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Catalogue of Archdeaconry of Nottingham Presentment Bills
AN/PB 297 and AN/PB 314
Presentment Bills, Bingham deanery, 1620-1629
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Easter and Michaelmas 1620 |
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28.7.1623-31.1.1624
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwarden presentment bills; Bingham and Nottingham deaneries, Michaelmas
1623
The presentment bills are mixed up between the two deaneries, with no
apparent original order.
For a memorandum concerning Nottingham, July 1623, see AN/PB/302/418;
for a presentment bill from Papplewick parish, Michaelmas 1623, misplaced
in another bundle, see AN/PB/302/172; for a misplaced presentment bill
for Radcliffe-on-Trent parish, Michaelmas 1623, see AN/PB 326/5/1.
Title page for bundle, in Latin: detections in the deanery of Bingham, 1623. On reverse is written 'licences and bondes' [not related to present contents of bundle].
Michaelmas 1623
Petitioners [curate and one churchwarden] present the following to Mr Purfey: Thomas Dafte the elder, one of the churchwardens of Hickling, was lately presented by them for divers defaults and misdemeanours committed within the township and church of Hickling, before 'your worship'; they have not yet had sufficient reformation worthy of his offence; therefore, with the voice and consent of Mr Doctor Bardsey [parson of Hickling] they humbly pray that the said Thomas Dafte the elder, who was presented for his perverse dealings and his railing and slanderous speeches and for his reviling, scornful and reproachful wordes with the church, and for other misdemeanours, may have his submission or penance enjoined on him without delay, to be done within the said church of Hickling, seeing that he has not cleared himself.
Dated 30 January 1623 [Old Style].
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Richarde Benet of Newton as there is a common fame that he has committed fornication with Elizabeth Upton of the same.
Date given as 31 January 1623 [Old Style].
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Henrie Castle for getting his wife with child before he was married to her; Thomas Beckee for getting Ursalay Brouke with child.
Place name given as Wollarton.
Dated 24 January 1623 [Old Style].
Written in another hand, 'emt in 14 Feb:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Certification that Thomas Brunts and Oliue Rocket [of Epperstone; see AN/PB 297/4/2] were married in the parish church of Langford [a Peculiar] between the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon.
Found in bundle of presentments from Nottingham deanery, Michaelmas 1623.
Michaelmas 1623
['I doe present', subsequently crossed out]: Thomas Brunts and Olive his now wife for fornication before marriage; as it is reported, they were unlawfully married at Lanford [Langford], he being contracted with another woman by whom he had already begotten a bastard, as she affirmed to the minister of Epperston; memorandum that John Brunts intends to marry Elizabeth Tailer, who is contracted to one Xpofer Foster as has been affirmed before Mr Marler, parson of Epperstone.
Document written in hand of John Tibberd, deputy registrar; no churchwardens' names are given.
No place name given; identified as Epperstone from internal evidence.
Dated 10 January 1623 [Old Style].
Written in another hand between the presentment and the memorandum, 'emt in 14 Feb:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: that the chancel is much out of repair, in whose default they cannot find but leave it to your worship's discretion; the Lady Perpoynt for not coming to the parish church for the space of three months; Mrs Cyme the wife of Mr John Cyme for the like; Mr Willyam Allin, 'scowlemastor' [schoolmaster] for the like; Hugh Dobson for keeping company in his house in time of divine service and sermon on 20 June; Nicolas Orson for working in his shop in time of divine service and sermon on 6 July.
Place name given as Sent Maryes parrish.
Dated 3 January 1623 [Old Style].
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Mrs Jane Secheverell as she will not pay her cessment towards the repair of the church, 2s; Wm Jacksonne, glover, for the like, 1s; Wm Petye for having company in his house in time of divine service, October 1623; Tho. Ball, cobbler, for the like, October 1623; Richard Mansfied the younger and Anne Arnold for incontinency, since the said Anne is with child by the said Mansfild, as she says, being unmarried; Elysabethe Hare the wife of Mr Rh Hare the elder, of the age of 40 years, for not coming to her parish church for two months; Rd Lea and Dorythy his wife of the age of 40 years for the like; Catherne Cooke the wife of Mihell Cooke of the age of 30 years for the like; Christopher Stirly of the age of 25 years at the least for the like; Jams Millet for incontinency with his wife before marriage.
