Presentments and Orders of the Court Sessions of the Peace and General Gaol Delivery,...

Presentments and Orders of the Court

Sessions of the Peace and General Gaol Delivery, held before Thomas

Wicliffe, gentleman, Alderman of Grantham, Alexander More, esquire

Peter Richardson, gentleman, Ralph Clarke, gentleman, Miles

Greenwood, gentleman, Edward Coddington, gentleman, Arthur

Rhodes, gentleman, Edward Fisher, gentleman, Edward Watson, gentleman, Richard Cony, gentleman, Henry Cole, gentleman, comburgesses of the town, Justices of the Peace; and also Robert Cholmeley, esquire, their lawyer.

Constable's Grand Jury of the town of Grantham:

George Hanson

John Colby

Edward Rawlinson

Edward Towne

Urian Nuball

Thomas Baily

John Basse

Edward Still

James Walker

John Ireland

John Bracewell

Timothy Matkyn

Presentments for selling short measures of ale:

Giles Andrew of Grantham, innkeeper

Walter Leeminge of Grantham, innkeeper

Simon Frith of Grantham, innkeeper

Edward Kerchen of Grantham, innkeeper

George Hanson of Grantham, innkeeper

David Turner of Grantham, victualler

Elizabeth Crayle of Grantham, victualler

Denis Gibson of Grantham, innkeeper

John Scott of Grantham, victualler

James Walker of Grantham, victualler

William Newton of Grantham, victualler

John Elston of Grantham, victualler

John Knight of Grantham, victualler

Thomas Matkyn of Grantham, victualler

John Halstet of Grantham, victualler

Joanna Broughton of Grantham, victualler

John Hatchyn of Grantham, victualler

Richard Derrey, victualler

Henry Knott of Grantham, victualler

Thomas Blacke of Grantham, victualler

William Close of Grantham, victualler

Nicholas Backhouse of Grantham, victualler

Matthew Walker of Grantham, victualler

Edmund Tomlinson of Grantham, victualler

Christopher Wright of Grantham, victualler

Mark Clayton of Grantham, victualler

Thomas Hand of Grantham, victualler

Nicholas Doddyn of Grantham, victualler

William Fearyn of Grantham, victualler

Robert Ullyott of Grantham, victualler

Alice Whitehead of Grantham, victualler

John Ireland of Grantham, victualler

Alice Millnes of Grantham, victualler

John Waryn of Grantham, victualler

Katherine Kellham of Grantham, victualler

Andrew Allen of Grantham, victualler

Hugh Kelham of Grantham, victualler

Katherine Parker of Grantham, victualler

Presentments for keeping unlicensed common taverns or 'Tiplinge houses':

Mordecai Still of Grantham, butcher

William Hunter of Grantham, tailor

John Kerke of Grantham, butcher

Henry Scott of Grantham, corvicer [shoemaker]

George Shaw of Grantham, yeoman

David Parkes of Grantham, yeoman

William Still of Grantham, corvicer [shoemaker]

Thomas Becke of Grantham, tanner

William Houghton of Grantham, corvicer [shoemaker]

Jane Bristow of Grantham, widow

Henry Speedy of Grantham, corvicer [shoemaker]

William Haskerd of Grantham, tanner

Anthony Speedy of Grantham, yeoman

Anthony Middlebrooke of Grantham, slater

Christopher Richardson of Grantham, baker

Widow Poole of Grantham

Presentments for breaking the assizes of bread:

Edward Rawlinson of Grantham, baker

Francis Bristowe of Grantham, baker

Christopher Richardson of Grantham, baker

John Knight of Grantham, baker

Presentments of those who "hath taken the kidneys or sewett out of the mutton which they have sold":

Thomas Short senior of Grantham, butcher

Richard Butler of Grantham, butcher

Ralph Nidd of Grantham, butcher

Mordecai Still of Grantham, butcher

John Hanson of Grantham, butcher

William Kerk of Grantham, butcher

John Kerke of Grantham, butcher

George Hanson of Grantham, butcher

Christopher Hanson of Grantham, butcher

William Richardson of Grantham, butcher

Thomas Short junior of Grantham, butcher

Edward Short of Grantham, butcher

Mark Clayton of Grantham, butcher

Edward Simpson of Grantham, butcher

Thomas Gosney of Grantham, butcher

Presentment:

John Bordman of Grantham, corvicer [shoemaker], for affray upon John Basse, one of the constables of the town of Grantham.

