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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… BA1/1/22/60 (1615) To the Kinges majesties justices of the peace of the countie of Worcester. The humble petition … standethe indicted before your worships for [turninge?] of a water course being but a landefludd passinge over the … more of their owne purses for the releife of the said child. Besides the money due from the hamlett of Lulsey taxed …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1616 Geffrey Howsman of Ammersley. Ref.110 BA1/1/25/1 (1616) To the right … hee was crewelly wounded and hurt and afterwardes had a pencion in this county the space of six yeares which is now … Hemmyng late of thys citty being the reputed father of a child begotten of the body of your poore peticioner whoe hath …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… To the right worshipfull, the Kinges majesties justices of the peace, for the countie of Wigorn. The humble peticion, … of the poore of the parish of Longdon in the behalf of a poore man. Sheweth to your good worshippes. That whereas … to dwell or inhabitt in no nowe and havinge one little child cannot tell howe or what shyfte to make to maynteyt …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… (1618) To the right honourable Sir John Crooke knight one of the Kinges majesties justices of assizes and gayle … of William Lyes. Most humblye sheweth, that whereas a robbery was committed in the hundred of Oswaldslowe in the … and helpe in this my distress or else my poore wyfe and child are like to perrish without the dores And this right …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1619 The poor prisoners of the castle of Worcester. Ref.110 BA1/1/26/43 (1619) To the … or noe value, haveing nothing but the bare allowance of a penny day to releive their fainting bodyes, soe that yf … peticioner aboutes six yeares since unlawefully begatt a child on the bodie of one Alice Hillman and for the same his …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Quarter Sessions: 1620s Thomas Pirkes and eight others of Fladbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/33/75 (1620) To the right … manie yeares now [last?] past is now become destitute of a dwelling howse for himself and his family. We therefore … it was your peticioners misfortune to bee gotten with child by one George Harris then servant in howse with your …
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 … late keeper [his?] majesties gole in the said county sent a woman from the said gaole to Parshore aforsaid greate with … into the lowe [countries?], and hathe lefte a base woman child born [illegible] the saied mannor of Holt to bee …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1670s Inhabitants of Bretforton. Ref.110 BA1/1/115/27 (1671) Wigorn [com?] To … these presentes, that whereas at Michaelmas sessions last, a certaine matter was heard in court, betweene the said … debauched woeman) charging him as the father of a bastard child begotten of her body; is by this honourable bench …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… 1680s The minister, churchwardens and other inhabitants of Tenbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/136/24 (1680) To the right worshipfull the justices of the peace at a sessions holden at Worcester the fifth day of October, one … save the said parish of Ombersly harmeless from the said child and have paid 10 pence per weeke towards the reliefe of …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Quarter Sessions: 1700s The churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Saint Clement. Ref.110 … evill conversacion and reputacion in their houses and are a [verie?] great disturbeance to the neighbourhood and that … that about two yeares ago Elizabeth Allen a poore parish child was by the officers of the parish placed on Master …