Place name given as St Peetes nottingham.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwarden and curate present the following: that Thomas Dafte the elder, churchwarden of Hickling, has been absent from church in time of divine prayer, both at morning and evening, for the space of forty days; he neglects and refuses to come to church, even when messengers are sent for him, to execute his office of churchwarden or to consult or confer with William Smyth his fellow churchwarden over urgent repairs, consequently the inhabitants of the town are put to a greater charge to repair windows etc; Dafte has received several sums of money to be disbursed upon urgent and necessary business in and about the church, but says that if money is wanted he will present those inhabitants that have not paid their levies to him;
Dafte says that he will make it manifestly appear to any ecclesiastical judge and justify that the churchwarden elected by the parson [i.e. Smyth] shall stand as a cipher and not receive any money to disburse; as a result of his rigorous speeches, protestations and threatenings, the inhabitants withhold their payment from Smyth and he has not received any money since the last visitation; Smyth spent £3 more than he received on necessary repairs and now cannot get the money back;
Dafte has refused to collect and gather from seat to seat for all briefs since becoming churchwarden; Smyth has often brought the briefs to him and offered to do it himself; Dafte refuses to subscribe and set his hand with the minister and churchwarden to the said briefs, but instead subscribes or procures to be subscribed the name of one John Frankeland of the said town, who is not elected churchwarden, and refuses to let Smyth sign them;
they present Dafte for his 'resisting turbulancy, vile unreverent and unlawful demeanour' against the minister, Edward Cooper, within the parish church on 5 August; for his 'bourding', unseemly and injurious contrameddling with the said minister about a brief, to which Dafte refused to subscribe properly;
they present Dafte for his 'bearding', brawling, contentious, churlish and turbulent speeches to and against the said minister in church on Sundays and holy days in front of the congregation, bidding him get himself out of the said church, saying that he had nothing to do in the church amongst the inhabitants; Cooper only willed and required Dafte to join with Smyth in friendly manner to collect for a brief and set his hand to it;
they present Dafte for chiding and brawling with Smyth on Sundays and other days, protesting and saying that Smyth is a foresworn and perjured man in presenting Dafte and his wife and brother, Robert Dafte, for matters mentioned in presentment bills presented by Smyth in his time as churchwarden and that he could prove it by the same bills.
Place name given as Hicklinge.
Written at the bottom of first page, 'emt in 6 Decembr'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: John Bealey and Thomas Hall for fighting in the church and John Bealey for making a blood in the steeple.
No date given on presentment bill; found in bundle of presentments from Michaelmas 1623.
Michaelmas 1623
Vicar presents the following: Alyce Cowper of Wylloughbye on the oldes, widow, for not paying her quarter bread at Michaelmas according to the ancient custom.
Place name given variously as Willougbie and Wylloughbye on the oldes.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Ellote and Marye Hardman for being married at Kinoulton church without any licence that they know of.
Place name given as Lingegoebie; identified by comparison with Act Book [AN/A 33], and from name of churchwarden.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Robert Burton and Elizabeth Brawnson, as the said Robert got the said Elizabeth with child as she confessed; Gabriel Eaton and Nicholas Lansdale for resorting to the boy at Wysall, commonly called the wise child and for being touched of the said child in hope of some miraculous healing, contrary, as they are persuaded, to God's word and the ecclesiastical laws; Robert Shaw for it is commonly reported that, having certain money stolen from him, he consulted with a wizard, wise man, or wise woman to recover it.
Written in another hand, 'emat in 22 No:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Teversall.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: that the churchyard fence is out of repair and they desire time to repair it.
Written in another hand, '6d habent at reparand citra festum purificacois prox et ad cert clio in riclico tunc sequen'.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as the chapple of Thurrerton.
No date given on presentment bill; found in bundle of presentments from Michaelmas 1623.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Mr Richard Parker, one of the alderman of Nottingham and Mr Alexander Stables, for suffering the chancel to lie unrepaired in the leads and glass; [they] ought to repair the same because they are farmers of the tithes of the rectory.
Place name given as Snenton.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: John Clarke and Ann Hoppill for living together as man and wife, [banns] being not asked in church, for as much as they know, but by their own saying; [added at the foot of the presentment bill in another hand, in Latin:] John Thorpe of Hucknall Torkard for the same.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Place name given as Ansley.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 22 Novemb:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Kinstone.
