Buckinghamshire Sessions Records

County of Buckingham

CALENDER

to the

SESSIONS RECORDS

VOLUME III.

1705 to 1712

AND

APPENDIX,

1647

Edited by

WILLIAM LE HARDY, M.C., F.S.A.

GEOFFREY LI.  RECKITT, M.C., F.S.A.

AYLESBURY:

Published by Guy R. Crouch, LL.B., Clerk of the Peace, County Hall.

1939

COMPILED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE STANDING JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS AND COUNTY COUNCIL.

[All Rights Reserved]

Printed by HUNT, BARNARD & CO. LTD., AYLESBURY.

 

CONTENTS

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Preface          . .                      . .                      . .                      . .                      . .                         . .	vii-xxxxii
Calendar to the Sessions Records, 1705 TO 1712      . .                      . .                         . .                      . .                      . .	1-305
Appendix      i, (a) Justices of the Peace, (B) Sheriffs, 1705 to 1712	306-308
Appendix      ii, Document at Doddershall, 1647        . . . . . . . .	309-316
Appendix      III, Addenda to Volume II                         . .	317-325
Appendix      IV, Writs of venire facias and capias ad respondendum, 1705 to 1712                 . .                      . .	326-334
Appendix      V, Register of Gamekeepers, 1707 to 1712. .             . .	335-345
Appendix      VI, Steeple Claydon Highway Rate, 1710  . .                . .	346
Appendix      VII, Dinton Poor Rate, 1711                      . .	347-349
Index              . .                      . .                      . .    . .    . .      . .	350-427

 

PREFACE

 

Those who believe that the value of a work of this nature lies in its completeness must suffer a disappointment in the fact that it is now nearly three years since the publication of the last volume of the calendar, and with those who hold such an opinion we have much sympathy and offer our apologies to them.

This delay has been caused mainly by the discovery, during the preparation of the work, that many of the documents which go to make up a Sessions Roll had become misplaced.  It was thus necessary to examine and arrange all the rolls for a period long after the date when this calendar was likely to end, in order to ensure that all records covering the period would be brought together and noted in the calendar.  While this work took a considerable time, it is hoped that it has facilitated the production of future volumes, as the rolls are now in order up to the year 1720.

The confusion in the sorting of these is best exemplified by reference to Appendix III to this calendar [pp. 317-325], where the information relating to matters referred to in Volume II, and found filed in later Sessions Rolls, has been fully set out.  Reprints of this appendix have been made, and will be supplied to those in possession of Volume II on application to the Clerk of the Peace.

Since the publication of the last volume, the county has (in May, 1938) appointed a permanent County Archivist, and has converted the old cells and rooms in the basement of the County Hall into a record room large enough to house all the records now in the custody of the county authorities.  During the transference of the documents to these new quarters the archivist has already unearthed some records not mentioned in the old manuscript indices, the contents of which will be incorporated in future volumes of the calendar.  A completely 

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new and comprehensive catalogue of all the records, which will make them far more accessible to students, is to be compiled.

Among the recent discoveries have been a series of Test Rolls, recording the names of persons who took the statutory oaths, and lists of Catholics and dissenters; they begin in 1696.  It will be noticed that many of such names appear in the calendar forming the present volume.

There is, perhaps, small chance that any of the earlier Sessions records will now be discovered, but from a totally different source a draft Sessions Book, dealing with the Easter Session, 1647, has come to light and the information it contains has been incorporated in Appendix II to the present volume [pp. 309-316].  This book was found by Mr. George Eland, F.S.A., among the collection of manuscripts in the possession of Lady Pigott-Brown at Doddershall, and has been extracted and printed by her permission.

It records the “Actes of the Generall Quarter Sessions” held at Buckingham on the 29 April, 1647.  Sir Richard Pigott, who was one of the eight justices present on that occasion, took an active part in county administration during the Commonwealth.  He had been appointed Deputy- Lieutenant in 1642, and had served as sheriff in 1644-5. The other justices named are Sir Thomas Saunders of Amersham, Sir Thomas Tyrrell of Castle Thorpe, Richard Grenville of Wotton Underwood, Anthony Radcliffe of Chalfont St. Giles, William Wheeler of Datchet, John Lawe, and Sir John Parsons of Boveney, who married the heiress of Sir John Kidderminster, the founder of the almshouses and the church library at Langley Marish.

The contents of this book are set out in approximately the same orderly manner as those later Sessions Books with which these calendars deal, and show that the system of recording the business at Quarter Sessions had already been regularized.

The record is mainly important for the reference it supplies to the Governor of “Bowstall” and to the payment of £2. 10s. to Joseph Bradlye towards the losses he sustained in having his house and goods burnt by “the Parliament souldiers when they beseiged Borstall” [pp. 312 and 314]. Boarstall had changed hands several times, but was finally held by the Parliamentary forces from June, 1646, onwards. 

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John Frayter of Quainton was also compensated for his losses by fire, but there is nothing in the entry to indicate that these were caused by the civil wars.

Towns within five miles of Buckingham had failed to subscribe towards the relief of the inhabitants of Buckingham, which had been visited with the plague, and it was ordered that the full penalties of the law should be imposed upon them if they continued in their neglect [p. 315].

John Walbanck, the Clerk of the Peace, and Christopher Perkins, gentleman, the deputy clerk, were respectively fined 100 marks and 40 marks for their failure to attend the court [p. 315].

William Houghton, a clerk in holy orders, was bound over to keep the peace [p. 313].

Appendix I to this volume gives a complete list of Justices of the Peace who are mentioned in the calendar, together with the names of the High Sheriffs.

Appendix IV gives a list of all persons whose names appear in the writs of venire facias and capias ad respondendum. These writs are found in the Sessions Rolls, though some of them are missing.  As all the names contained in these writs have appeared elsewhere, either in the Sessions Books or Sessions Rolls, it was thought more convenient to give them in full for one year and then to tabulate them, and thus avoid reprinting the same names many times in the body of the calendar.

The Register of Gamekeepers appears for the first time (Appendix V) and extracts from this book for the period covered by the calendar have been tabulated for convenience sake.  The main value of this list is that one is able to learn the names of many manors in the county and of the persons who held them.  Among the owners are found many well- known persons: e.g. Sir John Chester, 4th baronet, who rebuilt Chicheley Hall; Bernard Gardiner, subsequently Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, who held Long Crendon; William Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven, a Scottish peer who sat as a member of Parliament for the county from 1698 to 1702 and was Lord Lieutenant; Edward Henry Lee of Quarrendon, Bucks, and Ditchley, co.  Oxford, and his mother, Elizabeth, later the widow of Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey; Edward Lee was created Earl of Lichfield in 1674, after his marriage to the 

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illegitimate daughter of Charles II by Barbara, Duchess of  Cleveland; Sir Robert Throckmorton, who partially rebuilt the mansion at Weston Underwood and was a great benefactor to that parish and to Coughton, co.  Warwick; Maurice, 2nd Baron Haversham, who had been wounded at the siege of Namur; Frances, widow of James, 4th Earl of Salisbury, and daughter of Simon Bennet of Beachampton; Mary, widow of the 3rd Earl of Northampton, and daughter of the 3rd Viscount Campden; Scroop, Earl, and subsequently Duke, of Bridgewater, who was Lord Lieutenant of the county and married Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke of Marlborough; Henry Petty, Lord Shelburne, who was subsequently M.P. for Great Marlow and Chipping Wycombe; Thomas, 1st Marquis of Wharton, who had been M.P. for Wendover and later for the county, and Lord Lieutenant in 1702 until dismissed from that office on the accession of Queen Anne; Sir Edward Longueville, a zealous Catholic and supporter of the cause of James II, who was killed by a fall from his horse at Bicester Races in 1718; the trustees of a charity left by Dr. Richard Busby, the headmaster of Westminster School; and the Master of Ewelme Hospital in Oxfordshire [pp. 335-345].

Appendix VI contains the names of ratepayers in the parish of Steeple Claydon in 1710, and Appendix VII gives a similar list of inhabitants of Dinton.  These lists have been inserted in this form with the object of interfering as little as possible with the layout of the calendar.

The calendar opens in the middle of the War of the Spanish Succession and a year before the triumph of Marlborough at Ramillies, and covers the victories of Oudenarde and Malplaquet, and various other minor ones over the French in Flanders and the Spaniards in Spain, which resulted in the Treaty of Utrecht a year after the close of this calendar.

An address to Queen Anne was drawn up by the Lord Lieutenant, the justices, and many others, congratulating her on the victory of her forces at Ramillies “under un- parrelled Conduct and Bravery of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough and of Your Majesties other renowned Generalls the Earle of Peterborough and the Earle of Galloway.”  It viewed with satisfaction the Queen's “wysdome in the Choyce of your present Ministers and Generalls under whome 

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the exorbitant Power of France has been soe visibly reduced and the Antient Honor of England soe Gloriously advanced” [pp. 57 and 101].

In 1707, the Union of England and Scotland became an established fact, and from then onwards the two countries became known as “Great Britain.”  This called for a further address, which was forwarded at the Easter Session, congratulating the Queen that “amongst all the unexpected successes that have Attended your Majesties prudent Conduct and unwearyed Endeavours nothing can make us appeare more formidable abroad and secure at home then the Long wished for Union of your Two Neighbouring Kingdoms, a worke of such Difficulty that tho’ soe often Attempted by your Royall predecessors it seemed reserved only to Add fresh Gloryes to your Majestyes most Auspicious Government”

[p. 91].          

At various times during the period covered by the calendar tremendous activities in recruiting are evidenced. At the Epiphany Session, 1706, a letter from the Privy Council addressed to the Custos Rotulorum of the county was presented, asking for the vigorous execution of an Act for raising recruits for the land forces and marines, “the same being a Service absolutely necessary for carrying on the Warre.”  The court ordered the county officials to make diligent search for able-bodied men who had no “lawfull Calling or Imployment or visible meanes for their mainten- ance or livelyhood or vote in Electing members to serve in Parliamen” [p. 37].  Fourteen men were approved and sent to the Regiment of Marines commanded by Brigadier Holt, and to the Regiments of Foot commanded by Sir Richard Temple and by George, Earl of Orkney.  A physical descrip- tion is given in regard to the last eight of these recruits: e.g. “A thick, short, browne-haired man, aged 18 yeares”; “a middlesized man aged about 35 yeares” or a “short well sett man aged about 22 yeares” [pp. 31-32].  At the next Session, eleven recruits, whose ages are given, were sent to Lord Orkney's Regiment of Foot [p. 40], and in case the Army might be thought to be getting it all their own way, a royal proclamation was read “for the encouragement and increase of Seamen” for the “speedier and better manning her Majesties Fleet” [p. 50]. This had immediate effect, for at the Midsummer Session, although thirteen men were handed 

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over to Colonel Somes’ Regiment of Foot and to the regiment commanded by Brigadier Harry Mordant, seven were passed to Brigadier Holt’s Regiment of Marines and four (one aged 16) were “impressed” for service at sea. Of the men sent to the Marines, one was taken from gaol and two were described as Dutchmen [p. 55]. At Epiphany, 1706, sixteen men were sent to the Regiments of Foot commanded by Lord Orkney and General Ingoldbye [pp. 73-4].

Two years passed before we find record of further enlistments, and then only two men were handed over to Brigadier Hans Hamilton’s regiment [p. 115], but at the Easter Session, 1708, twenty-nine men were distributed between the regiments commanded by Colonel Roger Elliott, General Earle, and Brigadier Holt [pp. 124-5].  During the rest of the period covered by this calendar only three more men were brought in, and of these one was sent to Colonel Bowle’s regiment [p. 134], one to Colonel Brazyer’s regiment [p. 146], and the other to Lord Shannon’s Marines [p. 153].

Many prisoners were released from gaol on their giving an undertaking to enlist, and one of these, Thomas Miller, was enrolled in the Duke of Marlborough’s 1st Regiment of Foot Guards [pp. 9, 61,77, 80, and 149].

The passage of troops through the county must have been a frequent occurrence, for we find several cases of persons refusing to supply waggons and teams for the baggage and ammunition of the military, and it is from such references that we learn of the presence in the county of Colonel Livesay’s regiment [pp. 75 and 82].  The constable of Preston was allowed £3. 8s. for providing a waggon with five horses and two “sufficient” drivers for taking the baggage of Brigadier Hill’s regiment from Buckingham to Northampton, over and above the regular allowance of 1s. a mile allowed by the Army [p. 299].  At the Epiphany Session, 1712, the justices issued their warrant to the chief constable of Desborough to provide two waggons, each with six horses, to be at the Catherine Inn at Chipping Wycombe to take the baggage of the Royal Regiment of Horse commanded by the Duke of Northumberland [pp. 299-300].  At each Easter Session the rates for billeting soldiers and for carriage of their baggage were laid down [pp. 11, 51, 94, 132, 165, and 216]. George Grove, a “gentleman” of Chipping Wycombe, was presented for refusing” to carry the Queenes carriage and the 

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baggage of a troop” [p. 295], and William Lee junior, a carpenter, and.Robert Todd, a yeoman, both of Aylesbury, were presented for quartering soldiers without authority [pp. 3 and 16]; John Coney of Swanbourne and Henry Goss of Soulbury were charged with interrupting the commis- sioners of recruiting in carrying out their duties [pp. 165-6]. Captain John Ramsey gave information to the court that Geoffrey Smith of Grendon Underwood had sheltered a deserter [p. 80], and another who had escaped from the custody of the constable of Stony Stratford was afterwards arrested and hanged for burglary [p. 268].

A soldier who had served under Colonel Thomas Colthropp at the storming of Namur and had been granted a county pension, had his pension increased to £4 a year owing to “very great infirmityes sicknesse and affliccons occasioned by his continuance in the army and undergoeing the hard- shipps incident to the service and his old age” [p. 261]; on the other hand, the application of Richard Rogers of Great Missenden for a pension was refused because he failed to produce a sufficient certificate of his service as a soldier in Major Halsey’s company of the Earl of Mulgrave’s regiment [p. 26].

An early case of a self-inflicted wound in order to avoid military service comes to light when Mr. Noah Pitcher, a “skillfull Chyrugeon,” applied for his fees for attending to Gerrard Wilding, a vagrant, who “in a Malicious and barbarous manner” had “cutt and divided the Greate Tendon of his Legg” [p. 50].

John Taylor, a “gentleman” of Shenley, who was a bondsman to a recognizance, had this extended when it was proved that he was “actually att Sea in her Majesties Service, he being Captayne of a Mann of Warr called the Princess Anne” [p. 17] and Daniel Bird, who was serving in H.M.S. Severne, had left his wife and three children chargeable to the parish in his eagerness to enlist [p. 195].

For a long time the justices made a quarterly allowance for a child born at Breda in Holland, whose father was in H.M. service [p. 7].  At Epiphany, 1707, this child was put in the charge of Alexander Olliffe, and was apprenticed at the Michaelmas Session to an Aylesbury carpenter [pp. 78 and 111].

