Session at Maidstone, 1st April, 1600

9 John Alchorne of Loose, gentleman, by election of Justices, to be Treasurer of lathes of Aylesford, Sutton-at-Hone, and the seven hundreds of Scray for Maimed Soldiers.

10 Joan Syncco, widow, to keep victualling no longer.

11 Robert Bourchett of Staplehurst, clothier, to be bound with sureties for good behaviour from sessions to sessions for seven years, if in the mean time he does not bring a certificate from his neighbours of his amendment of life.

12 Richard Tetterden of Loose, butcher, Michael Honney of Boughton, butcher, and John Honney of the same, butcher, to be bound for good behaviour; and attachment to be awarded against them because they departed the court without performing the order.

13 Richard Browne of Boughton Monchelsea, labourer, to keep victualling no longer.

14 George Grymsey of Boxley, labourer, to find sureties to keep victualling no longer.

Recognizances to appear at the next [session] here.

Wyborne Harris of Tonbridge, butcher, for good behaviour in £10. Sureties, Thomas Harris and Roger Humfrey of Tonbridge, butchers, in £ 5 each. Respited to the next here.

Andrew Baker of Sundridge, yeoman, for good behaviour, in £20. Respited as above.

[All entries followed by the words Respited as above]

William Ellys of Chislehurst, husbandman, for good behaviour, in £40. Surety, Alexander Redgway of Maidstone, inn-holder, in £20.

Thomas Barwicke of Boxley, labourer, for good behaviour, in £20. Surety, Richard Waller of Islyng [? Islingham in Frindsbury], yeoman, in £10.

John Shawe of Boxley, husbandman, for good behaviour, in £20. Surety, Richard Waller of Islynge, yeoman, in £10.

Thomas Furner of Yalding, labourer, for good behaviour, in £20. Surety, Thomas Hale of Yalding, in £10.

Robert Bourchett of Staplehurst, clothier, for good behaviour, in £20. Sureties, Robert Curche of Yalding, husbandman, and Andrew Crumpe of Marden, husbandman, in £10 each.

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

John Sherfold of Bonnington, husbandman, for good behaviour, in £20. Surety, Andrew Baker of Sundridge, yeoman, in £10.

Richard Lamparne to answer concerning that whereof he is indicted, and for good behaviour, in 40 marks. Surety, Thomas Hale of Yalding, yeoman.

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

John Ashdowne of Leigh, yeoman, for good behaviour, in £40. Surety, John Holmden of Tonbridge, yeoman, in £20.

John Holmden of Tonbridge, yeoman, for good behaviour, in £40. Surety, John Ashdowne of Leigh, yeoman, in £20.

Thomas Wooddie of Tonbridge, yeoman, for good behaviour, in £40. Surety, Robert Wooddie of Tonbridge, husbandman, in £20.

Wyborn 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 Couchman of Tonbridge, yeoman, in £20.

Francis Coucheman of Tonbridge, husbandman, for good behaviour, in £40. Surety, Thomas Coucheman of the same, yeoman, in £20.

Recognizances defaulted.

Henry Colman of Yalding, labourer, for good behaviour, in £10. Sureties, John Baker and William Norden, in £5 each. Did not appear, but made default.

John Baker of Yalding, labourer, for good behaviour, in £10. Sureties, William Norden and Henry Colman, in £5 each. As above.

[All entries followed by the words As above]

William Norden of Yalding, clothier, for good behaviour, in £10. Sureties, John Baker and Henry Colman of the same, labourers, in £5 each.

Benjamin Wyborne of Yalding, yeoman, to appear here, and meanwhile to procure a pardon or other lawful discharge of his outlawry at the suit of the Queen, in £10.

Richard Clayton to answer, in £40. Sureties, George Baulding and John Perry in £20.

John Hilles of Hunton, tippler, to answer concerning the offence whereof he is indicted, in £5.

Thomas Parry of London, yeoman, for good behaviour, in £20. Surety, Hawter Smyth of East Greenwich, gentleman, in £10.

Henry Colman of Yalding, labourer, for good behaviour, in £10. Sureties, Thomas Hale, carpenter, and Robert Bromfeild, husbandman, both of Yalding, in £5 each.

Stephen Deane of Brenchley, sherman, to keep the peace at the suit of Thomas Henbury, in £10. Sureties, John Morgan and William Crowche of Brenchley, yeoman, in £5 each.

Special session of the peace at Maidstone, on 16th May, 1600, before Thomas Fludd, and John Leveson, knights, William Sedley, Laurence Wasshington and John Rychers, esqs. and others.

The Jurors, Salomon Ware, Richard Day, Richard Rode, Mathew Rode, William Johnson, Edward Combe, Richard Sculthorpe, John Trendale, John Polley, Henry Fetherstone, John Heath or Baker, Thomas Dorman, Thomas Collyns, Nicholas Maunser and William Nordyshe present that, in accordance with statute made in Parliament on 12th January, 1562/3, Surveyors of the Highways in each parish should be elected each year in the week after Easter to care for the roads; and that Joseph Byrchett and

Edward Batherst of Goudhurst, gentlemen, were duly elected surveyors of Goudhurst on Tuesday in Easter week, [10th April, 1599], by Laurence Sharpe and Thomas Austen, Guardians [of the Poor] and John Horsemonden, Constable of the Hundred of Marden; and that although various highways in Goudhurst between Cranbrook and Brenchley, and between Tonbridge and Cranbrook, badly needed repair, the surveyors refused to repair them.

Ordered that Joan Syncoo, widow, shall keep victualling in Goudhurst until Michaelmas next, and stand on her former sureties.

Ordered that Richard Besbeche of Goudhurst shall keep victualling no more, in Goudhurst or elsewhere.