194 John, 14, 25, 37, 117, 118, 154, 202 ,, Jos., 182 Hutchinson, Hutchingson, Caverley, 35 Chr., 99, 139 Fr., 35, 191 Ja^, 35. 70. 80, 233, 248 ' ,, Peter, 140 ,, Ralph, 247 ,, Rich., 57 ,, Rob., 56, 250 Tho., 3, 48, 53, 64, 77, 79, 83, 173, 174, 186, 241,248,253,258 Hutton, Rob., 109 Ibson, Tho., 89, 92 Idle, Jeremy, 159, 194, 217 Ingleton, Will., 49 Inhill, Raph, 39 Iveson, Ivison, Edw., 231 Geo., 233 „ Ja'., 247 ,, Oliver, 8, 57, 113, 127, 163, 179, 208, 247 Jackson, Chr., 131 ,, Fr., sen'., 9, 38, 39, 117, u8, 143, 144, 155 „ Geo., 14, 89, 257 Greg., I, 25 ,, Henry, 44, 136, 181, 202 INDEX. 287 Jurymen, List of : — Jackson, J a'., 250 John, 39, 48, 59, 71, 72, 117, 118, 144, 147, 159, 226 ,, Oliver, 228 Rob., S3, 89 >, Simon, 35 Tho., 39, 144, 155, 197 Will., 37, 59, 71, 72, 77, 79, «3. iiS> "7. "8, 131, 132, 211, 215, 226, 23s Jaques, John, 35 Jefferson, Edm., 163 „ Peter, 56 Jeffrey, Fr., 228 Jenkinson, Will., 4, 17 Johnson, Edw., 22, 46, 233 ,, Geo., 167 ,, Guy, 250 ,, John. 70 ,, Lance., 122, 147, 194 ,, Rich., 172 ,, Rob., 230 Will., 68, 154, 178, 250 Judson, Rich., 31 Kaley, Edw., 197 Kay, John, 181 „ Raph, 56, 131 ,, Will., 68 Keld, John 226 „ Math., 258 Kendray, Rich., 208, 222 Kettlewell, John, 150, 178 Key, John, 150, 211 ,, Sam., 83 ,, Will., 139, 222 Kidd, Geo., 38, 39 Kilborne, Geo., 46, 99 ,, Ja^., 100 Kilvington, Tho., I, 115, 194 Kingson, Geo., 66 Kipline, Kiplyne, Cha^., 118 ,, Raiph, 100, 128 Kirby, Tho, 11, 85, 144, 154 Kirke, Rob., 31 Kirton, Edw., 181 Kitchen? Kitchin, Kitching, Anth., 142 „ Jos., 236 ,, Rob., 127, 191, 208 „ Steph., 233 Tho., I, 14, 159, 226 Jurymen, List of : — Kitchingman, Kitchinman, Geo., 59 ,, John, 75, 122, 155, 172, 194, 230 Jos., 84 Raph, 59 Tim., 84 Tho., 59 Val, 14, n; Will., 89, 211 Kitchingson, Tho., 142 Knaggs, Knags, Fr., 75, 122, 159, 211 „ Jas., 124 ,, Rob., 241, 257 Lacocke, Tho., 250 Laideman, John, 128 Lambe, Tho., 43 Lambert, Marm., 56, 192 Langdaile, Langdale, Tho., 44, 59, 70, 85, 130, 131, 132, 142 Langley, Chr., 80 „ Fr., 80 ,, Rob., 222 Lassells, Fr., 83 Lee, Raph, 32 Leightfoote, Lightfoote, Anth., 233 „ Gyles, 86,99, "3, 127, 208, 233, 247 ,, John, 56, 164 ,, Math., 46, 80, 99, 113, 163, 179, 208 Will., 46, 68, 80, 99, 113, 127, 163, 178, 191, 208, 233 Lesby, Fr., 71, 72 Lewlinge, Geo., 139 Lindsley, Linsley, Tho., II, 42 Lisle, Henry, 84, 136 Lobley, Will., 35 Lockwood, John, 83 Loftus, Ja^, 224 „ Will., 113 Lootherington, Lotherington, John, 4- 43, 75, 230 Tho., II, 32, 53 Will., 18, 89, 92, 124, 136 Lowis, Rich., 46 Lownsdaile, Lownsdale, Chr., 89, 142, 194, 215 Fr., 8 ,, John, 235 Lucas, John, 35, 113, 163, 178, 191 285 INDEX. Jurymen, List of : — Lumley, John, 140 Rich., 35 „ The, 14, 26 ,, Will., I, 26, 37, 59 Lund, John, 102 Lyall, Henry, 75 Lyeth, Lythe, John, 53, 84, log, "5, 134. 250 Rob., 136, 1S6 Maisterman, Math., 241 ,, Rob., 48 Will., 102 Maison, Mason, John, 35, 46, 99, 127, 163, 191, 20S ,, Rich., 48, 84, 115, 250 ,, Rob., 35, 122, 147, 186, 202 Makepeace, Mackpeace, Tho., 53, 136, 160 Man, Mann, Cha^., 231 ,, Rich., 77, 79, 122, 142, 191 .. Tho., 131, 132, 150, 164 ,, Will., 46, 167, 222, 247 Manners, Chr., 217 „ Peter, 159 Margin, John, 151 Marrington, John, 53 Marshall, Fr., 8, 17, 99 ,, Henry, 118 John, 151, 238 Rob., 186 ,, Rog., 83, 222 „ Will., 53, 64, 102, 109, 136, 147, 159 Marsingdale, Rich., 64 Martin, John, 9, 167, 173, 174 The, 83 182 ,, Will., 70, 154, iSl, 202 Marton Edw., 134 Massy, Rich., 247 Maude, Rich., 109 Maukin, Mawkin, Chai^., 35 Chr., 127, 163, 191 Maukye, Chr., 208 Maynard, Tho., 83, 89 Medd, Chas., 241 Chr., 53, 54, 109 ,, John, 64, 257 ,, Leon., 54 ,, Marke, 242 ,, Nich., 181 Will., 32 Meed, John, 42 Jurymen, List of : — Meed, Will, 3, 17 Meeke, Geo., 142, 2H ,, Rich, 26 Mennethorpe, Will., 242 Mercer, Math., 43 Merrington, Rich., 13, 150, 182, 236 ■ Merrye, Will., 131 Metcalfe, Geo., 13, 83 ,, Ja^., 164, 250 ,, John, 26, 132 Mewburne, Miles, 109, 159, 219 Middleton, Geo., 172 Milburne, Rich., 131, 142 Miles, Rich., 164 Millner, Milner, Tho., 25, 56, 192 Mitchaell, Mitchell, Chr., 56, 70, 80, 99, 127, 139, 163 Giles, 35 ,, John, 8, 100 Tho., 75 Mounckman, Munckman, Rob., 217 Rog., 53 Moore, Jos., 17, 89, 202, 230 ,, Rich., 14, 83, 115 ,, Rob., 215 ,, Will., 230 Morland, Fr., 46, 208 Morley, Fr., 128 Morrell, Morell, Andrew, 14, 70, 83 ,, John, 202, 228 ,, Rob., 14, 25, 42, 48, 49, 59. 75. "5. 134. 155. 226 Tho., I, 14, 25, 37, 39, 85, 155, 241 Moysi'r, Adam, 174 Munckes, Rog., 102 Myers, Giles, 17 ,, Rich., 17, 102 Narye, John, 134, 186, 211 Neesome, Cha'., 57 Nelson, Anth., 155 ,, Ja'., 14, 25, 37, 59, 194, 226 ,, John, 89, 211, 250 Will., 13, 14, 25,37, 115, 150, 182 222, 253 Nendike, Fr. , 109 Nesbecke, Alex., 202 Nesbi't, Nissbett, Alex , 142. 253 Nesfield, Nessfield, Anth., 75 INDEX. Jurymen, List of : — Nesfield, Tho., 236 Nesle, Raiph, 115 Nesse, Tho., 122, 147, 186 Newsam, Chr., 59 Newton, John, 77, 79, 84 NichoU, NichoUs, John, 8, 22, 46, 56,68, 99, 113, 127, 163, 179, 208 Nicholson, Fr., 113, 181 ,, Gabriel, 258 ,, Geoff., Jeoff., 11, 160 ,, John, 17, 109 „ Rich., 233 „ Tho., 48, 52, 167 Noble, Gawin, loz ,, Jos., 70 Joshua, 130, 143, 144, 167, 186 North, Andr., 241 ,, Theodore, II „ Tho., 230 Oastler, Ostler, Edw., 197, 228, 250 Oliver, Will., 217 Orrick, James, 257 Otterbume, Henry, 89, 92, 122, 147, 172, 202 ,, John, 134 ,, Rob., 124, 219 Will., 32 Ovington, Rob., 46, 56, 80 Oxan, Nich., 130 Oxard, John, 31, 187, 258 Owthwaite, Will., 46, 167 Page, Paige, Fr., 26, 38, 39, 103, 143 Paite, Will., 32 Pallmer, Geo., 197 Pannell, Chr., Ii Parcivall, Cha"., 236 Parke, Rich., 136 Parker, Cha^., 169 ,, Edw., 113 „ Geo., IIS, 250 Parkin, Perkin, John, 4, 25S Parkinson, Will., 59. 89, 92, 136, 258 Parvin, Fr., I, 14, 37. 7°. ^5. 102, 142, 154. 167 Henry, 59 ,, Mich., 22 Payne, Fr., 241 Peacocke, Fr., 48, 113. 127 VOL. V. Jurymen, List of : — Peacocke, Jeffrey, 258 Pearson, Peirson, Cha^, 236 Chr. 54 Fr., 18 Geo., 17, 31, 44. 53. I73. 174. 257 Ja^, 26, 70 ,, John, II ., Nich., 83, 102, 172, 202 ,, Rob., 48, 130 Tho., 14, 37, 59. 