Session at Canterbury, 8th January, 1599/1600

28 Richard Robyns of Eastry, yeoman, on 17th December, 1599, at Eastry, in a close of Richard Butler, assaulted him, and hit him on the head with a [?] scythe.

At this session Richard Robyns, by Herbert Cadman, his attorney, appears, and claims that the indictment is insufficient in law, pleads not guilty, and puts himself on the country. John Webbe, Clerk of the Peace, prosecutes. Writ of non omittas....... quin venire facias to summon a jury at the session at Maidstone on Tuesday after close of Easter [1st April, 1600]. Christofer Nevelson of Harbledown, yeoman, and Thomas Wilson of Westgate, fellmonger, become sureties for Richard Robyns in £5 each, and Richard Robyns for himself in £10. At session at Maidstone, Richard Robyns and John Webbe appear but none of the jury. Therefore postponed to Tuesday before St. James the apostle next [22nd July, 1600] at Canterbury. Sheriff to have the jury there and the same day given to John Webbe and Richard Robyns.

[In margin] Jury say that he is guilty of the indictment in the record. Fine assessed at 6d.

29 William Higgenson of Brook, labourer, entertained Joan Jynner, and set her on work by the week, being a vagrant, without any covenant by the year, that is 1598, for 30 weeks.

30 Inquisition taken at the General Session at Canterbury Castle, by the oath of Richard Colley, Richard Collard, John Symons, John Stokes, William Wraight, David Bolton, William Hogben, John Impett, John Dunkyn, Sampson Maxsted, Thomas Weekes, William Collinge, Abraham Upton, and Richard Clement, jurors for the hundred of Folkestone, and others, who present that Henry Durbrand of St. Margaret-at-Cliffe, yeoman, between 29th September and 25th December, 1599, being aged 16 or more, did not repair to the parish church of St. Margaret-at-Cliffe or to any other church or usual place of common prayer, but "hath forborne the same' contrary to statute of 1 Elizabeth for uniformity of common prayer, and statute of 23 Elizabeth.

[In margin] The said Henry appeared on 13th January, 1600/1, and conformed himself to frequent church. Therefore discharged.

31 Elizabeth Wilson, wife of [blank] Wilson of St. Margaret-at-Cliffe, between 11th November, 1599, and 8th January, 1599/1600, did not repair to church, as above.

32 A common way called a Shireway in the hundred of Folkestone, leading from Lywood Oke to Canterbury, across lands in tenure of William Munnynge, gentleman, and Valentine Godden, is now obstructed because the said William and Valentine have set up a hedge where a gate has always been, with the intention of blocking the way, and it has so remained for three years.

33 Stephen Boone on [blank] at Newington in the hundred of Folkestone, entered upon a parcel of the highway called the Ham, leading from Prulayne to Hythe, and dug a ditch and set up a hedge in the highway, 40 perches long, and so retains it enclosed.