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Wigan Court Leet Rolls
ROLL 19 - 1662, 1663
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Box 1. Roll 19 1662 -1663 Mayor Ralph Markland Bailiffs Robert Markland William Linney Attornies Roger Wood Edward Baron  Gatewaiters Market Street John Whalley Thomas Garnett Standishgate Richard Casson brazier William Wood Millgate James Boulton [dead] James Ashton Scoles James Belcher Gilbert Hartleigh Wallgate Hugh Deane Richard Ashton Hallgate John Jackson [dead] Robert Mitton Woodhouses Thomas Prescott Roger Barrington Box 1. Roll 19 Easter Leet 25 April 1663 Presentments Judith Molyneux spinster for abusing Mrs Hotham with many foul and disgraceful words "wee doe order the above said Judith to stand one hour upon the market Crosse with a paper upon her brest mencioning her Fault done to Mrs Hotham the first market day" Margery Higham spinster and Sarah Winstanley - assault James Browne labourer and James Wigan and Jane his wife - assault and abuse Bridget Barrowe "harbored and Received Wanderers and Boyes" Grace Wood widow for abusing Ruth Boulton spinster Elizabeth the wife of Samuel Marsh for abusing Alice the wife of Henry Risley. James Browne pewterer and Robert Orrell coverlet weaver - assault Edward Rigby joiner and George Shawe "did scandalously abuse and speak many approbrious words against Col. William Daniell." "Wee order George Shawe to ask Colonell Daniell forgivenes for his abuse in the Muthall beefor hee depart and to bee sorie for his ofence" Roger Houghton and Mathew Taylor for assaulting Gilbert Orrell and for abusing Robert Markland one of the bailiffs John Prescott and Lawrence Taylor - assault Ann Forth spinster, Jane the wife of Thomas Worthington and Katherine Worthington spinster - abuse Elizabeth the wife of Samuel Marsh for abusing Roger Risley Adam Bancks for allowing his gate to lie open to "the wint" and for receiving John Ward a foreigner Edward Marsh for allowing a dung heap to lie in front of his house in Market Street Thomas Ascroft labourer for stealing a pewter flagon from the "Colepitt Browe" of William Ford of Swindley Elizabeth the wife of Samuel Marsh and Agnes the wife of John Needham - abuse Thomas Fairclough of Haigh for assaulting Peter Leigh Edmund Hollinshead for abusing Edward Markland Gilbert Orrell shoemaker for assaulting Roger Scott the younger and the said Roger for abusing the said Gilbert Roger Wood for not cleaning his ditchm building a wall &c. as he was ordered, to the great prejudice of Gilbert Bancks. Jeffrey Scott for taking earth from Haigh Lane near the "Poole Stocke" and from Cookson Meadow Edward Marsh for damning a watercourse &c. in the Market Street Jane the wife of Mathew Markland for allowing the fence between her and Peter Masson's garden to fall down. Mathew Johnson a foreigner, received by James Ford alderman and William Ford butcher James Mather and William Wattson for receiving Jane Houghton widow and Mrs Boulton and Mrs Adlington Thomas Langshawe, Margaret Morton widow, Grace Wood widow Robert Mann, Thomas Letherbarrow for receiving William Morcroft, the wife of Samuel Marsh, George Bradshawe, William Cooper and John Hurst. John Blackhurst and John Naylor the younger for allowing their swine to wander James Holinhed, Mr Molyneux, John Eackfield and Katherine Ford widow for receiving Mrs Reade, John Rydeing, Ellen Denison, Mary Ashton and Mrs Page Andrew Laithwaite for receiving Edward Hodgkinson a foreigner William Pilkington gentleman for not cleaning out his ditch in Banert Meadow. List of persons who had not paid for the repair of the highways Roger Browne for stealing several parcels of tinsel from Ralph Holme William Laithwait sadler and Margaret his wife and Elizabeth the wife of Henry Shutleworth and Clare Penington spinster - assault Ellen Croxton for assaulting Margaret the wife of William Laithwaite. Further list of persons who did not pay towards the repair of the highways Gilbert Deane, Edward Markland, James Farbrother, Henry Lithgoe, Mrs Ellen Forth, Gilbert Unsworth, for keeping William Bamber, Robert Wrast alias Fazackerley, John Clerk Ellen Tyrer, Thomas Taylor, and Henry Maudsley foreigners. Peter Marsh for erecting a style on a right of way in "Page Fields" James Molyneux and Margery Astley widow for receiving Henry Risley and John Hunt James Hodson a foreigner for not leaving the town Ruth Boulton spinster for stealing a handkerchief of Grace Wood's widow. That an order made at the Last Leet restraining several persons from trading in the town might prevent people from coming to sell in the Market "which might in short tyme be the utter overthrow of the Markett it therefore desired that the said order may be Explayned and that the Comers to the Markett may be Incouraged For the good of this Corporacion" Oliver Baron for abusing Mrs Margaret Markland and Robert Markland alderman her late husband William Sale, Thomas Mortt the elder and John Taylor, foreigners William Mort for abusing and assaulting Hugh Deane and his wife Elizabeth Mortt spinster for abusing Hugh Deane. Steven Platt for harbouring Jane Houghton a foreigner Hugh Scott, Alexander Tompson, William Baldwin and James Baldwin ordered to clean their gutters A further list of persons who had not paid towards the repair of the highways |