235 Will., I, 14, 25, 37, 48, 59. 71. 72. 85, 181 Peckett, Rob., 124, 134, 181, 202, 226 Will., 59 Peere, Rob., 17 Peirce, John, 115 Peirs, Tho., 226 Pennocke, Martin, 53, 64, 159, 186, 242 Tho., 53, 64, 134, 172, 187, 242 Phipps, Fr., 9 Will., 117 Piburne, Pyburne, Rich., 8, 22, 46, 80, 100 Pibus, Pybus, Chr., 139, 178, 192 „ Jas., 113, 142, 154 „ John, 191, 211 „ Jos., 250 ,, Rich., 248 ,, Tho., 35, 208 Pickering, John, 64, 89 Pickersgill, Jos. , 236 Pilley, Edw., II Pinder, Pynder, Peter, 77, 79, 83 ,, Rob., 22, 46, 56, 68, 80, 179, 208, 250 Piper, Pyper, John, 53, 75, 134, 202, 241 Place, Tho., 35, 139 Plewman, Rich., 53, 64 Will., 167 Plommer, Tho., 233 Plues, Plewes, Chr., 8, 100, 127, 178, 208 ,, Marke, 115, 163, 191 „ Simon, 22, 46, 163, 233 „ Will., 80 Poole, Marm. , 202 Poore, Chr., 71 „ Will., 247 U 290 INDEX. Jurymen, List of : — Porter, Raiph, 163, 191, 235 „ Will., 56 Porton, Raiph, 139 Postgate, Mich., 134, 194 ,, Rob., 31, 118, 154, 186, 217, 236, 257 Potter, Chr., 115, 172 „ Raiph, 113 Power, Chr., 75, 109, 187 „ Henry, 35, 102, 139 Pratt, Will., 48, 102 Preston, John, 89 Prissicke, John, 134, 217 Proude, Rob., 38, 39 Pursley, Pursloy, John, 226, 260 Purslove, Pursglove, John, 234, 257 Pye, Tho., 89, 122 Raggett, Will., 130 Raine, Mich., 35 Raines, Fr., 136 Raper, Edw., 247 „ Fr., 9 „ Henry, 139 „ John, 35, 99, 127, 139, 150, 163, 191, 208, 233, 250 „ Will., 154 Rawe, Peter, 247 ,, Will., 22, 46, 247 Raynoldson, Reynoldson, Rob., 85, 169, 170 Tho., 85 Read, John, 130 „ Jos., 241 Readhead, Will., 147, 167, 204, 217 Redmaine, Tho., 26 Redman, John, 4 Reed, Tho., 115 Rendon, Hugh, 59 Reweley, Will., 202 Richardson, Chr., 75, 169, 170, 258 ,, Geo., II, 31, 202 „ John, 25, 117, 118,130, 134, 182, 194, 238 ,, Jos., 226 „ Marm., 113 ,, Nich., 258 Richingson, Will., 143, 144 Ridsdale, Geo., 144 Ripley, Rob., 8, 186, 215, 257 Riveley, Will., 228, 253 Robinson, Cha^., 222 ,, Edw., 147, 194, 217, 241 Jurymen, List of : — Robinson, Geo., 3, 17, 31, 35, 159, 172, 202, 204, 231, 241 ,1 Jerome, 56 John, 8, 17, 22, 46, 56, 68, 80, 83, 99, 100, 127, 179, 181, 186, 247 ,, Leon, 68 ,, Mich., 139, 191 ,, Raiph, 258 ,, Rich., 226 ,, Rob., 8, 13, 80, 100 ,, Sam., 217, 257 „ Will., 8, 46, 56, 113 Robson, Rob., 53, 159, 186, 231, 242, 257 Roe, Will., 233 Roger, Will., 77 Ronetree, Henry, 89 Rootles, Mich., 151 Rosse, Will., 79, 83 Rowland, Rich., 4, 17, 31, 236 Rumbert, Will., 54 Russell, John, 238 ,, Steph., S3, 122, 134, 202 Rutter, John, 160 „ Will., 100 Ryder, Rob., 224 Rymer, Mich., 151 „ Rich., 49 ,, Rob., 89, 92 Sadler, John, 25 „ Rich., 181, 233 Sampson, Rob., 257 Savill, Hugh, 122 „ Tho., 147 Sawdon, Ja^, 258 Scaife, Skaife, Rich., 89, 118 Scailes, Skailes, Henry, 131, 132, 144, 159. 226, 253 Scarth, Phil., 211 ,, Rich., 89, 122, 197, 204 ,, Will, 253 Scipline, Tho., 53 Scott, Will., 4, 39, 109 Scowe, John, 22 Scrafton, John, 154, 248 Scruton, Skrewton, Geo., 70, 80, 191 ,, John, 130 „ Rich., 39 Tho., 178, 208 Seaton, Dan., 148 ,, Zachary, 147 INDEX. 291 Jurymen, List of: — Seadman, Sedman, John, 122, 136, 150, 230 ,, Phil., 230 ,, Rob., 226, 258 Sedgwicke, Sidgwicke, Sidswick, Will., 57, 139, 150, 181 Sedsworth, Raph, 18 Sellar, Fr., 11, 31, 75, 89, 122 ,, Will., 1 85, 211, 242 Sewell, Sewhill, Raiph, 117, 118, 132. ISS Seymour, Will., 43 Sharrey, Henry, 167 Shaw, Shawe, Geo., 23 ,, John, 163, 235 Sheerewood, Will., 222 Shippard, John, 124, 136, 147, 172, 230 ,, Rich., 109, 124, 136, 148, 172, 202, 217, 230 Shipton,"Tho., 18, 83, 136 Sidesworth, Geo., 192 „ Henry, 192 Sigswicke, John, 13 ,, Will., 70, 127 Sigsworth, Henry, 130 „ John, 8 Simpson, Geo., 42 ,, Henry, 18, 159 „ John, 230 ,, Rich., 230 Rog., 164 Will., 150, 192 Simnie, Anth., 23 Skelton, John, 13, 151, 233, 236 ,, Rob., 109, 115, 134, 1S6 The, 59, 75 Will., 130, 134, 186, 226, 250 Slater, Rob., 143 ,, Steph., 26 „ Tho., 31 Slee, Rob., 70 Slenny, Slenney, John, 56, 68 ,, Tho., 56, 68 Smales, Fr., 113 Smalwood, Raph, 18 Tho., 18 Smelt, John, 25, 68, 113, 150, 178 ,, Leon., 22, 1 78, 233 Smith, Smyth, Chr., 35, 56, 68, 113, 139. 163, 191 „ Fr., 39. 53. 64. 83. 217 Jurymen, List of : — Smith, Geo., 70, 159 ,, Henry, I, 209 „ John, II, 35, 53, 173, 174, 192, 204, 211, 217, 230 „ Nich., I, 3, 44, 66 „ Rich., 13, 44, S3, 151,222, 238 ,, Rob., 113 „ Rog., 115, 139, 172, 208 ,, Tho., 109 ,, Will., 113 Smithson, Gilb., 22 ,, Rob., 127, 163, 224 Smithyes, John, 163 Snawden, Snawdon, Chr., 80, 163, 208 ,, John, 13, 124, 150 ,, Leon., 68, 140 „ Raiph, 215, 222, 233, 247 Snowden, Chr., 127 ,, Leon, 35 Sotheran, John, 202, 230 Sowleby, John, 231 Sparline, John, 144 Spavand,Spaven, Jeremiah, Jeremie, 142, 159 ,, John, 31 Spence, Will., 8, 68, 99, 128 Spenceley, Geo., 31 „ Will., 31, 80 Squire, Geo., 150, 178, 224, 233 Staines, Geo., Ii8 ,, Will, 150, 222 Stampell, Tho., 66 Staney, John, 99 Stavely, Adam, 35 Rob., 70 Stenny, John, 22 Stephens, Tho., 64 Stephenson, Stevenson, John, 118, 122, 142, 15s, 222 „ Will., 224, 238 Stibbin, Tho., 4 StifSn, Tho., 219 Stockell, Stockill, John, 53, 89, 92, 134 Stockdaile, Rob., 87 Stockton, Mark, 53, 54, 66, 134, 241 Rob., 75 Stockley, John, 43 Stonehouse, Fr., 32 U 2 292 INDEX. Jurymen, List of : — Stonehouse, Tho., 70, 226 Will., II Stope, Rob., 172 Storr, John, 71, 72, 75, 217 Story, John, 241 „ Tho., 8 Stothard, The, 35 Strangwith, John, 113 Stringer, Arthur, 217, 241 Will., 13, 238 Stubbs, Ja^, 247 ,, Rich., 236 „ Rob., 53 Sturdy, John, 89, 142, 202, 217 „ Tho., 147, 173, 174 ,, Will., 118, 170, 172 Sugdell, Ja'., II Sughill, Raiph, 143, 197 Sunley, Geo., 4, 11, 43, 75, 230 „ Rich., 4, 17, 42 Sutton, Tho., 140, 163, 178, 250 Swailes, Henry, 194 „ John, 77, 79, 215 ,, Tho., 194 Symon, John, 187 Talbot, Will., 179 Tanfield, John, 139 Will., 163 Tarte, Rich., i „ Rob., 37 Tayler, Taylor, Henry, 8 ,, Phil., 163, 247 ,, Raiph, 113, 247 ,, Rich., 35 „ Tho., 159 Teasdale, Chr., So John, 187 Tebb, Math., 140 „ Tho., 9, 25, 130 Temple, Raph, 18 Theaker, John, 31 Thompson, Brian, 115, 226, 241 Chr., 8, 113 ,, Geo., 4, 128 ,, Raph, 6, 127, 241 ,, Rob., 181, 192, 208 Tho., 53 Will., 1, 14, 37, 59, 167 Thomhill, Edw., 31 Thorpe, John, 43 Tho., 48, 64 Will., 17, 31 Jurymen, List of : — Threapland, Treapland, Will., 35, 68, 130, 139, 191 Thwaytes, Anth., 228 Tindaile, Tindall, Raiph, 228 „ Rich., 231 Will., 37, 42, 71, 72, 103, 132, 142, 154, 194 Tinsley, Will., 18 Todd, John, 22, 139 ,, Marm., 102, 150, 181 ,, Miles, 57 Toes, Will., 139 Tollerton, Will., 48, 109, 136, 194, 257 Tomlinson, Tho., i Tooes, Rob,, 148 Topham, Simon, 164 ,, Will., 163, 224 Tophan, Edw., 56 Trainholm, John, 44 Trammer, Tranmer, Tranmire, Fr., 147. 