Session at Canterbury, 8th January, 1599/1600

34 A highway leading from Bargrove [in Newington] towards Signe [Scene in Hythe] and so towards Hythe, has been in a bad state of repair for the last two years, which highway should have been repaired by the inhabitants of Cheriton and Saltwood.

[In margin] ? January ? Elazar Baker, inhabitant of Cheriton, appeared, and discharged because amerciament...... [obscure]

35 A highway in Stonestreete towards Stowbigwood [Stowting Rough] and Westwood in Lyminge and Stowting, next to land in tenure of Thomas Kempe, esq. and Antony Aucher, esq. is a nuisance because thorns and branches of certain trees and brambles growing in the lands on each side of the road, which cover and overshadow it, so that water falling on the road cannot be dried up by sun and wind, and the road is made muddy and so remains, which thorns and branches should be cut off by the said Thomas and Anthony.

Tipplers Authorized.

[Principals in £10 and sureties in £5 each]

1 Gilbert Holliway of the borough of Staplegate. Sureties: Thomas Wilson of Westgate, glover, and Nicholas Bushby of Staplegate, tailor.

2 Thomas Parker of Sittingbourne. Sureties: Mathew Ockley of Sittingbourne, gentleman, and Thomas Horton of Canterbury, gentleman.

3 Richard Kempster of St. Dunstan near and without Canterbury, brewer. Sureties: John Dunkyn of St. Mildred, Canterbury, gentleman, and John Whallowe of St. Dunstan, yeoman.

4 John Clay of Harbledown, yeoman. Sureties: Christofer Nevelson of Harbledown, drover, and John Tayler of Canterbury, tailor.

5 Margery Smyth of Harbledown, widow. Sureties: John Cocke of Christchurch, Canterbury, yeoman, and Thomas Austyn of Holy Cross or Westgate, beer-brewer.

6 Thomas Webbe of Brabourne. Sureties: Richard Brett of the same, husbandman, and George Stokes of Smeeth, wheelwright.

Badgers Authorized.

1 John Castlocke the younger of the ville and liberty of Faversham, maltster, by Edward Hoby, knight, Michael Sondes, knight, and Mathew Hadd, esq.

2 John Laurence of Faversham, yeoman, by Michael Sondes, knight, Richard Sondes, and Nicholas Gilborne, esqs.

3 Thomas Bradbery of Milton [next-Sittingbourne], yeoman, by Edward Hoby, knight, Michael Sondes, knight, and Richard Sondes, esq.

4 John Blofeild of St. John's, Thanet, gentleman, by William Lovelace, knight, Thomas Peyton and Mathew Hadd, esqs.

5 Thomas Upton of Sittingbourne, yeoman, by Edward Hoby, Michael Sondes, and William Lovelace, knights.

Orders made at the General Sessions of the Peace at Canterbury Castle, 8th January, 1599/1600.

1 Edward Wilford of Tilmanstone, victualler, to keep victualling no longer. Process to be awarded against him for maintaining play at cards and dice in his house on the sabbath days in the time of divine service.

2 Ralphe Chevys of Ickham, mason, to be attached for good behaviour.

3 George Austyn of Mystole [in Chartham] to execute his office of borsholder in borough of Shensford.

4 Joan Gynner of Harrietsham (and before Easter, 1598, of Brook) informed Sir Thomas Fludd, knight, justice of the peace, that Phillipp Bence, John Spillett and Thomas Androwe, parishioners of Brook, did a little before Easter, 1598, threaten her while she was at Brook in the service of William Hyggenson, where she remained by the week for thirty weeks, that if she did not go and dwell elsewhere before Easter, she would be whipped and sent away. Thereupon an order was made at the last sessions at Maidstone that she should be sent to Brook to be provided for there, where she now remains. At this sessions Philipp, John and Thomas come and deny that they threatened her, but say that she left Brook of her own accord before Easter, was later taken wandering, whipped and sent to Harrietsham, where she said she was born. The justices accept the evidence of the three men, and order her to be sent to Harrietsham, to be provided for there.

5 Parishioners of Ickham to pay 20s. to John Willes for keeping a bastard child of Ralphe Cheryce for a year and a half, being put to him by the parishioners to be kept.