Reference
OR1902
Title
‘Noke his Articles in Buckden’ (Bishop of Lincoln’s court.)
Articles (ex officio) objected against William Payne on the information of John Nokes, Rector of Wymington
17 articles
Date free text
?1616
Production date
From: 1616 To: 1616
Scope and Content
1-3, 10, 12, 14 Payne has spoken offensive words to Nokes, Thomas Whitbie, and another person, Henry Massock who ‘sometime was an attorney’ has joined Payne in abusing the clergy and in scandalous behaviour in general.
4. Deliberately preventing the repairing of Wymington chancel.
5, 9 Profaning the Sabbath
6 Making a passage for carts across the churchyard and defiling the same by littering hogs there and making drains into and through it, and by emptying hay and grain into the churchyard and then pitching it into the barns.
7 Drunkeness in company with other attornies of Barnard’s Inn.
8 Adultery with maidservants
11 Brawling in the churchyard of Podington.
13 Abusing the churchwardens of Wymington when they came to collect the money due from Payne for the repair of the Church of Wymington. ? 1616.
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