Session at Maidstone, 23 September, 1600

9 William Harrys of Tenham, gent., shall be attached for good behaviour at the information and petition of Christopher Hudson, borsholder of Tenham for various misdemeanours.

10 Thomas Lorkyn of Burham, labourer, to find sureties for good behaviour.

11 Thomas Brattle of Yalding, labourer, John Chownyng of Yalding, labourer, and Thomas Pattenden of East Peckham, butcher, to be attached and committed to gaol for keeping victualling [houses] without licence.

[Unnumbered memoranda]

Unless Thomas Turner answers to the information laid against him by Mark Savage, at the next session to be held at Canterbury it shall be enrolled that he says nothing, the defendant shall be charged at the session held at Canterbury on 13th January, 1600/1, and if default shall be made he shall be solemnly charged by the court, which default shall be recorded by the court.

At this session Thomas Wall takes as an apprentice William Cooke, the son of [blank] Cook, widow, for eight years from midsummer last to train him as a shoemaker.

William Bridges of Staplehurst, yeoman, appears on attachment to answer to the contribution of 8d. weekly for the maintenance of two of his daughter's children at Sturry, agrees to carry out the order and hands over to the clerk of the peace for the times past until Michaelmas 47s. 4d.

Recognizances Defaulted.

Percival Ive and John Godderd for good behaviour, in £20 each. Sureties, Geoffery Brasyer of Halsted, husbandman, and Mathew Deane of the same, butcher, in £10 each.

Robert Woody of Tunbridge, husbandman, for good behaviour, in £40. Surety, John Ashdowne of Leigh, yeoman, in £20.

Wyborne Harris of Tonbridge, husbandman, for good behaviour, in £40. Surety, Jonas Eldridge of Bidborough, yeoman, in £20.

Michael Coucheman of Tonbridge, husbandman, for good behaviour, in £40. Surety, Thomas Coucheman of Tunbridge, yeoman, in £20.

Richard Besbeche of Goudhurst, tipler, to answer, in £20. Sureties, Christopher Wilson of Maidstone, shoemaker, and Henry Woodfeild of Maidstone, farrier, in £10 each.

Thomas Wright of Little Thurrock, co. Essex, husbandman, for good behaviour, in £20. Surety, Edward Maynesborough of Mucking, co. Essex, yeoman, in £10.

Zacharias Homlden of Westerham, weaver, for good behaviour, in £20. Sureties, Edward Rolfe of St. Saviour's, co. Surrey, brasier, and Thomas Beale of Westerham, in £10 each.

Thomas Greennoth of Westfield, co. Sussex, husbandman, to answer, in £20.

John Manbey of Greenhithe, labourer, for good behaviour, in £10. Sureties, John Hordyne of the same, yeoman, and Baptist Piggott of Dartford, mercer, in £5 each.

Sara Rumney, wife of John Rumney of Gillingham, shipwright, to keep the peace, at the suit of Sara Hoysted. Sureties, John Rumney and John Johnson of the same shipwrights in £10 each.

"Betteris" Johnson, wife of John Johnson, to keep the peace, at the suit of Sara Hoysted. Sureties, John Johnson of Gillingham, labourer, and John Rumney of the same, shipwright, in £10.

Thomas Huggett of Horsmonden, clothier, to answer, in £10.

Robert Warner of East Greenwich, sawyer, to keep the peace at the suit of Thomas Stucke, in £10. Sureties, Richard Wright of the same, yeoman, and John Baylyf of the same, carpenter.

Hugh Lawnder of Fremyngham, yeoman, for good behaviour, in £20. Sureties, Richard Fletcher of Horton Kirby, yeoman, and Nicholas Chambers of Eynsford, blacksmith, in £10 each.

Recognizances to appear at the next Court.

John Collett of Aylesford, yeoman, to keep the peace at the suit of George Hickmott of Aylesford, yeoman, in £20. By William Sedley, esq.

Thomas Wharter of Dartford, shoemaker, for good behaviour in £20. Sureties, Abaturk Ashby and Hubbard Cane of the same in £10 each. By Clement Beer.

Samuel Lomas of Bexley, yeoman, to keep the peace at the suit of John Averell, in £20. Surety, George Goldwell, gentleman, in £10. By the same.

John Goldwell of Bexley, gentleman, to keep the peace at the suit of the same, in £20. Surety, Samuel Lomas in £10. By William Lambard.

James Robynson of Farnborough, yeoman, to appear and answer, in £10. Sureties, Robert Heth of Maidstone, yeoman, and John Cowper of Keston, husbandman, in £5 each. By Timothy Lowe.

William Swaffer of Headcorn, sawyer, for good behaviour in £10. Surety, John Topley of Headcorn, husbandman, in £5. By Edward Filmer.

John Cowper, junior, of Cudham, for good behaviour, in £20. Sureties, Richard Peake of Chevening, yeoman, and John Cowper, senior, of Keston, husbandman, in £10 each. By Sampson Lennard.

Thomas Lockyn of Burham, labourer, for good behaviour in £20. Surety, Thomas Raynes of Burham, yeoman, in £10. By the court.

12 As Daniel Brooker, an infant, and son of Daniel Broker [sic] late of Yalding, deceased, was born at Yalding and afterwards, by provision of Daniel, the father, nursed at Yalding for twenty weeks and then nursed at Brasted for two months, during which time the father died leaving no means to support the child, and by order of Thomas Potter, esquire, a J. P. the child was sent to Yalding in accordance with the statute made in the last parliament, but the parishioners of Yalding refused to keep the child and sent it back to Brasted, contrary to the provision, and it is now ordered that the child shall be removed back to Yalding.

Special session at Maidstone on Thursday, 8th January, 1600/01, before Thomas Fludd, John Leveson, William Sedley, knights, John Richers, George Rivers, Nicholas Gilbourne, Lawrence Washington and Robert Bosseville, esquires.

Jury impannelled:- William Short, Thomas Short, John Goldsmythe, Thomas Kempe, Francis Stransham, Richard Pope, Thomas Rabbett, William Snatt, John May, George Charlton, Henry Gregory, Robert Frenche, John Masters, Edward Laurence and present

1 George Savell and John Fowle, both of Maidstone, fullers, on 24th November, 1600, at Loose, assaulted Henry Lanes and wounded him breaking "the Cannon bone" of the said Henry.

Writ of venire facias for them to appear at the next session at Canterbury on Tuesday after Epiphany next [7th January, 1601] to answer. On which day George and John do not appear. Sheriff returns nichil habent therefore writ of capias to have them at the next session at Maidstone on Tuesday after the close of Easter next [21st April, 1601] to answer.

[All items followed by the words Therefore as above]

2 Robert Hooke alias Curlinge of Offham, husbandman, Richard Bathe of Meopham, husbandman, and Richard Wilkyns of West Malling, shoemaker, riotously assembled with other disturbers of the peace, armed with staffs tipped with iron and other arms, on 16th December, 1600, at Ford in Wrotham, and assaulted and wounded Henry Lorkyn and Richard Sparke.

[In margin] Robert and Richard Wilkyns, taken, appeared and submitted themselves to the court. Their fines fixed by the justices on 21st April, 1601, at £4 for Robert and 2s. for Richard Wilkyns. Estreated against both.