Middlesex Sessions Rolls: 1625

1625

7 January, 22 James I.—True Bill that, at St. Margaret's in Westminster, Brian Mackmahoon late of the said parish yoman stole one Spannish gold chaine worth ten pounds, of the goods and chattels of Sir Robert Filmor knt. Found 'Guilty,' Brian Mackmahoon pleaded his clergy and was branded. G. D. R., 17 Jan., 22 James I.

17 January, 22 James I.—True Bill that, at Islington co. Midd. on the said day, Robert Atkins late of Highgate yoman, and at that time sub-bailiff to Thomas Bancrofte gentleman Bailiff of the Right Reverend George by God's permission Bishop of London, within the said Bishop's manor of Barnesbury, assaulted and arrested Richard Hylton, and by colour of his said office extorted from him two shillings and fourpence. Putting himself 'Not Guilty' Robert Atkins was acquitted. G. D. R., 17 Jan., 22 James I.

17 January, 22 James I.—Information, given by William Parkinson at the Session of the Peace held at Hickes' Hall in St. John's Street on the said day, that between the 1^st of August last past and the day of the giving of this information, Nathaniel Wall of Whetstone co. Midd. yoman, ingrossed and got into his hands one hundred quarters of wheat each quarter thereof being worth forty shillings, one hundred quarters of barley worth thirty shillings a quarter, one hundred quarters of mault worth twenty shillings a quarter, one hundred quarters of oats worth twenty shillings a quarter, one hundred quarters of peas worth thirty shillings a quarter, and a hundred quarters of beans worth thirty shillings a quarter, with the intention of reselling the same against the form of the Statute in that case provided.—The relative prices per quarter of these various lots of grain are so likely to occasion mistrust of the present copyist's accuracy, that it is well to assure the reader they have been transcribed exactly. S. P. R. (Hickes Hall), 17 Jan., 22 James I.