sporting and Rural Records of the Chcceley Estate. 



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and the adjoining Hundreds. Their first concern, on this occasion, CHi;%-ELET. 



was to prohibit the extraordinary buying of barley to be converted Licensing and 



into malt and to suppress fourteen maltsters. They apprenticed Corn Laws. 



four poor children. They found that 13 rogues and wandering '^3+- 



persons had been punished within the division since their last 



meeting. Certain idle persons who were formerly out of ser\-ice 



were punished, and steps were taken to place them with " sufficient 



& able maisters." It appeared by the constable's presentments 



that certain persons within the division had obstinately and of 



their own authority taken upon themselves the common selling 



of ale and beer ; consequently the Magistrates issued warrants to 



attach the said delinquents ; and further they " diminished the 



number of such licensed houses as they did not hold needful." 



The next meeting of these Justices of the Peace for this 

 division of the county was held at Newmarket, situate in the 

 Cheveley Hundred, on October 14. In their Report to Sir Robert 

 Berkelev, Judge of the Assize, it transpires, they apprenticed 

 four youngsters — found by the constables" bills that there were 

 six vagrants " punished according to the statutes in that cause 

 provided " — gave strict charge for a privy search to be made 

 under the Chief Constable and the pettj- constables within the 

 division — and finally gave " strict chardge for the chousing 

 of able men to ser\e as constables in the divers Townns w"''4n 

 o"^ division." 



On the ensuing November 24 the same magistrates met at 

 Burwell, investigated the state of rural affairs occurring within 

 the Hundred of Cheveley and the adjoining parts, since their last 

 meeting, and reported to the Judge of Assize that they now 

 suppressed one alehouse, bound five apprentices to able masters, 

 gave strict charge to the local constabular}- " for looking to 

 alehouses that they keep good order and to give them notice who 

 they shall find faulite in that kind," and that they bound over 

 " three able men for refusing to take apprentices to appeare at 

 the next assises. ' 



