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Wigan Court Leet Rolls
ROLL 20 - 1663
Box 1. Roll 20 Michaelmas Leet Mayor William Daniell Benchers Robert Baron William Glover Recorder Richard Penington Town Clerk John Anderton Bailiffs John Leathwaite James Scott Attornies Robert Winstanley Edward Baron Sword bearer William Foster Serjeants James Rigby Thomas Scott Gatewaiters Market Street Peter Mason James Young Standishgate Robert Mosse Gerard Foster Millgate Thomas Rouson John Hoult Scoles Robert Pemberton William Ford pewterer Wallgate Edward Hough John Carter Hallgate William Waite Henry Lithgoe Woodhouses Adam Catterall William Scott Surveyors of Roger Bibbie Flesh and Fish Gilbert Leigh Surveyors of Richard Dolphin Bread and Beer James Glasebrook Church Clerk James Bancks Bellman Richard Dobson Treasures Robert Markland mercer William Lynney Searchers and Edward Barow Sealers of Leather James Bancks Box 1. Roll 20 Michaelmas Leet 23rd October 1663 Presentments That Robert Casson labourer, Thomas Locker and Thomas Richardson assaulted one another at Ascension Fair last John Worthington husbandman assaulting Robert Markland one of the bailiffs Ralph Boulton and John Robinson for entering with force and arms, a close belonging to Edmund Molyneux The same Edmund for assaulting James Patricke Hugh Scott brazier, Robert and Alexander Ford - assault Peter Leigh for assaulting John Aughey. Alice Bancks and Margaret the wife of Thomas Tarleton - assault Alice Laithwaite spinster for abusing Margaret the wife of William Laithwaite Anne the wife of Richard Casson brazier for abusing Robert Markland one of the bailiffs Ellen Lithgoe widow and Roger Wood feltmaker - abuse The said Roger Wood for abusing Mathew Markland one of the aldermen Elizabeth Seddon widow for assaulting Elizabeth the wife of Thomas Lowe Roger Browne dawber for abusing Robert Baron one of the aldermen Gilbert Langshaw pewterer and Hugh Platt - assault Peter Leigh joiner for abusing Richard Dobson plasterer and William Linney. William Lathom yeoman for abusing Robert Markland one of the bailiffs "That James Urmston gentleman on the 28th of September 1663 did Chalenge Peter Marsh gentleman to fight" and the said Peter did the like - withdrawn James Urmston for breaking his recognizance "in not keepinge his good behaviour" John Houghton tailor and Robert Catten - assault Ellen the wife of Hamlet Houlcroft for abusing Margaret Wood and John Wood Elizabeth Wood for abusing Ellen the wife of Hamlet Houlcroft "wee order her to be Cuckstoold and to bee duckt three tymes" Roger Browne dawber, James Brown dawber, Richard Crosse labourer and Humphrey Mather skinner for assault That the same Richard Crosse, James Browne and Roger Browne abused William Liney one of the bailiffs "with many Blowes and foule and aprobrious words" Gilbert Green fuller and William Green dyer for abusing Robert Baron alderman Roger Stoughton Esq and Stephen Platt, for receiving Robert France and Jane Houghton widow, foreigners. Stephen Platt and Alice Rigby widow for allowing their swine to stray. Robert Mann and Margaret Forth widow for keeping William Cooper and John Hurst foreigners William Pilkington, William Deane, Ralph Langshaw, James Bancks, Colonel Daniel, William Markland, and Harry Topeinge had not cleaned their ditches leading from Poole Bridge to the River Douglas James Patricke for assaulting Edmund Molyneux The wife of Alexander Ford for assaulting the wife of William Rigby Richard Crosse labourer and James Browne labourer - assault in fair time James Browne for felonously taking away a wooden bridge belonging to James Browne "Wee find him Guiltye and request Mr Maior that the said Browne may be sent to the house of Correcion" William Standley, Roger Wood feltmaker and Barnely Wood - assault in fair time Robert Houghton labourer for assaulting Roger Wood Anne Johnson and Barnely Wood, in fair time. Edmund Molyneux for presenting a bill of indictment at the last Christmas Sessions held in Wigan for the hundred of West Derby, against William Scott a freeman, for a pretended offence in the borough, contrary to