Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1720s

The major creditors of Richard Maris. Ref.110 BA1/1/256/32 (1721)

To the worshipfull justices of the peace for the county of Worcester now
assembled att the generall quarter sessions of the peace holden for the said
county att the citty of Worcester upon Tuseday the tenth day of January
1720o

Whereas Richard Maris late a prisoner in goal for the county of Worcester
by virtue of an act of Parliament made in the sixth year of the reign of his present
majesty intituled an Act for Reliefe of Insolvent Debtors and for the More Easie Discharge
of Bankrupts out of Execucion after their Certificates Allowed and by virtue of an order
thereupon made by the justices of the peace att the generall quarter sessions of the peace
holden for the said county on Tuseday the fourth day of October last was discharged out of custody
of the goaler of the said goal and the said Richard Maris haveing delivered into the said
justices as the said act directs a schedule of his whole estate and the names of his severall
debtors and the severall summes of money from them respectively secured and owing upon
any specialty contract or other account whatsoever and the names and places of abode
of the severall persons from whom such debts are due and owing and whereas the estate
debts and effects of the said Richard Maris contained in such schedule as aforesaid by
virtue of the said act imediately after the discharge of the said Richard Maris was and is
vested in the clerk of the peace of and for the said county of Worcester who is by the said
act directed and authorized by order of the justices att their generall quarter sessions
of the peace to make an assignement of the said estate and effects to such of the creditors
of the said Richard Maris as the major part of his creditors who shall apply [illegible] for
the same by any writeing under their hands shall direct or appoint in pursuance of
which we the major part of the creditors of the said Richard Maris applying for the same
do humbly request and pray that your worships would order the clerk of the peace of and
for the said county to make an assignement of all the estate and effects of the said
Richard Maris contained in the schedule by him so delivered as [illegible] aforesaid unto George Lea
of Grafton Flyford in the county of Worcester [labourer?] carpenter in trust for himselfe
and the rest of the creditors of the said Richard Maris and your peticioners will ever
pray etc.

• Richard [Ma...?]


• [W...?] [illegible]


• [illegible]

The inhabitants of the borough of Kidderminster. Ref.110 BA1/1/273/17 (1725)

To the right worshipfull his majesties justices of the peace at the generall
quarter sessions of the peace for the county of Worcester

The petition of the inhabitants of the burrough of Kidderminster in the county of Worcester
humbly sheweth

That the charge of the poor of the said burrough is of late years much increased, and there is great
inequality in the assessments for the reliefe of the said poor occasioned by late improvements made in building
and the incloseing of field land your petitioners therefore desire your worships to grant an order
appointing such persons as shall be thought proper to survey and estimate the lands and tenements within
the said burrough and the limitts thereof for the more equall assessing the inhabitants towards the reliefe
and support of the poor of the said burrough for the future

• William Brecknell bayliff


• John Harris justice


• [W?] Clare


• Edward Walker


• Allen Brecknell


• Simon Wood


• William Mountfort


• William Silk


• Francis Winwood


• James Howard


• Henry Pearsall


• William Smith


• John Pitt


• Edmund Read


• Thomas Williams


• Richard Weaver


• James Steward junior


• John Witton


• William Bower


• Nicholas [Perrins?]


• Humphry Craft


• James Pitt


• Alun Haily


• Peter Jones


• Richard Low


• Robert Reynolde


• John Bowker


• John Scager



• Nicolas Pearsall


• John Billingsley


• Thomas Housman


• John Crane


• Joseph Hanbury


• John Brockhurst


• George Thomas


• William Robinson


• Thomas Lea


• Thomas [Soager?]


• Edward Cheese


• Joseph [Gride?]


• Henry Pearsall


• Thomas Hill


• Andrew Spencer


• Niall Penn


• Josiah [Teamley?]


• Daniel Edge

Edward Belton alias Harrison, a prisoner for debt. Ref.110 BA1/1/274/41 (1725)

To the worshipful Thomas Wild esquire;
one of his majesty's justices of the peace for
the county of Worcester

The humble
petition
of Edward Belton alias
Harrison now a prisoner for debt in the comon
goal for the county of Worcester

Sheweth,
that he was a prisoner confined for debt
on the twenty ninth day of September, 1724,
and hath continued so
till this time (except out by due course of law) therefore
conceives he is justly entituled to receive the benefit
provided in an act passed the last session, entituled an Act
for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors.

