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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1619 The poor prisoners of the castle of Worcester. Ref.110 … or noe value, haveing nothing but the bare allowance of a penny day to releive their fainting bodyes, soe that yf they shold be inforced to lye longer in this miserable place, wold unchristianlike be starved to …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… eight others of Fladbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/33/75 (1620) To the right worshipfull Sir [illegible] knight lord of the … Katherine [Emmes?] [illegible] of Richard Emmes was born in our sayed [town?] [illegible] and her sayed husband being … manie yeares now [last?] past is now become destitute of a dwelling howse for himself and his family. We therefore …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1630s The inhabitants of the parish of the Holy Cross in Pershore. Ref.110 BA1/1/58/64 (1633) To the right … late keeper [his?] majesties gole in the said county sent a woman from the said gaole to Parshore aforsaid greate with …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… knoweth being lxvi yeares of age and soe much weaked by the servis of this offis this yeare am not able longer to … and wee having noe courte within our manner too bring a nue officer wee having considered being of the with divers … officers as your wisdome shall thinck fett William Peerkes in Criplegate to fynd a officer for Waltons land Thomas …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Inhabitants of Claines. Ref.110 BA1/1/93/17 (1656) To the right worshipfull the justices of the [peace?] for the … parishe hath heare lived with us many yeares hee liveth in the roade way from Worcester to Droyt Wich and other places remote, hee keepeth a victualinge house (allways lycensed) to entertaine …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Bretforton. Ref.110 BA1/1/115/27 (1671) Wigorn [com?] To the right worshippfull his majesties justices of the peace for the said county in quarter sessions assembled, and to all others whom it … these presentes, that whereas at Michaelmas sessions last, a certaine matter was heard in court, betweene the said …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1680s The minister, churchwardens and other inhabitants of Tenbury. … To the right worshipfull the justices of the peace at a sessions holden at Worcester the fifth day of October, one … his trade, giving himself alltogether to begging, both in the town and country, comitting what he gains thereby, to …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1690s The poor inhabitants of the tything of Whitstones. Ref.110 … most of the contributors to the poore are reduced soe low in their very smale estates and mean imployments, that they … being our parish to which undoubtedly the said tything is a member and thereunto belongeth, or to order us the hundred …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1700s The churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of … of the peace for the county of Worcester assembled in sessions. Wee whose hands are hereto subscribed being the … evill conversacion and reputacion in their houses and are a [verie?] great disturbeance to the neighbourhood and that …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1720s The major creditors of Richard Maris. Ref.110 BA1/1/256/32 … the tenth day of January 1720o Whereas Richard Maris late a prisoner in goal for the county of Worcester by virtue of an act of …