the custom of the corporation. That Edmund Molyneux allowed several blocks and a great stone to lie in High Lane near Henry Bullock's gate William Green dyer for behaviour contrary to his oath as a burgess Elizabeth the wife of James Crichley for abusing James Young and Margery Higham Margaret the wife of William Almond for abusing James Yonge Mr Ralph Markland late mayor for swearing Thomas Butler a burgess contrary to the custom of the burough - fined £10 Edward Hollinhed for allowing a great quantity of daub to lie in the street near his house George Baw and Peter Whitter - assault That at Michaelmas Leet last several strangers were allowed to be admitted freemen on the payment of 50s. It was now considered prejudicale to the town to have done so, and it was ordered that the same should not be further put in execution. William Catterall presented for erecting a wing to his house, too far into the lane Complaint had been made that several inn keepers &c. "doe sell their Ale and beere in Black pottes which are not measure according to the Statute in that case made" William Scott presented for taking into his house Gilbert Ashton, his wife and 2 children, strangers from another town. Roger Browne presented for saying that William Cookson and Edward Parson "weare Cheaters and Cheating knaves and said he would be hanged For some of you" William Higham presented for not coming to be sworn a burgess. Box1 Roll 20 Michaelmas Leet 1663 Petitions &c. Complaint of Henry Lythgoe that he had been fined for receiving Ellen Tyrer, but that she had been in the town for 7 years and had had a child by William Suxsmith, and had never been a burden on the town. Complaint of Richard Ashton that he had been born in the town and always lived there, but at the Michaelmas Leet had been fined as a foreigner Protests of Margery Astley widow, Matthew Johnson labourer, Nicholas Sumpson a single man, Bridget Barrow widow and John Scott against their fines Petition of Richard Dobson bellman "a poore dying Creature" That for 17 years he had been Sexton and bellman and now that he was ill and not likely to recover he asked to have Edward Catterall, a freeman, who knew the work and lived near the church to be allowed to do his work for him - allowed Petition of Robert Fazackerley that he, his wife and children might be allowed to live quietly in the town Petition of James Molyneux that at the time the town was a garrison he had 33,000 bricks which were taken away by the bailiffs and sold and the money converted to the town's use. And that he "did upon the request of Mr William Glover then bayliffe in the tyme of warrs lay downe the summe of forty shillings for to gratifye the officers and souldiers att Lathome house for there civill respects which they used to Mr Glover, he beinge a little before taken prisoner with the said souldiers". And Mr Glover promised that the town would pay him. He now asked for compensation Complaint of Edward Sumner that William Ford dyer made a path through Penington Meadow and diverted the petitioner's water course Petition of Ralph Marsh plasterer that he might continue to "Call and Crye upon the poeple" - allowed Complaints of John Fazackerley and Henry Modesley against their fines &c. Petition of Peter Aspinall of Ashton in Makerfield a spurrier who could make locks, "gunneworke" stone bows, Jacks clockwork &c. to be admitted freeman Petition of James Sixsmith of Millgate that the fine of Thomas Scott of Wallgate might be remitted as he had been his surety for his appearance and he had made default Petition of Ralph Jolly gunsmith to be made a freeman Account of the Overseers of the highways Complaint of William Harrison that he had been fined as a foreigner, though he had lived in the town for over 40 years and married a free born woman of the town and "hath beene a soldier for the said Burrowe for his said late Majestie's service at Boulton Westhoughton and other places and other- wise hath beene serviceable to the said Burrowe and the poore people thereof as namely in the sicknes tyme in bring and Causing to bee brought all the meale of the tyth corne of the whole parish into the said Burrowe and sould to the towne" Complaint of James Bradshawe and John Worthington that they and their ancestors "have been acostomed to walke from shopp to shopp withing this town Amongst the Shoemakers to sell them Lether" But now for his own ends Edward Boulton had obtained an order of the Court to prevent them. 