159, 194, 257 ,, Tho., 102 Trewhaite, Trewhitt, John, 257 Will., 31, 48, 59 Trewman, Peter, 117, 118 Trier, Fr., 66 „ Tho., 53 Trotter, Chr., 22, 46 Tuke, Geo., 151 Tunstall, Tho., 231 Turner, Will, 46, 56, 80, 23 1 Usher, Marm., 18 Vawson, Rog., 80 Vaysee, Tho., 219 Viccars, Rob., 113 Tho., 39, 43. 109, 117, 118, 197 Wade, Chr., 80 ,, John, I Waike, Wake, Chr., II, 136, 160, 211, 217 Wainde, Waynde, Andrew, 257 ,, John, 122, 142 „ Rich., 43, 142, 241 Waite, Tho., 109, 164 „ Will., 151, 178 Walbanke, Will, 248 Walker, Faban, Fabian, Fabius, 22 46, 99, 233, 247 Fr., 208 ,, Henry, 130 ,, John, 23, 102, 192 Jurymen, List of: — Walker, Rich., 142, 150, 181, 208, 224 ,, , Rob., 25 ,, Sam., 174 Tho., 38, 39, 42, 103, 134, 236 Will., 31, 53, 80 Waller, Rich., 127 Walter, Rob., 23 Wane, Andr., 109 Warcopp, Henry, 150 Warde, Anth., 100, 113, 179 „ John, 31, 159, 194, 217 Will., 124, 186 Wardrope, John, 130, 192 Wass, Wasse, Rich., 70 „ Will., 148 Watkin, Chr., 113 Watson, Chr., 42, 202 ,, Edw., 136, 159, 202 „ Henry, 35, 39 ,, John, 18, 130, 242 „ Rich., 8, 46, 56, 68, 80, 99, 163, 179, 208 Rob., 75 ,, Tho., 43, 89, 92, 122, 134, 147, 202, 230, 257 „ Will., 18, 147 Wawne, Rich., 172 Waynes, John, 230 Webster, Rich., 25 ,, Rob., 42, 64 ,, Tristram, 11, 148 Welburne, John, 64, 230 Wellbanke, Edw., 80 „ Gerald, 233 Wells, Fr., 128 ,, Jos., 236 ,, Rich., 167, 228 ,, Rob., I West, John, 1 86 ,, Rich., 124 Westerdaile, Rog., 102, 250 Westland, John, 35 Wethereld, John, 109 Wetherell, Fr., 113, 179, 181 John, 173, 174 ,, Rich., 102, 172, 197 Whaites, Anth., 172 Wharton, Jas., 127, 178, 208 „ Rich., 23, 248 Whipper, Tho., 39 White, Anth., 231 INDEX. 293 Jurymen, List of : — White, Tho., 49 Whitehead, Will., 117, 118 Whitfeild, Tho., 68, 99, 127, 79, 208 Whitton, Ralph, 169, 1 70 „ Rob., 33 Will., 14, 130, 169, 170 Whitwell, Will., 23s Wigginor, Nich., 84, 122, 204 ,, Tim., 211 Will., 77, 79 Wiglesworth, Chr., 130, 154 Wilberfosse, Tho., Wilde, Laur., 80 Wildon, Weldon, Henry, 230 ,, Rob., II, 75, 147, 160 Wilkinson, Andrew, 11, 187 ,, Geo., II, 147 ,, Ja'., 124 ,, John, 167, 211 I, Mansfeild, 53 ,, Math., 150, 178, 233 ,, Rich., II, 148 ,, Tho., 64, 140, 167, 235 Willey,, Edw., 57, 222 „ Rich., 35 Willcocke, Rob., 102 Williamson, Rob., 102 Wilson, Anth., 46 ,, Chr., II, S3, 64, 160, 187, 219 „ Dan., 181 Greg., 31, 211, 238 ,, Henry, 85, 130, 154, 250 „ John, 23 „ Mark, ii, 53, 64, 89, 92, 160 „ Math., 77, 79 „ Nich., 4, II, 17, 31, 49 ,, Rich., 130, 172, 226 Rob., II, 53, 66, 102, 136, 160, 187, 242 „ Rog., 178, 236 „ Tho., 32 „ Will., 43, 64, 209 Wise, Edw., 42 ., Fr., 43 „ Tho., 43 Witton, Tlio., 192 Wood, Ralph, 18 „ Tho., 26 ,, Will., 4, 17, 202 Woodcocke, Rich., 11 294 INDEX. Jnrymen, List of : — Woodward, Will., 167 Worfolke, Will., 134, 211, 241 Wray, Chr., 208 Wren, Humphrey, 248 Wright, Geo., 23 ,, Leon., 250 ,, Rich., II, 230 „ Rob., 31, 43 ,, Tho., 9,26, 117, 118, 139, 144, IS5. 167. 192, 197. 236, 2S3 Will., I, 43, 54, 154, 167, 226 Wrightson, Gabr., 109 ,, Peter, I, 31 Rich., 39, 71, 72, Tho., I, 37, 102 Wylie, Will., 226 Yeates, Yeats, Tho., 136 „ Will., 35, 68 - Younge, Chr., 75, 217 ,, Tho., 130, 154, 250 „ Will., 25, 48, 186, 215, 236 Yoward, Rich., 122 Justices, List of : — Aiscough, Ascough, Ayscough, Will., 159, 167, 172, 181, 191, 194, 202, 211, 222, 225, 226, 229, 236, 241, 250, 256, 257 AUanson, Sir Will., 25, 37, 48, 58, 63, 70, 73, 74, 106, 115, 116, I20, 142. '75. 197. 206 Barwicke, Sir Rob., 108, 109 Beckwith, Math., 46, 48, 51, 56, 58, 82, 88, loi, 122, 129, 134, 137, 138, 150, 167, 172, 181, 185, 191, 194, 207, 211, 222, 225, 226, 233, 236, 247, 250 Bourchier, Barrington, 17 ,, Sir John, i, 11, 13, 17, 37,109,115, 142, 150, 153. 159. 167, 236, 237 Cholmeley, Sir Henry, 3 Covell, Covin, Rog., 8, 22, 24, 35, 46, 56, 58, 80, 98, 113, 127 Darley, Rich., 229 Dickenson, Tho., 13 Eure, Ewrie, Ewry, Geo., 3, 10, 17, 37. 41. 42, 48. 52, 55. 56, 58, 75. 82, 87, 89, lOI Eytherington, Rich., 11, 42, 126 Justices, List of: — Hall, Henry, 50, 89, loi, 109, no, 112, 115, 122, 138, 142, 146, 153, 159. 167, 172, 211,217,229, 241, 250 Harrison, Tho., 153, 191, 194, 211, 222, 226 Heme, John, 159 Lassells, Fr., I, 25, 37, 48, 58, 64, 73. 75. 80,82, loi, 113, IIS, 116, 119, 122, 129, 142, 153, 163, 178, 180, 181, 185, 191, 194, 202, 207, 211, 222, 236, 240, 247, 250, 256, 257 Tho., 167, 178, 180, 181, 185, 194, 202, 211, 222, 224, 226, 233, 236, 238 Marwood, Geo., 10, 11, 14, 39, 40, 42, 48, 64, 70, 73, 75, 129, 134, 138, 142, 153, 157, 159, 167, 172, 176, 1 8 1, 1 86, 190, 194,202, 204, 207, 226, 229, 257 Newton, Isaac, 1, 17, 18, 25, 30, 33, 37, 42. 48 Noell, Nowell, Arthur, 11, 30, 33, 34, 52, 55, 56, 58, 64, 70, 75, 89, 109, no, 122, 134, 137, 146, 159 Northcliffe, Nortcliff, Benjamin, 98 n, 167, 181, 185, 194, 202, 207, 211, 217, 222, 226, 236, 241 Piercehay, Chr., 52, 55, 56, 64, 75, 82, 89, loi, 107-10, 134, 146, 159, 172, 186, 188, igo, 194, 199, 217, 229, 241, 256 Robinson, John, i, 8, 22, 24, 35, 52, 56, 68, 98, 113, 127, 139 ,, Luke, II, 42, 45, 48, 52, 55. 56, 58, 64, 75, 82, 88, 89, 107, 108, 115, 119, 122, 134, 137, 142, 159, 167, 172, 176, 186, 1S8, 190, 194, 199, 202, 207, 211, 217, 236, 241, 250, 255 Rymer, Raph, Ralph, 42, 46, 48, 133. 151. 157, 257 ,, Rich., 37 Smelt, Leon,, 52, 56, 58, 82, 98, loi, 113, 127, 129,139,142, 153, 163, 167, 178, 181, 185, 191, 194, 207, 222, 226, 233, 236, 247, 250 INDEX. 