Held at: | Gwent Record Office |
Reference: | D.668.71 (bundle of loose folded sheets) |
Source: | ELSG digital images & transcription |
Title: | Jurors’ Presentments, October 1735, Manor of Wilbrook |
Place name: | Peterchurch |
Date: | 1735 |
Description:
Transcription of image 449
Michaelmas Leet
27th October 1735
Mannor of Wilbrook
alias Workbrook
jurors presentment
[These details were added to the dorse of the document by a later hand. Perhaps in 1818 ]
Transcription of image 450
Mannor of Wilbrook otherwise Wirkbrook – To wit
At the court leet of our sovereign lord the king And also the court baron of John Delahay esq. lord of the said mannor held at Peterchurch at the dwelling house of Thomas Draper within the aforesaid mannor the twenty seaventh day of October in the ninth year of the reign of our sovereign lord George the second by the grace of God of Great Britain, France & Ireland king defender of the faith etc. And in the year of our lord 1735. Before Thomas Williams steward.
The jurors names.
Samuel Jones
Robert Howard
William Roberts
John Watkins
William Hancocks
John Beaven
Thomas Davies
Thomas Lawrence
Leonard Gundy
William Higgins
Thomas Pritchard
Samuel Maddox
John Lovell
Edward Hoskins
John Howells
William Prees snr.
James Pritchard
Daniel Bird
John Weston
John Probert
William Williams
George Badham
James Legg
William Morgan
James Clark
Henry Prosser
Sworn Affearors
Samuel Jones
William Roberts sworn.
Imprimis We the jurors & impannelled to enquire for our sovereign lord the king And the lord of the mannor do present as followeth.
We present George Parry, Lewis Powell, William Hall, John Draper,[ ] , Roger Jones, William Probert & John Morgan, who owe suit and service to this court and have been duly summoned to appear at this court as appears by the oath of the bayleif of this mannor. But have made default and for such this default.
We amercethem each in the sum of three shillings and four pence. Affeared to two shillings a piece as to Powell, Pary,Hall & Draper & two pence each the rest.
Also We present a bridge called the Horse Pool Bridge lying across the river Doier upon the highway leading from Hereford to the Urishay to be dangerous to passengers and a cmon nuisance & that the inhabitants of the parish of Peterchurch ought & used to repair the same.
We also present that a common foot bridge or foot passage over the Old Brook between the township of Hinton & Peterchurch within this mannor leading from Hinton to Wilmerston is in decay and out of repair and that the same ought to be repaired by the inhabitants of Peterchurch aforesaid, And we lay a pain of thirty nine shillings on William Roberts and Thomas Fletcher surveyors of the highways that they repair the same on or before the 25th day of December next. And that Daniel Bird certifies the performance thereof at the next court on like penalty.
[signatures and marks of]
Samuel Jones |
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the mark of | Robert Howard |
William Roberts |
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the mark of | John Watkins |
William Hancocks |
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the mark of | John Beaven |
the mark of | Thomas Davies |
Thomas Lawrence |
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the mark of | Leonard Gundy |
the mark of | William Higgins |
the mark of | Thomas Pritchard |
the mark of | Samuel Maddox |
the mark of | John Lovell |
the mark of | Edward Hoskins |
the mark of | John Howells |
William Prees snr. |
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the mark of | James Pritchard |
the mark of | Daniel Bird |
John Weston |
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the mark of | John Probert |
the mark of | William Williams |
the mark of | George Badham |
James Legg |
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the mark of | William Morgan |
the mark of | James Clark |
the mark of | Henry Prosser |
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ELSG image accession ref. - cwmbran1 449 & 450 |
Observations:
Transcription details are based on the work of Dewi Bowen Williams, see http://www.ewyaslacy.org.uk/Michaelchurch-Escley-and-Peterchurch/Manorial-Court-Records-for-the-Manors-of-Clothy-Hopkin-Urishay-Trenant-amp-Wellbrook/1466-1833/tg_mic_0127
For zoomable images see http://www.ewyaslacy.org.uk/docs/rs_ewy_0060_6.pdf
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