Alexander Olliffe, who had been a faithful servant to the 

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county, and regularly attended the Assizes at Chipping Wycombe, was allowed £5 in 1708 when he was “un- fortunately beat downe by the cart” that conveyed the prisoners to the court.  The cart ran over “his body and broke the bone of one of his legs,” and he had ever since “layne under the chirurgeon’s hands att great charges to his utter ruine” [p. 142].

The excitement aroused by a parliamentary election is vividly exemplified by the record in the Midsummer Session, 1705, when several persons who were standing in the street at Aylesbury threw stones and brickbats at Mr. Hampden and Mr. Shute when they were riding on horseback in front of Sir Roger Hill, who was in a coach.  They also incited the crowd by shouting “Knock them on the Head; beat the Rogues’ Brains out” [pp. 15, 19, and 20].  Aylesbury was no doubt still suffering from the effect of the disfranchisement of Matthew Ashby in the election of 1700, which led to much litigation [vide V.C.H. Bucks, Vol. IV, pp. 546-7].

In Michaelmas, 1710, an appeal by the inhabitants of Bray was adjourned, “in regard of the eleccon of members to serve in Parliament for the county of Berks” [p. 235].

The number of meeting-houses, many of them newly- erected, which were registered at nearly every Session indicates the broadening outlook on religious subjects, but it is remarkable that only one case of a house is found actually described as a Quakers’ Meeting House (that at Turvile Heath), when the county was known to have been one of the strongholds of that schism [p. 97].

This outlook is also shewn by the small number of persons who were presented for refusing to go to their parish church. Except for the few persons whose names appear among those indicted at every Session, we hear of practically no other cases of recusancy, except that of Thomas Hawkins, who was discharged on taking the “Oathes to the Government and made it appeare that he is a Constant Churchman and hearer of Divine Service and Sermons in his Parish Church” [p. 18].

Robert Dorsett of Princes Risborough expressed his wish to subscribe to the thirty-nine articles, because he desired to teach a congregation of protestant dissenters [p. 271].

At the Midsummer Session, 1705, it was arranged that meetings should be held at fixed places through the county for taking an account of “all Papists and reputed Papists, 

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with their respective Qualityes, Estates and Places of abode” [p. 60].  The constable of Great Kimble was fined 6s. 8d. for not making a return of Papists [p. 66].*

A disturbance in Brill Church during a funeral sermon by the Rev. Gervase Widdows was caused by the “indecent gestures” of certain of the congregation [p. 27], and John Bannister was fined 3s. 4d. for assaulting his minister, the Rev. William Nanny, who was too bruised to appear as evidence against him [pp. 185 and 189].

The Rev. Francis Freer, who had been a curate at Fleet Marston, fell on evil days, and when the parish officers refused to make him an allowance, he appealed to the justices [p. 163] but was unsuccessful [p. 170], and presumably he had to return to Wigston in Leicestershire, where he was born, for further support [p. 181].

The number of presentments for profaning the Sabbath seem to have diminished during the period under review, and we only find one or two minor cases [pp. 74, 99, and 126].

On the 8 July, 1708, the steeple of the parish church of Chalfont St. Peter fell, and demolished the north and south aisles.  The cost of rebuilding was certified by two carpenters and two bricklayers to be £1,521. 5s. 6d., and the Justices petitioned the Lord Chancellor for leave to appeal for funds throughout England [p. 143].†  It is presumed that this accident was due to an unusually high wind, and apparently the weather during 1708 had been severe, for at the Epiphany Session the jurors who had defaulted in their appearances were excused “in regard of the wett and rainy weather and badnesse of the highways of travel” [p. 118].  In the following Epiphany, certain “antient and infirme witnesses” were unable  to attend the Session by reason of the non- repair of Middle Claydon Bridge, owing to the “extremity of the weather and badnesse of the wayes” [p. 149].

Complaints arose in 1710 over the measures used in markets throughout the county, and it was decreed that no person should sell corn or grain except by a bushel or measure of the same size and gauge “and in every respect agreeable 

 

*  Note.—Among the recently.discovered lists and Test Rolls alluded to above are: a “Papists Oath Roll, 1696—1701 and Aug.-Sept. 1723”; and “A Register of Christians and Papists, 1716-41 and 1717-41” Details will be incorporated in the next volume.

† Note.—See Records of Buckinghamshire, Vol. XII, pp. 65-67, which gives this petition verbatim, and has notes on the result of the appeal for funds.

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to the standard markt in her Majesty’s Court of Exchequer called Winchester Measure”  These were to be provided in every market town and “to be chayned in the public markett places” [pp. 233-4].

At the same Session the inhabitants of Stony Stratford complained that they could not buy bread at reasonable rates, as the farmers bought and sold their grain in the “inn yards and at their barn doors” instead of in the open market [p. 237].  In Epiphany, 1710, information was laid against a number of persons who had bought corn with a view to reselling it at a profit [pp. 190 and 195].

A great deal of the time of the justices and much of the money collected from the rates were devoted to the settle- ment and relief of the poor.  One has only to mention a few incidents which appear in the calendar in order to realize the diverse nature of this aspect of civic control.

The parish officers of Great Marlow reported the case of James Johnson, who had been born in Scotland, though he had reached Buckinghamshire by way of Ireland.  An order for his removal to Chester had been obtained so that he might be returned to Ireland, but by a disguise he had escaped, and was given refuge by William Murrey, another Scotsman, who had given him work in order “to gayne a settlement” for him.  The case was adjourned, but we hear no more of it [p. 9].

In certain cases where the poor were granted parish relief, they were ordered to wear “the poors Badge” of the parish, “according as the Law directs” [pp. 61 and 256].

The case of Elizabeth Miles, who was aged 98 and was unable to work “being worne out with age,” is deserving of mention.  She was allowed 1s. 3d. a week from the parish, which according to her “is little more than what she can expend in fire, being old and very chilly and withall not able to make herself ready without helpe” [p. 183].  Another case demanding the sympathy of the court was that of James Cox of West Wycombe whose right hand had been maimed by the palsey and whose eyesight was “much decayed.”  He had several running sores in his legs and was very “grievously afflicted with the evil” [p. 265].

John Colley, who had “received severall considerable sumes of money by way of charity” from his parish of Boarstall, was refused further assistance [p. 223].

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The maintenance of illegitimate children was also a drain on the county finances, and every step was taken to find the father and to make him responsible for the child’s upkeep. The case of Elizabeth Goldsworth of Aylesbury caused an unusual amount of trouble.  She had given birth to twins and charged Edmund Reeve, esquire, with being their father.  Unfortunately he had been committed to the county gaol for debt and therefore was not in a position to take on his responsibilities, so perhaps it was fortunate for the parish that one of the children died.  When the case first came on for hearing, Elizabeth did not appear; it was reported that she was “again with child,” and she was ordered to be arrested and imprisoned in the bridewell until further order should be made [p. 263].

This was not the end of the story, because Elizabeth, when examined, deposed that she had since married Richard Darcoe, a seaman in the Royal Navy, at a church “beyond Highgate” and had lived with him for three weeks in a house near Charing Cross and later at a house in “Shandois Streets“ (Chandos Street).  She did not know where her husband was born, or even the name of the ship on which he was serving, but said that the father of her twins was really James Neale, and that she had been “hired and subborned by ye said James Neale to charge the said Edmund Reeve to be the putative father.”  When she informed James Neale that she was pregnant, “he blamed her for not discovering it to him before and saying that had he known it sooner it might have been prevented for she might have took something by which he meant that she ought to have destroyed ‘em in her womb.” If she followed Neale’s instructions he promised that he would find her “a good place in a lord’s house in Northamptonshire” [pp. 275-6].

A curious story was told by Jane Gray, who was really an inhabitant of Ickford, in regard to her bastard child. Shortly before its birth, she had visited her mother at Great Milton in Oxfordshire “to get and provide herselfe with lynnen and other necessaryes,” but owing to a flood which occurred at that time she was unable to return to Ickford and the child was born at Great Milton ; it was held that that parish was liable for the child’s maintenance [pp. 264-5].

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Humphrey Clarke made over his farm and stock at Dorney to his son, John, who had recently died, and the property passed to his brother, Michael.  Michael had then “removed himself to the prison of the Fleete.”  This was not “a place whereunto by law the said Rebeccah cann be sent to her husband,” and the court decided that Michael Clarke should be rated £1. 6s. 8d. more a month in order that the parish might allow Rebecca 6s. 8d. a week.  At the next Session, however, Michael produced a writ of certiorari for the case to be removed to the Queen’s Bench [pp. 214, 222-3, and 235].

The cost of “conveying and relieving vagrants and beggars” was referred to in the preface to the previous volume [Vol. II, p. xxii], and in the period under review it was still a heavy charge to the county.  The amount collected by the special rate, under the Act of 11 and 12 William III, c. 18, was £314. 14s. 4½d.  at Epiphany, 1707, which was reduced to £314. 1s. 5½d. in the five subsequent years by the assessment on the hundred of Cottesloe being lowered by 12s. 10d. [pp. 76, 120, 148, 178, 232, and 273]. We are not given the full accounts of how this money was expended, but the constables of Little Brickhill and of Stony Stratford, both on Watling Street, seem to have performed much of the work, and their demands for payment are given at each Session.  The approximate amounts paid to these constables in each successive year are £40 for three Sessions in 1705, £133 in 1706, £150 in 1707, £236 in 1708, and £146 for only half of 1709, a total of about £700, of which £400 went to Little Brickhill [pp. 7, 17, 24, 34, 49, 58, etc.].

It is not surprising that the justices noticed these alarming increases, and at the Easter Session, 1709, we read that “in view of the great abuses which the justices believed to have taken place . . . , especially by the constables of Little Brickhill . . . , it was agreed that in future only persons who could be properly vouched for were to hold office as constables”. Actually, John Ping, who had been serving for the last year, and Robert Ratcliffe were appointed for Little Brickhill, at a fixed rate of £80 a year, and Matthew Eyre, one of the serving constables, and Mark Boyce for Stony Stratford, upon the same terms [pp. 164 and 170]. William Daniell, a former constable of Stony Stratford, received a gratuity for making certain proposals which were 

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“very useful in and about reducing the charge” [p. 171]. The Little Brickhill constables, not appearing to be satisfied with these less lucrative arrangements, asked to be discharged, and the Clerk of the Peace was ordered to find fit persons to succeed them [pp. 171 and 184].  None the less, they carried on for the next year, during which the cost to the county was only £160, with the addition of some £30 paid to various chief constables [pp. 179-180, 192, and 213].

At Easter, 1710, Samuel Evans, another past constable of Stony Stratford, who later again accepted the office, was paid £1. 10s. for some further suggestions as to how to reduce the cost, with the result that two new constables agreed to act for Stony Stratford for £50 a year, a sum which was accepted for the remainder of the period [p. 213]. The payments to the constables of Little Brickhill differed ; for the year from Midsummer, 1710, to Easter, 1711, they received varying quarterly amounts, to a total of about £140, but after this they appear to have agreed upon the sum of £100 a year ; certain chief constables were paid a total of £170 during these last two years [pp. 224, 232, 234, 260, 287, and 297].

In Michaelmas, 1710, upon a complaint that vagrants and beggars passed “from towne to towne to the grievance of the country without being apprehended,” the court ordered that the constables and tithingmen of every parish should put the laws against vargrants and beggars into execution and should search houses where such persons might be concealed [p. 233].

On occasions the accounts for passing vagrants appear in the Sessions Rolls in great detail, when every vagrant conveyed is named and the places from where they were conveyed and their destinations are given.  It is clear from these records that the county was only responsible for conveying the vagrants as far as the town nearest to the county boundary in the direction of their destination [pp. 196, 225, 235, etc.].  The rates raised for this purpose were unpopular, and the Rev. Edward Carleton of Leckhampstead refused to pay them; as the indictment against him was quashed, we may presume that his objection was well- founded [pp. 2 and 35].

The difficulties of maintaining the roads are constantly exemplified, and those who overburdened them with excessive 

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loads were brought before the justices and fined.  On one occasion a labourer of Newport Pagnell, posing no doubt as an official, extorted 4s. 6d. “and a Cheshire cheese” from a Flintshire carrier, and other sums of money from those coming from Leicestershire, because they “had drawne Waggons with more Horses then was allowed by Lawe upon London Roade” [p. 22].

Persons were presented for refusing to collect materials for the repair of the roads and to do the statutory work on the roads [pp. 2, 66, 74, and 251].  Occasionally parishes applied to the justices under the Act of 3 and 4 William and Mary, c. 12, for leave to raise a special 6d.  rate for the repair of the roads [e.g. pp. 9, 18, 24, 60, 224, 276, and 288].

Disputes arose over the proper route which some roads should take, as for instance the road from Grimes Lane to Addington Bridge.  It was questioned whether it ran “next the inclosure of Joseph Miller or over the cowpasture Leys in the common fields of East Cleydon” [p. 164].  Several cases are found of persons stopping up footpaths and highways [pp. 204, 284, and 295].

Many persons were indicted for not scouring rivers or ditches, by which neglect highways became flooded, and when the inhabitants of Steeple Claydon were charged for failing to scour the river between Addington and Adstock Bridge, a settlement was delayed because the lord of the manor claimed “the flaggs, fishing and scouring” of the river [p. 138].

The upkeep and good management of the county gaol and of the houses of correction demanded the constant attention of the justices.  The house of William Benson at Aylesbury was still being used as the county gaol, at a rent of £20 a year [pp. 8, 24, 49, 69, etc.].  An entry which appears to show unprecedented delay in legal procedure is found in the Michaelmas Session, 1708.  The court then ordered an enquiry to be made in regard to a legacy which was alleged to have been left in 1609 by Hipwell Penn of Stony Stratford towards the betterment of the condition of prisoners in the county gaol.  It seemed that the county had not yet received the benefit of this bequest [p. 143].  Prisoners were provided with two loaves of bread a week and these varied in size from 2 lbs. 7 oz. to 2 lbs. 9 oz., and four persons described as “county bakers” were appointed to supply them.  The 

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cost to the county varied from £7. 4s. 8d. a quarter in 1706 [p. 48] to as much as £25. 8s. 0d. in Epiphany, 1712 [p. 296]. New bakers for the gaol were appointed at the Midsummer Session, 1710 [p. 225], but in Michaelmas, 1710, the prisoners further showed that the county bakers had broken the assize, and that the loaves supplied to the gaol were much smaller than they should have been considering the fall in the price of corn.  Finding out from the gaoler that these com- plaints were well founded, the county bakers were dismissed [p. 234], but in Easter, 1711, the frauds and abuses committed by them were again brought to the notice of the court, and an enquiry was held, though we do not learn the result of this [pp. 266-7].  At the following Michaelmas Session the gaoler was ordered to let the court have “an exact account of all bread delivered by the county bakers, and the names of the prisoners to whom the bread was distributed,” on the first day of each Session [p. 291].