On the back: memorandum that Gabriell Eaton and Alice his wife of Trowell are fornicators before marriage; witnesses being Fraunces Noden, Joice Noden and Gabriel Noden.
Michaelmas 1623
Curate presents the following: that the churchwardens of Trowell have not presented Frauncis Noden and John Carrington for not coming to church on Sunday 12 October, and for their negligence at other times in not coming to divine service, and also that they are usual swearers.
Written in another hand, 'emat in 6 Decemb'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: John Farrar, gent., and Anne his wife, for not coming to the church for the space of half a year.
Place name given as Burton cum Bulcote.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Elline Bruchouse, Ellizabeth Simmones, Elline Browne, and Alles Skillinton for going to the wise boy [at Wysall].
Place name given as Wolaton.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 8 No:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Bell and Elizabeth Cranmore for incontinency; Jarvis Smith for standing excommunicate for four years and not seeking absolution.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 8 Nov:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Minister and churchwardens present the following: Henrie Cock of West Bridgford, gentleman, for a public fame of keeping unlawful company, and, as it is suspected, of committing incest with Bridget Butler, his wife's daughter of the parish of St Peter's, Nottingham; Elizabeth Harding, wife of Walter Harding of Bridgford, Jone Seemons, wife of Michaell Seemons of Bassingfeild, Katherine Whitworth, wife of Reginald Whitworth of Bridgford, Anne Wright, Marie Dauson, Elizabeth Coopers and Isabell Hilton of Bridgford for going to and seeking unlawful means of help from the stroking boy who was at Wisall [Wysall]; Marie Dawson, servant to Mr Cock, for standing excommunicate since 22 June and not seeking absolution; Richard Garton of Bridgford, husbandman, for carrying his child to Wisall to be cured by the 'stroaking boy'.
Written in another hand, 'Elizabeth Harding vocat/ Katherina Whitworth/ Anna Wrighte vocat/ Richus Garton md'; and 'emt: xxij No:'
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Amy Widmerepole and Doritie Moris for recusants.
Place name given as Widmerepole.
Written in another hand, 'emt xxij No:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Marie Backster for committing fornication with one [blank] Shittlewood of Wisall [Wysall].
Place name given as Willowobey on the Woulds.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 6 Decemb:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: John Wilkinson of Ruddington for conveying away towards Ireland his son Richard Wilkinson, who is the supposed father of a bastard child begotten of Cicelie Noton of Wysall, before punishment was enjoined on him for his offence.
Written in another hand, 'emt xxij No:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Henrye Wheteley for incontinency with Martha Gadd; Martha Gadd for the like with Henry Wheteley; Thomas Bonde for not coming to church; Willm Peake and his wife for the like.
Place name given as Sutton St Bonngton St Michaells.
Written in another hand, 'emt 25 octob'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Charles Reram for playing in the churchyard in evening prayertime on 21 September; Richard Heanes the younger, Thomas Reanes and Richard Pollard the younger for the like; Elizabeth Marrate for a common fame with one Lorance that dwells with Ladie Skipworth.
Place name given as Stanforth.
Written in another hand, 'emt in xi octobris'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Browne upon a fame of incontinency with Dorothie Stafford; a glass window in the church is broken and some of the leads there 'blown up'.
Note at the bottom states that they desire until next Martinmas Day to repair the window and leads.
Written in another hand, 'emt xxj Octob:'; '6d' written next to note about desiring time to mend window.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Garner and his wife for fornication before marriage and for living as man and wife for a long time before they were married; Thomas Fallowes for suspicion of incontinency with Elis Wilson; Anthonie Elson for suspicion of incontinency with Elis Wilson.
No date given on presentment bill; found in bundle of presentments from Michaelmas 1623.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 22 No:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: the inhabitants of Kinstone [Kingston-on-Soar] and Thrumpton for not doing those reparations in the parish church of Ratcliffe upon Soar which time out of mind have been carried out by them, viz. repairing the north and south aisles.
Place name given as Ratcliffe super Soare.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: that the chancel is decayed in the glass windows in the fault of Mr Timothie Leeminge.
Place name given as Ratcliff super Trent.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Robart Leuers for committing fornication with Margreat Hallam [of Hucknall Torkard, see AN/PB 297/42].
Place name given as Nuttall.
