1~ sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 



Chxttlxt. 



Licensing and 



Com Laws. 



1634- 



persons from buying barley to convert to malt. (iii.) They 

 received a presentment from the several constables showing 

 that 32 rogues and vagabonds were latelv punished within that 

 di\"ision of the county ; and, (iv.) that thev had a good account 

 made to them how the " several town stocks had been employed 

 in that division." 



The certificate is signed bv the following magistrates : 



(Sir) John Carletox 

 Thom.\s Wilson 

 Iswc Barrow 



and 

 Thomas Tyrrell. 



Proceedings 



thereon at 



Newmarket 



and Bvirwell. 



On the ensuing July 8 the same Justices of the Peace held a 

 similar meeting relating to the like affairs within the Hundred of 

 Cheveley, at Newmarket, on the above mentioned day. Thev 

 certified to Sir Robert Bartlett [Berkley] that they took the 

 account of the churchwardens and overseers of the Poor as to 

 what poor children there had been within the said diNnsion of 

 the county who were fit to be put forth and placed as apprentices, 

 '"and did at that time place and bind forthwith 16 poore children 

 to honest & able maisters." They suppressed twelve maultsters. 

 They exacted a strict account of the several constables within 

 the said dinsion as to the vagrants and wanderers so taken and 

 punished. By the certificates it appeared the number of persons 

 arrested and punished was 18; and further they did at this 

 meeting appoint a privy search to be made within the said 

 division against their next meeting. They gave strict charge to 

 the ofiicers concerning ale-houses ; commanding those officials to 

 enquire into such as were unlicensed, " and whether there be any 

 in the said towns which may well be spared." 



On the ensuing August i the same Magistrates again met at 

 Burwell to investigate and report on the rural affairs at Cheveley 