In Midsummer, 1708, the ordinary prisoners complained that several prisoners for debt, “although of ability to support themselves,” had been allowed an equal share of the county bread.  It was then decided that the whole question of allow- ing county bread should be considered by the justices [p. 137]. No action was taken until Michaelmas, 1709, when several prisoners in the county gaol petitioned that the allowance of bread had become so small on account of the price of corn that it was not sufficient for their support.  It was then decided that prisoners were to have their usual allowance “and noe more,” but that they could choose whether they had bread made of “wheate or barley or mixed.”  In addition, the gaoler was allowed £10 a quarter to buy oatmeal “to make pottage or broth“ for them [p. 182].

At the period when this calendar opens, John Piddington had acted as apothecary to provide medicines to the prisoners, but he was displaced in Easter, 1706, by Thomas Williams [p. 35].  Williams received quarterly payments, varying from £22. 9s. 9d. in Epiphany, 1710, to £16. 12s. 8d. in Michaelmas, 1706 [pp. 69 and 192].  At the Midsummer Session, 1710, his bill was submitted to a committee of justices to examine, and as the result of this he was dismissed and Piddington, who had been apothecary for fourteen years and had “per- formed that businesse with care and skill,” was immediately re-appointed in his place [p. 224].  The first account of the 

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newcomer in Michaelmas, 1710, was only £5. 17s. 10d. [p. 232]; the second account shews a reduction to £5. 4s. 6d. [p. 243], but by Easter the third had risen to £9. 8s. [p. 260]. However, on the whole his accounts were much less than Williams’ had been.  The actual accounts of the surgeons are enrolled among the Sessions Rolls, and it is regretted that space did not permit of these being printed in full.  Those interested must be referred to the original rolls, where some startling treatments are recorded.

John King threw a large stone and hit Mary Pateman of Drayton Parslow.  A surgeon who examined her could find “no outward wound,” but stated that she complained of great pain and could not endure to be touched.  He considered that the fits she had were occasioned by fright.  He let her blood, bathed her side, and applied a “sear-cloth,” which he hoped would relieve her, but he could not say yet whether she was in danger of her life or not [p. 105].

Elizabeth Carter, a spinster of Newport Pagnell, stole an ounce of “elixir of vitriol” and some rose-water from her master, who was an apothecary [p. 66].

James Perkins, a surgeon, complained to the court that although he had taken “greate Care and Paynes and had applyed severall proper Oyntments, Emplaysters, and Medicaments” to cure a poor inhabitant of Drayton Beauchamp, the officers of that parish had refused to pay his fee [p. 92].

Apparently a doctor’s life was not always a peaceful one, for Jonathan Owin, a “gentleman” of Winslow, was bound over to keep the peace towards Thomas Craft, “doctor of physic” [p. 94].

A remarkable story was told by Catherine March, the daughter of Mr. Gilpyn of Walton.  About twenty years before her complaint was considered by the justices she had married a “Doctor March,” an “itinerant doctor or Mountebanck,” who for some time made his home with his father-in-law and visited various markets in the neighbour- hood, where he practised his art.  He had three children by Catherine and then apparently disappeared, and she was forced to apply for parochial relief [pp. 121-122].

The repair of bridges in the county was the constant duty of the justices.  Ickford [pp. 59 and 109], Eton [p. 59], Long Crendon [pp. 70 and 79], and Thornborough [pp. 118 

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and 289], are a few of those presented.  In regard to the last- named, the justices formed a committee to enquire what proportion of the money was due for the repair of that part of the bridge for which the county was responsible.

Laws had been passed in the reign of Elizabeth, and amplified by further acts in the reign of James I, to prevent the building of cottages unless four acres of land were allotted to each  This naturally caused inconvenience, but in special circumstances the justices had power to license the building of cottages with less land than this amount, and we find some applications for such licences, e.g. a cottage on the waste ground in the manor of Leckhampstead [p. 92].  Persons were presented for illegally building cottages at Waddesdon  [p. 16], at Chalfont St. Peter [p. 83], and at Great Missenden [p. 116], and another for converting one cottage into two at Brill [p. 2].

Many cases appear in the calendar which indicate the concern of the justices in the behaviour and well-being of apprentices.  Many disputes between masters and their apprentices were settled by the court [pp. 10, 18, 38, and 301], and occasionally suitable chastisement was ordered [p. 61].  The justices also had to see that persons did not carry on a trade unless they had been properly apprenticed thereto [pp. 167, 176, 241, and 251].  References are found to three cases of attempted enticement of servants from their masters.  Abraham Webb of Upton was indicted for enticing away the servant of Lambert Edmonds [p. 140], and Thomas Ligo, a “gentleman” of Stoke Mandeville, was charged with enticing John Pennary from his service while he was apprenticed to John Wildgoose [p. 284], but the case of Elizabeth Turner gives a more vivid picture of a somewhat different nature.  She was a servant to the Rector of Hedgerley and was sent on an errand by her master to Richard Dell.  On arrival, Dell asked her “how she came to live in seche a sorry place” and told her that the Rector never kept his maids as his wife was such a proud person and insisted that her maids called her “madam at every word.” At this point Dell’s wife chimed in with the remark that the Rector’s wife came out of a “nannyhouse” in London and nobody knew if the Rector had actually married her.  The Dells urged her to leave the Rectory and promised that they would find her another place if she did [pp. 278-9].  The court 

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also saw that children receiving county relief were properly apprenticed when they reached a suitable age [p. 216].

The justices regularly inspected the accounts of the Poor Folks’ Pasture in Brill and Oakley [vide Bucks.  Sess Records, Vol. II, p. xxii; Vol. III, pp. 11, 51, 60, 70, 132, 164, 214, and 263].

Fire insurance had not as yet been established, and the only method by which compensation for the loss could be obtained was by the somewhat laborious system of obtaining a “brief” from the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal entitling the sufferer to collect charitable donations throughout the county, or sometimes throughout the whole country.  These briefs were sent to the incumbents of parish churches and offertories were made on their behalf, but before the Lord Chancellor would authorize such collections the justices had to render a certificate that the claims were bona fide.

A fire at Haddenham, to which reference had been made in the previous volume, is again mentioned in a complaint that the money collection on behalf of those who had suffered, by Robert Meade, “gentleman,” had not been properly accounted for [pp. 10 and 237].  New certificates were issued in respect of “a sudden and lamentable fire” at North Marston, which caused damage to the extent of £3,456.8s.2d. [p. 28]; for the aid of William Smith of Ankerwyke in Wyrardisbury (Wraysbury), who had suffered losses of £554.1s.8d. [p. 34]; for Humphrey Clark and William Fellowe, maltsters of Dorney, who had lost £440.15s.5d. [pp. 93 and 119]; and another for various inhabitants of Little Brickhill who had lost £581.10s. [p. 193].

The first instance we have found in these records of a person receiving a “Tyburn Ticket” appears when Robert Marsh of Hendon claimed exemption from all parish duties on account of his having apprehended Henry Morgan of Little Brickhill for stealing his bay gelding.  A certificate to this effect was obtained from one of the barons of the Exchequer.  Tyburn Tickets could be sold by the holder but could not be passed on to a third party [p. 28].

Several claims were made for compensation of the duty already paid on barley which was sank in the Thames while being transported by barges: the “King’s Arms,” a barge belonging to Robert Douglas, and the “Ship,” both of 

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Henley, were sunk near Boveney [pp. 8 and 35]; the “Little Dove,” belonging to Nicholas Cully of Oxford, was sunk near Harleyford House in Great Marlow [p. 50]; and the ”Angell,” belonging to John Smith of Henley, also met with disaster near Great Marlow [p. 262].

Poaching—as everywhere in England—was rife in Bucks and when offenders were caught it must have been necessary to deal with them promptly.  In this connection we learn of a gang of deer-stealers at Aylesbury who were arrested on suspicion.  One of these, William Chandler, confessed to coursing and killing a deer in Hartwell Park, belonging to Lady Lee, which he took home and ate in company with many others [pp. 62 and 64].  Alexander Stoaker of Lillingston Dayrell was charged with taking “one of her Majesty’s deer within the forest of Whittlewood” [p. 186]. Several inhabitants of Great Marlow and West Wycombe were charged with setting “ginns and snares” to catch rabbits and to destroy game [pp. 204, 284 and 295], two residents of Hardwick with building “unlawful dove lofts” [p. 286], and Thomas Smith of Thame with shooting pigeons at Towersey [p. 204].

A few more miscellaneous cases may be mentioned.  In Easter, 1708, it was presented that the stocks at Waddesdon were in need of repair [p. 126].

William Irwin of Great Marlow appears to have caused a tremendous amount of trouble in the neighbourhood, and it is not surprising that he should have been charged with being a common barrator or disturber of the peace, on which charge he appeared before the justices on seven occasions. Eventually he obtained a writ of certiorari, removing his trial to the Queen’s Bench [pp. 154, 168, 169, 176, 188, 189, 204, 220, 230, and 291].  Sarah, the wife of Richard Norton of Great Marlow, was presented as a common scold [p. 295].

An interesting dispute arose over the boundaries of the parish of Ivinghoe.  The inhabitants of the precincts of the upper division, consisting of Nettleden, St. Margaret’s, Ringshall, Wards, and Hencombe, objected to being rated with the inhabitants of the precincts of the lower division, consisting of Horton, Cheddington, and Seabrook.  The upper division had always paid their rates, but the lower division had recently “considerably sunke and abated themselves,” and had not raised their proper proportions, 

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so that the upper division had to pay more.  The lower division declared that their estates were impaired “by reason of the losse of the markett which is in a manner totally decayed,” while the estates in the upper division were improved on account of the “incloseing and holding in severalty severall parcels of wast ground which lay open and in common” [p. 263].  There is to this day considerable confusion as to the parochial distribution in this neighbour- hood.  Horton is a hamlet partly in Slapton and partly in Ivinghoe; Ringshall Farm is in Edlesborough, and parts of Ringshall are in Little Gaddesden, co. Hertford.  The name Wards still survives in the two house-names of Ward’s Coombe and Wards Hurst, corrupted from Weard-hyrst (“lookout hill”).

A similar dispute was raised by the officers of Whaddon cum Nash, who complained that the hamlet of Shenley Brook End should have been rated for the vagrants tax with them and not separately.  Upon search made “into the Bookes and Records of this Court,” it was found that their contention was correct and their petition was therefore allowed [p. 93].  Other disputes over “unequall and unjust” rating occurred at Stony Stratford [p. 8], Great Kimble [p. 132], Dinton [p. 276], and Mursley [p. 298].

At Easter, 1711, the Clerk of the Peace was ordered to purchase the “three severall volumnes of the statutes att large and all other the statutes and Acts of Parliament.” Those which belonged to the Clerk were then to be kept for his own use, while the new set was to be for the use of the county [p. 267].

In Michaelmas, 1711, the fines which were imposed upon jurors for non-attendance were remitted “in regard this Towne of Aylesbury and the Inhabitants where this Court is holden are att this tyme much visited with the small pox” [pp. 289 and 290], and the county gaoler was allowed £1. 17s. 8d. for the burial of one of the prisoners who had died of that disease [p. 288].

When Barnabas Abbott returned home and found Thomas Kilsly of Cooknoe in Northamptonshire “lying with his wife,” the constable arrested him and discovered in his pocket a pistol, with which, he confessed, he intended to shoot Kilsly [p. 303].

A brawl after “Quainton Horse Race” is referred to 

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when John Horwood, an Aylesbury butcher, assaulted William Ray [p. 27].

A sheep-killing dog was responsible for its owner, Robert Dennis of Chipping Wycombe, being sued by Daniel Baker [p. 269].

The rates of wages of servants were fixed annually [pp. 11. 51, 94, 132, 165, and 216], but showed no variation from those laid down previously [vide Vol. I, pp. 227-9, and Vol. II, pp. 44 and 125].  At the same Sessions the justices fixed the price of salt, which was stabilized at 5s. 6d. a bushel

[p. 11].

The Standing Joint Committee has already authorized the continuation of this work and we have every hope that Volume IV will be produced not later than the summer of 1941.

We must thank the Clerk of the Peace for the patient manner in which he has dealt with our queries, and the County Archivist, for reading through the preface and offering notes and criticisms.

William le Hardy.

Geoffrey Ll. Reckitt.

2, Stone Buildings,

Lincoln’s Inn, W.C.2. February, 1939.

 

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VOLUME 7.

EASTER SESSION

AT AYLESBURY,

19th April, 1705 [4 Anne].

 

p. 1. “Memorandum that before the Charge was given, her Majesties Royall Proclamation, dated the 25th day of February in the first yeare of her Majesties Reigne, for the Incouragement of Piety and Vertue and for the preventing and punishing of Vice, Prophanesse and Immorality was openly read in Court.”*

Jurors for the body of the county.

Thomas Bigg of Aylesbury, John Cooper of Great Horwood, William Corbett of Adstock, William Cripps of Beirton, Robert Denham of Hambledon, Thomas Fountaine of Stoke Hamond, William Grace of Cublington, James Harding of Chatteridge, John Hunt of Dynton, John Jones of Ipstone in Turvile, James Kipping of Aston Clinton, Richard Parratt of Castle Thropp, William Platt of Long Crendon, Richard Redding of Hardwick cum Weedon, and Richard Towersy of Long Crendon.

The following were not sworn: George Francklin of Haddenham, Robert Hill senior of Chalfont St. Giles, William Hillyer of Fawley, John Holton of East Cleydon, Henry Markham of Tingewick, Thomas Martin of Olney, William Serjant of Brill, Richard Stone of Soulbury, William Walker of Farnham Royall [and one name illegible —document torn]. (Sess. R. 16/1 and 4)

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Sacrament certificates.

Produced by Henry Andrews of Lathbury, sheriff, Hugh Horton of Apsley in Ellesborough, and William Johnson of Olney, esquires, John Busby of Addington, gentleman, and George Alford and Thomas Hunter, bailiffs of Chepping Wiccombe.  They all also took the statutory oaths in accordance with the acts of 25 Charles II, c. 2, and I Anne, c. 22.

Meeting houses.

p. 2. The house of Elizabeth Cole of Newport Pagnell, widow, was registered in accordance with the act of I William and Mary, c. 18.

Convictions of swearers.

William Eldridge of Ellesborough, William Chadd and [Joseph] Newton, both of Wendover, and Daniel Switzer of Chesham, in accordance with the act of 6 and 7 William III, c. II.

Indictments.

p. 3. Robert James of Great Marlowe, bargeman, for assaulting Elizabeth, wife of John Langley.  [Fined 3s. 4d.]

Thomas Pargiter of Sherrington, grazier, for a nuisance in the highway between Olney and Wooburne.  [Discharged on certificate]

Jane, wife of Richard Johnson of Beirton, carpenter, for stealing three hens from Finch Howes, gentleman. [Whipped]

William Phillipps of Great Marlowe, husbandman, for assaulting Margaret, wife of Richard Harris.  [Fined 3s. 4d.]