Written in another hand, 'emt in x Novemb:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Mrs Moartonn for not coming to church and not receiving the communion at Easter; John Greaves for not paying his cessment, which was cessed by the minister and the rest of the parishioners for repairing the church and church walls; the said John Greaves for abusing the churchwardens with most vile railing words when they demanded the said cessment of 12d from him.
Place name given as St Nicholas in Nottingham.
Written next to the entry concerning Greaves abusing the churchwardens, 'dim'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: that it is commonly reported that Robt Eyre of Mansfield, tailor, had his child privately baptised by a popish priest about last May.
Place name given as Mannsfeild.
Written at the bottom, 'visise ulterimus modi hent ad presentamis'; written in another hand, 'emt in 25 Octob'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: the names of those that by report and fame went to the child at Wisall [Wysall], 'but of our own knowledge we cannot say', viz. [Willim Patchet, crossed out], Agnes Greslay, wife of Willm Greslay the elder, Anne Stevens, and Leonard Waltam's wife; Olive Hancocke of Beskwood parke [Bestwood Park] for being an absolute recusant.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 8 Nov:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: that concerning the child at Wysall, they have none in their parish that went to him.
Place name given as Leake Magna.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: that Robert Price and [Isabell, crossed out] his wife had a child lately born and christened last Sunday, 21 September, whereas the said Robert and his wife were married [only] since last May day and they are given to understand without licence or banns being asked in the parish.
Place name given as Leake Parva.
Written in another hand, 'emt in xj Octob:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: John Lane for not repairing his part of the churchyard wall.
Place name given as Linbye.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 25 No:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: James Godfrey of Lambley and his wife for fornication before marriage.
Written in another hand, 'emt in xxv octobris'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Willm Milward, as the common fame goes, has committed adultery with the maid servant of Mr Blackenhall, whose name they know not.
Place name given as Loudham.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 25 Novemb:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Willm Hall, Peter Ellis and Frauncis Warde for working on the feast day of St Michael the Archangel; John Paneham of Bassingfeild [Bassingfield] in the parish of West Bridgford for setting his servants to lead hay on St James's day; Roger Barlowe for suffering his servants to work upon the same day; Willm Clarke of Cotgrave, John Ingram and John Greenham and Raphe Boye of Cotgrave for working the same day; John Walker's wife of Holme Pierrepont parish for raking after the cart the same day; Robte Herringe of the parish of Bridgford for sleeping in the church upon the Sabbath a fortnight ago; Robte Blatherwicke of Nottingham for making hay the same day.
Written twice down the left margin is 'emt in 6 Decemb:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Margarit Hallum of 'the Misk' within the parish of Hucknoll Torkit [Hucknall Torkard], spinster, for fornication committed with one Robert Levers of Allesworth [Awsworth] within the parish of Nuttoll [Nuthall], collier, as it is reputed.
No place name given; identified as Hucknall Torkard from internal evidence.
Written in another hand, 'emit'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Robart Heawood for giving forth slanderous words against one of the churchwardens before Elizabeth Pight, the churchwarden's maid, and Iszabell Wilden.
Place name given as Gta; identified by churchwardens' names.
Written in another hand, 'emit in 27 Jan'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Isaacke Wolley and Isabell his wife for fornication before marriage.
Place name given as Greaslay.
Written in another hand, 'em in 25 octob'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Willm Taylor and Anne his wife for fornication before marriage.
Place name given as Flyntham.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Allred for fighting and 'abusing his self' in time of evening prayer; Mari Allred for the like; Elinor Jacson for selling drink in time of evening prayer; Loranc Jacson for not making his church wall.
Written next to the name of Elinor Jacson, 'emt in xxv octob'; written next to the name of Loranc Jacson, 'emt in 22 Nov:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Pickring for not coming to church since Mayday; John Smith for suspicion of incontinency with Judeth Campion as the common fame goes.
Place name given as Codgrave.
Written in another hand, 'emt in xij No:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Anthonye Cawnton, labourer, for denying to pay those rights and duties which he was taxed to pay for the last year, being assessed at 2d; concerning any [in their parish] that were supposed to go to the child at Wysall for any manner of cure, they cannot find any.
Place name given as Cortlingstocke.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 25 Octobris'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: John Bostok for a common fame of his wife selling ale in prayertime on 29 September; John Carrinton of Trowell and Gabrill Nodine of the same for drinking there at that time; Frances Robartes for working with his hatchet in time of prayer on the Sabbath day.
