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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. isfo 33„ Aug. 16. '56. 



for preventing a shoemaker from making a settlement in 

 our towne. 



"April 4*h, 1659, being Easter Monday. It is agreed y' 

 the neighbours of the towne set about looking what mis- 

 orders be in the said towne, and take care for the pre- 

 venting and punishing them, as of Inmates, Unlicensed 

 Ale houses, strangers roming into the towne, and all other 

 misdemeanours. 11th November, 1660. Imprimis, agreed 

 y' not any of the poore but such as take Collection, and 

 are verj' poore besides, shall have any coals measured 

 and attnine pence a bushel to be sold. The 2n<i day of 

 September, 1661.* Ordered as followeth : Imprimis, y* the 

 officers and some other of the townsmen do goe and take 

 notice of what disorders are in the Alehouses, and of what 

 inmates and strangers are in the towne, as alsoe to exe- 

 cute the warrants against offenders that are already 

 taken out. Memorand. July 3'"<', 1670. Collected by the 

 Churchwardens of East Bergholt, by vertue of his Ma- 

 jesty's letters patent for the redemption of several ma- 

 riners out of slavery in the galleys, the juste sum of three 

 shillings and eight pence. 1671. The monye that hath 

 been gathered for y^ slavery in Turkey is £6. 12. 2^. 

 1681. Feby 27. Imp». It is ordered that all inmates shall 

 have kindly notis by the churchwardens and overseers to 

 clean their houses before our Lady day next insuing, or 

 els they will be prosecuted and proceeded against accord- 

 ing to law. March y" 2°'', 1684. It is ordered and agreed 

 y' all y" weights, scales, and measures belonging to y" 

 alefounders, alias ale-tasters, be sufficiently repaired and 

 amended fitting for their use, and the charges thereof to 

 be disbursed by y'' present treasurer for y" town lands and 

 stock, and if y" said alefounders at present or y" succeed- 

 ing ones shall neglect to execute their office according to 

 their oaths, that then y" said treasurer M"" W™ Ellis pre- 

 sent or indite them at y^ next assizes w"^*^ seem most 

 convenient to him. April 20">, 1G85. It is ordered and 

 agreed that if any person lets a house to a foreigner, y" 

 tenant of which proves a charge to y" town, that then y*' 

 landlord shall be double rated. Item, it ordered that M'' 

 Kich"! Michell and M"^ Edward Clark fetch a warrant for 

 any person or persons that shall set up any stall or booth 

 for the pretended fiiir this present year. May 3''<i, 1686. 

 Collected by the Minister and Churchwardens by vertue 

 of his Majestv's letters pattent for the releif of the French 

 Protestants, £08. 17. 6. May 24'^, 1686. Imprimis. That 

 ■whereas M'' Raj', Chirurgeon, did cure y" hand of Henry 

 Newman, it is left to the discretion of y'= present overseers 

 to pay v'= same. 1690. Collected for the Irish Protest- 

 ants, £05. 03. 07. 1692, June 26«\ Collected towards 

 the redemption of 500 Christians in Turkish slavery, 

 £04 12. 02. 1693. Grace Granger, a vagabond sent to 

 Maidstone in Kent, 5"^ April, hath a child w"* her, al- 

 lowed 40 dales to pass. Dec 13'\ P^ for 2 bottles of 

 sack to heel the women, 14' 00^. 1694. Whereas com- 

 plaint was made, July 14, against the Churchwardens 

 and overseers of the Parish of East Bergholt in Suffolk, 

 before the Eight WorshipfuU Edmund Bohun, Esq., Jus- 

 tice of the Peace for the s'^ County, by John Clarke, La- 

 bourer, that bee the s<i John was lame and aged, and stood 

 in need of greater maintenance than was allowed him by 

 the s* Officers, and before the s* Justice Bohun did averr 

 that himselfe, the s<i John Clarke, was sixtj' six years of 

 age and unable to earn his living, and that hee had like- 

 wise two children unable to earn their liveing, and that 

 the s"! officers have allowed him the s<i John only seven 

 shillings in ten weeks past for and towards maintenance 



* After this date is the following : " 1663, It is agreed 

 that y" next towne meetinge be at Mr. John Clarke's, on 

 Whitsixn munday next, and that every man bring his 

 wife along with him." 



