BS1380

Quarter Sessions: deposition regarding unlawful gathering and trespass at Blunham [details given].

2 Oct 1581

From: 1581 To: 1581

Details given: Oliver Lord St John of Bletsoe, Thomas Snagge, serjeant at law, Lodovic Dive, Miles Sands, George Rotheram, Nicholas Luke, Robert Newdigate, John Fortescue of Ayworth (Eyworth), John Barnardiston, Richard Conquest, Robert Hatley of Goldington, John Rowe and George Kensham, esquires, justices of the peace. The jury - Thomas Julyan alias Tayler, George Huckle, John Jellis, George Woodham, Thomas Kyppies, John Rush of Ravensden, William Dillingham, John Goodcheepe, Robert Hanscombe, Richard Lodye, Henry Cullicke, Henry Fynche, Lawrence Milward, Thomas Leeper, and William Crawley of Ramshead - present that Thomas Hunter of Tempsford, yeoman, Richard Burke, Edward Tingey, Thomas Smith, yeomen, John Tingey, labourer, John Mayes, Richard Stacey, William Moore, Robert Abbott, William Jenkenson, Robert Alyson, Reginald Barnes, Edward Chessam, Christopher Mayes, John Sparke, William Parkyn, Robert Tingey, on 5 June 1581, 'vi et armis' [by force of arms], by the instigation of George Kensham of Tempsford, esquire, gathered unlawfully at Blunham, and they broke and entered a close of Henry, Earl of Kent, part of his manor of Blunham, and dug a ditch in length 4 perches; and the grass thereon growing they trampled down and destroyed; driving out the inhabitants of Blunham with horses and carts, to the great injury of the Earl of Kent and the inhabitants of Blunham.

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St John, Oliver,
Lord St John,
Snagge, Thomas,
Dive, Lodovic,
Sands, Miles,
Rotheram, George,
Luke, Nicholas,
Newdigate, Robert,
Fortescue, John,
Barnardiston, John,
Conquest, Richard,
Hatley, Robert,
Rowe, John,
Kensham, George,
Julyan, Thomas,
Tayler, Thomas,
Huckle, George,
Jellis, John,
Woodham, George,
Kyppies, Thomas,
Rush, John,
Dillingham, William,
Goodcheepe, John,
Hanscombe, Robert,
Lodye, Richard,
Cullicke, Henry,
Fynche, Henry,
Milward, Lawrence,
Leeper, Thomas,
Crawley, William,
Hunter, Thomas,
Burke, Richard,
Tingey, Edward,
Smith, Thomas,
Tingey, John,
Mayes, John,
Stacey, Richard,
Moore, William,
Abbott, Robert,
Jenkenson, William,
Alyson, Robert,
Barnes, Reginald,
Chessam, Edward,
Mayes, Christopher,
Sparke, John,
Parkyn, William,
Tingey, Robert,
Grey, Henry (6th Earl of Kent),
Earl of Kent

Quarter Sessions, public disorder, trespass, serjeant at law, specific justices of the peace, juries, yeoman, labourer, Blunham Manor, BLUNHAM, BLETSOE, Eyworth, GOLDINGTON, RAVENSDEN, TEMPSFORD