Place name given as Bramcott.
Written in another hand, 'emt in x No:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: John Gervice for keeping company with one Anne Beebie as man and wife together, not being married to their knowledge; Elizabeth Huskinsone ['for committing fornication', crossed out] for remaining excommunicate and not seeking to be absolved; the said John Gervice for keeping unlawful company on the Sabbath in his own house; Ane Brett, Edward Weston and his wife, Thomas Lister with his son and Margerie Frances for going to the boy at Wysall; William Hemsley for his 'bone' [mistake for 'boye', boy?] going to Wysall; Edward Weston for railing of the churchwardens.
Place name given as Broughtone Souley.
Written against Edward Weston (first entry) in left margin, 'pd up: 2s'; in right margin, 'comp't diem'; at the bottom, 'Citat'r Wmus Mugglestone de Broughton Soulney ad rendend certio ar'lis in Sab 8 Novemb:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwarden presents the following: Sibill Brette for going out of the church before the end of the sermon and staying at the Maypole until people came from church upon 19 May; for being absent from divine service the same day at evening prayer and absent from morning prayer on 25 May; Elizabeth Weston for being absent from divine service the same 25 May; Edward Weston, parish clerk, for his negligence in coming to divine service; Thomas Robinson for sleeping in the church in time of divine service on the Sabbath day; Sibill Brette for a common fame that she ran away from her husband.
Place name given as Broughton Soulney.
Written against Edward Weston in right margin, 'compt dcim'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Steven Dore for not coming to church since Easter and 'would withdraw others'; Richard Hussit and Margeret Pee for being reputed to have committed fornication together; Niccolis Handley and Mary Pacy for being reputed to have committed fornication together; Robert Mason the elder for his people binding hemp on the Sunday at night.
Dated 27 September, no year given; found in bundle of presentments from Michaelmas 1623.
Written in another hand, 'emt in xj octob:'.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: Edward Smalley of Towton in the parish of Addenbrough for committing fornication with Baylye Osbourne's servant at Ellverson [Elvaston, Derbyshire].
Place name given as Towton Addenbrough [Toton and Attenborough].
Written in another hand, 'emt in xxv Octobris'.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Selstone.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Paplewike.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Gonaldtone.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Epperston.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Basforth.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Tolerton.
Michaelmas 1623
One churchwarden presents the following: the chancel is out of repair, and he desires time to repair it.
Place name given as Sutton St Bonngton St Michaells.
Written and signed by Mich. Purefey, 'untill Candlemas is granted'.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Granbee.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: that the church is in sufficient repair and the minister conformable.
Place name given as Thrumpto[n].
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Tythbee and Cropwell Butler.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Kewarth.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Michaelmas 1623
Churchwardens present the following: that the parishioners have been at great charge to repair the church and there is no misbehaviour to present.
Place name given as Normonton uppon Sore.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Written in another hand at the top, 'Octobar the xxv 1623'.
Place name given as Carcolston.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Colson Basset.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Bunny cum Bradmore.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Edoulton.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Owethorpe.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Langer.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Collwicke.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Hovringham.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Adboulton.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Staunton sup ley Wolds.
Michaelmas 1623
Nothing to present.
Place name given as West Bridgford, but churchwardens are those for East Bridgford.
19.4.1620-3.2.1621
Easter 1620 and Michaelmas 1620
Churchwarden presentment bills, formerly in an original bundle; Bingham
deanery, Easter and Michaelmas 1620
Presentment bills from Easter 1620 are dated 19 April to 24 June 1620;
those from Michaelmas 1620 are dated 30 September 1620 to 3 February 1621.
For a misplaced presentment bill from Edwalton parish, Easter 1620, see
AN/PB 339/1/2.
AN/PB 314/1/1/1
1620
Easter 1620 and Michaelmas 1620
Tag for bundle of churchwardens' presentment bills, 'Bingham Deanerie
1620'.
AN/PB 314/1/1/2
3.2.1621
Ruddington
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Flinders and Alice his wife
for fornication together before marriage; William Smithe and Marie Thorneton
for fornication together.
Dated 3 Feb 1620 [Old Style].
Written in another hand, 'em in 17 Februarij'.
AN/PB 314/1/2
1621 (c)
Keyworth
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: William Broune for committing fornication
with An Gisborne, late of Keyworth.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1620-1621.
