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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… there are many poore men to the number of thirty persons and upwardes who lye there, some upon their behaviour and the most part of the rest upon matters of small or noe … with the peticioner in money to the full some of one hundred and twenty poundes and howshold stuffe to the worth …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1620s Thomas Pirkes and eight others of Fladbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/33/75 (1620) To … of Richard Emmes was born in our sayed [town?] [illegible] and her sayed husband being now common servant [illegible] … payement of his debtes to his the peticioners chardge of a hundred poundes att the least and whereas your peticioner his …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… to the King, was by the great tyrant (Cromwell) banished, and sent into the West Indies; where I thought I had shott … in theise parts to borrow of,) fame, of your most noble, and generous disposition; gives mee encouradgment to presume … of trespas att suite of John George then bayliffe of the hundred of Oswalds Lowe and brought to his the said Georgs …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… peace for the said county in quarter sessions assembled, and to all others whom it shall or may concerne Wee whose … matter was heard in court, betweene the said inhabitantes and one Richard Grimell, concerninge the keepinge of a … the said county, and your petitioner following them many hundred miles did take them in the county of Salop, where …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Quarter Sessions: 1680s The minister, churchwardens and other inhabitants of Tenbury. Ref.110 BA1/1/136/24 (1680) … at Worcester the fifth day of October, one thousand six hundred and eighty Whereas your worships have been pleased at some …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of our poore (to whom we pay 4 shillings per pound) and all manner of provisions soe excessive deer, by means … the poore are reduced soe low in their very smale estates and mean imployments, that they are not able to mainteine … is a member and thereunto belongeth, or to order us the hundred money as formerly, or as Parshore by some adjacent …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Mary Prophett, John Sheldon, John South, John Godshaw and John Cookes, poor prisoners for debt. Ref.110 … Thomas Blunt Mary Prophett John Sheldon John South and John Godshaw and John Cookes poor prisners prisoners for … the seventh day of December anno domini one thousand seven hundred and eleaven were actually prisoners for debt damages …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… majesty intituled an Act for Reliefe of Insolvent Debtors and for the More Easie Discharge of Bankrupts out of Execucion after their Certificates Allowed and by virtue of an order thereupon made by the justices of … of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight, was, and ever since hath been …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Sheweth That your peticioner is a protestant dissenter and that a licence was granted by this court at Easter sessions 1739 allowing and appointing your peticioner's dwelling house in the town … day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty two was and still is actually a prisoner in …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… on Tuesday the sixteenth day of July one thousand seven hundred and [fifty one?] [illegible] We whose names are hereunto … now or late in the occupation of Thomas Shelfield and James Wooley as a place of meeting or religious worship …