William Ashfeild, William Perkins, and Thomas Prentice, all of Winslowe, labourers, for refusing to gather stones for the repair of the highways.  [Prentice fined 3s. 4d.; Perkins discharged; no result given for Ashfeild]

The Rev. Edward Carleton of Leckhamsted for refusing to pay his rates for passing vagrants.  [Indictment quashed]

The inhabitants of Middleton Keynes for not repairing twenty poles of the highway from Newport Pagnell to Wooburne, co. Bedford, between Kingsey Bridge and Wavendon.  [Discharged on certificate]

George Turner of Brill, labourer, for converting a cot- tage into two dwellings, and for entertaining inmates.

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Elizabeth Lawrence, widow, and Margaret, wife of Richard Harris, both of Great Marlow, for disturbing the peace.

Finch Howes of Beirton, gentleman, and Ann, his wife, and Thomas Crompton of Great Marlowe, esquire, as popish recusants.

John Typper, gentleman, and Mary, his wife, John Mawby, labourer, and Ann, his wife, Frances Carter, widow, and Dorothy, wife of Thomas Waters, labourer, all of Mursley cum Salden, for absence from church.

Presentments of the constables.

William Lee junior of Aylesbury, carpenter, for quarter- ing soldiers without authority.

Robert Todd of Aylesbury, yeoman, for the same offence, and for executing warrants without authority.

Abraham Preist of Wingrave for a pound breach.

Joseph Cossendon of Little Marlowe for “ploweing Merebauks in the Common Field.”

The three persons indicted above for recusancy, with Thomas Hawkins of Aylesbury [see p. 34], and the six persons indicted for absence from church, were presented for the same offences.

Treasurers sworn.

p. 4. For the Queen’s Bench and Marshalsea	John Lee senior of Becconsfeild and John Ayres of Chowlesbury, gentle- men, vice Robert Stone and John Buckmaster.
For the maimed soldiers  . .	William Hakewill of Weston Turvile and Roger Adams of Little Horwood, gentlemen, vice John Baker and John Henley.

Chief constables sworn.

Ashendon                              . .	William Gomm of Ilmer and William Ward of Grendon Underwood, gentle- men, vice Thomas Howlett and William Tame.
Aylesbury     . .                      . .	Thomas Jorden of Broughton and Joseph Goodchild of Kimble Wyck, gentlemen, vice Francis Whitchurch and William Reding.

 

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Buckingham                          . .	John Russe of Tingewick and Richard Ashwell of Akely, gentlemen, vice John Ring and Joseph Corbett.
Cottesloe      . .                      . .	Edward Playsted junior of Weedon and Robert Griffyn of Stewkley, gentlemen, vice Richard Brugis and Thomas Wells.
Newport       . .                      . .	Thomas Hooton of Stoke Goldington and William Shepherd of Great Brick- hill, gentlemen, vice Richard Parrott and William Tompkins junior.
Burneham                             . .	John Bellfeild of Lattimasse and Richard Sedwyn of Dorney, gentle- men, vice Richard Widmore and Christopher Williamson.
Desborough                                                   . .	James Harman junior of Great Marlowe and Thomas Spencer of Hugendon, gentlemen, vice William Hilldrupp and Henry Newell.
Stoke                                       . .                         . .	John Binfeild of Iver and Joseph Wickham of Eaton, gentlemen, vice James Gayler and Robert Shackley.

Petty constables and tithingmen sworn.

pp. 5-6.  Aylesbury three hundreds —

Hulcott                                    . .                         . .	William Bishopp vice Richard Thorne.
Brands Fee                            . .	Richard Reyner and Richard Dean vice Richard Terry and Thomas Barnaby.
Monks Risborough	Richard Topping and Richard Hanwell vice Henry Costard and John Herbert.
Little Hampden                    . .	William Wright vice Joseph Ginger.
Ellesborough                                                 . .	John Wild and Richard Bryant vice Joseph Allen and William Kingham.
Great Kimble                                                 . .	Robert Brewer vice John West.
Princes Risborough	John Dossett vice Walter Bell.
Great Missenden               . .	John Syred and Robert Hubert vice [Benjamin Fowler] and John Floyd.
Lee                                           . .                         . .	Daniel Aldridge vice William Birch.

Ashendon three hundreds—

Waddesdon                          . .

Thomas Ryce junior and Nathaniel Piddington vice Peter Beck and Clement Griffyn.

 

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East Cleydon                                                  . .	William Higgs vice William Meade
Studley          . .                      . .	Peter Newton vice William Blake.
Chilton           . .                      . .	Thomas Beamsley vice John Jackson.
Cuddington                           . .	John Cox senior vice John Townsend.
Wornehall                              . .	William Tipping vice John Woodbridge.
Hogshawe cum Fullbrooke	Joseph Stevens vice John Syred.
Grendon Underwood                                . .	Nicholas Holton vice Edward Arris [Ayres]
Brill                                           . .                         . .	John Wedge vice Richard Baker.
North Marston                                             . .	Robert Cuthbert and Robert Ward vice John Symonds and Robert Brewer.

Buckingham and Cottesloe three hundreds—

Stewkley       . .                      . .	Thomas Shilburne vice William Edmonds.
Winslowe     . .                      . .	Joseph Glenister and Joseph Harding vice William Shelton and Simon Hogston.
Mursley         . .                      . .	Edward Munken [Monke] and John Cony vice Henry Pipkyn and Thomas Stevens.
Mentmore   . .                      . .	John Presswell and John Walker vice John Theed and Richard Chapman.
Whitchurch                           . .	Benedict Gawdrey and John Billingdon vice John Cooper and Thomas Harris.
Cublington                             . .	Samuel Goodman vice Robert Fincher.

Newport three hundreds—

Sherrington                           . .	Thomas Richards vice Richard Vinney.
Little Brickhill                                                 . .	Richard Haddon and John Herbert vice Richard Miles and Henry Woodland.
Wavendon.  . .                      . .	William Hoten vice Bernard Gregory.
Simpson        . .                      . .	Richard Cox and John Meade vice Adam Bevyn and [Blank].
Stoke Hamond                                              . .	Richard Rutly and Thomas Burndale vice Thomas Fowler and William Fountayne.
Bowe Brickhill                       . .	Edward Coke vice Thomas Chevall.
Woughton                             . .	Richard Puttnam vice John Chadd.
Chicherly       . .                      . .	William Abbott vice William Sams.
Clifton Reynes                     . .	William Lyne vice Jeremiah Flower.

 

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North Crawley                                              . .	William Aspyn, John Buncker, and William Smallbones vice William Williamson, Benjamin Wilkyns, and Samuel Fensham.
Astwood       . .                      . .	William Coleman vice Thomas King.
Haversham                            . .	John Wasey vice John Busby.
Stonny Stratford West Side	Samuel Evans vice Richard Charridge.
Stonny Stratford East Side                                                   . .	Robert Edge vice Richard Wintle- borough.
Castle Thrupp                                                . .	Richard Parratt vice Roger Parratt.
Middleton Keynes	Thomas Kent vice Samuel Porter.

Chilterne three hundreds—

Becconsfeild                                                  . .	Benjamin Costard and William Lane vice James Preston and William Woodhouse, and William Nash and Edward Wingrave as tithingmen vice Thomas Howse and John Bovingdon.
Cheynes        . .                      . .	Benjamin Stapp vice David Baldwyn.
Horton                                    . .                         . .	Thomas Ashton vice John Messenger, and Richard Lewyn as tithingman vice William Virgo.
Cippenham                           . .	Edmund Mason vice Peter Style.
Taplowe        . .                      . .	Edward Bunyan vice John Stannenatt, and William Fryer as tithingman vice John Bigg.
East Burneham                    . .	Nathaniel Dearne vice Thomas Sexton.
Little Marlowe                     . .	Robert Bradly vice John Perryn.
Hambledon                           . .	William Denham vice Robert Keene.
Turvile                                     . .                         . .	William Pitcher vice John Tovey.
Ipston                                      . .                         . .	John Ball vice John Wright.
Braddenham                                                 . .	Edward Lambert vice John Springall.
Amersham Franchise	John Hawkins vice William Batt.
Eaton near Windsor	William Rigsby and Richard Hughes vice Robert Redman and John Cox, and Daniel White and Thomas Kennell as tithingmen vice John Golding [Goldwin] and Thomas Huggins.

 

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Fulmer           . .                      . .	George Allen vice Edward Williams.
Waxham       . .                      . .	Henry Bartlett vice William Bavyn.
Hedgerly       . .                      . .	William Turner vice William Grove.
Wooburne                             . .	Thomas Everett and George Tredway vice Richard Burcott and Joseph Bampton.

Orders.

p. 7. Henry Munday, John Rose, and John Johnson, the bridewell-keepers at Aylesbury, Chepping Wycombe, and Newport Pagnell, respectively, were  paid their quarterly salaries of £7. 10s.

p. 8. Mary Pratt senior, widow, John Edmonds, Henry Edmonds, and Charles Howard, the County bakers, were paid their respective quarterly bills of £5. 8s. 10d., £4. 3s. 8d., £5. 1s. 4d., and £4. 2s. 4d.

p. 9. Payments for the two “County Children” amounted to £1. 17s. 4d. each for fourteen weeks’ maintenance, and 10s. each for one quarter’s clothing, to John Colshill in respect of William, the bastard son of Jane Whitbread, born in the gaol, and to the overseers of Buckingham in respect of “a poore child borne att Breda in Holland, whose Father was Imprest for her Majesties Service.”

Alexander Olliffe of Aylesbury was paid £2. 16s. for fourteen weeks’ “nurseing and keepeing and lookeing after” Elizabeth Thomson, “a poore distracted wandring vagrant taken up at Oveing and become a County Charge.”

p. 10. Richard Miles and Henry Woodland, constables of Little Brickhill, were paid £10. 4s. 3d., and Richard Wintleborough, constable of Stonny Stratford, £4. 1s. 6d., for passing, relieving, and conveying vagrants and cripples. John Johnson, bridewell-keeper at Newport Pagnell, was paid £2. 3s. for maintaining “several persons that were Imprest for her Majesties Service.”

p. 11. Mary, widow of Arthur Tattnell, was granted the annual pension of £1, lately enjoyed by her husband.

 

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William Benson of Aylesbury, gentleman, was paid £10 for arrears of rent due for the use of his house as the County gaol.  The annual rent was £20, and it was eighteen months in arrears.

 

The appeal of John Waters, gentleman, and other in- habitants of Stonny Stratford against their assessments to the poor rate was allowed upon the report of certain justices, which was confirmed by the Court.  The report found that the assessments were “very unequall and unjust . . . and that in particular one Edward Penn therein rated at £13 per annum was to pay but 2s. and the said Waters rated therein at £12 per annum was to pay 2s. 9d.”

 

p. 12. The dispute between John Tyler of Haddenham, tailor, and William Ewstace, his apprentice, was again re- ferred to certain justices.

 

p. 13. The adjourned appeal of Church Hulme, co. Chester, against a warrant removing Jane Hallwood and Randall, her son, from Stonny Stratford East Side, and the appeal of North Marston against the removal of Richard Baily senior from Whitchurch, were allowed.

 

pp. 14-15. Owing to the sinking, in the River Thames near Boveney, of a barge called the King’s Arms, belonging to Robert Douglas of Henley-upon-Thames, co. Oxford, the duty already paid by certain maltsters of Henley was ordered to be remitted.  William Nicholls lost 43 quarters, William Symonds 37 quarters, Christopher Rockall and William Evoney 14 quarters, and Mary, widow and administratrix of Thomas Green, 12 quarters.

 

p. 16. The appeal of George Tredwell of Hillesdon, labourer, against a maintenance order in respect of the child of Mary Willys of Shenley, spinster, was allowed.  Upon cross- examining Mary Willys, Francis Baker, Sarah Jones, and others, it appeared that “the said Tredwell, by an unjust Combination and Contrivance carryed on by one Thomas Mathews, master of her the said Mary Willys, and John

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Taylor, his Brother in Lawe, had been most wrongfully charged.”

 

The appeal of Twyford against a warrant removing John Castle and his wife from Steeple Cleydon was dismissed.

 

p. 17. The officers of Great Marlowe complained that a certain James Johnson, who was born in Scotland, had come into their parish from Ireland, where he had lived for a considerable time.  The officers of the parish had obtained a warrant for his removal to the City of Chester, “where he had landed out of Ireland, to be thence conveyed into Ireland,” but he had “found meanes by a Disguise to make his Escape from the Officers” and had been “entertayned” by William Murrey, a Scotsman, and an inhabitant of the parish, who hired him as a servant in order “to gayne a settlement” for him.  The Court found that “the hireing and reteyner . . . was fraudulent,” and bound Murrey over to appear at the next session.

 

The surveyors of Long Crendon were authorized to raise a 6d. rate for highway repairs, in accordance with the act of 3 and 4 William and Mary, c. 12.

 

p. 18. The recognizances of John Remnant and Thomas Gosse were extended sine die, Remnant “being poore and unable to appeare,” and Gosse “haveing voluntarily Listed himself and gone into her Majesties Service.”  The recog- nizances of Thomas Saunders and John Browne were also extended.  [See Bucks Sess. Rec., Vol. II, pages 442, 450, and 451]

 

The fine imposed last session upon John Morris of Braddenham for absence from the grand jury was remitted, as he was unable to appear “by reason of Sicknesse without manifest danger of his life.”

 

The indictments against George Hayes and Henry Watkyns, both of Wendover, were quashed.  [See Bucks Sess. Rec., Vol. II, pages 263 and 272]

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The indenture between John Seare of Ivinghoe, tailor, and John Freeman, his apprentice, was discharged, and Seare was ordered to return Freeman £6 “and his Cloathes and Chest.”

 

The proceedings against the inhabitants of Middleton Keynes were stayed.

 

p. 19. The appeal of the Rev. Gregory Haskard, Dean of Windsor, against the rates at Stoke Poges was again referred to certain justices.

 

Upon being informed that “the Husband of Elizabeth Thomson, a poore wandring Vagrant whoe had beene left att Oveing . . . and since kept att a County Charge, had privetely had Correspondence with her and had beene seene in severall places in this County,” the Court ordered that he should if possible be arrested, and that “such person or persons that shall discover or Apprehend him shall have due Incouragement for his Care therein.”  [See Bucks Sess. Rec., Vol. II, pages 399, 421, 431, etc.]

 

William King, a poor debtor in the gaol, was admitted to an allowance of the County bread.

 

The recognizances of William Walton of Aylesbury, glover, and of Thomas Williams, apothecary, and Thomas Reade, innholder, his sureties, were estreated, “Walton haveing broken the condition thereof.”  [But see p. 52]

 

p. 20. The petition of several inhabitants of Haddenham who had suffered in the recent fire there [see Bucks Sess.  Rec., Vol. II, page 288], complaining of Mr. Robert Meade, was ordered to be filed with the records of the session, and to remain there until further notice.

