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Wigan Court Leet Rolls
ROLL 63 - 1689
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Box 1. Roll 63 Michaelmas Leet 5th October 1689 Mayor John Baldwin Benchers Robert Barron Christopher Sumpner Recorder Mr Entwistle Town Clerk Alderman Banckes Bailiffs John Markland Gilbert son of Thomas Ford Attornies Richard Blackborne William Browne Serjeants William Finch Hugh Langshaw brazier Gatewaiters Market Street John Dicconson Thomas Houghton Wallgate Lionel Ormishaw Roger Leigh Hallgate Thomas Battersby Thomas Wood Scoles Thomas Sumner Thomas Langshaw Standishgate Richard Prescott Peter Whaley  Millgate James Edge William Ashton Woodhouses Samuel Tyrer James Letherbarrow Surveyors of John Jolly Bread and Beer William Scott Surveyors of John Ensworth Fish and Flesh William Leland Treasurers Ralph Lee Richard Urmston Church Clerk Gerard Bancks Searchers and Sealers James Baldwin of Leather William Boyes Bellman John Laithwaite Box 1. Roll 63 Michaelmas Leet October 5th 1689 Presentments Alexander Leigh and Thomas Wood for allowing their swine to stray William Baldwin shoemaker for harbouring John Worsley a foreigner. Mrs Ellen Pilkington for allowing a well in the Little Shambles to lie open. Robert Crouchlow, Charles Holecroft and Gilbert Wood for allowing their hounds to go unmuzzled Mr John Baldwin for allowing his swine to stray Thomas Worthington junior gentleman for harbouring Mrs Warner a foreigner. Mary the wife of John Wood coverlet weaver and Mary the wife of John Hollinshead - abuse. Bertie Entwistle Esq for allowing his "greate dogg" to go un- muzzled. Edward Herle Esq for turning the watercourse near Collins Field out of its course. Thomas Worthington for allowing his "greate dogg" to go unmuzzled John Thornton and Richard Mortt for allowing their swine to stray. William Greene for not cutting his hedge &c. between the High Lane at the lower end of Wallgate and his close called the Tenter Croft. Edward Bayley for harbouring Thomas Taylor and Peter -- foreigners. Henry Tong and John Rothwell foreigners Alice Glover, John Deane, Richard Rylands, William Astley and John Bibby for harbouring William Dawson, Elizabeth Foster, William Astley, the son of John Bookes and Katherine Darbyshire, foreigners. Elizabeth Bibby for abusing James Bate Robert Orrell pewterer for harbouring John Rothwell Henry Tongue for trading in the town, not being a freeman. Stephen Platt and John Clare for allowing their swine to stray Mrs Lydia Bancks for harbouring Charles Yate and his wife, foreigners James Kenyon for harbouring John Wales a foreigner John Laithwaite bellman and Adam Rigby - assault Ralph Baldwine for not making the fence between his house and Ellen Leigh's. Alexander Leigh for allowing his swine to stray. Ellen Leigh for harbouring Margaret Browne a foreigner Richard Ince for abusing Grace Langshaw. Gilbert Houghton for assault with the drawing of blood on Ellen the wife of John Whalley John Knowled of Wverhilton for assault with the drawing of blood of Christopher Rawstone at St Luke's Fair - discharged Thomas Battersby for abusing Elizabeth Topping spinster William Laithwaite and Thomas Hibbard - assault James Green of Millgate and Robert Boyes junior of Standish- gate for harbouring foreigners William Hodgkinson a foreigner for trading in the town Widdow Orrell for refusing to let the Supervisors taste her ale - fined 1s. The Serjeants ordered to clean Market Street and the Meal House £38. 1s. 6d. due to the late bailiffs Ralph Leigh late bailiff fined £5 for neglect of his office. Every person keeping a hound without a licence to be fined 20s. James Ford and Richard Blackborne elected overseers of the Town Mill Laurence Anderton fined £10 for neglect of his office as overseer of the said mill. James Harvy, Ralph Langshaw, Johnathon Walton, Mr Robert Ford, fined 6s. each for keeping hound also Hugh Jolly, Mr Ditchfield, Mr Scot, Robert Baldwin, and James Molineux The Overseers of the highways being out of pocket were to be reinbursed. Box 1. Roll 63 Michaelmas 1689 Petitions &c. Complaint of Ralph Layland, Thomas Leyland, Andrew Barron and Peter Turit alias Bavington who had been waits for many years, that John Holecroft tailor "a disorderly and ungovernable Fellow. the last winter tooke upon himselfe of his owne accord to goe in the night Season therron part of this Towne as waites and greatly disturbed the Inhabitants thereof" Asked that Holecroft might be suppressed. "We the Jury do Quash this Petition" [that they might continue as waits] Petition of John Rothwell husbandman to be made a freeman Petition of William Dawson glover to be made a freeman- allowed Petition of Elizabeth Foster widow to be allowed to live in the town - allowed Petition of William Smith innkeeper to be made a burgess Petition of Henry Bullocke the son of a burgess, to be made a freeman - allowed Petition of Henry Partington of Blackerode naylor to be made a freeman |