Extracts from the Records. 



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At the Hilary Sessions, 1605-6, a furious amazon gives cause 

 for : — 



" Certayne Artickells agaynst Easter [Esther surname illegible'] of 



her behavyoure. 



" Imprimis she have .... beaved very sospeciously. 



" It' The aforesayd Easter dyd fightt w tb on John Smyth and w th one pick 

 dyd rune at him in M r . Allyne's mead and if he had not made the better shift 

 she wold have killed him. And with on John Butler she dyd fyght also and 

 strock him downe And she dyd fyght w th on Ry chard Harison's wyf also. 



" It' The aforesayd Easter dyd com to my howse and thrusted up my dore 

 uppon me vyolautly and with Great othes dyd sweare .... that she wold 

 be revenged at my wife's hand with divers other abuses at the same tym w ch I 

 will repeat myself unto you 1 " w'ships. 



" It' her [Acre] is on Richard Batcheler will take his corporall othe agaynsfc 

 the sayd Easter and her husband that he standeth in bodyly feare of them for 

 she is sore malyssiouse agaynst him." 



The regions of Tinhead and Edington suffered disturbance at the 

 hands of an eccentric heroine, whose vagaries certainly justified the 

 title of " an unquiet person/' bestowed upon her in the following 

 narrative. 



Hilary, 1603-4: — 



" Whereas Wor 11 Sirs we the inhabitants of Tinhead and Edington have alreadie 

 certified you of the lewd behavio 1 of Alice Glover maie it please yo r wors? 3 and 

 the rest of His Ma tie9 Justices further to understand for yo r more full satissf action 

 in the same theis p'ticulers followinge viz. : 



" The said Alice Glover had a knife in hir hand readie to have done mischeif 

 to hir owne mother in so much that she caused hir to take the house of one 

 Lawrence Gill to save hirself, testified by Oswald Ford and Thomas Eliott. 



" The said Alice Glover threw a firebrand at one Lewden dwellinge in hir 

 mother's house and thereby indangered a yonge childe of the said Lewdens w eh 

 . . . . was making readie by the fire — and afterwards againe, at the said 

 Lewden going forthe of the doore, the sparks whereof and coles withall fell upon 

 the bed of Lewden' s wife .... testified by Good wife Hart and the said 

 Lewden. 



"The said Alice did another time scatter the coles of a firebrand out of a 

 higher roome into a lower where there laid straw to the indangering of hir owna 

 mothers house by fire testified by Christopher Longe. 



" The said Alice w th hir mother havinge spinning worke comitted into their 

 hands by hir meanes cheifly conveyed the same awaie from the parties and sold 

 it taking the money to hir owne use. As first from Goodw. Kelson xiiij pound. 

 Then from Henry Longe xij pound justified by the parties the one before Sir 

 James Leighe the other before S r . John Dantsey and lastly ix pound from 

 Nicholas Carpenter testified by the said Nicholas Carpenter. 

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