 

The Court refused to nominate or appoint new constables for the Parson’s Fee in Aylesbury.

 

The case against Thomas Baily was removed into the 

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Queen’s Bench by writ of certiorari at the instance of Edward Hart, esquire, the prosecutor.  [See Bucks Sess. Rec., Vol. II, pages 438 and 450]

 

The case between Aylesbury and Buckingham, con- cerning the settlement of William Haynes and Frances, his wife, was removed into the Queen’s Bench by writ of cer- tiorari.  [See Bucks Sess. Rec., Vol. II, page 441]

 

The justices living in the hundreds of Newport were desired to settle all matters concerning the passing, relieving, and conveying of vagrants and cripples through these hundreds.

 

The accounts of the trustees of the “Royal Charity called the poore folks pasture in the parishes of Brill and Oakeley” were read and allowed.

 

p. 21. Usual table giving the rates of “Servants’ Wages” fixed for the ensuing year, which were similar to those set out in Bucks Sess.  Rec., Vol. 1, on pages 227-229, with the amendments noted in Vol. II on pages 44 and 125.

 

p. 22. Usual order giving the rates for the carriage of goods through the County, which were similar to those set out in Bucks Sess.  Rec., Vol. I, on page 426.

 

Usual order fixing the price of salt at 5s. 6d. for a bushel containing 56 pounds.

 

Usual order giving the rates for billeting soldiers in the County, which were similar to those set out in Bucks Sess. Rec., Vol. I, on pages 380-381, as amended in Vol. II on pages 324-325.

 

Indictments confessed and traversed.

p. 23. The convictions of Jane Johnson and Thomas Prentice [see p. 3], and of Nicholas Adams and Thomas Harris, who were fined 3s. 4d. each for rioting at Water Stratford [see Bucks Sess.  Rec., Vol. II, page 387].

 

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Recognizances extended.

Richard Harris of Great Brickhill, labourer, for bastardy.

Thomas Saunders of Castle Thrupp, labourer, with John Saunders of Simpson and John Denton of Loughton as sureties, for bastardy with Beatrice Cocquerell of Blissworth, co. Northampton, spinster.  (Sess. R. 18/43)

John Cockett of Burneham, labourer, with Henry Cockett and Robert Trott, both of the same, as sureties, to keep the peace towards Mary Shepherd, widow.

John Kingham, weaver, and John Veery, hemp-dresser, both of Aylesbury, with Robert Meade and William Lee, both of the same, as sureties, to appear for assaulting William Spencer, the constable.

Recognizances entered into.

p. 24. Thomas Bulmer of Dagnall, labourer, with Henry Seare and Stephen Purcell, both of the same, as sureties, to appear at the next session.

William Murrey of Great Marlowe, labourer, with Adam Murrey of the same as surety, to appear at the next session.

John Taylor of Shenley, labourer, with John Peircivall of the same as surety, to appear at the next session.

Recognizances discharged.

Edward Gardiner, labourer, Edward Quarringdon, John Durrant, John Seare, Henry Newens, and John Newens, all of Ivinghoe, William Gosse, labourer, Nicholas Bostall, John Capell, Thomas Dawney, John Kingham, and William Webb, all of Aylesbury, William Foster of Olney, Thomas Bulmer, Henry Seare, Stephen Purcell, Luke Humfery, John Kidgell, and Daniel Turpyn, all of Dagnall, Thomas Deane of Ringshall, John Styles, James Arnold, and Philip Butterfeild, all of Iver, Thomas Hudson and James Bevyn, both of Little Brickhill, Joseph White of Bowe Brickhill, James Saunderton of Dunstable, co. Bedford, George Tredwell and Robert Friday, both of Hillesden, Thomas Bennett of Whittlebury, co. Northampton, John Talbot, Thomas Newman, and John Parker, all of Marsh Gibbon, John Jordan, Richard Harman, James Johnson, William Murrey, Adam Murrey, John Burridge, and Anthony Feilde, all of Great Marlowe, and Ralph Beeson and Richard Welsh, both of Monks Risborough.

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Fines and issues.

p. 25. Robert Hill senior of Chalfont St. Giles, William Hillyer of Fawley, Robert Stone of Soulbury, and John Holton of East Cleydon, fined £1 10s. each for non-attendance on juries.

The forfeiture of William Walton’s recognizances [see p. 19], and the fines of those convicted on p. 23.

 

p. 26. [Blank]

Writs.

Writ of venire facias addressed to the sheriff in respect of the following: Finch Howes of Beirton, gentleman, and Ann, his wife, Thomas Crompton of Great Marlowe, esquire, John Tipper, gentleman, and Mary, his wife, John Mawbey, labourer, and Ann, his wife, Frances Carter, widow, and Dorothy, wife of Thomas Waters, labourer, all of Mursley, Borlase Warren of Medmenham, esquire, Edward Carleton of Leckhampstead, clerk, William Serjant of Brill, labourer, Mary Bethell of Waddesden, widow, Robert Cutlowe of Drayton Parslowe, labourer, George Turner of Brill, labourer, Elizabeth Lawrence, widow, and Margaret, wife of Richard Harris, both of Great Marlowe, Thomas Williamson and Robert Atterbury, both of Newport Pagnell, yeomen, Thomas Prentice, William Perkins, and William Ashfeild, all of Winslowe, labourers, and Samuel Partridge of Aylesbury, wheelwright.  (Sess. R. 16/2)

Writ of capias ad respondendum addressed to the sheriff in respect of the following: John Eldridge of Medmenham, gentleman, Robert Bradley of Little Marlowe, labourer, Edward Chilberry of Taplow, husbandman, Isaac Carter of Amersham, labourer, Thomas Bray and William Honnor, both of Great Marlowe, labourers, John Gravett of Denham, apothecary, Thomas Hampton of Iver, yeoman, Humphrey Peters of Chesham, barber, Richard Young of Iver, labourer, Elizabeth, wife of John Swayne, bargeman, Elizabeth Swayne, Ann Swayne, and Sarah Swayne, spinsters, William Swayne and John Swayne, labourers, all of Wooburne, William Tregoe of Amersham Woodrow, labourer, Henry Burges and William Roberts junior, both of Dagnall, labourers, Mary Jenkins, spinster, and John Cooper, labourer, 

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both of Whitchurch, Francis Grant of Northall, labourer, Benedict Anstee of Newton Longville, labourer, Joseph Cobb of Beachampton, labourer, Charles Curle of Stewkley, labourer, John Tripp of Longewick in Princes Risborough, labourer, George Hayes, labourer, and Henry Watkyns, wheelwright, both of Wendover, Thomas Bromley of Monks Risborough, labourer, James Pryor, Robert Pryor, James Baall, William Chandler, and Thomas Aldridge, all of Aylesbury, labourers, John Fencott and William Bayly, both of Dinton, labourers, John Jones of Great Horwood, labourer, Robert Squire and George Knowles, both of Winslow, labourers, Thomas Catlyn of Ivingho, labourer, John Watkins of Hardwicke, labourer, James Hall of Gawcott, labourer, Thomas Harris of Padbury, labourer, Sarah Stubbs of Shaulston, spinster, Nicholas Adams of Water Stratford, labourer, Richard Dumbleton of Adderbury, co. Oxford, labourer, William French junior of Thorneborough, labourer, and William Smith of Newton Longville, labourer. (Sess. R. 16/3)

 

MIDSUMMER SESSION

AT AYLESBURY,

12th July, 1705 [4 Anne].

 

Jurors for the body of the county.

p. 27. William Adeane, Samuel Bampton, William Brightman, William Cox, Paul Darvall, Joseph Glenister, William Hackwell, John Hill, John Hughes, Robert Ilmore, William Neighbour, Thomas Norbury, Robert Reynolds, Nicholas Rogers, Ferdinand Shrimpton, gentleman, Ralph Stevens, George Stone, and Thomas Whitehart.

Sacrament certificates.

The Rev. Christopher Newell, rector of Becconsfeild; certified by [Blank], minister, and William Newington and William Squier, churchwardens, of Becconsfeild, and wit- nessed by Stephen Woodbridge and Thomas Atwood, both of the same.  (Sess. R. 17/4-5)

The Rev. Robert Woodward of Astwood; certified by the Rev. Thomas Bankes, D.D., vicar, and Richard Perratt, churchwarden, of Newport Pagnell, and witnessed by John 

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Ball, watch-maker, and John Johnson, both of the same. (Sess. R. 17/6)

Francis Ligoe of Aylesbury, esquire; certified by the Rev. Isaac Lodington, vicar, and John Heywood, church- warden, of Aylesbury, and witnessed by Arthur Crabb, gentleman, and Robert Wheeler junior, basket-maker, both of the same.  (Sess. R. 17/7)

Francis Tyrringham of Neither Winchendon, esquire; certified by the Rev. Francis Frere, vicar, and Francis Dewbury, churchwarden, of Neither Winchendon, and wit- nessed by Thomas Walker of the same and Brightwell Hollyman of Cuddington.  (Sess. R. 17/8)

All the above also took the statutory oaths.

Convictions of swearers,

p. 28. Richard Sweby of Wendover and John Bishopp of Aylesbury, for one oath; William Spencer of Aylesbury, for two oaths; William Carter of Dynton, for twelve oaths (Sess. R. 17/9); Thomas Radford of Towersey, for thirteen oaths.

Indictments.

Francis Rawlins of Chalfont St. Peter, labourer, for assaulting Robert Munday. [Fined 3s. 4d.]

William Hayly [Healy] of Aylesbury, bricklayer, for assaulting Ann Kingham.  [Fined 3s. 4d.]  (Sess. R. 17/10)

William Fish of Newport Pagnell, labourer, for assaulting John Johnson.

Thomas Hawkins, tallow-chandler, John Horwood, butcher, and John Rance, labourer, all of Aylesbury, for assaulting William Huddlestone.  [Hawkins and Horwood fined £1 each; Rance fined 3s. 4d.]

The same Thomas Hawkins, John Horwood, and John Rance, with John Mildmay of Wendover, labourer, for rioting and assaulting Sir Roger Hill, Knt., and Richard Hampden, esquire.  [Fined 3s. 4d. each; and see p. 36, and Sess. R. 17/12 on page 20]

William Lee junior, John Veery, and John Kingham, all of Aylesbury, for rioting and assaulting William Spencer, one of the chief constables.  [Acquitted]

Richard Rockingham of Stonny Stratford East Side, labourer, for a nuisance.  [Fined 3s. 4d.]

 

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Francis Homan of Wescott in Waddesden, labourer, for building a cottage without assigning four acres of land.

Henry Worster of Aston Clinton, yeoman, for a pound breach.  [Fined 3s. 4d.]

Abraham Preist of Wingrave, labourer, for a pound breach.  [Fined 3s. 4d.]

William Lee junior, carpenter, and Robert Todd, yeoman, both of Aylesbury, for illegally billeting soldiers, and for arresting and falsely imprisoning Richard Tuckwell and Ann, his wife, and William Clarke without authority. [Both indictments quashed]

Joseph Cossendon of Little Marlowe, labourer, for “ploweing upp Common Meerebaulkes or boundaryes.” [Fined 3s. 4d.]

Finch Howes of Beirton, gentleman, and Ann, his wife, and Thomas Crompton of Great Marlowe, esquire, as popish recusants.

John Typper, gentleman, and Mary, his wife, John Mawby, labourer, and Ann, his wife, Frances Carter, widow, and Dorothy, wife of Thomas Waters, labourer, all of Mursley cum Salden, for absence from church.

Presentments of the constables.

p. 29. William Tompson of Newport Pagnell, labourer, for extorting money from several persons.

Elizabeth Webb of Great Marlowe, widow, for keeping an unlicensed alehouse.

The constables of Aston Mullins, Bellendon, Shenley Brook End, Studley, and Waldridge, for not bringing in their presentments.

The three persons indicted above for recusancy, and the six persons indicted for absence from church, were presented for the same offences.

Petty constables sworn.

Bledlowe      . .                      . .                      Ambrose Newell vice John Harris.

Bledlowe Ridge                   . .                      Daniel Stevens junior vice James Ewstace.

Pightleston  . .                      Roger Peirce and Charles Smith vice Edward Collyer and John Elliott.

Newton Longvile                . .                      Richard Tompkins vice William Hall.

 

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Burneham Town Thomas Woods and John Trott vice John Lacey and Thomas Terrey.

Neither Winchendon Sampson Newton vice Thomas Seare. 

Charnedon. .. .Michael Allen vice George Middleton.

Orders.

p. 30.  Henry Munday, John Rose, and John Johnson, the bridewell-keepers, were paid their salaries.

 

John Coleshill and the overseers of Buckingham were paid £1 12s. each for maintaining their respective “County Children” for twelve weeks, and 10s. each for clothing for one quarter.

 

Alexander Olliffe was paid £2 4s. 6d. for twelve weeks’ maintenance of Elizabeth Thomson.

 

Mary Pratt senior, John Edmonds, Henry Edmonds, and Charles Howard, the County bakers, were paid their respective bills of £4. 12s. 2d., £3. 9s. 6d., £3. 11s. 2d., and £3. 8s.

 

p. 31. Richard Haddon and John Herbert, constables of Little Brickhill, were paid £14. 11s., Samuel Evans, constable of Stonny Stratford West Side, £3. 10s., and Robert Edge, constable of Stonny Stratford East Side, £3. 16s. 6d., for passing, relieving, and conveying vagrants and cripples.

 

Order for the return of all jury lists by the constables.

 

p. 32. William Gibbs, a poor debtor in the gaol, was admitted to an allowance of the County bread.

 

The indictment against Thomas Pargiter was stayed.

 

The recognizances of John Taylor of Shenley, gentle- man, and John Peircivall, his surety, were extended, as it appeared that Taylor was “actually att Sea in her Majesties Service, he being Captayne of a Mann of Warr called the Princess Anne.”

 

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The claim of the “vill” of Pollicott not to be included in the highway rate for the parish of Ashendon, but to retain their own surveyors and to continue to repair their own highways, was referred to the decision of the justices in the hundreds of Ashendon and Aylesbury.

 

p. 33. The appeal of Pollicott in Ashendon against a warrant removing John Adams junior, with his wife and three children, from Wooton Underwood was allowed.

 

Confirmation of a warrant removing Jane, widow of Randall Halwood, and Randall, her son, from Stonny Stratford East Side to Eyton in the hundred of North Wych, co. Chester.  [And see p. 13]

 

The indenture between John Butler of Aylesbury, mason, and John Shinney, his apprentice, was discharged, and Butler was ordered to return £2. 10s. to the overseers of Aylesbury, out of £4. 10s. advanced by them, and all Shinney’s clothes.  (Sess R. 17/10)

 

p. 34. The dispute between John Tyler and William Ewstace, his apprentice, and the appeal of the Dean of Windsor against the rates at Stoke Poges, were again referred to certain justices.

