In a message dated 12/24/2002 4:37:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> Here is a fine search site for Britain (thanks, Janet Hunter). It
> is my advice that you read the "help" sections before clicking
> "search". Good luck. Paul
>
> http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk/search/index.asp
Hello all,
Paul sent the above URL to this list. However, you cannot first enter the
website via the search mechanism (sigh). You have to go back to the main
page which is: http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk/
He is much faster than I am....Below I paste in my email to the
Lower-Delmarva-Roots (Eastern Shore Md, VA,De) list where we have been
discussing searches in the Archives of Maryland, and contents of same. It
includes some of the interesting little items I found there just doing
exploratory searching.
I haven't really looked at the "help" sections as Paul recommends but one
search feature it does have that many other engines don't is the ability to
put a wild card in the middle of a term...ie, Sm*th picks up Smith and
Smyth,
With my wishes for a Merry Christmas,
Janet Hunter
Subj: UK Archive Network Searchable -- Take a Look
Date: 12/24/2002 2:07:53 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: <A HREF="mailto:janethunter703">janethunter703</A>
To: <A HREF="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]</A>
Hello Everyone,
Somehow an email came to me from a list that I thought was "Marcher-Lords",
but I can't find now...that had some interesting excerpts from court records
in England in the early 1600s. The URL given is for a searchable, network of
archived material in the UK. Some of the material is fairly new, there are
alot of collections of papers, but some of it is much older. Some of the
MANY, MANY different archives have in brackets the names of the Kings at the
time of the records, but in my search for just three tied names in York Co.
VA (Underhill, Saunders, Risley) I found there are other old records without
the names of the Kings in brackets. I was only looking around for my
amusement, but did find several Underhills and Saunders together in
Worcestershire records, which is where my Underhill is from...which is
interesting since it suggests the attempt to tie the York Co. VA Saunders
(always questionable) to Northumberland Co VA Saunders..may be stretching
things (FYI, first printed late 1890s source of tie is "Early Settlers to
Alabama").
Anyway, the URL is here. http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk/
I have only looked around a little bit. I submit the following tidbits. My
personal favorite I believe is the creative defense in the case of the stolen
loaf of bread that fell from the "timber", then later was found under
"petticoats". Though the attacker with sword in on hand and flaming peat in
the other is certainly something to visualize. The £5 fine for poaching the
partridge with the pointer seemed excessive, especially when compared to
5shillings for road obstruction (yes I do realizing the big deal that
poaching was). Most of the entries I saw were pretty typical and comparable
(alot of road clearing issues, debts, assaults, bastards, thefts,
nonattendance at courts...my Risley search turned up huge lists because of
place name)....Note the Truitt who is an "incorrigible rogue", which seems
to been another word for vagrant. There also appear to be lengthy lists of
"rescuants", or non-church attendees as I understand it. Then of course we
have the clergy upsetting the neighborhood.
I am also pasting in a 1482 will I found most interesting and detailed. FYI,
among the archives included are the Cheshire Quaker MM records, or some of
them.
Have fun and Merry Christmas!!
Janet Hunter -- excerpts...
FILE - 13 Charles I: Sheriff Sir John Rous. [no ref.] - date: 1637
item: Presentment by the Grand Jury of Edward House of Morton Underhill
Husbandman for laying a muck hill in the street of Morton Underhill being the
common highway for all travellers to passe with carts cattle and carriages
from market to market to the great damage of all his Majesty's liege people
who have to travel that way. "We desire that the said House may be desired to
carry away his said dunghill before the 3rd August next upon pain of
forfeiting 5 shillings." A true Bill. - ref. 1/1/84/63 - date: (1637)
FILE - Sessions 1788 Michaelmas - ref. 1/1/514 - date: 1788
item: Michaelmas 1788: Memorandum that Thomas Underhill, Halesowen,
weaver, was convicted of using a pointer dog and gun to destroy partridge
without licence & the fine of £20 was mitigated to £10. See 1/1/514/48. -
ref. 1/1/514/38 [n.d.]
item: Michaelmas 1788: Memorandum that Thomas Underhill, Halesowen,
weaver was convicted as in 1/1/514/38 above, not being qualified, & fined £5.
- ref. 1/1/514/48 [n.d.]
Worcestershire Record Office: Quarter Sessions [1/1/480 - 1/1/530]
FILE - Sessions 1790 Michaelmas - ref. 1/1/522 - date: 1790
item: Michaelmas 1790: Examination of Charles Adams, servant to Samuel
Sanders, Hanbury, farmer: returning yesterday evening by the Water Carriage
House belonging to Sanders he heard something fall & found a loaf of bread
had fallen from some timber - his mistress said it was hers & he was to
replace it & see who came for it - this he did & hid & later Ann Underhill,
Dodderhill, widow, took the bread. On his mistress's instructions he followed
& later stopped Underhill, who being charged, denied the theft, but
eventually the loaf was found on the ground under her petticoat. - ref.
1/1/522/84 [n.d.]
item: Michaelmas 1790: Voluntary examination of Ann Underhill,
Dodderhill, widow: says she found the loaf in the road by the Water Carriage
House when she returned from work. - ref. 1/1/522/85 [n.d.]
Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Record Service: Bedfordshire Quarter
Sessions [QSR/27] -- Quarter Sessions Rolls
FILE - 1826 [no ref. or date]
item: [no title] - ref. QSR/27/1826/211 [n.d.]
|_ [from Scope and Content] Recognizances: Wm. Gibbons, Milton
Ernest, overseer; prosecute Wm. Truitt, same, as an incorrigible rogue.