Your petitioner therefore humbly prays
your worship's warrant, under your
hand and seal, to order and appoint
the keeper of the said prison, to bring
your petitioner to the next general
quarter sessions of the peace for the
said county, and a writing importing
notice to be delivered to the petitio-
ners creditors, pursuant to such act, as
aforesaid, in order to be being discharged.

And your petitioner, as in duty bound, shall ever pray, etc.

[illegible]

• Edward Belton

[printed form]

James Oyen, a prisoner for debt. Ref.110 BA1/1/274/45 (1725)

Wigorn

To the worshipful Thomas Wild esquire;
one of his majesty's justices of the peace for
the county of Worcester

The humble
petition
of James Oyen a prisoner for
debt in the comon goal for the county of Worcester

Sheweth,
that he was a prisoner confined for debt
on the twenty ninth day of September, 1724,
and hath continued so
till this time (except out by due course of law) therefore
conceives that he is justly entituled to receive the benefit
provided in an act passed the last session, entituled an Act
for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors.

Your petitioner therefore humbly craves
your worship's warrant, under your
hand and seal, to order and appoint
your petitioner to attend at the next general
quarter sessions of the peace for the
said county, and notice to be deliver-
ed to my creditors, pursuant to such
act, as aforesaid, in order to be be-
ing discharged.

And your petitioner, as in duty bound, shall ever pray, etc.

• James Oyen

[printed form]

William Perkins alias Pickin, a prisoner for debt. Ref.110 BA1/1/274/49 (1725)

Wigorn sessions

To Thomas Wilde esquire one of his majesties justicies
of the peace for the county of Worcester

The humble peticion of William Perkins alias Pickin

Humbly sheweth
that your petioner was a prisoner in the goale for the county of
Worcester before the nine and twentieth day of September 1724 and
so continues a prisoner still wherefore your peticioner pursuant
to an act of Parliament intituled an Act Made for the Releife of
Insolvent Debters desires your worship to issue out your warrant
directed to John Wise keeper of his majesties goale for the county
aforesaid thereby comanding him to bring the body of the said William
Perkin alias Pickin before his majesties justicies of the peace for the
said county at the next generall quarter sessions of the peace to
to be held for the said county of Worcester upon Tuesday the thirteenth
day of July next ensueing the date hereof together with a
coppy or coppys of the cause or causes wherewith he stands
charged so that he may have the benifit of the said act and your
petitioner sho as in duty bound shall ever pray etc

• Thomas Wylde

James Wallter, a prisoner for debt. Ref.110 BA1/1/274/53 (1725)

To the worshipful Thomas Wilde esquire
one of his majesty's justices of the peace for
the county of Worcester

The humble
petition
of James Wallter a prisoner
for debt in the common goale and county of Worcester

Sheweth,
that he was a prisoner confined for debt
on the twenty ninth day of September, 1724,
and hath continued so
till this time (except out by due course of law) therefore
conceives that he is justly entituled to receive the benefit
provided in an act passed the last session, entituled an act
for the relief of insolvent debtors.

Your petitioner therefore humbly prays
your worship's warrant, under your
hand and seal, to order and appoint
the keeper of the said prison, to bring
your petitioner to the next general
quarter sessions of the peace for the
said county, and a writing importing
notice to be delivered to the petitio-
ners creditors, pursuant to such act, as
aforesaid, in order to his being dis-
charged.

And your petitioner, as in duty bound, shall ever pray, etc.

The marke of James Wallter

[printed form]

John Bennett, a prisoner for debt. Ref.110 BA1/1/290/40 (1729)

[Worcester?] sessions

To Richard Cookesey esquire
one of his majesty's justices of the peace
for the said county.

The humble petition of John Bennett late of
Offingham husbandman.