AN/PB 314/1/3
4.11.1620
Sutton Bonington (St Michael)
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Darathy wife of John Burton, Mary
wife of George Tayler, and Isabell wife of Michaell Sarson, for scolding
against each other.
Place name given as Sa't Michaeles in Sutton Bonington.
Written in another hand, 'em in 13 Januarij'.
AN/PB 314/1/4
1620 (c)
Hickling
Michaelmas 1620
Anonymous presentment of the following: Rich. Roe wrought at hay all Michaelmas
day, and his wife was likewise absent from morning and evening prayers;
Richard Roe and his wife were absent from morning and evening prayers
on 21 October and on Simon and Jude's day, from morning prayer on 28 October,
and from morning and evening prayer on 5 November; Anne, wife of Rich.
Roe, was absent from morning and evening prayer on 12 November; both were
absent from morning prayer on 26 November.
Writer identified as George Green, minister, from comparison with handwriting
of AN/PB 314/1/5.
Place name given as Hicklinge.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1620.
Written in another hand, 'em in 16 Decembris'.
AN/PB 314/1/5
28.11.1620
Hickling
Michaelmas 1620
Letter from Geo. Greene [curate] of Hickling, to Mr John Tibberd, Nottingham:
[top left hand portion of page missing] ... has sent a note of the misdemeanours
of two most ... people; the churchwardens will present them by their oaths
if they are called in, for they missed Greene being present to write them
down for them; warns not to let Mr Bardsey [parson of Hickling] or either
of the Hills know that Greene has given notice, for he is a 'notorious
theefe and very rich' and she an 'impudent whore and a male bate', and
nobody speaks to them except Willm Hill and Lawrence Hill; will not give
notice of any [misdeanours] again if Tibberd does not punish them well.
The parties in the licence were married at Kinnolton [Kinoulton] on 25
November last, by Mr Robinson; his name is Willm Francklyn and his wife
is Joane; he has continued in our town since Martlemas, and she lay in
the town for the two nights before they were married, which they will
not deny on their oaths; asks to be helped to any good place if Mr Purefoy,
Mr Aynsworth or Tibberd hears of one.
Place name given as Hicklinge.
AN/PB 314/1/6
2.12.1620
Plumtree
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Phillip Welche for not paying 16d
for two cessments towards the beautifying of our parish church.
Written in another hand, 'em in 16 Decembris'.
AN/PB 314/1/7
26.11.1620
Upper Broughton
Michaelmas 1620
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Broughton.
AN/PB 314/1/8
1620 (c)
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: we have the act of our thanksgiving
to God for our deliverance, and it was read on 5 November last, and all
other things belonging to our church are in good repair.
Place name given as Willowbye.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1620.
AN/PB 314/1/9
11.11.1620
Gotham
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Jane Robeards for being with child
before she was married.
Written in another hand, 'emt in [-] Decemb'.
AN/PB 314/1/10
11.11.1620
Widmerpool
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Ame Wid[m]erpoule and Darraty Morris
for not coming to the church.
Place name given as Wid[m]erpoulle.
AN/PB 314/1/11
10.11.1620
Bunny
Michaelmas 1620
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Bunney.
AN/PB 314/1/12
9.11.1620
Ruddington
Michaelmas 1620
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Ruddingtone.
AN/PB 314/1/13
18.11.1620
Stanford-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1620
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stanford.
AN/PB 314/1/14
22.10.1620
Scarrington
Michaelmas 1620
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/1/15
1620 (c)
Rempstone
Michaelmas 1620
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Rempston.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1620.
AN/PB 314/1/16
4.11.1620
Elton
Michaelmas 1620
Nothing to present.
Dated 4 November, no year; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas
1620.
AN/PB 314/1/17
4.11.1620
Radcliffe-on-Trent
Michaelmas 1620
Minister and churchwardens present the following: Philip Lorde Stanhop
for our chancel out of repair, which he has let to Mr Leemynge of Darbie
[Derby]; [added below in another hand:] George Richards is said to be
married, but the churchwardens do not know of any banns asked or lawful
licence obtained.
Place name given as Radcliffe super trent.
Written in another hand, 'emt in xviij Novembris'.
AN/PB 314/1/18
11.1620
Langar
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Marcer and Alice Pikitt for
fornication.
Place name given as Langer cum Barnston.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 18 Novemb'.
AN/PB 314/1/19
4.11.1620
Edwalton
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Sir Jhon Byron for letting the chancel
fall down in his time.