295 Justices, List of : — Smithson, Geo., 153, 178, 181, 185, 191, 194, 207, 211, 222, 226, 233, 236, 247 Strickland, Sir Will., 82, 108, 109, 217 Thorneton, Thornton, Will., 52, 58, 62, 64, 68, 70, 75, 80, 98, 113, lis, 127, 129, 139, 142, 150, 163, 167, 171, 178,180, 181, 194,207, 211, 222, 226, 229, 233, 236, 241, 247 Turner, John, 37, 157 Waistell, Wastell, Wastley, Weas- tall, John, I, 8, 14, 17, 22, 28, 35, 46, 48, 52, S6, 58, 62, 64, 68, 70, 80, 82, 98, loi, ri5, 127, 129, 139. ISO. iS3i 178. 180, 181, 191, 194, 207, 222, 226, 233, 236, 240, 247, 2SO Walters, Walters, Rob., 1,14,39, 40, 82, 98, loi, lis, 129, 133. 142, iS3, 181, 194,202, 207,211, 21s, 226, 229, 2SO, 2S7 Weddall, Weddle, Will., 30, 37, 48, 50, S2, 56, 58, 70. 75. 82, 88, 89, 101, log, 112, lis, 134. 137.138. 142, 1S9, 167, 172, 186, 190, 194, 202, 215, 226, 236, 241 ,, John, 82 Worsley, John, 52, SS. 56, 58, 64, 70, 75, 82, 89, 101, 105, 109, 112, 116, 122, 12s, 134, 188, 190 „ Jos., 88 K. Keath, William, 189 Keild, Thomas, 144 Kettlewell, Mathew, 60 Key, John, 112 ,, Money left by Mr,, for the poor, to be paid, 105 Kilburne, John, 180 Killing coneys (or rabbits), 151, 181 „ deer, 40, 130, 218 Kipper salmon. Taking, 179 King's evil. Pretending to cure, 8s, 103 Kirkleatham, Freeholders of, 4 ,, Parsonage or rectory of, 5 Knaggs, Elizabeth, 98 n. ,, James, 240 ,, John, 94 „ William, 79 Lacock, Thomas, 67 Lambe, Mathew, 183 Lambert, Alexander (Richmond), 58 ; 215 ,, Francis, 215 ,, Major-General, 106, 156 Lame Soldiers, Names of — Abraham, Ensign, 15 Barringham, Abraham, 3 Coates, Christopher, 167 Dawson, Robert (of Farmanby), 30 ; (of Thorneton), 16 Fareweather, Richard, 104, 105 Farthing, William, ill Handley, William, 12 Hodgson, George, 34 Hoggard, Mathew, 3 Holt, Ensign, 77 Lawne, George, 104, 105 Leedall, William, 12 Marshall, Richard, 34 Quaits, Henry, 9, 15 Rymer, Mathew, 1S3 Stevenson, James, 19 Waide, David, 133 Ward, Thomas, 121 Wild, Anthony, 104 ,, Pensions and gratuities to, 3, 9, 12, IS. 21, 30, 40, 4S, 47. 50, 52. 72, 77. 79. 82, 87, 94, 98, 105, 106, 114, 119, 121, 133, 134, 14S, 148, 153. i6s, 171, 179. 184. 189, 210, 216, 217, 224, 234, 239, 266,261 ,, Widows, Relief to, 16, 30, 34, 54, 67, 86,87, 98,10s, 111, 119, 133, 138, 152, is6, 157. 166, 167, 171, 179, 180, 184, i8s, 198, 207, 21s, 216, 224, 225, 229, 239, 244, 2SS, 260 ,, ,, Allowance to a, diminished, her charges being less- ened, 127 296 INDEX. Lame Soldiers — „ Daughter of a, 19 ,, Additional rate for, 216, 221 ,, money to be collected, 29, 105 ,, ,, Not collecting, 32 ,, ,, Disproportion in payments of, 256 ,, ,, ,, Order accord- ingly, 256 ,, ,, Unfair assessments for, 246 ,, A pensioned, worth ;^i,ooo, 104 ,, His pension suspended, 104 ,, and Hospitals Money, Not paying, 81, 165, 200 ,, ,, ,, to be paid, 133. 149. J 58 Langdale, Mathew, 24 Lassells, Colonel, 40, 60, 77> II4) 120, 156, 193 ,, Lieutenant-Colonel Peregrine, 153 ,, Thomas, 128 Lawson, Robert, 64 Layton, Mrs., 6 Lazenby, William, 171 Lea, Lee, Thomas, 78 ,, 'William, 60 Leadall, Leddell, Ann, 233, 262 ,, Katherine, 197, 206 Lease of ejectment, Sealing a, under pretence of searching for stolen goods, 123 Leases to be proved before a Master in Chancery, 146 Leet, Names of all the Stewards of, with- in the several Hundreds, to be given in by the several Bailiffs of the various Wapentakes, 125 Leife, Richard, 149 Leighton, Edmund, 170 Lengue, Hugh, 83 Levingstone, Samuel, 97 n Levying money by fine, 90 Lewd and evil behaviour, Committed for, 248 Liberty, Set at, by the Sheriffs, security being given, 249 Licence to sell meal, 78 Linen cloth, Beetling, beaming, etc., 212 Linsley, John, 13 Lockvvood, Mrs. 124 Lodge, Michael, 215 Loftus, Sir Edward, 2 Lord Protector, 146, 153, 155-157, 169, 183 Lord's Day, Keeping disorder on the, 248 Playing at cards on the, 235 ,, Profanation of the, 33, 109, 141, 173, 208 ,, Selling tobacco on the, 113 „ ,, oatmeal and pease on the, 1 53 ,, Suffering people to drink, tipple, &c., on the, "jb, 195 Tippling on the, 129, 195 ,, Travelling on the, 224 Lownesdale, Luke, 194, 209 Lumley, William, 40 Lyeth, William, 169, 170 Lying and living together as man and wife, 259 M. Maintenance of a child, Order touching the, 47, 51, 122 ,, of a man, 125, 185, 193 ,, ,, by his son, 2IO ,, of orphans, 180 ,, of the poor of Helmesley, Difference as to, settled, 176 ,, of a poor widow, 157 ,, of a woman by her father, 183, 188, 205 Maisterman, William, 134, 198 Malt, Suppressed from selling, 96, 217, 229 Man, Mr., 2 ,, Thomas, 119 Manwaring, Edward, 97 Marriage, Enticing a man to, 89, 103 ,, Objection to, declared insuf- ficient, 184, 206 ,, suspended till next Sessions, 17s. 197 Marry after being published at the Mar- ket Cross, Permission to, 205 ,, Pretending to, 184, 203, 206 Marrying people contrary to the Statute, 179, 226 INDEX. 297 Mairying people clandestinely, 97, 116 Marshall, John, 183 !, Samuel, 7 I, Thomas, 183 Mason, John, 7, 20 Massam, 3 Master of the Hospital at Well (Chris- topher Dodsworth), 51 Mauliverer, Edmund, 4 ,, Timothy, 119, 125 Mayling, William, 149 Maynerd, Anne, 47 Measures, Keeping and using unlawful, 38, 60, 99, 116 „ Not providing common, 38 Medd, Christopher, 212, 219 Megson, William, 135 Mennell, George, 51 ; 225 ,, John, 130, 142 ,, Lawrence, 130, 142 Metcalfe, Adrian, 210 „ Christopher, 46,47, 104, 105 ; (Mercett), 215 ,, James, son of Chr., 215 ,, William, 187 „ alias Butcher, John, 69 Metham, Thomas, i8 Midleham, Elizabeth, 167 Midleton, John, 53 ,, Mark, 142 Midlewood, John, 54 Miglon, Mr., 161 Mill-dam, Not scouring a, 117 Mill-race, Damming or stopping a, 236 Miles, Robert, 169 Milking other people's cows, 43, 44 Minister or Clerk of— Askrigg (Symon Webster), 226 Barningham, 115 Barton Mary (Hungate Consitt), 179 Bilsdale (Mr. Clarke), 27 Boltby (Robert Bradley), 168, 170 Brafferton (John Wood), 184 Craike, 151 Danby, 185 Easingwold (Mr. Ralph Stringer), 41, 42 East Laylon (John Atkinson), 164 East Witton (Chr. Beaverley), 179 Edston, 33 Ellmitt (Nathaniel Jackson), 192 Ferlington (Francis Daniell), 116, 119 Minister or Clerk of— Foston (Andrew Perry), 123 Helmesley, 33 Huntington (presented as a common drunkard), 218 Hutton (Hugh Lenge), 161, 162 Kilvington(Elias Hutchingson), 151, 153. 