Re: William Heathfield in New England

Masterless Vagrant Timothy Garland

Middlesex: - Sessions Records, Indictments, Coroners' Inquests-Post-Mortem
and Recognizances, vol. 1 Additional Baptisms. Middlesex Sessions' Rolls:--
Middlesex Alehouses temp. Edward 6th. County: Middlesex Country: England 06
Oct , 32 Elizabeth.--True Bill against Margaret Baxfeilde, Elizabeth Tatam,
Christofer Rede, Thomas Thompson, Joan Parker, Amie Powell, Jenkin Evans,
David Pryce, John Harris, Nicholas Malley, Nicholas Sherley, Rowland Williams,
Lewis Stones, Richard Hasted, Henry Bisshoppe, Siderak Ellys, Joan Warde, John
Hickes, John Jackeson, William Harrison alias Glasier, Evan Davies, John
Phillippes, John Horseley, Robert Cooford, Edward Asheberrie, John Bowman,
Edward Carre, Faith Grene, Sara Dobson, Agnes Marten, Joan Monninge, Argenta
Robertes, Anne Catesbye, Elizabeth Foster, Joan Andrewes, Alice Parson, for being
vagabonds on the said 06 Oct at Acton co. Midd., and in divers other parts of
the said county, over fourteen years of age, strong in body and fit for
labour, but masterless and having no lawful means of livelihood, in contempt of
the Lady the Queen, and against the form of the statute in this case provided:
With sentence, that each of the said vagabonds should be severely flogged and
burnt on the right ear (graviter flagelletur et cremetur in dextra auricula)
according to the form of the statute.--Similar True Bill, with conviction
and the same sentence, against William Robinson, Adam Smythe, Thomas Bowe,
Thomas Cowper, John Dudley, Helen Beeche and Helen Wilson, for being vagabonds
&c. on 15 Oct 32 Eliz. at Fulham co. Midd. and in divers other parts of the
said county. At the foot of the bill a memorandum that Richard Grove of Bromeley
co. Midd. milner took Adam Smythe into his service for an entire year, and
bound himself in a sum of ten pounds, to keep the same Adam as his servant for
the year, and at the end of the term to produce him at Session of the Peace,
or then and there to produce good proof of his death.--Similar True Bill
with the same judgment against Alice Walker, Henry Allen, Thomas Cleveley and
Thomas Curtis, for being vagabonds &c. on 23 Oct 32 Eliz. at Islingeton co.
Midd. and at divers other parts of the same county. --Similar True Bill, with
the same sentence, against Edward Thompson, William Barrett, Margaret Chapman,
Thomas Corser and Timothy Garland, for being vagabonds &c. on 03 Oct 32
Eliz., at Fulham co. Midd. and in divers other parts of the said county.--Similar
True Bill, with the same sentence, against Nicholas Caxson, Mary Conquest,
John Symes and Mary Parker, for being vagabonds &c., on 06 Nov 32 Eliz., at
Westminster co. Midd. and in divers other places of the same county.--Similar
True Bill, with the same sentence, against Edward Holmes, Cristofer Ellis,
Maurice West, Francis Pigott, Gracian Taylor, John Goodeman and Ambrose Byrde,
for being vagabonds on 09 Nov 32 Eliz. at Westminster co. Midd. and in divers
other parts of the said county.--Similar True Bill, with conviction and the
same sentence, against Henry Clyff, Elizabeth Brownewell, Stephen Morrys,
Benedict Edwardes and William Thomas, for being vagabonds &c. on 21 Nov 33 Eliz.
at Seynt Johns Strete co. Midd. and divers other parts of the same
county.--Similar True Bill, with the same sentence, against George Bates, Edward Miles
and Andrew Hellvishe, for being vagabonds &c. on 14 Dec 33 Eliz. at Maribone
co. Midd., and in divers other parts of the same county.--Preserved on the
same file with documents relating to them, and apart from other sessional
matters, these eight bills are in a wrapper, endorsed "Di'v's' Session' Pacis tent'
apud le Castell in Seint Jonstreete in p'dco Com' Midd pro punio'on'
vagabund' ... annis regni Regine Elizabeth 32 & 33."--Hence it appears that in the
ten weeks between 06 Oct 32 Eliz. and 14 Dec 33 Eliz. 71 persons, male or
femalc, and aged fourteen or upwards, were sentenced to be severely whipt and
branded with a hot iron for being masterless vagrants in the county:--viz.
rather more than seven a week.
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