Reference
HSA1680/S/36
Title
Complaint of the Inhabitants of Ridgemont to the J.P.s of the Bench 1680
--- Against John Aman, Ann his wife and his daughter Ann, w. of John Bland, for misdemeanors, and, continually playing the Roague'. To the Honerable Judges and the Worshipfull Justices of Peace at the Bench The Complaint of the Inhabitants of Ridgement against John Aman and Ann Aman his wife and Ann Bland daughter of the said John Aman of their Misdemeanors following They Humble shew that the said Towne of Ridgment hath bin Continually troubled with the persons Abovenamed for theis Twenty yares & upwards besides the Charges and damages that they have received by them Continually in Playing the Roague stealing what they Could git or Lay their hands on by Night or by day First they stoale the Sants bell out of the Steeple and sold it And also stoale A great part of the Viceridge house they also have stoale hooks & Chaines and Iron work About Gates And also are notorious for stealing henns and wood out of mens yards in the night: her daughter having had severall Bastards droping them sum tymes in one Plase & sum tymes in Another: And for Making away of one as it was suposed shee was Comitted to the Goale And at tyme of the said Hannas Imprisonment shee was got with Child in the Goale by A Prisoner in the Goale which wee at present keep: And the wife of the said John Aman fetcht A warrant of her Husband for gitting his owne daughter Hannah with Child in A Peas Cock before she was maried to the said John Bland And also the said parties doe harbor Roagues & vagrants and selling & offering to sell stoalen goods as well waring Apparill Cloath & other things And bringing up their Children to theving and never suffer them to goe to servis they having bin taking wandering sixteene or seventeene weeks together with false passes and have made their brags how well they have Lived & bin maintained & Caried from place to place their daughter that is now in Goale when she was A great way of fained her selfe verey III & not Able to goe nor Ride in A Cart or horsbacke & was Caried in A Chaier on mens sholders with A Coltstaffe from place to place till shee Cam neare home & then shee made her Escape by Running Away And after going with False petitions to severall noblemen & Gentlms houses & Counterfitting & setting severall of the sufficentest mens hands in the Towne pretending great Losses their being one found about her when she was Comitted to the Goale her mother making her bragg how well shee has bin maintained & Caried from place to place till she Cam within her owne knowledge Theis are also the persons that are in prison for thretning to fyer severall houses as upon Eviden will Appeare against them their hath bin formerly Two houses burnt And the suspicion is that they ware the Cause thereof the said parties are Contemnors of Authorety & Abusing the Justices of peace And all the offecers of the said Towne
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1680
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From: 1680 To: 1680
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