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Roll 20 Court held 19 March 1663 Presentments Gilbert Green fuller for abusing Robert Baron alderman Richard Crosse and James Browne - assault Grace Markland and Mrs Adlington - assault Anne Catterall widow for receiving Henry Winstanley and his wife foreigners Alice Nightgaile the wife of James Nightgaile for abusing Margaret the wife of William Houghton Katherine Penington widow for receiving Anne the wife of Joseph Watterhouse a foreigner James Taylor - a foreigner Edward Capper for assaulting Margery Higham spinster John Ward a foreigner received by Edward Haywood Thomas Winard and Ralph Deane labourer - assault That Benjamin Barker late of Sowerby Yorks husbandman at Wigan on 31st of January before the Mayor swore that John Bates robbed him of 43 li on the highway, Since which the said Barker on his oath denied it all "And therein did comitt Wilfull perjury" Fined 20 li and 6 months imprisonment and the pillory in default of payment Mary the wife of William Prescott for assaulting Ellen Scott widow. Elizabeth wife of William Liney and Margery Boulton spinster - assault Robert Houghton for assaulting Edward Hough in his own house and abusing John Billys. William Laithwait senior, brazier for keeping "a Curr dogge unmusled" and "to the great terror of his neighbours" Peter Belcher for taking earth from a ditch back belonging to James Ford Gilbert Prescott a foreigner -- Bridge, Thomas Greene, and Robert Milner foreigners received by William Glover alderman, Humphrey Farbrother, William Laithwait senior and James Ford. John Mathews - a foreigner Edward Rigby and Thomas Jackson - assault. Also the said Edward for assaulting Roger Wood The said Edward for abusing Jane Jackson widow. Box 1. Roll 20 Easter Leet? March 19th 1663 Petitions &c. Complaint of James Johnson alias Sanders that in February last he had married Mary Sutton a farmer and innkeeper and according to the statute was entitled to settle in the town, yet he had been fined as a foreigner. Box 1. Roll 20 Court Held 19th December 1663 That the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas might be moved to alter his award in the case between the Mayor of the town and the Bishop of Chester and the parson of Wigan Presentments Gilbert Green for abusing Robert Baron alderman John Coulsher alias Fairclough for saying "that he neither cared for the king nor queen" The same John and John Greenhalgh for assault Roger and Thomas sons of Henry Risley for assaulting Humphrey Farbrother and the said Henry for advising them to do so. Richard Crosse and James Browne - assault William Scott of Poolestocke for keeping Gilbert Ashoc and his family. William Catterall for not pulling down a building as he was ordered Stephen Platt for not removing Jane Houghton widow from his house as he was ordered Gilbert Orrell shoemaker for abusing William Forth - to sit in the stocks in the Market for one hour. Ellen the wife of James Letherbarrow fined 12d. for abusing Roger Baron Roger Baron fined 12d for abusing Gilbert Orrell shoemaker Elizabeth Bore widow fine 12d for abusing Thomas Worthington the elder Grace the wife of Mathew Markland alderman and Mrs Adlington - assault Richard France and Katherine Penington widow for receiving Elizabeth Arrowsmith widow and Anne the wife of Joseph Watterhowse Richard France and Alexander Forth pewterer for allowing several pieces of timber to lie in the street James Harvie the elder, William Forth, Rober Baron brazier, Thomas Casson, Gilbert Hartleigh, and William Morcroft for keeping "dogs or bagles and Hunt and Kill Hares they not beinge qualified According to the Actt of Parliment" And "that they doe Anoy there Neighbors in breakinge downe their yardings. - One whole years imprisonment |