70 Fads relating to Wokingham. 



Ockiugham " occurs as of that place ; but in the Forest division 

 only ten men were mustered on this occasion instead of forty-one 

 who mustered in that division in 1598. 



Humphry Broughton of Beartvood, 1658.* 



An information against Humphry Broughton of the parish of 

 Wokingham, in the co. of Berks : " that the said Humphry hatli 

 for many yeares past lyved in a lodge called Bearewood Lodge, 

 and hath for divers yeares had the keeping of goates in the wood 

 for one Mr. Young, who was a keeper in the forest of Windsor 

 under the late Earle of Holland. That the said Humphry lyveth 

 a very wicked and disorderly course of life, for that it is generally 

 knowen he lyveth more like an Infidel than a Christian, a greate 

 drinker and a blasphemer of God's holy name, a common night' 

 walker to prey like the fox upon his neighbour's hens and geese, 

 and hath been dyvers times suspected for being a mutton-monger 

 to borrow a fatt wether of his neighbour, and that the constable 

 of Okingham received a Justice of Peace his warrant in May last 

 for the searching for stolen mutton in the said house or lodge 

 where the said Humphry now lyveth. That the said lodge stand- 

 eth about the middle of Bearwood, parte of the Forest of Windsor, 

 but the said lodge is very ruinous by reason it hath not been re- 

 paired since the late warres, and that the howse is in danger to 

 fall to the grounde if it be not tymely repaired, for that the raine 

 doth breake through most of the roomes from the top to the bottom. 

 And that the outside of the howse is so much decayed that the 

 said Humphry bath stopped the same with Bushes to keep cattle 

 out of the howse. That the said Humphry did of late declare his 

 purpose to pull downe the howse between this and Michaelmas 

 next, and that he would make a fire with part of it, and carry 

 away the rest of the tymber to use in some other place where he 

 hath a freehold of his own worth about 601. yearly, in the parish 

 of Binfield in Berkshire. 7th July, 1658." 



^ This document relating to Wokingham, was accidently discovered by me 

 at Longleat, whilst Mr, Carriagton's paper was passing through the press. 

 J. E. Jacksoa. 