 

The presentment against Thomas Hawkins for recusancy was discharged, “he haveing now in Open Court taken the Oathes to the Government and made it appeare that he is a Constant Churchman and hearer of Divine Service and Sermons in his Parish Church.”  [See p. 3]

 

p. 35. The surveyors of Aylesbury were authorized to raise a 6d. rate for highway repairs, in accordance with the act of 3 and 4 William and Mary, c. 12.

 

The appeal of Robert Cheyne of Aylesbury against his assessment to rates was referred to the justices in the hundreds of Aylesbury.

 

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p. 36. William Walton of Aylesbury, labourer, was com- mitted to gaol in default of sureties for his appearance at the next session.

 

The indictment against Thomas Hawkins and others for rioting and assaulting Sir Roger Hill, Knt., and Richard Hampden, esquire, was adjourned until the next session, “they applyeing and submitting themselves in the meane tyme . . . in order to gaine pardon for theire offence.” [See p. 28]

 

Indictments confessed and traversed.

p. 37. The convictions of Robert James and William Phillipps [see p. 3], and of Francis Rawlins, William Hayly, Thomas Hawkins, John Horwood, and John Rance [see p. 28].

Recognizances extended.

The following, already given above: Thomas Saunders, John Cockett, John Kingham, and John Veery [see p. 23], and John Taylor [see p. 24].

Recognizances entered into.

p. 38. Mary Bethell of Waddesden, widow, to appear at the next session.

John Adams of Thornborough, yeoman, with Matthew Adams of the same, yeoman, as surety, for bastardy with Elizabeth Arris, spinster.

John Crumpton of Bugbrooke, co. Northampton, labourer, with John Godfrey, labourer, and Ann Teagle, spinster, both of Dunshanger, co. Northampton, as sureties, for bastardy with Honor Newman, spinster.

Fines and issues.

Edward Wetherley of Chalfont St. Peter, Richard Lane of Hambledon, William Virgo of Horton, Zaccheus Wigg of Stewkley, and Richard Merrydale of Great Brickhill, fined £1. 10s. each for non-attendance on juries.

Richard Harris of Great Brickhill, labourer, forfeited his recognizance on account of his non-appearance.

The fines of the persons convicted on p. 37.

Recognizances discharged.

p. 39. John Butler, William Clarke, William Collyer, Alexander Duncombe, William Goldfinch, Thomas Hawkins, William Healey, John Horwood, senior and junior, John 

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Kingham, John Rance, John Stocker, Thomas Tatham, William Walcopp junior, Gabriel White, and William White, all of Aylesbury, Thomas Almond, Francis Clarke, Thomas East, Richard Hare, and John Wilson, all of Becconsfeild, John Taylor of Burneham, Francis Rawlins of Chalfont St. Peter, George Middleton of Charnedon, Richard Baker, John Cocks, and Thomas Somner, esquire, all of Cuddington, Thomas Bulmer, Stephen Purcell, and Henry Seare, all of Dagnall, John Godfrey of Dunshanger, co.  Northampton, Robert Hance and Simon Mayne junior, esquire, both of Dynton, Charles Blewett, Adam Murrey, William Murrey, Peter Rivers, and John Terrey, all of Great Marlowe, Richard Blackwell of Monks Risborough, Henry Clarke, Richard Jennings, and Henry Stanbridge, all of Stone, John Adams, Matthew Adams, and Richard Adams, all of Thornborough, Thomas Mercer of Twyford, Richard Hildersly and Thomas Roberts, both of Uxbridge, co.  Middlesex, John Crumpton of Wappenham, co.  Northampton, John Alderidge, Thomas Davy, Jonathan Humfrey, John Mildmay, and Nathaniel Poynter, all of Wendover, John Cooper, John Toppin, and Richard Toppin, all of Whitchurch, and Thomas Saunders of Wing.

 

p. 40. [Blank]

Informations.

By Mary, wife of Henry Stone, collar-maker, Humphrey Newton, innholder, and Dorothy Humphrey, widow, all of Aylesbury, and Thomas Stevens, butcher, and Richard Charge, sawyer, both of Wendover, who stated that, at Aylesbury on the 9th May, “being the day of Electing Burgesses,” they saw Mr. Hampden and Mr. Shute riding down the street on horseback, followed by Sir Roger Hill in a coach.  There was a large crowd in the street, and they saw Thomas Hawkins, John Horwood, John Rance, and John Mildmay throw stones and brickbats at the gentlemen, and threaten them with sticks, and incite the crowd by shouting, “Knock them on the Head; beat the Rogues’ Brains out.”  Mary Stone and Dorothy Humphrey were in Henry Stone’s house with Amy Bayley, and Thomas Stevens was in John Green’s house.  (Sess. R. 17/12)

 

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MICHAELMAS SESSION

AT BUCKINGHAM,

4th October, 1705 [4 Anne].

 

Jurors for the body of the county.

p. 41. William Adkins of Chesham, Thomas Archer of Beirton, Thomas Barratt of Turweston, Richard Blackwell of Monks Risborough, William Blackwell of Great Kimble, George Blakes of Thornborough, Richard Bradbury of Great Horwood, Anthony Davyes of Brill, Timothy Harding of Amersham, Francis Hartwell of Langley Marish, Thomas King of Steeple Claydon, Thomas Markeham of Tingewick, Thomas Mead of Great Brickhill, Henry Newell of Saunderton, John Peele of Soulbury, Henry Puttnam of Bellingdon, Richard Putnam of Chesham, William Stevens of Green- borough, Edward Taylor of Borestall, Richard Titt of Ickford, and William Wells of Aston Clinton.

The following were not sworn: George Francklin of Haddenham, Bernard Hall of Whitchurch, John Henley of Winslowe, Thomas Howlett of Long Crendon, John Illing of Shenley, James Leach of Olney, Joseph Mayo of Gritmore in Grendon Underwood, Thomas Parker of Weston Under- wood, Ralph Stone of Radnage, and Richard Widmore of Botley.  (Sess. R. 17/15-16)

Jurors for the cases against John Kingham and John Veery.

Thomas Allen of Buckingham, John Bishopp of Dynton, Thomas Butcher of Turweston, Arthur Eggleton of Ashendon, William Grace of Cublington, Gervase Harris of Wadsden, Henry Pulley of Buckingham, Nathaniel Sawyer of Ashendon, Thomas Scott of Marsh Gibbon, Francis Smith of Buckingham, and William Tame of East Claydon.

The following were not sworn: Thomas Aldridge of Becconsfeild, Daniel Browne of Woburne, William Elliott of Great Marlow, Daniel Francklin of Haddenham, Henry Goodman of Woughton, James Haynes of Wyrardsbury, John How of Taplow, John Newman of Chalfont St. Peter, Thomas Neal of Quainton, Richard Putnam of Woughton, Thomas Raynor of Horton, Thomas Seare of Adstock, John Symons of Hulcott, Thomas Topping of Whitchurch, William 

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Walker of Hambleden, and John West of Horton.  (Sess. R. 19/56)

Sacrament certificates.

Richard Townsend; certified by the Rev. John Jones, rector, and Joseph Horton, churchwarden, of Beachampton, and witnessed by William Lawley of Chetwood and Henry Lawley of London, gentlemen.  (Sess. R. 18/65-66)

Nicholas Merwin of Winslow, gentleman; certified by the Rev. John Croft, vicar, and Benjamin Saunders and William Townsend, churchwardens, of Winslow, and witnessed by John Stone, gentleman, and Thomas Spratley, yeoman, both of the same.  (Sess. R. 18/67)

Benjamin Hickman, alderman of Chepping Wiccombe; certified by the Rev. Thomas Cordell, vicar, and Richard Shrimpton, churchwarden, of Chepping Wiccombe, and wit- nessed by Thomas Stevens, gentleman, and John Rose, jack- maker, both of the same.  (Sess. R. 18/68)

Richard Hampden of Great Hampden, esquire; certi- fied by the Rev. John Yate, rector, and Thomas Boore and Abel Tyler, churchwardens, of Great Hampden, and witnessed by Alexander Houlton of the same, labourer, and Joshua Young of Wendover, gentleman.  (Sess. R. 18/69)

Thomas Stevens, mayor of Chepping Wiccombe; certi- fied by the Rev. Thomas Cordell, vicar, and Richard Shrimpton, churchwarden, of Chepping Wiccombe, and wit- nessed by Thomas Wood, carpenter, and John Rose, jack- maker, both of the same.  (Sess. R. 18/70)

All the above also took the statutory oaths.

Indictments.

p. 42. William Tompson of Newport Pagnell, labourer, for “compounding and extorting” 4s. 6d. and a Cheshire cheese from Thomas Swanwyck of Wrexham, co. Flint, carrier, 2s. 6d. from James Hanns of Loughborough, co. Leicester, carrier, 2s. 6d. from Thomas Edwards of Ashby de la Zouch, carrier, and 10s. from John Needham of Leicester, carrier, “upon Account that [they] had drawne Waggons with more Horses then was allowed by Lawe upon London Roade.” [Died; see p. 72]

Elizabeth Webb of Great Marlowe, widow, for keeping an unlicensed alehouse.

 

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Finch Howes of Beirton, gentleman, and Ann, his wife, and Thomas Crompton of Great Marlowe, esquire, as popish recusants.

John Tipper, gentleman, and Mary, his wife, John Mawby, labourer, and Ann, his wife, Frances Carter, widow, and Dorothy, wife of Thomas Waters, labourer, all of Mursley cum Salden, for absence from church.

Presentments of the constables.

p. 43. John Wilcocks of Great Linford, victualler, for keep- ing a disorderly alehouse.  Presented by Thomas Cooke. (Sess. R. 18/7a)

William Lee of Aylesbury, carpenter, resident in “the Liberty and Mannor” of Sir John Packington, Bt., for executing a warrant upon Agnes Tuckwell for assaulting George Baldwyn, although he had not been elected a con- stable.  Presented by William Spencer.  (Sess. R. 18/7)

Thomas Olliffe, mealman, and Thomas Oviatts, linen- draper, both of Aylesbury, for putting dunghills in Walton Street.  Presented by William Spencer.  (Sess. R. 18/7)

The three persons indicted above for recusancy, and the six persons indicted for absence from church, were presented for the same offences.  Presented by Thomas Jorden and Joseph Goodchild.  (Sess. R. 18/20 and 71)

Petty constables sworn.

 

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Orders.

p. 44. Henry Munday, John Rose, and John Johnson, the bridewell-keepers, were paid their salaries.

Payments were made for the maintenance of the “County Children” similar to those ordered at the last session.  [See p. 30]

Alexander Olliffe was paid £2. 8s. for twelve weeks’ maintenance of Elizabeth Thomson.

p. 45. Mary Pratt senior, John Edmonds, Henry Edmonds, and Charles Howard, the County bakers, were paid their bills of £3. 0s. 8d. each.

p. 46. William Benson, gentleman, was paid £10 for six months’rent of his house as the County gaol.  (Sess. R. 18/34)

Richard Haddon, constable of Little Brickhill, was paid £2. 15s. for passing, relieving, and conveying vagrants and cripples.

Thomas Hobkyns of Stonny Stratford, a poor debtor in the gaol, was admitted to an allowance of the County bread.  (Sess. R. 18/33)

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were authorized to raise 6d. rates for highway repairs, in accordance with the act of 3 and 4 William and Mary, c. 12.

 

p. 48. The appeal of Pollicott in Ashendon against a war- rant removing William Adams junior, with his wife, and Margaret, Mary, and Edward, his children, from “Mr. Greenviles Liberty or Division in the parish of Wootton Underwood” was dismissed, except in respect of the eldest child.  Her case, as she was born in Wootton Underwood more than seven years before and was “neither nurse child, vagrant, or bastard,” was to be drawn up by Mr. Wells and Mr. Vaux, the counsel in the case, and submitted to the Queen's Bench.  (Sess. R. 18/38a-39)

 

p. 49. The indictment against Thomas Pargiter of Sherrington, gentleman, for not scouring a ditch in Sturburnes Close, was discharged upon his producing a justices' certi- ficate that it had been sufficiently cleansed.  [See p. 3]

 

The indictment against the inhabitants of Middleton Keynes, for not repairing a highway, was discharged upon their producing a justices' certificate that the work had been done.  [See p. 3]  (Sess R. 18/37)

 

p. 50. The appeal of “the Towne and Burrough” of Chepping Wiccombe against a warrant removing Samuel Ingby and Elizabeth, his wife, from “the Forrens and Parrish” of Chepping Wiccombe was dismissed.  In 1694, Francis Ingby, his father, had apprenticed him for seven years to Nicholas Larcum of the borough of Chepping Wiccombe, salesman and tailor.  (Sess. R. 18/46-48)

 

The appeal of Wootton Underwood against a warrant removing William Adams senior from Pollycott in Ashendon was dismissed.  (Sess. R. 18/38)

 

p. 51. Alice Squire, widow, who was “poore, aged, and impotent, wanting a Nurse to looke after her,” complained that, since she had removed to Banbury, co. Oxford, the overseers of Winslowe had not paid her weekly allowance, 

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ordered by the Court, to her, but to Mr. Harris of Brackley, co. Northampton, on her behalf, and that he had withheld it from her for a long time.  The matter was referred to the justices in the hundreds of Cottesloe and Buckingham. [And see p. 124]

 

p. 52. The application of Richard Mothers of Great Horwood for relief was referred to the justices in the hundreds of Cottesloe.

 

The petition of Richard Rogers of Great Missenden, carpenter, for a County pension was refused, as he had not produced a sufficient certificate of his service as a soldier in the company of Major Halsey in the regiment of the Earl of Mulgrave.  His petition was signed by the following inhabitants of Great Missenden: John Barrabbee, Daniel Dell, Sarah Fletewode, Joseph Jennings, Thomas Penn, vicar, William Ratcliff, Samuel Salter, and Thomas Todd senior.  (Sess. R. 18/49)

 

The order estreating the recognizances of William Walton and his sureties was cancelled.  [See p. 19]

 

The recognizance of Mary Bethell of Waddesden, widow, was extended on account of her indisposition.

Indictments confessed and traversed.

p. 53. Samuel Partridge of Aylesbury, wheelwright, was fined 3s. 4d. for assaulting Susan Southrey, widow [see Bucks Sess.  Rec., Vol. II, page 445]; John Kingham and John Veery were acquitted [see p. 28].

Recognizances extended.

The following, already given above: Thomas Saunders and John Cockett [see p. 23], John Taylor [see p. 24], and John Crumpton [see p. 38].

Recognizances entered into.

William Lee junior of Aylesbury, carpenter, in two amounts of £40, and William Tompson of Newport Pagnell, labourer, in four amounts of £40  (Sess. R. 18/55), to appear at the next session.