171. I7S Kirby Moorside, 33 Kirtlinton, 87 Lastingham, 33 ; (Leonard Conyers), 227, 231, 236 Malton (John Storr), 203, 206 ,, Old, 217, 218 Murton (John Lyth), 184 Sutton cum Huby, 32 ; (Francis Beamont), 104, in Terrington (Edmund Hindesley), 183, 197 Thirkleby (Mr. Ashtill), 10 Thorneton, 33 Warthill, 197 Wigginton (William Wright), n8, 123, 126 Minister or Clerk, William Locke, 227, 231 I, ,, Assault by a, 123 „ ,, Disturbing a, 227, 231 .) >, Interrupting a, 151, 152 ), ,, A, marrying persons contrary to law, 179 ,, ,, withholding posses- sion of a vicarage, 237 Misdemeanors done in a house, 253 Mitchael, William, 164 Mittimus, Not delivering a, 133 Moon, Grace, 198 ,, Ralph, 197, 198 Moor, Moore, James, 52, 215 ,, William (Attorney), 203, 216 Morrit, Thomas, 136 Mortimer, Marmaduke, 121 Mountain, Richard, 83, 85, 87, 92, 93 Moysier, John, 174 Muntoft, William, 18 Murder, Cases of, 46, 67, 84, 103-105, 114, 132, 148, 174, 175,196 Myers, John, 112, 154, 184 298 INDEX. N. Nary, John, 220 Nesse, Richard, 240 Nicholson, Mary, 3 Norcliffe, Marmaduke, 230 North Riding Committee, 6 Nuisance against the inhabitants of a place, 243 O. Oath of Abjuration, The, 180 ,, ,, taken, 224, 253, 256 Order of Sessions, Contempt or neglect of, 3, 7, 17, 25, 26, Si, 84, 86, 178, 259 ,, ,, ,, by a Church- warden, 143 ,, ,, made null and void, because for service done against the Parliament, 6 Orrock, Mr., ijo Otterburne, Robert, 119, 124, 125, 262 Overseers of Askrigg, 81, 86 ,, Bransby, 190 ,, Carlton, 86 ,, Carleton Husthwaite, 17 ,, Crambe, 220 ,, Easingwold (John Coates), 28 ; (James Weere), 42 ,, East Witton (not relieving poor people), 47 ,, Forcitt, 114 ,, Gillinge, igo ,, Gisbrough, 119 ,, Hawkeswell, 153, 192 ; (Thomas Jobson), 179 ,, Hilton, 85 ,, Helmesley, 221 „ Hutton Rudby, 18 ,, Kilvington, South, 146 ,, Kirkdale, 178; to prove copy of a will, 188 ,, Malton, New, 177 ,, Marske, 6 ,, Marten (not relieving a poor man), 84 ,, Midleham (not making as- sessments for the poor), 81 Overseers of Newbiggin, 180 Osmotherley, 114 Pickering, Abusing the, 160 ,, neglecting tlieir office, 145 Smeaton, 178, 193 Sowerby, 3, 193 Stainton, ni Terrington, 126 Thirske (Joseph Bell), 53 Whitby, 125 Outhwaite, Mary wife of George, 164 Owram, William, 63 Oxard, Nicholas, 196, 199 Papist : Kidney, William, 218 Papists in arms against the Common- wealth (Rob. Barry, Peter Met- calf, Lawrence Sayer), 215 Parish Clerk of Crake, A person who has not been in arms against the Parliament to be elected, 63, 64 Parish Clerk's wages, Not paying, 43 Parishioners of Farndale East Side, 45 „ Hutton Bushell to take care of a man distracted in his senses, 189 ,, Scawton, 21 Parish Officers of — Aisgarth, Askarth, Money left to the poor to be paid to the, 193 ; 248, 249 Askrigg, 24 Bilsdale, 27 Bolton, 114 Brafferton, 184 Brunton (to pay arrears of relief to a poor woman), 81 Cattericke, 82, 156, 210 ; not mak- ing monthly assessments for the poor, 47 Cawton, 220 Cold Kirby, 120 Cowburne, 206 Cowton, East, 166 „ North, 23, 225 ,, South, 82 Coxwold, 112, 185 Craike, 98, 121, 175, 185, 189 INDEX. 299 Parish Officers of— Dishforth, 105, 120 Downholme, 167, 249 Easingwold, 41, 42, 120 East Witton, 47, 82 Ebberston, 232 Fileing, Fyling, 12, 21 Forcett, 225 Gilling, 125, 178, 205 Grunton (to provide for a soldier's widow), 141 Hackness, 21 Hauxwell, 179 Hauxwicke, loi Helmesley, 27, 220, 261 Hovingham, 206 Hustwhaite, 185 Hutton Bushell, 33 ,, Rudby, 119, 127, 225 Kilbume, 18, 105, 121 Kildale, 255 Kirby Hill, 179, 193 ,, Knowle, 120, 239 „ Moorside, 34, 125, 190 ,, Ravensworth, 12S, 185 „ Wiske, 239J Kirtlinton, 73 Langton, 23 Lythe, 78 Malton, New, 13, 78 Manfield, 210 Massam, 141 Melsonby, 211 Middleham, 47, 249 Middleton Tyas, 82 Newton, 61, 63 Northallerton, 13, 156 Nunnington, 262 Osmotherley, 114, 145, 153, 156, 166 Pickall, 193 Redcar, 13, IS Scawton, 105, 206 Seamer, III, 126, 145, 244 Shipton, 261 Slingsby, 20 Smeaton, 106, 128, 153, 157 Sowerby, 87, 121, 239 Spennithome, 114,210 Sproxton, 33 Sta;inton, 180 Stillington, 206 Strencile (Strensall), 171 Swaineby, 33 Thirne, 57 Parish Officers of — Thirske, 18, 52, 105 ; neglecting to provide for the poor, 52 Thormanby, 72, 190 Thorneton, 12, 21, 28 ,, le Street, to provide housing for the wife of a man in the ser- vice of the Common- wealth, 152 Welburne, 98 Well, 51 West Ayton, 34 Wigginton, 125 Wykeliff (Wyclifife), 171 Yafforth, 157 Parish Officers contemning an Order of Comt, 149, 157 Parish Register (Registrar) of Malton (Rob. Blackwell), publishing two per- sons contrary to the Act, 218 ,, ,, of Sinnington (Rob. Henley), betraying his trust and de- ceiving the people, 203, 2o5 ,, ,, of Sinnington, dis- charged of his office, 205 Parker, Raiph, 94 I, William, 206 Pamaby, Reynold, his affections and carriages towards the public to be examined, 141 Parrot, Mr., 135, 146 Parsonage of Wigginton, Suffering it to fall down, 117 Peace, Breach of the, 2, 243, 247 ,, Disturbers of the, 223 Peacock, Richard, 210 ,, Thomas, 5 ,, William, 219 Pearsdale, Nicholas, 215 Pearson, Robert, 137, 138 Pease, George, 28 Peckitt, Mr., 5 Peirse, John, 114, 168 ,, Thomas, 78 Peirson, Philip, 114 Perjury, Cases of, 4, 116, 123, 137, 138, 142, 144, 148, 191, 194, 198, 208, 209, 218, 223, 226, 235 300 INDEX. Persons presented as not fit to be allowed to practise as Attorneys-at-law, Names of, 215 Fetch, John, 162, 169, 170 Pickard, Thomas, 65 Pinder, Nicholas, 125 ,, Peter, 64 Pinfold in decay, 251 ,, Not making a sufficient, 76, 1 14, 15s a ,, Pulling down a, 151 „ Not repairing a, 13, 54, 60, 164, 187. 