FILE - 1687/88 Epi. petitions - ref. Q/11/1/5 - date: 1687-1688
item: [no title] - ref. Q/11/1/5/24 [n.d.]
|_ [from Scope and Content] Petition of Margaret Walton and Christopher Bell
, both of Castle Carrock - protection from Thomas Carrock of Mumps Hall,
[Gilsland], Anthony Baxter, and John Maudlin, who broke into their house one
night "with a drawn sword in one hand, and a flaming peat in the other", to
burn it over their heads much vivid detail; said house is isolated.
FILE - 1688 Easter petitions - ref. Q/11/1/6 - date: 1688
item: [no title] - ref. Q/11/1/6/6 [n.d.]
|_ [from Scope and Content] Petition of Rowland Bird of Castle Carrock, "a
very poore inocent and Ignorant man" - "In all humillity Shewing and in
humble and Submissive Manner Complaining to your good worshippes always to
Charity inclin'd" That he, like "his Predecessors", was born and bred in
Castle Carrock village "in honesty, and Neighbourly Love with the
Neighbourhood there", till the present Minister came, viz. the Rev. Mr.
Christopher Rickerby, a divisive busybody who plays them off, one against
another, and has got him beggared. Countersigned by Christopher Bell Bailiff,
Christopher Earle, Thomas Jackson, John Scott. Referred to Henry Howard and
Henry Dacre, Esquires, [J.P.s nearby].
RECOGNIZANCES
FILE - Recognizance Roll: Preston, Epiphany, 1641/2 - ref. QSB/1/257 -
date: 1641/2
item: BURNLEY -- certificate that Mr Townley of Townly "hath much armor
in secrett roomes of his house att Townley" (in Recusancy Exhibition) - ref.
QSB/1/257/27 - date: 1641/2
Treby Papers; Correspondence
Correspondence
FILE [no title] - ref. D239 M/O 1115 - date: 1680
|_ [from Scope and Content] Henry Hatsell to George Treby. "This
day Mrs Celier stood on the pillory at the Maypole. She was much pelted but
not hurt - there was a guard of above 400 men. It is said she had a headpiece
and other armor"; she pretended to be in childbirth in prison but was
discovered for a sham
Samford Hundred
FILE - At front - ref. HD 1538/14 Vol.14 [n.d.]
item: Names and presentments of Ipswich jury 'to inquire for the
furnyture of armour, horses and geldings... according to the statute' and
'names of those men whose wieffes wearyth vellet in their capes or gardes of
their cassockes frockes or kyrtilles sythens the xvth day of August last
paste, not having their furnyture according to the statute' [no ref.] - date:
n.d.[1562] [Janet Hunter note: there were several with this wording and it
appears to be some sort of a tithe, but I can't for the life of me figure out
what the "wieffes" wearing apparenl has to do with it...Any ideas?]
London Metropolitan Archives: Tottenham, Manors of
FILE - Wills and probate of Richard Turnaunt. - ref. ACC/1068/024 - date:
1486
|_ [from Scope and Content] b) Goods and Chattels by will dated 25 July
1486:- 6s. 8d. to the Church of the Hospital of St. Katherine by the Tower
for tithes and oblations; 3s. 4d. to the Church of All Saints, Tottenham, for
tithes and oblations, and 20s. for the church fabric; 6s. 8d. to the Church
of All Saints, Rayne, Essex; 20s. to the poor of Tottenham; £200 to Thomasina
his daughter, and £80 worth of silver and gold including his silver gilt cup
with a cover in the shape of a columbine, with pearls on the knop, weighing
43 ounces troy, two basins of silver and parcel gilt with the signs or
armorial devices of leopards at the bottom, each weighing 109 ounces; two
ewers, two potell pottes" [i.e. pottle-pots- 2 quart pots or tankards], of
silver parcel gilt, each weighing 162 ounces, one standing cup and cover of
silver parcel gilt chased with feathers ['plomptes' of plumeties a heraldic
term] weighing 49½ ounces, 6 silver gilt spoons of diverse fashion weighing
7¾ ounces, a little gold salt with a cover decorated with a stag, weighing 2¾
ounces; a silk belt mounted with gold of old fashioned style weighing 5½
ounces - these to be valued by upright and lawful men according to the custom
of the City of London and if below the value of £80 English money then
another parcel of his valuables should be added to bring it to £80 worth;
also to Thomasina £60 debt owed by John Shukburgh citizen and draper of
London; to Thomasina all goods and moveable chattels within R.T's manors in
Edmonton and Tottenham on the day of his death, except for debts and Lords'
dues; to Thomasina and John Risley the land Richard had from his Mother; £6
to be distributed as dowry to poor girls of good fame; 26s. 8d. to Edmund
Turnaunt, R.T's brother, to be given as clothing and other necessaries at the
discretion of Margaret; 20s. each to servants Hugh Stafford, John Hancok,
William Ailys, to servants Nicholas Pacchetle 34s. 4d, Richard Garrard 6s.
8d., John Stone alias Danyell 3s. 4d; to maid servants for dowry; Isabella
Frenche 40s, Joan Waleys 13s. 4d; residue of goods and chattels to the
aforesaid Margaret, widow of John Pye. Executors: Margaret (Pye), John Tyrell
who should have 100s. for his trouble, and William Turnour, clerk, who should
have 5 marks.
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