Constables' Jury of the Soke of Grantham:

John Saule of Braceby

Richard Marriott of Denton

Thomas Jackson of Denton

Henry Askew of Harlaxton

George Cursham of Harlaxton

William Chester of Belton

William Millner of Gonerby

Thomas Robarts of Gonerby

Zachary Lyne of Colsterworth

William Thompson of South Stoke

Thomas Collyn of Easton

William Patchett of Great Ponton

Robert Clarke of Great Ponton

Francis Wilborne of Manthorpe

Henry Todkill of Londonthorpe

John Dunhill of Barkston

John Chamberlayne of Sapperton

Presentments for selling short measures of ale:

Richard Burkit of Denton, victualler

Simon Ecoppe of Denton, victualler

Robert Greene of Denton, victualler

William Bullymer of Gonerby, victualler

Alice Lynne of Gonerby, victualler

Widow Harrison of Gonerby, victualler

John Kellam of Gonerby, victualler

John Millner alias Hindes of Gonerby, victualler

Henry Glover of Manthorpe, victualler

John Goslyn of Manthorpe, victualler

John Hill of Harlaxton, victualler

John Dale of Harlaxton, victualler

Zachary Thompson of Harlaxton, victualler

John Dawson of Belton, victualler

Robert Smithson of Belton, victualler

Valentine Dixon of Belton, victualler

William Clarke of Londonthorpe, victualler

Ema' Rowley of Easton, victualler

William Fountance of South Stoke, victualler

Robert Underwater of Colsterworth, innkeeper

John Passam of Colsterworth, victualler

William Hastings of Colsterworth, victualler

John Richardson of Colsterworth, victualler

Robert Gryme of Barkston, victualler

Henry North of Barkston, victualler

Peter Groves of Woolsthorpe, victualler

Henry Whittell of Woolsthorpe, victualler

Presentments for breaking the assizes of bread:

Francis Hill of Barkston, baker

John Hill of Harlaxton, baker

Zachary Thompson of Harlaxton, baker

Presentment:

Elizabeth Perkins, wife of Richard Perkins of Harlaxton, for profane cursing.

Presentment:

Valentine Dixon of Belton, labourer, for keeping an unlicensed common tavern or 'Tiplinge house'.

Jury of "preter illos" of the Soke of Grantham:

William Goldinge of South Stoke

Thomas Fretwell of Denton

William Woodroffe of Denton

George Lord of Harlaxton

John Parker of Woolsthorpe

John Allen of Easton

Vincent Pinder of Easton

Simon Johnson of Manthorpe

Henry Wright of Londonthorpe

John Askew of Great Ponton

Thomas Askew of Great Ponton

William Holdernes of Gonerby

Francis Goodwyn of Gonerby

Henry Roberts of Gonerby

Thomas Armeson of Belton

William Arrowsmith of Belton

John Lord of Harlaxton

Presentments:

Nothing to present which the Constable's Jury of the Soke has not already presented.

Orders of the Court:

George Edlyn of Denton, weaver, to pay for the maintenance and education of his bastard child by Mary Wislington.

Henry Brothwell of Harlaxton, labourer, to take into his custody the bastard child begotten by him of Abigail Peake.

Robert Andrew of Grantham, sadler, committed to gaol until he can find securities for his good behaviour "for that the said Robert Andrew did in open court with reviling speeches abuse Mr Edward Watson, one of the King's Majestie's Justices of Peace."

William Thompson of South Stoke fined for assault and battery of Vincent Scochey the younger.

John Darby of Belton fined for victualling without licence, but the fine remitted on account of his poverty.