Sheweth,
that your petitioner, on the twenty-ninth
day of September, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight,
was, and ever since hath been actually a prisoner, within
the limits of the prison of the said county without
his consent or procurement, and without any fraud or
collusion whatsoever, and that your said petitioner is not
charged and indebted more than five hundred pounds,
besides interest, damages, and cost of suit, to any
one person:

Your petitioner therefore most humbly prays the benefit
of an act of Parliament passed in the second year
of the reign of our sovereign lord King George II.
intituled An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors;
and that your worship will be pleased to issue
forth your warrant, directed to Master John Wythes
jaylor of the said county thereby re-
quiring him to bring your petitioner before his
majesty's justices of the peace, at the next general
quarter-session of the peace to be held for the said
county with the warrant of
your petitioner's detainour, together with the copy
or copies of the causes with which your petitioner
stands charged, and also your notice or summons
to your petitioner's creditors, that your petitioner
may be discharged, according to the direction
of the said act.

And your petitioner, as in duty bound,
shall ever pray, etc.

• John Bennett

[printed form]

Thomas Burd of Bridgenorth, a prisoner for debt. Ref.110 BA1/1/290/42 (1729)

[Wigorn sessions?]

To Richard Cookesey esquire
one of his majesty's justices of the peace
for the said county

The humble petition of Thomas Burd late of
Bridgenorth yeoman

Sheweth,
that your petitioner, on the twenty-ninth
day of September, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight,
was, and ever since hath been actually a prisoner, within
the limits of the prison of the said county without
his consent or procurement, and without any fraud or
collusion whatsoever, and that your said petitioner is not
charged and indebted more than five hundred pounds,
besides interest, damages, and cost of suit, to any
one person:

Your petitioner therefore most humbly prays the benefit
of an act of Parliament passed in the second year
of the reign of our sovereign lord King George II.
intituled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors;
and that your worship will be pleased to issue
forth your warrant, directed to Master John Wythes
jaylor for the said county thereby re-
quiring him to bring your petitioner before his
majesty's justices of the peace, at the next general
quarter-session of the peace to be held for the said
county with the warrant of
your petitioner's detainour, together with the copy
or copies of the causes with which your petitioner
stands charged, and also your notice or summons
to your petitioner's creditors, that your petitioner
may be discharged, according to the direction
of the said act.

And your petitioner, as in duty bound,
shall ever pray, etc.

Thomas Burd his mark

[printed form]

William Cleadon of Upton, a prisoner for debt. Ref.110 BA1/1/290/44 (1729)

Wigorn

To Richard Cookesey esquire
one of his majesty's justices of the peace
for the said county

The humble petition of William Cleadon late of
the parish of Upton husband man

Sheweth,
that your petitioner, on the twenty-ninth
day of September, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight,
was, and ever since hath been actually a prisoner, within
the limits of the prison of the said county without
his consent or procurement, and without any fraud or
collusion whatsoever, and that your said petitioner is not
charged and indebted more than five hundred pounds,
besides interest, damages, and cost of suit, to any
one person:

Your petitioner therefore most humbly prays the benefit
of an act of Parliament passed in the second year
of the reign of our sovereign lord King George II.
intituled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors;
and that your worship will be pleased to issue
forth your warrant, directed to Master John Wythes
jaylor for the said county thereby re-
quiring him to bring your petitioner before his
majesty's justices of the peace, at the next general
quarter-session of the peace to be held for the said
county with the warrant of
your petitioner's detainour, together with the copy
or copies of the causes with which your petitioner
stands charged, and also your notice or summons
to your petitioner's creditors, that your petitioner
may be discharged, according to the direction
of the said act.

And your petitioner, as in duty bound,
shall ever pray, etc.

• William [Cleayden?]

[printed form]

William Hooper, a prisoner for debt. Ref.110 BA1/1/290/46 (1729)

[Wigorn?] sessions

To Richard Cookesey esquire
one of his majesty's justices of the peace
for the said county

The humble petition of William Hooper late of
Holy Cross Parshor butcher

Sheweth,
that your petitioner, on the twenty-ninth
day of September, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight,
was, and ever since hath been actually a prisoner, within
the limits of the prison of the county aforsaid without
his consent or procurement, and without any fraud or
collusion whatsoever, and that your said petitioner is not
charged and indebted more than five hundred pounds,
besides interest, damages, and cost of suit, to any
one person:

Your petitioner therefore most humbly prays the benefit
of an act of Parliament passed in the second year
of the reign of our sovereign lord King George II.
intituled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors;
and that your worship will be pleased to issue
forth your warrant, directed to Master John Wythes
jaylor of the said county thereby re-
quiring him to bring your petitioner before his
majesty's justices of the peace, at the next general
quarter-session of the peace to be held for the said
county with the warrant of
your petitioner's detainour, together with the copy
or copies of the causes with which your petitioner
stands charged, and also your notice or summons
to your petitioner's creditors, that your petitioner
may be discharged, according to the direction
of the said act.