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Higgons junior, cordwainer, and William Collyer, victualler, both of the same, as sureties, to appear for assaulting William Ray of the same, waterman, “as he was comeing home from Quainton Horse Race.”  (Sess. R. 18/50 and 53)

Richard Tuckwell of Aylesbury, cutler, and Agnes, his wife, with William Haynes, clock-maker, and Thomas Tatham, sadler, both of the same, as sureties, to appear for assaulting George Baldwin of the same, gentleman.  (Sess. R. 18/52 and 54).

Edward Bryant and John Bryant, both of Wolverton, labourers, for Elizabeth and Margaret, their sisters, to appear for assaulting Mary, wife of William Webb of the same, and for calling her a witch.  (Sess. R. 18/56)

John Bentley and George Hunt, labourers, Thomas Cubbidge and Paul Mayo, cordwainers, and Elizabeth Coles, all of Brill, to give evidence against Philip Scholey for making indecent gestures during a funeral sermon by the Rev. Gervase Widdows in the parish church of Brill, and rudely refusing to leave the church when requested to do so by Joan Cotton, Thomas Winslow, and Mr. Widdows.  (Sess. R. 18/32 and 57)

Nathaniel Brooks of Wingrave, victualler, with William Grace, yeoman, and Thomas Harris, joiner, both of Cublington, as sureties, to appear for assaulting Samuel Turner.  (Sess R. 18/58)

John Chesmour, John Green, Matthew Hartwell, William Heath, William Hews, and John Meredew, all of Langley Marish, husbandmen, with John Ball, gentleman, Francis Hartwell, William Kidgell, and John Reddington, husband- men, all of the same, and William Meredew of Datchett, husbandman, as sureties, to appear for “night walking.” (Sess. R. 18/59-64)

Fines and issues.

p. 54. Ralph Stone of Radnage, yeoman, fined £1. 10s. for non-attendance on a jury.

The fine of Samuel Partridge, convicted on p. 53.

Recognizances discharged.

William Collyer, William Haynes, John Higgons junior, John Horwood, John Kingham, William Lee junior, and Robert Meade, all of Aylesbury, William Grace and Thomas 

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Harris, both of Cublington, John Ball, John Chesmour, John Green, Francis Hartwell, Matthew Hartwell, William Heath, William Kidgell, John Meredew, William Meredew, and John Reddington, all of Langley Marish, William Tompson of Newport Pagnell, John Adams and Matthew Adams, both of Thorneborough, Nathaniel Brooks of Wingrave, and Edward Bryant and John Bryant, both of Woolverton.

Fire certificate.

pp. 55-56. The Court allowed a certificate, addressed to the Rt. Hon. Sir Nathan Wright, Knt., Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, asking him to recommend the granting of Letters Patent “to collect the Charitable benevolence of well disposed people” in aid of the following persons, who had suffered losses from “a sudden and lamentable fire” at North Marston on the 11th August: Thomas Alday, Thomas Anderson, William Anderson, John Bennell, John Blackett, [Blank] Burnaby, John Coker, Ralph Cooper, Robert Cutbert (Cutbeard), John Denchfeild, Martha Denchfeild, widow, Richard Denchfeild, Catherine Foster, widow, Christopher Foster, Henry Foster (2), James Foster, [Blank] Hind, widow, John Hitchcock, Benjamin Ingram, Martha Ingram, widow, James Lucas, John Lucas, Anthony Moores, Edward Oviatts, William Parnell, Frances Pitkyn, widow, William Price, the Rev.  Richard Purchase, Joseph Rickard (Riccutt), [Blank] Saunders, widow, [Blank] Shreeve, widow, William Smith, Richard Stanbridge, John Stevens, Henry Symonds, John Symonds, Thomas Tattham, Edward Virgin, the Rev. Edward Waddington, John Ward, Robert Ward, and Ann Whitmell, widow.  The petition was signed by sixteen of the above persons and by Richard Betham and Thomas Coventry.  The total damage was assessed at £3,456. 8s. 2d. by John Fuller and Thomas Statham, carpenters, and James Grace and Thomas Rickard, masons. (Sess. R. 18/44-45)

Burglarly certificate.

p. 57. Certificate by John Smith, esquire, Baron of the Court of Exchequer, in accordance with the act of 10 and 11 William III, c. 23, that as Robert Marsh of Hendon, co. Middlesex, had apprehended and brought to conviction Henry Morgan of Little Brickhill for stealing from him a bay 

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gelding, value £4, he should be “discharged of and from all and all manner of Parish and Ward Offices within the Parish of Hendon aforesaid.”

 

p. 58. [Blank]

Writs.

Writ of venire facias addressed to the sheriff in respect of the following: the first 12 persons named in Sess. R. 16/2 on page 13, and Richard Rockingham of Stonny Stratford, labourer, William Fish of Newport Pagnell, labourer, Francis Homan of Wescott, labourer, Henry Woster of Aston Clinton, yeoman, and William Tompson of Newport Pagnell, labourer.  (Sess. R. 17/2)

Writ of capias ad respondendum addressed to the sheriff in respect of the following: the first 26 persons named in Sess. R. 16/3 on page 13, and Joseph Cossendon of Little Marlow, labourer, Elizabeth Lawrence, widow, and Margaret, wife of Richard Harris, both of Great Marlow, Richard Rockingham of Stonny Stratford, labourer, Henry Woster of Aston Clinton, yeoman, Robert Todd of Aylesbury, yeoman, Abraham Preist of Wingrave, labourer, William Perkins and William Ashfeild, both of Winslow, labourers, Robert Cuttler of Drayton Parslow, labourer, and Samuel Partridge, wheelwright, and William Lee, carpenter, both of Aylesbury.  (Sess. R. 17/3)

Bridewell calendars.

Chepping Wycombe: Ambrose Whiteing, committed as an idle and disorderly person.  (Sess. R. 18 /35)

Victuallers’ recognizances.

Richard Pepper of Iver, with John Styles of the same as surety.  (Sess. R. 18/36)

Examinations.

Ephraim Goodgain stated that he was apprenticed to John Meade of Studly, shoemaker; John Hewes that he was born in Stone; Richard Wood that he was apprenticed to a shoemaker in Blackthorne, co. Oxford.  They all stated that they had not acquired any legal settlement elsewhere. (Sess. R. 18/40-42)

 

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EPIPHANY SESSION

AT AYLESBURY,

17th January, 1705-06 [4 Anne].

 

Jurors for the body of the county.

p. 59. Richard Broughton of Cublington, John Chearsly junior and Thomas Chearsly, both of Agmondesham, Matthew Dagnall of Haddenham, William Farnborough of Bishopstone in Stone, John Fellowes of Westcott, Daniel Geary of Chesham, William Hassell of Steeple Cleydon, John Horton of Hartwell, William Lyford of Eaton, Thomas Monck of Beirton, John Perkins junior of Tinge wick, Robert Scott of Adstock, William Seare of Simpson, Richard Smalbones of Newport Pagnell, Edward Stanbridge junior of Edlesborough, William Thomson and Thomas Towersey, both of Long Crendon, and Michael Wells of Aston Clinton.

The following were not sworn: Robert Adams of Sherrington, Richard Brugis of Edlesborough, William Corbett of Adstock, John Davis of Newport Pagnell (“dead”), Humphrey Fellowes of Chenies, Abraham Gray of Chesham, Richard Greenwood of Haddenham, John Grove of Tingewick, Thomas King of Steeple Cleydon, John Simons of Weedon, Joseph Wells of Aston Clinton, Christopher West of Fingest, and James Woods of Weedon.  (Sess. R. 19/1)

Jurors for the cases against Mary Bethell and William Lee.

Henry Basse, Edward Bowler, Daniel Delafeild, William Drudge, Alexander Duncombe, Richard Edwards, Henry Golding, Thomas Ray, John Rose, Henry Stone, John Veerey, and William Webb.  (Sess. R. 17/13)

Sacrament certificates.

p. 60. The Rev. William Wootton, rector of Milton Keynes, and prebendary of South Grantham in the diocese of Salisbury; certified by the Rev. Adam Booker, rector, and John Kent, churchwarden, of Broughton, and witnessed by Francis Duncomb and John Atterbury, both of the same, esquires.  (Sess. R. 19/35)

The Rev. William Nuboult, vicar of Wingrave; certi- fied by the Rev. Edmund Nuboult, rector, and William Glenister, churchwarden, of Cheddington, and witnessed by 

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Thomas Hodson junior and George Hawes, both of the same, gentlemen.  (Sess. R. 19/36)

Edward Hervey of Chilton, esquire, sheriff; certified by the Rev. Alexander Croke, rector of Hartwell, and Henry Clarke senior, churchwarden of Chilton, and witnessed by Thomas Creswell of Chilton and Henry Warner of Thame, co. Oxford, gentlemen.  (Sess. R. 19/41)

Thomas Busby of Addington, Doctor of Laws; certified by the Rev. John Crofts, vicar, and William Townesend, churchwardens, of Winslow, and witnessed by John Stone of Winslow and William Wallinger of Addington, gentlemen. (Sess. R. 19/42)

John Churchill of Steeple Cleydon, gentleman; certified by the Rev. William White, vicar, and Thomas Bent and John Shillingford, churchwardens, of Padbury, and wit- nessed by Joseph Churchill senior, gentleman, and William Hassell, yeoman, both of Steeple Cleydon.  (Sess. R. 19/45)

Henry Warner of Thame, co. Oxford, under-sheriff.

All the above also took the statutory oaths.

Meeting houses.

The houses of Francis Inkersole of Hulcott  (Sess. R. 19/37), John Keech and Nehemiah Keech, both of Chesham (Sess. R. 19/38), John Hill of Woodside in Amersham, and James Newton of Cheynes, were registered in accordance with the act of 1 William and Mary, c. 18.

Enlistments.

p. 61. The following were enlisted in accordance with the act of 2 and 3 Anne, c. 19, “for rayseing recruits for the Land forces and Marines and for dispensing with part of the Act for the incouragement and increase of Shipping and Navigation dureing this present Warr”:

William King and Robert Benboe, both of Winslow, brought by Joseph Glenister, constable, Valentine Langley of Charnedon, brought by Michael Adams, constable, Richard Burgess of Great Horwood, brought by George Willyatt, constable, and Edward Hobcroft of Swanburne, labourer, brought by Edward Anstee, constable, were handed over to Lieutenant John Busby of the Regiment of Marines com- manded by the Honourable Brigadier Holt; William Francklin of Great Horwood, brought by George Willyatt, 

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constable, was handed over to Ensign John Churchill of the Regiment of Foot commanded by Sir Richard Temple. (Sess. R. 18 /4 and 43)

Richard Grove, “a middlesized man aged 30 yeares,” and Richard Kempster, “a thick, short, browne-haired man, aged 18 yeares,” both of Aylesbury, John Hopkins of Hardwycke, “a tall black man, aged 30 yeares,” Charles Price of Whitchurch, “a middlesized man aged about 35 yeares,” Richard Harris of Stonny Stratford, “a middlesized man aged 27 yeares,” John Wood of Princess Risborough, “a well-sized browne man aged about 20 yeares,” William Davy of Wendover, “a middlesized browne man aged 24 yeares,” and Charles Browne, a stranger taken at Wendover, and “a short well sett black man aged about 22 yeares,” were handed over to Captain John Ramsey of the Regiment of Foot commanded by George, Earl of Orkney.  (Sess. R. 19/50)

Statutory oaths.

p. 62. The following took the oaths required by the acts of 27 Elizabeth, c. 12, and 1 William and Mary, c. 8: Henry Warner, under-sheriff, and John Leach, William Batt, Isaac Beddall, William Parker, and John Johnson, bailiffs of the hundreds of Ashendon, Aylesbury, Chiltern, Cottesloe, and Newport, respectively.

Indictments.

p. 63. Thomas Kingham of Aston Clinton for cancelling a deed.

Finch Howse of Beirton, gentleman, and Ann, his wife, and Thomas Crompton of Great Marlowe, esquire, as popish recusants.  (Sess. R. 23/39)

John Tupper, gentleman, and Mary, his wife, John Mawby, labourer, and Ann, his wife, Frances Carter, widow, and Dorothy, wife of Thomas Waters, all of Mursley cum Salden, for absence from church.  (Sess. R. 23/38)

Presentments of the constables.

Richard Defrane of Aylesbury for refusing to assist the constable.  (Sess. R. 19/12)

Thomas Pilgrim of Aston Clinton, blacksmith, for encroaching upon the highway.  (Sess. R. 19/19)

James Hall of Gawcott, labourer, for keeping a disorderly alehouse.  (Sess. R. 19/44)

 

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The three persons indicted above for recusancy, and the six persons indicted for absence from church, were presented for the same offences.  (Sess. R. 19/6, 11, and 54)

Petty constables and tithingmen sworn.

Monks Risborough	Richard Cuthbert vice John Herbert. (Sess. R. 19/16)
Sinckleborough                   . .	Richard Dale vice William Hartwell; John Bradbury not sworn.  (Sess. R. 19/17)
Broughton.                            . .	William Howe vice [John Moore]; John Kent not sworn.  (Sess. R. 19/18)
Swanborne                           . .	Thomas Brickhill vice Matthew Deverell; William Moorecroft not sworn.  (Sess. R. 19/19)
Grendon Underwood                                . .	William Hyde vice Edward Cottsell; Thomas Radwell not sworn.  (Sess. R. 19/20)
Buckland       . .                      . .	Thomas Worster vice Henry Brandon; Thomas Stopp and John Bate not sworn.  (Sess. R. 19/21)
Denham        . .                      . .	Peter Moxley and Robert Monke vice Edward Hawkins and Peter Moxley. Witnesses: David Coggs, John Jemmett, Richard Smart, and Nathaniel Weedon.  (Sess. R. 19/22)
Boveney       . .                      . .	John Webb vice William Cotton; Thomas Lee and William Oliver not sworn.  John Saunders as tithingman vice Richard Richardson.  Wit- nesses: Henry Ball, John Dawson, Henry Webb, and Ralph Weston. (Sess. R. 19/23)

Orders.

p. 64. Henry Munday, John Rose, and John Johnson, the bridewell-keepers, were paid their salaries.

John Colshill and the overseers of Buckingham were paid £2. 10s. each for fifteen weeks’ maintenance of the two County Children,” and a further 10s. each for one quarter’s clothing.

 

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Alexander Olliffe was paid £2. 12s. for fifteen weeks’ maintenance of Elizabeth Thomson.

 

p. 65. Mary Pratt senior, John Edmonds, Henry Edmonds, and Charles Howard, the County bakers, were paid their respective bills of £2. 13s. 4d., £2. 9s. 8d., £1. 17s. 4d., and £2. 9s. 10d. The last three bakers were discharged, and Mary Pratt junior, widow, William Holton, and Joseph Nash, “whoe were lately without Cause displaced,” were reappointed.