for himself and family: Wee the inhabitants of the s"* 

 Parish have met together and made diligent search into 

 the truth of this complaint, and find by the register the 

 s** John Clarke is about 58 years of age ; that he have 

 two children is acknowledged, both of them daughters, 

 but the eldest is soe old that she is adjudged marriage- 

 able, the youngest daily work and earn more, as we verily 

 beleive, than will and doe maintaine a poor child of like 

 age in another family. As to that part of the complaint 

 stating that he have been allowed but seven shillings for 

 ten weeks past : Wee the s* officers have given the s* 

 John twelve shillings in nine weeks past. The s^ John 

 now lives in a town house and pay no rent ; and that the 

 s<' John and his family eat and drinke as well and wear 

 as good habit as many of the eminent inhabitants that 

 pay very considerably to the poor of our s"^ parish. And 

 the s* John Clarke by himselfe or his wife doe boastingly 

 affirm that hee or shee have lent to a certain clothier, 

 who at their house put out spinning worke, and doe com- 

 monly soe doe (if need require) lend him the s^ clothier 

 three pounds, sometimes Jess, to pay the spinners. And 

 wee have testimony ready to be made that the wife of 

 the s'J John did vauntingly speak amongst some of her 

 poor neighbours in his hearing, that she would in a quar- 

 ter of an hour produce thirty pounds; and in the begin- 

 ning of March last past the s* John Clarke and his wife 

 made complaint before the Right Worshipful Sir Adam 

 Holton, by whom they were not credited. The present 

 officer sent Clarke's wife eighteen pence to buy salve to 

 cure his legg, of which legg hee complain hee is so lame. 

 But his s^ wife have often declared that for six pence she 

 can cure the legg, and if she please make the] same leg 

 very sore and frightful, to move the Justice to whom she 

 complains on behalf of her husband, and so move him to 

 pity and procure an order for larger maintenance than 

 they doe stand in need of. Pursuant to the advice of 

 the s* Justice Bohun we have caused this defence to be 

 written in the toun book, and the names of the chief in- 

 habitants to be subscribed, and humbly pray that the s* 

 John Clarke maj' not be credited against us in such fal- 

 lacys, wee being willing to allow him and them what 

 maintenance wee judge needful, upon just application 

 being made. July 18'h, 1694. I am fully satisfied with 

 this certificate, and discharge the complaint as causeless. 



Edmund Bohun. 



" 1709. Mem*. Mr. Thomas Cleer was nominated to 

 be overseer, he proferring to be excused on account of his 

 infirmities, and agreeing to give five pounds to find cloth- 

 ing for the poor, he is unanimously excused from being 

 overseer for the present year. 1711, Dec^ Paid for 3 

 horses journeys to Justice Thurston's for a warrant for y« 

 2 tailors and 2 shoemakers, and journey to Stoke, 3' 0''. 

 1714, July 18th. For beer and wine, and for a dinner att 

 y cutting out of ye cloth for ye poor, Ol^ 12' 00<i. But I 

 only charge 15» for beer, wine, and y* dinner. 1719, 

 Jan. 27. Imprimis. Whenever any person belonging to 

 the parish shall come to ask relief, before any is given 

 the officer to go and inventory the s*! persons goods. 

 1720, Nov"" 30"\ Ordered that the churchwardens or 

 overseers do directly get a warrant to take up several 

 straggling wenches, &c. that keep about our town. 1721, 

 Dec 27. Ordered that the Churchwardens and Overseers 

 do take up all the young fellows and wenches that are at 

 their own hand, and make them shew cause before a Jus- 

 tice why they dont go to service. 1724. Ordered that y" 

 overseers get a warrant for those young women that wont 

 go to service. 1730, April 15. Ordered that the Church- 

 wardens for the time being do pay for every old fox or 

 badger, five shillings, and for every young one that is a 

 runner half a crown, excepting for a litter, and for them 

 twelve pence a piece. Ordered, May 28"^, that Mr. Gul- 