And your petitioner, as in duty bound,
shall ever pray, etc.

• William Hooper

[printed form]

William Moore, a prisoner for debt. Ref.110 BA1/1/290/48 (1729)

[Wigorn?] sessions

To Richard Cookesey esquire
one of his majesty's justices of the peace
for the said county.

The humble petition of William Moore late of
Alchurch husbandman.

Sheweth,
that your petitioner, on the twenty-ninth
day of September, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight,
was, and ever since hath been actually a prisoner, within
the limits of the prison of the said county without
his [consent or procurement?], and without any fraud or
[collusion whatsoever,?] and [that?] your said petitioner is not
[charged and indebted?] more [than?] five hundred pounds,
[besides interest, damages, and?] cost of suit, to any
[one person?]

[Your?] petitioner [therefore?] most humbly prays the benefit
[of?] an act of [Parliament?] passed in the second year
of the reign of our sovereign lord King George II.
intituled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors;
and that your worship will be pleased to issue
forth your warrant, directed to Master John Wythes
jaylor of the said county thereby re-
quiring him to bring your petitioner before his
majesty's justices of the peace, at the next general
quarter-session of the peace to be held for the said
county with the warrant of
your petitioner's detainour, together with the copy
or copies of the causes with which your petitioner
stands charged, and also your notice or summons
to your petitioner's creditors, that your petitioner
may be discharged, according to the direction
of the said act.

And your petitioner, as in duty bound,
shall ever pray, etc.

The mark of William Moore

[printed form]

Abraham Perrins, a prisoner for debt. Ref.110 BA1/1/290/50 (1729)

[Wigorn?] sessions

To Richard Cookesey esquire
one of his majesty's justices of the peace
for the said county

The humble petition of Abraham Perrins late
of Old Swinford baker.

Sheweth,
that your petitioner, on the twenty-ninth
day of September, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight,
was, and ever since hath been actually a prisoner, within
the limits of the prison of the said county without
his consent or procurement, and without any fraud or
collusion whatsoever, and that your said petitioner is not
charged and indebted more than five hundred pounds,
besides interest, damages, and cost of suit, to any
one person:

Your petitioner therefore most humbly prays the benefit
of an act of Parliament passed in the second year
of the reign of our sovereign lord King George II.
intituled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors;
and that your worship will be pleased to issue
forth your warrant, directed to Master John Wythes
jaylor of the said county thereby re-
quiring him to bring your petitioner before his
majesty's justices of the peace, at the next general
quarter-session of the peace to be held for the said
county with the warrant of
your petitioner's detainour, together with the copy
or copies of the causes with which your petitioner
stands charged, and also your notice or summons
to your petitioner's creditors, that your petitioner
may be discharged, according to the direction
of the said act.

And your petitioner, as in duty bound,
shall ever pray, etc.

• Abraham Perrins

[printed form]

Isaac Sumerland, a prisoner for debt. Ref.110 BA1/1/290/53 (1729)

[illegible] sessions

To Richard Cookesey esquire
one of his majesty's justices of the peace
for the said county.

The humble petition of Isaac Sumerland late of
Marteley husbandman.

Sheweth,
that your petitioner, on the twenty-ninth
day of September, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight,
was, and ever since hath been actually a prisoner, within
the limits of the prison of the said county without
his consent or procurement, and without any fraud or
collusion whatsoever, and that your said petitioner is not
charged and indebted more than five hundred pounds,
besides interest, damages, and cost of suit, to any
one person:

Your petitioner therefore most humbly prays the benefit
of an act of Parliament passed in the second year
of the reign of our sovereign lord King George II.
intituled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors;
and that your worship will be pleased to issue
forth your warrant, directed to Master John Wythes
jaylor of the said county thereby re-
quiring him to bring your petitioner before his
majesty's justices of the peace, at the next general
quarter-session of the peace to be held for the said
county with the warrant of
your petitioner's detainour, together with the copy
or copies of the causes with which your petitioner
stands charged, and also your notice or summons
to your petitioner's creditors, that your petitioner
may be discharged, according to the direction
of the said act.