AN/PB 314/1/20
2.11.1620
Hawksworth
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Isabell Wymall, wife of Thomas Wymall,
for being with child before marriage.
Place name given as Hawkesworth.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 18 Nov'.
AN/PB 314/1/21
4.11.1620
Car Colston
Michaelmas 1620
Nothing to present.
Dated 4 November, no year; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas
1620.
AN/PB 314/1/22
4.11.1620
West Leake
Michaelmas 1620
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/1/23
4.11.1620
Screveton
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: our church steeple is not in repair,
and our church walls are not in very good repair; we are repairing our
steeple as fast as we can; our church walls are not as well repaired as
they should be because of the carrying of our stuff over and through them;
we desire to be pardoned in these two causes, as it is a good and charitable
work, and we shall heartily thank and pray for you.
Place name given as Screaton.
Dated 4 November, no year; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas
1620.
AN/PB 314/1/24
4.11.1620
Owthorpe
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Clement Hall alias Henson, and Alyce
Barlowe, for fornication.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 18 Novembris'.
AN/PB 314/1/25
4.11.1620
West Bridgford
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Henrie Cock, gent., for standing
excommunicate this half year and above; Henrie Beeson of Gamston for not
coming to his parish church for one whole year.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 18 Novemb'.
AN/PB 314/1/26
28.10.1620
Bingham
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Franses Wheatley upon a common fame
with his maid Elizabeth Shaw, for going to his maid's bed, by the report
of his wife; John Willcockes, woollen draper, and Mary Musson, daughter
of John Musson, for living one night together at Ratcliffe [Radcliffe-on-Trent?].
Written in another hand, 'emt in xviij Nov'.
AN/PB 314/1/27
27.10.1620
Kingston-on-Soar
Michaelmas 1620
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Kingston.
AN/PB 314/1/28
20.10.1620
Thrumpton
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: our church is in good repair, our
churchyard fenced, our minister conformable, never an alehouse in our
town, and so nothing to be presented.
AN/PB 314/1/29
21.10.1620
Granby
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: John Lonnge for fornication with
Margreat Northe.
Place name given as Granbie cum Suttonn.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 18 Nov'.
AN/PB 314/1/30
21.10.1620
East Leake
Michaelmas 1620
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/1/31
21.10.1620
Orston
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: the wife of Anthonie Fairebarne for
not coming to church.
AN/PB 314/1/32
21.10.1620
Kneeton
Michaelmas 1620
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/1/33
30.9.1620
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1620
One churchwarden presents the following: Joane Hoe, wife of Thomas Hoe,
for the common fame that she has committed adultery with Laurence Eldershawe
of Keaworthe [Keyworth].
Place name given as Stanton.
Written in another hand, 'em in 21 8bris'.
AN/PB 314/1/34
30.9.1620
Keyworth
Michaelmas 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Laurance Eldershawe for the common
fame that he has committed adultery with Joane Hoe of Stanton [Stanton-on-the-Wolds].
Place name given as Keaworthe.
Written in another hand, 'em in 21 8bris'.
AN/PB 314/1/35
24.6.1620
Hickling
Easter 1620
Clerk and churchwardens present the following: Richard Knutton for interrupting
the minister in sermon time on 4 June, Whitsunday; John Musson junior
for a fame of incontinency with Jane Waze, wife of Thomas Waze; Charles
Collington for a fame of incontinency with the said Jane Waze.
Place name given as Hicklinge.
Written in another hand, 'em 15 Julij'.
AN/PB 314/1/36
1620 (c)
Screveton
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: our steeple is at this time under
the hands of the workmen; we trust, if God permits, to finish it before
Lammas; the churchyard cannot be fenced until the steeple is finished;
our bells cannot be in good repair before the steeple is finished; Willm
Tailbee has ground corn on the Sabbath day; Rich[a]rd Baker has intermeddled
with the goods of his mother in law without authority from the ordinary.
No churchwardens' names given.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1620.
Written in another hand, 'emt in primum Julij'.
AN/PB 314/1/37
25.5.1620
Epperstone
Easter 1620
Rector and churchwardens certify the following: part of the wall of the
churchyard, which was in decay and presented at the last visitation, is
now sufficiently repaired.
Place name given as Eperston.
Found misplaced in bundle of churchwardens' presentment bills from Bingham
deanery.
