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Wigan Court Leet Rolls
ROLL 30 - 1669
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Box 1. Roll 30 Easter Leet 17 April 1669 Presentments Thomas Catterall tailor for assaulting John Renshaw James Hollinhed and Elizabeth his wife and Thurstan Rogerson - litigation Margaret Rogerson for a litigation on James Hollinshed Thomas Blackhurst for assaulting William Houghton husbandman Margaret the wife of James Harvey and Anne the wife of Myles Holme - assault Gilbert Langshaw for a litigation on Katherine Langshaw. Anne the wife of James Hodson and Alice Wood - litigation and assault Margery Brighouse for a litigation of Anne the wife of James Hodson Bridget Barrow "doth buy neever forth of the open markett" Thomas Risley for assaulting Hugh Hollinhead and his son Peter Whitle miller for assaulting Thurstan Crosse  Thurstan Crosse and Elizabeth Almond spinster - assault Katherine Finch for allowing her swine to stray Richard Crosse for a litigation on Edward Buckley gatewaiter and an assault on Tobett Cobler Gilbert Holcroft for playing cards in Robert Murrey's house Elizabeth Never for turning a watercourse on to Thomas Wigan's house. Parson Bancks and John Turst of Upholland - assault Gilbert Baldwin junior, Robert Baldwin and Mary his wife and Anne Cooke - assault James Harvey junior smith "abusinge severall persons in this town and being drunck. Lydia wife of Gerard Bancks gentleman for receiving goods taken by the bailiffs - fined 6s. 8d. James Hodson bricklayer for digging coal on the Scoles Common - fined 3s. 4d. James Taylor, Laurence Forth, Henry Burgesse, Thomas Blackhurst, Thomas Browne and John Hodson did the like. James Sanders alias Johnson a foreigner and Katherine Topping who was received by Thomas Worthington Thurstan Crosse for assaulting Oliver Letherbarrow the younger John Penington for assaulting John Standish junior Edmond Molyneux glazier abused Ralph Markland alderman in the open market, saying "thou art a lyer and thou lyest and art a base fellow and Ile stand to it and I am a better Man than thou art" - fined 3s. 4d. Humphrey Wetherby for assaulting Tobias Cobler Nicholas Penington Alderman in January last employed tailors in his own house who were not freemen of the town - therefore he profited 10s a half of which was to go to the town's box and the other half to the Society of Taylors of Wigan. April 28th 1669 Presentments John Bold and Robert Casson - litigation Alexander Ford founder for a litigation on Mrs Feilden May 8th Presentments Thomas Hoolme for a litigation on Isabelle Hoolme - bound over. John Standish of Whitley for abusing Robert Baron the deputy mayor Ralph Dean butcher for breach of a former order concerning a watercourse Robert Winstanley for not taking up the post and rails on his hillock Grace Hindley widow received by Laurence Forth William Browne and Roger Scott gentleman for taking sand from the sand bed. Richard France and James Farbrother for taking 7 oak saplings out of Botleing Wood. "Wee doe Order that if the pretended Company of Mersers doe Commence Aney suits against aney Burges of this Corporaition fo Margandising in aney Commoditie that it shall be defended upon the Townes Cost." Ralph Hoolme and Edmund Laythwat fined in £10 each for not coming to the Leet Jury with the accounts of the highways Ralph Hoolme an assistant to the overseers of the highways was not to gather taxes. Box 1. Roll 30 Michaelmas 1669 (from Roll 32) Mayor Robert Letherbarrow Recorder Richard Penington Bailiffs William Foster Lawrence Anderton Serjeants James Rigby Thomas Scott Attornies Edward Baron Edmund Molineux Swordbearer Parson Banckes Gatewaiters Market Street William Prescott John Whalley Standishgate James Laithwaite Alexander Ford founder Wallgate John Carter James Mort Millgate John Lee John Holt Scoles William Belcher Ralph Ashton Hallgate Robert Higham James Barrow Woodhouses Roger Foster James Bavington Box 1. Roll 30 Easter Leet 1669 Petitions &c. Complaint of Stephen Platt - "that their is two trees groweing in your peticioner's Hedge betwixt his backside and the backside of Thomas Greene Brazier, concerning which their doth arise great discencion to whom they should belong" Complaint of Thomas Turner gentleman that Thomas Tottie of Wallgate had erected a chimney pipe on his land Petition of James Johnson, who had lately married Mary Sutton of Wigan widow, to be made a freeman. Complaint of William Ford of Swindley in Woodhouses gentleman that Thomas Blackhurst tallow chandler had forciably detained possession of a messuage in Millgate, formerly in the possession of Alice Croucke widow deceased, which the petitioner had let to him for a year Complaint of George Atherton that Edward Boulton brazier had taken earth &c. from his croft and a close called the Cow Hey Petition of Henry son of William Boulton of Platt Bridge deceased, that as he had been apprenticed to Christopher Handy of Manchester sadler deceased and had served his time and had a freehold in Wigan under Mr Thomas Catterall of the Crooke, to be made a freeman Petition of James Rigbie and Thomas Scott serjeants that they used to have the toll on the hillock at the Fish bords and the rent of the old meal house, "but nowe are deprived of both" - asked that they might have them as formerly - granted |