And your petitioner, as in duty bound,
shall ever pray, etc.

[printed form]

William Tyler, a prisoner for debt. Ref.110 BA1/1/290/56 (1729)

[illegible]

To Richard Cookesey esquire
one of his majesty's justices of the peace
for the said county

The humble petition of William Tyler late of
Bewdley cutler

Sheweth,
that your petitioner, on the twenty-ninth
day of September, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight,
was, and ever since hath been actually a prisoner, within
the limits of the prison of the said county without
his consent or procurement, and without any fraud or
collusion whatsoever, and that your said petitioner is not
charged and indebted more than five hundred pounds,
besides interest, damages, and cost of suit, to any
one person:

Your petitioner therefore most humbly prays the benefit
of an act of Parliament passed in the second year
of the reign of our sovereign lord King George II.
intituled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors;
and that your worship will be pleased to issue
forth your warrant, directed to Master John Wythes
jaylor for the said county thereby re-
quiring him to bring your petitioner before his
majesty's justices of the peace, at the next general
quarter-session of the peace to be held for the said
county with the warrant of
your petitioner's detainour, together with the copy
or copies of the causes with which your petitioner
stands charged, and also your notice or summons
to your petitioner's creditors, that your petitioner
may be discharged, according to the direction
of the said act.

And your petitioner, as in duty bound,
shall ever pray, etc.

William Tyler his mark

[printed form]

Jobe Williams of Droitwich, a prisoner for debt. Ref.110 BA1/1/290/59 (1729)

[Wigorn?] sessions

To Richard Cookesey esquire
one of his majesty's justices of the peace
for the said county

The humble petition of Jobe Williams late of
Droitwich saltmaker.

Sheweth,
that your petitioner, on the twenty-ninth
day of September, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight,
was, and ever since hath been actually a prisoner, within
the limits of the prison of the said county without
his consent or procurement, and without any fraud or
collusion whatsoever, and that your said petitioner is not
charged and indebted more than five hundred pounds,
besides interest, damages, and cost of suit, to any
one person:

Your petitioner therefore most humbly prays the benefit
of an act of Parliament passed in the second year
of the reign of our sovereign lord King George II.
intituled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors;
and that your worship will be pleased to issue
forth your warrant, directed to Master John Wythes
jaylor of the said county goale thereby re-
quiring him to bring your petitioner before his
majesty's justices of the peace, at the next general
quarter-session of the peace to be held for the said
county with the warrant of
your petitioner's detainour, together with the copy
or copies of the causes with which your petitioner
stands charged, and also your notice or summons
to your petitioner's creditors, that your petitioner
may be discharged, according to the direction
of the said act.

And your petitioner, as in duty bound,
shall ever pray, etc.

The marke of
Job Williams

[printed form]

John Deacle of Bengworth, a prisoner for debt. Ref.110 BA1/1/291/23 (1729)

[illegible]

To Richard Cookesey esquire one of his majesties justices
of the peace for the said county

The humble peticion of John Deacle late of Bengworth
sheweth

That your peticioner on the twenty nineth day of September
in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
twenty eight, was and since hath been actually a prisoner
within the limitts of the prison for the county aforesaid without
his consent or procurement and without any fraud or
collusion whatsoever, and that your said peticioner is not
charged and indebted more than five hundred pounds
besides interest a damages, and cost of suit to any person

Your peticioner therefore most humbly prays the
benefitt of an act of Parliament passed in the second
year of the reign of our sovereign lord King George
the second intituled An Act for the Releife of
Insolvent Debters, and that your worship will be
pleased to issue forth your warrant directed to Master
John Wythies jaylor of the said county thereby
requireing him to bring your peticioner before his
majesties justices of the peace at the next generall
quarter sessions of the peace to be held for the said
county with the warrant of your peticioners detainer
together with the coppy or coppies of the causes
with which your peticioner stands charged and also
your notice or summons to your peticioners
creditors that your peticioner may be descharged
according to the direccion of the said act

And your peticioner as in duty bound
shall ever pray etc

• John Deacle