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Wigan Court Leet Rolls
ROLL 29 - 1668
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Box 1. Roll 29 Michaelmas Leet 3rd October 1668 Mayor William Laythwat Benchers Joseph Rigbie Robert Letherbarrow Recorder Richard Penington Town Clerk John Anderton Bailiffs William Deane Thomas Ford the elder Serjeants James Rigbie Thomas Scott Attornies Edward Baron Parson Bancks Swordbearer William Forth Gatewaiters Market Street James Winstanley Edward Hawet Standishgate Peter Sumner Henry Eckerson  Wallgate Joseph Caddie Laurence Taylor Millgate Thomas Blackhurst Thomas Mort Scoles Humphrey France William Rigbie Hallgate James Farbrother Edward Buckley Woodhouses Richard Southworth Thomas Taylor Treasurers Gilbert Barrow Gerrard Ford Surveyors of Roger Bybbie Flesh and Fish Gilbert Leigh Surveyors of Ale Henry Lythgoe and beer sic Adam Pemberton Searchers and Gilbert Farclough Sealers of Leather James Rigby Church Clerk James Banckes Bellman Myles Mitton Box 1. Roll 29 Michaelmas Leet adjourned to 24th October 1668 Presentments Robert Baldwin pewterer and Mary his wife for abusing Alice the wife of Gilbert Baldwin senior Ellen the wife of James Lowe and Anne the wife of William Manchester - litigation Mr Nicholas Penington for not muzzling his dog. Charles Foster, William Foster, William Almond, Roger Higham, Ralph Deane and Gilbert Deane butchers, "doe fling there garbage and hornes of sheep into the street." William Linney and Peter Ford - assault Peter Ford for playing bowles. Anne Cassin, Mrs Grace Markland and Ralph Laythwat for allowing their dogs to go about unmuzzled William Aughey and Thomas Worthington cooper for receiving James Johnson, alias Sanders and Katherine the wife of Thomas Topping deceased and her child - foreigners William Houghton of Scoles husbandman and William Bibbie for allowing their swine to stray Margaret the wife of James Harvey the elder for a litigation on Mary her daughter-in-law Edward Gregson for a litigation on William Laithwait sadler Gilbert Harvey senior smith, Edward Farbrother, Alexander Forth and Charles Hey for playing cards - fined 1s. each or 2 hours in the stocks at the Cross Robert Forth pancaster for abusing the Mayor Thomas Bullocke pewterer "did speake Contemptious Words against his Majestie" Henry Feilden for receiving Ralph Renshaw a foreigner Thomas Actton, Anne his wife and Elizabeth Foster spinster - assault Margaret the wife of James Laithwait and Elizabeth Ashton - assault Christian the wife of Robert Carrter for a litigation on - Rigby Alice the wife of Oliver Whalley and Bridget Barrow - litigation Anne Catterall and Anne the wife of William Manchester - litigation Peter Forth and Thomas Browne for playing bowles Roger Scott Junior shoemaker and William Laithwait sadler - assault John Markland "hath stopped a Foot stepp way" in Whalley leading from Wigan to Haigh Arthur Winstanley for harbouring several persons to play unlawful games Thomas Tottie for speaking many scandalous words of Robert Langshaw now the Mayor. - fined £5 Thomas Mort the younger and Thomas Seddon - litigation and assault Mr John Anderton to make a good path out of his field called Barnely into Gidlow Lane Elizabeth Hodson widow as before Roger Westhead of Prinschurch Lanes weaver for assaulting William Deane bailiff in fair time - fined £10 Robert Mosse smith for abusing Mrs Grace Markland William Daniell Esq for "spaking foule and aprobius against Mr Maiors oth" ? Fined £5 The bailiffs ordered to take the timber of the old hall from Mr Robert Barron and sell it if they could Thomas Parr butcher, Richard Low carpenter, Robert Edge husbandman, Robert Baron brazier, William Laythwat sadler and John Naylor badger for selling ale and beer without licence. Francis Battersbie carpenter, Henry Eckerson plaisterer and Ralph Henshaw at Hermitage labourer for selling ale and beer without licence Orders concerning foreigners fine and the loan for the new mill reportedm also suits against officials of the town. Myles Turner alderman elected overseer of the new building, i.e. Mealhouse Mr Penington to pay the £10 he owed to the feofees of the school Mr Feilding fined for not removing Ralph Henshaw as ordered William Daniell Esq presented for a litigation on William Ireland in open court - fined 1s. Katherine Finch and Hugh Scott for allowing their swine to stray William Aughey for not removing James Sanders alias Johnson Charles Foster and William Crosse and Thurstane Crosse - assault The occupiers of the Parson Forth to make a foot bridge from thence and High Lane Court 19th December 1668 Presentments Margaret the wife of James Laithwait brazier and Elizabeth Ashton - assault - withdrawn by the Court Edmund Fayrehurst a foreigner moved into a little house in the bottom of Millgate James Aspull and James Harvey - assault James Whalley for allowing his swine to stray Mrs Ellen Blackborne for turning a watercourse on to Robert Markland's property. Henry Maudsley and Elizabeth Booth - assault Ralph Tyrer and Thomas Browne - litigation Robert Wetherbie "did abuse the Church" Bryan Pilkington, Alexander and John Catterall, and Ishmael Bibbie for playing cards in James Prescott's house Robert Wetherby and William Houghton for playing cards in Edward Gregson's house Elizabeth Crosse spinster for an assault in Elizabeth the wife of John Mathews. Richard Crosse and Thomas Ascroft - assault Robert Forth for cutting a ditch back belonging to James Holinhed Hugh Scott for allowing his swine to stray James Sanders a foreigner and Thomas Worthington for receiving Katherine Topping and her children Robert Wetherby and Edward Gregson for foul words against William Rigby gatewaiter Margaret Lighthouler for harbouring James Sanders The overseers of the highways of Woodhouses for not mending the way in Wigan Lane near the old Cuckstool Edward Buckley gatewaiter for not presenting several offenders. Box 1. Roll 29 Michaelmas Leet 1668 Petitions &c. Complaint of James Tempest gentleman that Mr William Pilkington had pulled down a stone wall at the end of the petitioner's gutter and stopped up a door which led from his long parlour into the gutter "and hath hindred your Petitioner from his quiate Injoyment of the said Gutter." Complaint of James Baldwin who had a house and garden in Hallgate and Robert Bullocke and Richard Dolphin "very much wrong me in a hedge (?) which they doe detayne me From" Complaint of Ralph Deane butcher that Hugh Platt brazier had planted a hedge on his land Complaint of Ralph Deane and the rest of the butchers that Thomas Harison of Goulborne exercised the trade of butcher in the town, not being a freeman Petition of Cuthrun - to be a freeman - allowed Complaint of Gilbert Leigh that John Haye had stopped a watercourse between their houses in Hallgate. John Haye made the same complaint Complaint of Hugh Platt that Ralph Deane butcher had turned a watercourse on to his land Petition of Ralph Marsh plasterer and Laurence Taylor to "call and cry" &c - allowed Petition of Richard Casson the elder that he might be repaid the money which his father had spent on a suit concerning the town 40 years before Complaint of William Pilkington gentleman that James Tempest gentleman and William Tempest his father had erected a building in Market Street and had put out new windows and lights on to the petitioner's land &c. List of persons in the suit Rex v John Markland - not guilty |