237 Players of Interludes, loi, 173, 209 Playing at cards, Fined for, 94 Plattes, Joseph, 98 n. Plewman, Richard, 132 Popish relics ordered to be burnt, 221, 22in. Poor, Money left to the," 205 Postgate, Jane, 218 Potter, Christopher, 20 ,, James, 174 Potts, Thomas, 52 Practising as a physician illegally. Fined for, 85, 88 Pratt, Elizabeth, 179 Presented for saying it was no more sin to cut a man's throat than a dog's, 259 Preston, Mathew, 55 Prisoner under pretence of a warrant, Taking a man, 36 Proclaiming the King, 8y Protector, Speaking words against, 243 PuUeyne, Anthony, 41 ,, Richard, 41 Pulling a house down, 184 Purslaw, Richard, 224 Putting a family in fear in the night-time, 259 Pybus, John, 1S9 ,, Joseph, 85 Pyper, John, 136 Q- Quaits, Corporal Henry, 9 Quarter Sessions appointed at Thirske as being the ancient and most convenient place for the country to meet at, 138 Quarter Sessions adjourned that the country may be at liberty to attend the election for Parlia- ment men, 161 ,, Money paid for the fit- ting of a convenient place for, 138 ,, at AUerton, 150 {see Northallerton), at Beedall, 35, 139, 191 ,, at Helmesley, 3, ly, 42, 75, 229, 257 ,, at Kirby Moorside, 30, 122, 146, 172, 202 ,, at Malton, 52, 64, 99, 109, 134, 159, 186, 217 ,, at New Malton, 11, 241 ,, at Northallerton, 13, 1 30, iSi, 222, 236 ,, at Richmond, 8, 22, 46, 55, 68, 80, 98, 113, 127, 163, 178, 207, 233. 247 ,, at Thirske, i, 14, 25, 37, 48, 58, 70, 82, loi, 115, 129, 142, 153. 167. 194. 211, 226, 250 R. Raine, Chistopher, 115 Rates, Book of, 19, 20, 74 ,, Settlement of, according to the ancient rent, 2 Ravishing a woman, 151, 154, 237 Rawlinge, Elizabeth, 114 ,, Mr., 114 Recognizances entered or respited (at every Sessions). „ by alehouse-keepers, 32, 104 ,, for good behaviour re- newed, 115 ,, Amanboundin.toanswer for endeavouring to in- habit a parish without consent of the parish- ioners, 204 INDEX. 301 Recognizances, A man bound in, to pro- secute evidence on be- half of the Common- wealth, 94 ,, Four men bound in, not to act interludes during their lives in the Com- monwealth, 187 ,, A gentleman bound in, not to do anything pre- judicial to the Common- vfeallh, 94 ,, A woman bound in, not to keep company with a certain man nor to meet him except in church or market, 66 Recusants convicted, 108, 114, 189 Recusants, Names of : — Bednell, Robert, 217 Carise, Mary, 114 Gillings, Clement, 189 Harrison, Edward, 217 Hesse, Ellen, 126 Redhead, Mr., 54 Readshaw, Henry, 95 Thwinge, Ferdinand, 108 Refusing to pay wages due, 31 ,, ,, ,, to the Clerk of Crake, 71 ,, ,, ,, to the Clerk of Farndale, 45 Relief of poor, blind, etc., people, 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 23, 30, 33, 47, 52, 61, 63, 72, 78, 86, 105, 106, III, 112, 114, 119, 121, 126, 128, 133, 156, IS7, 165-167, 170, 171, 17s, 178, 179. iSs, 193, 206, 210, 211, 217, 220, 221, 225, 232, 233, 239, 249, 261 „ A man's brother to furnish, 255 ,, A man's father-in-law to furnish, 249 ,, Two childrens' grandfather to furnish, 261 Repair of Church, Refasing to pay assess- ment for, 251 Reporting false news, 91 Rescue of goods seized, 2, 38, 80, 109, 147, 151, 160, 181, 212, 218, 223, 237 ,, of prisoners, 83, 91 Restitution, Brief of, in a case of illegal ejectment, 57 ,, Writ of, no, 253 Richardson, Robert, 92 Riding armed, 240 Riot and assault. Cases of, 2, 80, 84, 90, 99, 102, 116, 123, 130, 137, 139, 142, 159, 160, 16S-170, 173, 179, 191, 212, 227, 234, 236, 243, 247, 251 River Fleet, Not cleansing, 212 Wiske certified as scoured, 114 ,, ,, Not scouring, 103 Robbery, Cases of, 103, 204 ,, Highway, 168 Roberts, Robert. See Blakiston. Robinson, Jerome, 36, 41, 73, 106 „ John, 45 ; 198 ,, Leonard, 152, 165 Michael, 215 ,, Richard, 245 ,, Samuel, 123 ,, Thomas, 165 ,, William, 36 Robson, George, 85 Roby, Lord Chief Justice, 73 Rogers, Mr., 20 Rogue, A dangerous, to be whipped, 262 Roman Catholics not permitted to teach children, 86 Rout and unlawful assembly. Abetting a, 218 Russell, Henry, 65 ,, James, 65 Rutter, William, 1 14 Rymer, George, 165 ,, John, 82 „ Mr. Ralph, 3 S. Sabbath, Breach of the, 251 „ Drawing people to drink on the, 166 , , Making a bet to wrestle on the, 2l8 ,, Suffering people to drink on the, 179, 251 , , Suffering people to play on the, 168 Salmon, Colonel, 206 302 INDEX, Salmon, trout, and pike, Destroying the fry of, 147, 223 Savin, George, 205 ,, Thomas, 1 88, 205 Scandalizing a gentleman, 168 ,, a man, 151 Scandalous, seditious, threatening, pro- voking, urging, etc. words. Speaking, 65, 77, 84, 92, 100, 102, 104, 109, 123, 131, 136, 151, 168, 179, 191, 196, 212, 227, 242 ,, words against General Cromwell, Uttering, 100 ,, words against the Justices, 116, 210 ,, words against the Lord Protector, 223, 236 ,, proclamations, Making, 136 Scarth, Francis, 34 Scold, A woman ducked for being a, 165, 262 Scott, Henry, 232, 238, 240, 245 Scottish Army, Neglecting to send pro- visions for the, 10 Scurr (Surr?), John, 135 „ Mary, 135 Searcher of broadcloth, 3, 3n. Selling goods with false weights, 251 ,, malt, Suppressed from, 96, 217 Servant, Hiring a, without testimonial from her late employer, 206 Service of the Parliament, Saddles and bridles bought for the, 2 Settlement, Case of, 255 Shaw, George, 3, 9, 33, 50 ,, Trinian, 164, 169 Sheep, Chasing and dogging, 192, 218 ,, Clipping, feloniously, 113 ,, Pulling the wool off, 8 Sheep-stealing, Cases of, 2, 4, 14, 17, 31, 35, 46-48, 53, 65, 84, 92, 99, no, 117, 123, 128, 130, 131, 140, 142, 143, 147, 159, 160, 163, 16S, 169, 179, 182, 196, 204, 211, 213, 223, 227, 228, 252, 258 Sheires, Sheyers, Ralph, 66, 183, 187 Sheriff, Deputy {see Deputy Sheriff). ,, High (see High Sheriff). ,, Escaping from the, 23 ,, fined, 216 Sheriff, Preventing the, from executing a writ of Ha. fa. poss., 168 ,, suffering prisoner to escape, 203 ,, Taken into custody by the, 54, 69, 97, no, 126, 127, 129, 141, 14S, 162, 164, 170, 171, 177, 179, 206, 209, 232, 238 ,, to make a return of the prisoners sent to the Castle of York, 206 Ship-timber, g, 16 Shooting at a man, 159 ,, coneys or rabbits, 99, 173, 227 ,, doves, 17, 47, 59 ,, a greyhound, 196 ,, hail-shot, 231 , , a quicke, 203 ,, a sheep, 93 ,, with or in a gun, 128, 160 Simkins, John, 126 Simpson, James, 47 „ John, 47 ; 63 ,, Susanna, 47 Skailing, Phatnell, 135 Skarlett, Anthony, 235 Skelton, Marmaduke, 162 „ William, 78 Slaying a man, 46 Smith, Anthony, 137 ,, Henry, 2IO ,, John, 215 ,, Mary, 206 ,, Quartermaster, 220 ,, Richard, 63 Snowden, John, 98 n. Soldiers sent to their colours, 58 Somersides, Ann, 95 „ William, 95 Speaking against the Commons of Eng- land, 54 Spence, John, 193 Spencer, Captain John, 12 ,, Samuel, 69 Staineton, Christopher, 104 Starr, John, 169 Staveley, William, 156 Steade, Thomas, 135, 146 Stealing — Aprons, 223, 252 Bands, 84, 142 Barley, 38, 65, 131, 208, 213, 228, 234, 252, 253 Beans, 59, 131 ,, and pease, 14 Beef, 43, 123, 208 INDEX. 