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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 … here in the cittye of Worcester he deflowred and begott a man childe of the saide Anne, and then forsooke this cittye …
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] … so it is (if it like your good worships) that this poore man feareth to set in hand to build there as is appointed by …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… here delivered of a bastard sonne who prooveth impotent, and shortly after the said Clarke brought a bond and delivered it to the oversee minister of the said parishe … one Tubbs (who as the said Clarke affirmed was an able man) was bound for savegard of the said parishe harmles …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… The humble certificate of the parishioners of Claynes for and on the behalfe of John Wilkinson of the said parishe. Wee … hee liveth in the roade way from Worcester to Droyt Wich and other places remote, hee keepeth a victualinge house … Most humbly sheweth unto your worships that hee is a man by his industry and hard labour hath built an house fitt …
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 … abused. This Cotton being since married to one Baker a man of ill report, and long suspected as guilty in this …
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) … the fifth day of October, one thousand six hundred and eighty Whereas your worships have been pleased at some … be new=erected, was a tenement long before the memory of man, and before the statute of tricesimo primo of Queen …
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 … your worships that one James Tandy of our said parish a man of good abillity of body to labour for his liveing …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1700s The churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Saint Clement. … whose hands are hereto subscribed being the churchwardens and overseers of the poore and other inhabitants of the … of the Berrowe in the county of Worcester yeoman is a man of a good honest reputation and behaves himself very …
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 … to your worships generous consi deracion he being a poor man and wholy depending on his labour desires to be alowed …
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 William Cleadon late of the parish of Upton husband man Sheweth, that your petitioner, on the twenty-ninth day of …