 

p. 66. Robert Edge, constable of Stonny Stratford East Side, was paid £4. 11s. 6d., and Richard Haddon, constable of Little Brickhill, £20. 19s. 6d., for passing, relieving, and conveying vagrants.

 

p. 67. John Tattum of Bierton and Henry Freer of Weston Turville, poor debtors in the gaol, were admitted to allow- ances of the County bread.  (Sess. R. 19/39)

 

p. 68. The Court allowed a certificate, addressed to the Rt. Hon. William Cowper, esquire, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, asking him to recommend the granting of Letters Patent authorizing a charitable collection in aid of William Smith of Anchorwick in Wyrardsbury, who had suffered serious losses from a fire on the 26th November.  He had a wife and six small children and was “totally impoverished.” Francis Berry, Francis Browne, and Henry Saunders, carpenters, and Francis Limming and Matthew Peirce, bricklayers, estimated his losses at £554. 1s. 8d. His petition was signed by: Henry Bartholomew, John Bateman, James Bertie, Samuel Chandler, farmer, the Rev. Henry Cheynell, curate of Staines, co. Middlesex, Shadrach Child, the Rev. Thomas Eyre, vicar of Staines, the Rev. William Freind, curate of Wyrardsbury, Thomas Fryer, Edwin Griffin, Richard Grove, Leonard Hammond, Elisha Harrison, farmer, James Haynes, James Hickman, Thomas Horidge, Dutton Huberd, the Rev. Thomas Jenkinson, curate of Datchett and lecturer of Wyrardsbury, Henry Lyon, Edward Martin, Simon Monke, William Morsse, William Munden senior, 

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Edward Parr senior, Edward Parr junior, Francis Pearson, Thomas Pritty, farmer, Richard Reynell, Richard Robinson, John Rowles, churchwarden, John Saltmarsh, Samuel Stone, John Sugg, Ellis Trippick, Charles Warwick, M.D., and John Winch.  (Sess. R. 19/52-53)

 

p. 69. Owing to the sinking in the River Thames near Boveney of a barge called the Ship of Henley, belonging to Francis Phips, the duty already paid by certain maltsters of Henley-upon-Thames, co. Oxford, was remitted.  William Tyler lost 39 quarters, Joseph Deane 20 quarters, Richard Carter 19 quarters, John Foord 18 quarters, Robert Smith and Robert Hester 15 quarters each, and William Nicholls 8 quarters.  (Sess. R. 19/47)

 

The indictments against William Lee junior and Robert Todd [see p. 28], and against John Taylor of Oveing, labourer, for keeping an unlicensed alehouse [see Bucks Sess. Rec., Vol. II, page 427], and a presentment against Thomas Adams, were quashed “for divers defects and insufficiencyes.”

 

p. 70. The appeal of Haddenham against a warrant removing Hester Stone, spinster, from Doreton was dismissed. (Sess. R. 19/49)

 

Thomas Williams of Aylesbury, who was “about three or foure yeares since displaced . . . without any just or reasonable Cause” from the post of apothecary to the gaol, was reinstated in the place of John Piddington of Aylesbury.

 

The appeal of Langley Marrish against a warrant removing John Langley, lately servant to John Buckland, with his family from Burneham was dismissed.  (Sess. R. 18/5-6)

 

p. 71. The indictments against the Rev. Edward Carleton and William Perkins were quashed.  [See p. 3]

 

John Benning, overseer of Wendover, was paid [blank] 

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for relieving and conveying Ann Simpkin, a vagrant, to Uxbridge, co. Middlesex.

 

The bastard child of Parnell Bate, spinster, and William Seare was removed from Wingrave, where it had been “putt out to Nurse,” to Ivinghoe, where it was born.

 

Order that in future Elizabeth Thomson should be maintained by John Hoare of Aylesbury instead of by Alexander Olliffe, and that Hoare should be given the same allowance of 4s. a week, and also 5s. “to buy her 2 shifts.” (Sess. R. 19/40)

 

p. 72. Francis Woodcock, the County gaoler, was allowed 14s. for the burial expenses of William Tompson, who died in the gaol as a prisoner for debt.  The indictments against, and the recognizances of, Tompson were discharged.  [See p. 42]

Indictments confessed and traversed.

The convictions of Richard Rockingham, Henry Worster, Abraham Preist, and Joseph Cossendon [see p. 28], and of William Serjeant, constable of Brill, for not producing his accounts [see Bucks Sess. Rec., Vol. II, page 412].  The acquittals of William Lee junior [see p. 28], and of Mary Bethell of Waddesden, widow, for not repairing the highway at Westcott Gap [see Bucks Sess.  Rec., Vol. II, page 387].

Recognizances extended.

p. 73. The following, already given above: Thomas Saunders [see p. 23], John Taylor [see p. 24], and John Crumpton [see p. 38].

Richard Toms, alias Woodward, of Newport Pagnell, butcher, with Henry Cooper, apothecary, and Gilbert Johnson, grocer, both of the same, as sureties, for bastardy with Mary Sapwell of the same.  (Sess. R. 19/31 and 48)

Recognizances entered into.

John Gaylor of Denham, yeoman, with James Gaylor, yeoman, and Robert Jakeman, husbandman, both of the same, as sureties, to answer for refusing to take back Mary Lovell into his service.  (Sess. R. 19/26)

William Littleboy of Iver, husbandman, with Andrew 

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Groom of the same, yeoman, and Aaron Sedgwick of Colebrook, butcher, as sureties, to keep the peace towards Adam Wells of lver, labourer.  (Sess. R. 19/27)

Edward Anstee of Swanborne, yeoman, to answer the overseers of Winslow for refusing to execute a warrant for arresting Edward Hobcroft for bastardy with Susan King. (Sess. R. 19/28)

Thomas Bell and John Davis, both of Bow Brickhill, yeomen, to appear at the next session.  (Sess. R. 19/29-30)

Edward Francklyn of Bledlowe, with Edward Sale, yeoman, and Thomas Pratt, blacksmith, both of the same, as sureties, to appear at the next session.  (Sess. R. 19/32)

William Serjeant of Brill, yeoman, with Thomas Winslow of the same, brick-maker, as surety, to appear at the next session.  (Sess. R. 19/33)

William Perkins senior of Chesham, yeoman, with William Perkins junior of Shipton, yeoman, as surety, to appear at the next session.  (Sess. R. 19/34)

Fines and issues.

The fines of the persons convicted on p. 72.

Recognizances discharged.

Edward Francklyn, Thomas Pratt, and Edward Sale, all of Bledlowe, Thomas Bell and John Davis, both of Bow Brickhill, Henry Cockett, John Cockett, and Robert Todd, all of Burneham, and Edward Anstee of Swanborne.

Recruiting.

p. 74. A letter was read from the Privy Council, addressed to the Rt. Hon. Scroope, Earl of Bridgewater, the custos rotulorum, in which they earnestly recommended “the vigorous execution of an Act made for raising Recruits for the Land forces and Marines, the same being a Service absolutely necessary for carrying on the Warre.”  The Court ordered all the officers of the County “to make diligent search [for] . . . all such able bodyed men as they shall find who have not any lawfull Calling or Imployment or visible meanes for their maintenance or livelyhood or vote in Electing members to serve in Parliament,” and to bring them before the justices “to be then and there Listed.”

Writs.

Writ of venire facias addressed to the sheriff in respect 

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of the following: the first II persons named in Sess. R. 16/2 on page 13.  (Sess. R. 18/2)

Writ of capias ad respondendum addressed to the sheriff in respect of the following: the first 26 persons named in Sess. R. 16/3 on page 13, the first 10 persons named in Sess. R. 17/3 on page 29, and William Serjeant of Brill, labourer.  (Sess. R. 18/3)

Bridewell calendars.

Chepping Wiccombe: Richard Ellis committed as an idle and disorderly person; Julian Winter, an apprentice, for running away from his master.  (Sess. R. 19/46)

Newport Pagnell: David Long, Mary Long, Thomas Chapman, esquire, William James of Clifton Reynes, Thomas Stanton and Robert West junior, both of Olney, Lawrence Earl of Newport Pagnell, Moses Bunyon, John Bunyon, and Robert Goodin, all of Moulsoe, Charles Marchant and William Mason, both of Stonny Stratford, had all been committed since the last session.  (Sess. R. 19/51)

Victuallers’ recognizances.

William Sclater of Colebrook, with Samuel Sedgwick, butcher, and William Dunt, collar-maker, both of the same, as sureties.  (Sess. R. 19/24)

Robert Lawrence of Colebrook, with Thomas Webb of Langley, labourer, and John Caldwell of Iver, victualler, as sureties.  (Sess. R. 19/25)

 

EASTER SESSION

AT AYLESBURY,

4th April, 1706 [5 Anne].

 

Jurors for the body of the county.

p. 75. Thomas Berry of Brill, Thomas Bunce of Padbury, Henry Chapman of Haddenham, Thomas Goodman of Edlesborough, Thomas Goodson of Halton, gentleman, Thomas Hale of Emerton, Thomas Hill of Chalfont St. Giles, Ephraim Holt of Ford, John Lane of Bletchley, Thomas Morris of Upton, Henry Newell of Saunderton, Thomas Newman of Long Crendon, Bartholomew Paxton of Barton Hartshorne, Thomas Short of Hogson, Thomas Stevens of North Marston, Richard Waddupp of Chitwood, Thomas 

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Wells of Drayton Parslow, John Welsh of Chesham, and Richard White of Bow Brickhill.

The following were not sworn: Samuel Bampton of Pollicott in Ashendon, Jonathan Butterfeild of Botley, William Gilpin of Stony Stratford, Thomas Holt of Grittmore in Grendon Underwood, John Mallett senior of Great Horwood, Robert Nash of Edlesborough, John Oxlade of Braddenham, Richard Parratt of Hanslopp, Richard Redding of Hardwick cum Weedon, John Smith of Emerton, Thomas Stevenson junior of Monks Risborough, and John Strainge of Turweston.  (Sess. R. 20/149 and 163)

Sacrament certificates.

p. 76. The Rev. Lawrence Kingford, rector of “the second portion of the Parish Church and Rectory of Waddesden”; certified by the Rev. [Blank] Harrison, minister, and Thomas Adams and John Green, churchwardens, of Waddesden, and witnessed by Peter Beck, butcher, and William Egleton, both of the same.  (Sess. R. 20/108-109)

Edward Bedder, butcher, and John Stevens, carpenter, bailiffs of the borough of Chepping Wiccombe; certified by the Rev. Thomas Cordell, vicar, and Richard Shrimpton, churchwarden, of Chepping Wiccombe, and witnessed by John Rose of the same, jack-maker.  (Sess. R. 20/111-112)

The Rev. Benjamin Gatton, vicar of Dynton; certified by the Rev. Robert Patrick, curate of Aston Sandford, and Robert Reynolds, churchwarden of Dynton, and witnessed by Ephraim Holt and Thomas Maple, both of Upton.  (Sess. R. 20/113)

All the above also took the statutory oaths.

Meeting houses.

The houses of Mr. Robert Britton at Cranfeild Wall End and John Britton, both of Moulsoe, and John West of Colebrooke (Sess. R. 20/100), and the chambers over the bakehouse of Henry Hall of Newport Pagnell (Sess. R. 20/103), were registered.

Convictions of swearers.

Thomas Mills, alias Kendall, for swearing five oaths.

Enlistments.

p. 77. William Jones of Chepping Wycombe, aged 28, Christopher North of Great Marlow, aged 25, John Stoneaway 

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of Little Marlow, aged 20, and John Whorley of Avington, co. Gloucester, aged 24 (Sess. R. 20/98), Andrew Adams of Cuddington, aged 30, John Beck of Hampton Powell, co. Oxford, aged 23, John Burton of Chepping Wycombe, aged 34, David Harding of Eaton, aged 25, John Samms of Becconsfeild, labourer, aged 20, John Smith of Farnham, co. Surrey, aged 43, and Richard Wilmott of Lewknor, co. Oxford, aged 20 (Sess. R. 20/99), were handed over to Captains William Higgerson and John Ramsey of the Royal Regiment of Foot commanded by George, Earl of Orkney.

Indictments.

p. 78. William Panter, labourer, and Dorothy, his wife, Richard Hillyer, labourer, and Ann, wife of Joseph Parrett, all of Hanslopp, for rescuing William Panter junior of the same, butcher, from the custody of Thomas Arpin, Matthew Lane, and William Manning, bailiffs, after he had been arrested at the suit of Thomas Creake.  [Hillyer and Parrett fined 3s. 4d. each]  (Sess. R. 23/45)

William Stocker of Aylesbury, labourer, for assaulting Alice, his wife.  [Fined 10s.]  (Sess. R. 20/107 and 188)

Finch Howes of Beirton, gentleman, and Ann, his wife, and Thomas Crompton of Great Marlowe, esquire, as popish recusants.

John Typper, gentleman, and Mary, his wife, John Mawby, labourer, and Ann, his wife, Frances Carter, widow, and Dorothy, wife of Thomas Waters, labourer, all of Mursley cum Salden, for absence from church.

Indictments ignored by the grand jury.

John Belfeild, Job Blake, Charles Bury, William Davey, William Elymante, William Partridge, and Joseph Welsh, constables and officers of Chesham and Latimer, for neg- lecting to execute warrants.  (Sess. R. 20/172)

Thomas Pilgrim of Aston Clinton, blacksmith, for en- croaching on the highway by building.  (Sess. R. 23/35)

James Hall of Gawcott, labourer, for keeping a disorderly alehouse.  (Sess. R. 23/37)

Presentments of the constables.

Daniel Benning of lver for refusing to assist the con- stable in searching for vagrants.  (Sess. R. 20/148)

 

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Susan Gill of Eaton near Windsor, spinster, for “ln- tontinency, haveing a Bastard Child.”  (Sess. R. 20/150)

Edward Bailey of Fingest for keeping a disorderly alehouse.  (Sess. R. 20/151)

The three persons indicted above for recusancy, and the six persons indicted for absence from church, were pre- sented for the same offences.  (Sess. R. 20/158 and 171)

Treasurers sworn,

p. 79. For the Queen’s Bench and Marshalsea	Daniel Harding of Agmondesham and Thomas Keen of Wingrave, gentle- men, vice John Lee senior and John Eayres; Matthew Nichols of Hedgerly Dean, John Tockfeild of Chesham, John Grace junior of Rowsham, and Henry Kidgell of Soulbury, gentle- men, were nominated but not sworn. (Sess. R. 20/57-58)
For the maimed soldiers	Thomas Jackson of Stoke Mandevile and Robert Grange of Little Hor- wood, gentlemen, vice William Hakewill and Roger Adams; Edward Martin of Buckland, Joseph Smith of Edlesborough, Thomas Hogg of Adstock, and Hugh Smith of Little Woolstone, gentlemen, were nominated but not sworn.  (Sess. R. 20/54 and 56)