303 Stealing — Beehive, 128 Bible, A, 237 Bigg, 26 Bodkin, 223 Bolster, 70 Bolts, 143, 148 Brass pan. A, 248 Breeches, Pair of, 213 Bullock, 14 Bridle, 230 Broadcloth, 223 Butter, 99, 103, 208 Cabbishes, cabbages, 128 Calves, 37, 160, 182 Candles, 46 Calf-skins, 66 Capons, 47, 252 Chamber-pot, 143 Cheese, 208 Clewes of linen yarn, 84 Cloak, 231 Cloth, 168 Cloth gown, 131 Coals, 219 Coat, A, 230 Cocks, 47 Codfishes, 26 Coifes, 117, 123, 196, 252, 253 Cony net, 90 Coope cappings, 208 Com, 192 Coverlet, 113 Cows, 46, 54, 80, 128, 218, 242, 253 Cowter (coulter), 131 Cradle-cloth, 223 Cross-cloth, 84, 117 Cuffs, Pair of, 131 Dagger, A, 8 Dipps, 252 Ducks, 117 Earthen doubler, 9 „ pankin, 9 ,, pitcher, 9 Flannel, 151 Fork, 59 Frying-pan, 257 Geese, 43, 65, 77, 90, 99, 130, 135, 151, 252, 258 Gown, A, 117 Grass, 228 Green-say, 117, 160 „ „ apron. A, 253 Stealing — Guinea fowls, 4 Hair pad, 252 Hair ropes, 234 Handkerchiefs, 38, 84, 99, 123, 142, 237. 253 Harrow-teeth, 43, 90, 147, 234 Hat, A, 131 Harden sack, 103 ,, sheets, 142, 211, 223 „ smock, 99 Hay, 14, 26, 80, 154, 163, 169, 208, 213, 223, 22S, 237, 242 „ rake, 103 Heifers, 17, 70, 89, 173, 257 Hempen apron, 11, 242 „ lynn, 252 „ shirt, 136 ,, smock, 242 Hens, 47, 102, 252, 257 Holland aprons, 99, 142 „ cap. A, 148 Hood, A, 53 Horse-hair, 136 Horse-shoes, 234 Imp coat, 143 Iron gavelocke, 168 ,, plowstaff, 147 ,, ring, 84 ,, socke, 234 ,, teams, 234 Kersey cloth, 237, 252 Kids of whinns, 160 Knives, 8 Kyne, 93 Lambs, 31, 252 Leather, 219, 252 ,j breeches, 168 ,, dublett, 168 Leg of pork. A, 237 Linen aprons, 38, 140 „ cloth, 65, 84, 113, 128, 196, 242 „ clothes, 203, 224 ,, sheets, 2, 23, 38, 59, 223, 230 ,, shirts, 84, 99, 135 ,, smocks, 99, 253 Loyne of mutton, 173 Lynn pins, 143, 234 Malt, 26, 70, 237 Mantle, 43 Meslin, 65 Money, 77, 84, 128, 148, 151, 182, 196, 223, 224, 258 304 INDEX. Stealing — Mutton, 47, 66, 123, 209 Napkin, 2 Neck clothes, 252 Oak bark, 4 ,, joist, 90 ,, prop, 148 ,, stoop, 90 ,, wood, 173 Oats, 65, 66, 252, 253 Oxen, 43, 48, 154, 252 Ox yoke, 84 Pack cloth, 128 Pain of glass, 120 Panier, 143 Peas, 65 Pennystone cloth, 252 Pepper, 252 Petticoats, 2, 117, 143, 168, 203, 224, 230, 242 Pewter dubler, 213 ,, can, 223 Pig. A, 37 Pillow-beere, 2, 38, 84, 113, 219, 223 Pinner, 103, 123 ,, with lace, 196 Plow-sock, 131 Purse, 182, 196, 224 Quie, 103, 219 Quishing (cushion), 223 Reins, 7° Ribbon, 102, 160 Rosemary, A piece of, 128 Runners, 143 Rye, 38, 57. 59. 99. io9. "7, 131. 228, 234 ,, loaf, 123 Sacks, 65, 128, 248 Saddle, A, 70 ,, cloth, 257 Safeguard, 208 ,, purse, 117 Salme-book, 148 Scythe, 257 Seale-sparres, 131 Searge, 160, 164 Shackles, 143, 148 Sheep-heck, 90 ,, skin. A, 252 Sheets, 117, 203, 237, 242 Shirts, 2, 142, 252 Shoes, 53, 59, 117, 128, 131, 148, 230 Stealing — Silver chalice. A, 148 ,, ring, 223 ,, spoons, 65, 231, 237 Smocks, 43, 57, 252, 253 Soap, 46 Spades, 70, 102 ,, A dyking, 136 Stackbar, A, 1 51 Stagg, A, 58 Staple, 84 Stere, A, 89 Stirrup, stirrup iron, 257 Stockings, Pair of, 117, 123 ,, A pack of, 131 Strickle, A, 257 Sugar candy, 252 Swine, 124 Syth, 90 Table cloth, 11 „ napkins, II, 84, 163, 168 Tallow, 46, 66 Tanned hide. A, 70 Teames, 234 Testament, A, 148 Timber, 102, 148, 154 Tin, 48 ,, platter, 48 Tobacco, 46 Towel, A, 38 Traces, 234 Turkeys, 65, 252 Turves, 160, 213 Waine clowts, 38 ,, rope, 102 Waistcoats, 203, 230, 242 Wallet, A, 252 Wether, 18 Wheel-speakes (spokes), 135 Wheat, 230, 252 Windring (winnowing) cloths, 18, 128, 219, 257 Whip-saw, 237 Wooden rail, 103 ,, peck, 248 trough, 154 Wool, 151, 227, 242 Woollen cloth, 57, 90, 258 Yarn, 26, 128, 131 Stell, Not scouring a, 76 Stevenson, Thomas, 136, 149, 155, 156 Steward, Zacharias, 94 Stock for the poor. Orders touching, 97, 112, 190, 222, 243 INDEX. 305 Stocks, Not keeping a sufficient pair of, 93. 151 ,, Sentenced to sit in the, 162, 198, 224, 23S, 244 Stolen goods. Receiving, 123, 139, 213 Stonas, George, gSn. Stonegrave Church, Money due for mending the windows of, to be paid, 21 Stonehouse, Elizabeth, 187 Stott, George, 215 Stranguage, Thomas, 220 Street only fourteen yards wide. Leaving, 259 Stuart, Charles, Labouring to seduce the people to assist, 243 Sturdy, Edward, 23 ,, William, 222 Subornation, 148 Suffering company to sit in his house and tipple, A man, 206, 212, 215 ,, offenders to go unpunished, 36 ,, prisoners to escape, 80, 168, 196, 199, 203, 227 Supersedeas, Refusing to obey a, 259 ,, Contempt of a, 261 Suspicion of horse-stealing. Committed for, 254, 261 Suspicious house. Apprehended at a, 261 Swailes, Alexander, 156 Swan, John, 129 Swearer and drunkard, Being a, 168 ,, Being a, 227 Swearing, 135, 226 ,, Fined for, no, ill, 162, 165, 166, 238, 244 Talbot, Robert, 183 Taking wood and spoiling grass, 70 Taylor, John, 188 ,, Mathew, 36, 42 „ Michael, I49) 155 „ Robert, 51 Teasdale, Anthony, 95 Tennand, Cicilly, 215 VOL. V. Tennant, Henry, 106, 119 ,, William, 119 Thirsk Church, Refusing to pay money for the repair of, 195 Thomas, John, 187 Thompson, Alexander, 238, 240, 245 ,, Brian, 206 ,, George, 192 John, 51 Robert, 130 ,, Sarah, 1S8, 199, 200, 207, 216 ,, William, 124 Thornton, Colonel, 19 Thorpe, Robert, 121 ; 185 ,, Simon, 174 ,, Thomas, 224 Threatening speeches, 115, 187, 213, 2i8, 251, 259 ,, tenants, and discharging them from paying rent, 116 ,, to put a man out of peace- able possession of his land, 117 Thurscrosse, Tobias, 120, 124, 125, 135 Thwinge, Ferdinando, 108 Timber belonging to the country, Taking "P. 63 Tippling-house, Keeping a, 43, 70 Todcastle, Roger, 87 Todd, George, 89 „ Miles, 58 Toll, Taking unjust, 39,59, 65, 186 Topham, Francis, 36 ,, Mathew, 170 Toomes, William, 154, 169, 173 Tracing and killing hares, 31 Trade without previous apprenticeship. Exercising a, 4, 11, 38, 253 Traverse, Cases of, 36, 41, 42, 53, 54, 99, 102, 115, 116, I23,'i30, 133. 13s. 138-140. 151. 156, 159, 163, 168, 170, 17s, 178, 184, 191, 197,198,203,205, 208, 209, 212, 216, 221, 223, 227, 230, 231, 236, 238 ,, respited, traverser being sick, 125 Traynholme, Thomas, 44 Treading down grass, 123 Treasurers for Hospitals and Lame Soldiers to give in their ac- counts, 3, 28, 105, in, 156 X 3o6 INDEX. Treasurers for Hospitals and Lame Soldiers, Orders touching, 244. 24s ,, for Hospitals and Lame Soldiers, Payments by, 36, 126, 246, 261 Treasurers for Hospitals and Lame Soldiers, Names of, for Rich- mondshire : — Bates, Thomas, 16, 73, 105, 106, 133 Baxter, Thomas, 88 Gibson, Mr., 244 Lofley, William, 88 Pinckney, William, 244 Pybus, John, 244 Treasurers for Lame Soldiers to give in their accounts, 29, 72, 105, III, 121 ,, for Lame Soldiers, Their dis- bursements to be made good, 137, 172, 189, 199, 216, 229 Treasurers for Lame Soldiers, Names of:— Frear, William, 121, 133, 149, 150, 156, 162, 165, 171 Hebden, William, 62, 72, 87, 88, 106, 121, 133, 137, 189, 199 Hunter, Mr., 29, 33 Man, Mr. , 29 Norcliffe, Marmaduke, 34, 62, 72, 105, 112, 137, 157, 207, 2l5, 229 Pinckney, William, 156, .165, 171 Wray, John, 16, 58, 88, 105, 121, 133, 166 Trespass, 258 ,, with damage, 70, 80, 83, 84, 123, 135, 139, 191, 208, 227, 230 Trewhitt, Percivall, 119 Trewman, Robert, 39 Troutesdaile, William, 122 Tumult in a church on the Sabbath day, Making a, 119 Turner, Mrs., 19 Twisleton, Richard, 192 U. Unjust weights and measures, 25 1 Unlawful distress. Making an, 230 „ games, Playing, 113 ,, ,, Suffering, 109 ,, imprisonment, 248 Upper Bench, Indictment removed into, 216 ,, ,, and Marshalsea, Payments to, 42, 78 V. Vagabonds, etc.. Presented as, 68, 71, 99, 130, 196 ,, Harbouring, 241, 252 Vagrant, A person presented as a, ac- quitted, 77 Vagrants, Laws against, to be put in execution, 44 ,, sent to the place of their birth, 69, loi, 171 ,, sent to the House of Correc- tion, 126, 137, 141, 210 ,, beggars and scolds, Not pun- ishing, 114, 236 Vaughan, Dame Clare, 92, 95, 135, 159, 176, 177 „ Sir Henry, 92, 104, no, 132, 13s, 137. 146, 159, 176, 177 View to be taken of alleged needful re- pairs of highways, etc., 250, 254, 255 W. Wages due. Refusing to pay, 31, 137, 151, 175, 188 Waif stot. Taking up and selling a, 248, 253 Wailes, John, 112 Waind, William, 126 Waire, William, 122 Waistell, Colonel, 47, 114 Wakefield, Edward (Clerk), 67 Walker, Christopher, 114 ,, Thomas, 152 INDEX. 307 Walters, Roger, 105 Wandering beggar (a woman) to be whipped, 255 ,, minstrel, Practising as a, 212, 218, 221 ,, players, 260 ,, rogue, 245 Wapentakes, Surveyors of the several, named below :— Birdforth : Ash, Leonard ; Freir, William ; Graves, Henry ; Midle- ton, George. Bulmer : Bell, John ; Dynmoore, William ; Key, Samuel ; Tomlin- son, Thomas. Langbargh : Carter, William ; Coats, John ; Colthurst, Robert ; Foster, William ; Potter, Christopher ; Wilcocke, Robert. Rydall : Hebden,\Villiam ; Morrett, Richard ; Smith, John. Wapentakes, Money to be raised by the Surveyors of the several, 246 Warcopp, Mr., 23 Warde, Laurence, 97 n. ,, Robert, 97 n. Warrants, Disobedience to, 2, 70 ,, Keeping and dispensing blank, n6 ,, Neglecting or refusing to execute, 47, 241, 242 Watch, Assaulting the, 84, no, 159 ,, Neglecting to set, 132, 136 ,, Not keeping a sufficient, 77 ,, Refusing to set a, 116 Watchman neglecting his office, A, 135, 236 Watercourse, Casting stones and rubbish into a, 154 ,, Damming or stopping a, 69, 227 ,, Diverting a, 81, 132, 133, 136, 163. 192 ,, duly scoured after present- ment, 254, 255 ,, Not scouring a, 23, 26, 32, 60, 66, 68, 71, 76, "7. 119, 140, 182, 183, 187, 192, 204, 213-215, 218, 219, 227, 231, 237, 241, 248 „ to be scoured, 20, 30, 68, 73.75 Watercourse, Throwing slam of alum into a, 65, 169 Watson, Edward, 189 „ George, 104, 183, 187, 189,205, 221, 233, 262 ,, John (Easingwold), no; (Gig- leswick), 69 Webster, Elizabeth, 95 „ Wilfrey, 184 Weddell, John, 174 Welbury, Elizabeth, I S3, 185 „ John, 183 ,, Thomas, 185 Wetherall, Wethereld, etc., WiUiam, 41, 116 Wharton, Richard, 47 Whipping, Sentences of, 15, 23, 38, 40, 48, 54. 57. 65, 66, 68-70, 90, 99, 101-103, n3, 114, 117,121,123, 128, 131, 143, 148, 151, 154, 160 166, 168, 1S2, 204, 208,209, 218, 219, 221, 223, 225, 228, 234, 237 253, 25s, 260, 262 Whitby Bridge, Damage done by ships to, 7, 8, 71, 72, 95, 105, io5 ,, parish church, Proceedings touching a pew in, 244 Whitehead, Widow, 20 Wigginer, Wiggoner, etc., Nicholas, 185, 188, 195, 199, 216, 241 Wighill, John, 36 Wilden, John, 216 Wilkinson, James, 104 ; 262 „ Mr., 24 „ Thomas, 41, 42 ; 92, 94, 95 Wilson, Marmaduke (Barnby), 136 ; (Whitby), 219 ,, Nathaniel, 187 ,, Roger, 241 ,, William, 81 Win, John, 55 Wind, Anthony, 192 Winsby, Robert, 162 Witchcraft and sorcery, 259 Wivell, Christopher, 2 Wood, Jane, 255 ,, John, 245, 255, 261 ,, William, 215 Woodvvorke (Glaisdale), Thomas, ^-1-1 Worfolke, Thomas, 78 ,, WiUiam, 32, 32 n., 55 Worsley, Thomas, 116, 135 308 INDEX. Wray, Sir Christopher, 2 ,, John, 129 Wright, Francis, no Writ of Restitution, 167, 170 Writings from a woman to the value of ;£'2,ooo. Taking her, 215 Wyse, Edward, 84 , , Henry, 84 Wythes, Edward, a Recusant, takes the Oath of Abjuration, 256 York Castle, Committed to, 138, 152, 225, 245 ,, ,, Charge for carrying a felon to, 262 Young, Ellen, 205 „ George, 199 „ Michael, 6 ,, William, 199 Woodfall & Kinder, Printers, 69 to 76, Long Acre, London, E.C. 4 rffi m. I t¥M'