AN/PB 314/1/38
19.4.1620
Whatton
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Frannces Crosland for detaining a
promised benevolence towards the new casting and repairing of our bells;
Richard Bell for detaining a promised benevolence to the use aforesaid,
and for not receiving the communion last Easter; Jarvaise Smithe for standing
excommunicate ever since the last visitation; Robert Crosley for not giving
up an account to the town when he was churchwarden.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 17 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/1/39
1620 (c)
Tollerton
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: John Pendocke for not receiving [communion]
last Easter; Fraincis [his] wife for the same; Gervise Richman for the
same; Richard Haworth for the same.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1620.
AN/PB 314/1/40
1620 (c)
Langar
Easter 1620
[Parson] and churchwardens present the following: William Wollowton for
committing adultery [altered to 'fornication'] with Fales Prisson; Margret
Symon for the same offence; Peter Sleght of Barnston for the same offence;
Ellin Blagg of Barnston for committing fornication; [added in another
hand at the end of the presentment:] memorandum that Richard Mercer and
his wife of the parish of Langar have committed fornication before marriage.
Place name given as Langer and Barnston.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1620.
Written in another hand next to the names of Fales Prisson and Margret
Symon, which are linked together, 'emt in 1 Julij'.
AN/PB 314/1/41
1620 (c)
Upper Broughton
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: John Warde and Elizabethe Olldfeilde
for committing the sinful crime of fornication; Johanne Mason for not
receiving the holy communion last Easter.
Place name given as Broughton.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1620.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 1 Julij'.
AN/PB 314/1/42
19.4.1620
Wilford
Easter 1620
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/1/43
19.4.1620
Flintham
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Izabell wife of John Frier for not
receiving the communion with us at Flintham last Easter; Elizabeth Cropwell
for the like offence; Katherine Lun, who by common fame in our town and
the country about us, is said to live in common adultery.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 1 Julij'.
AN/PB 314/1/44
1620
Sneinton
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Twinberey of the town of Nottingham,
blacksmith, for brawling in the church on the Sabbath day with Joh Bonney,
churchwarden; Margrete wife of John Jackes for disturbing the parish in
time of divine service; the chancel, for not being in good repair.
Place name given as Snentone.
No date given; found misplaced in bundle of presentment bills from Bingham
deanery.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 1 Julij'.
AN/PB 314/1/45
19.4.1620
Sutton Bonington (St Anne)
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Elizabeth Bosworth for committing
fornication with Willam Ladson.
Place name given as St Annes in Suttonabonnington.
AN/PB 314/1/46
19.4.1620
Stanford-upon-Soar
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Mr Nicholas Clarke our minister,
for the chancel being forth of repair in his default.
Place name given as Stanford.
AN/PB 314/1/47
19.4.1620
Cotgrave
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: William Selbie of Clipston in the
parish of Plumtree, and Elizabeth his wife of Cotgraue for committing
fornication before marriage; Andrew Moreley of Little Cropwell [Cropwell
Butler] and Margaret Moreley his wife of Codgraue, for the common fame
that they committed fornication together before they were married.
Place name given as Cotgraue.
Written in another hand, 'em in 15 Julij'.
AN/PB 314/1/48
1620 (c)
Sutton Bonington (St Michael)
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: William Peake and Elizabeth Peake
his wife for incest, she being his former wife's daughter; the said William
Peake has married her.
Place name given as St Michaells in Sutton Bonnington.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1620.
Written in another hand, 'em in 17 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/1/49
19.4.1620
Kneeton
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Alles Stompe for being with child,
we know not with whom; she will not confess who is the father of the child.
Place name given as Knetton on the hill.
Written in another hand, 'em in 17 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/1/50
19.4.1620
Shelford
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: our churchyard wall is forth of repair,
and we would desire to be given a time for the repair of the same, until
Whitsunday next.
Written in another hand, 'A penticoste [signed by] Mich[ael] P[uref]ey',
and in another hand, 'cert. de reparacionem eiusdem'.
AN/PB 314/1/51
19.4.1620
Widmerpool
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Amemiee Widmerpoole for a recusant,
and Dorothi Morriss for the same.
Place name given as Widmerpoole.
Written in another hand, 'em in 17 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/1/52
19.4.1620
Costock
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Mr Marke Wyersdale, our minister,
and James Strainge for chiding in the church about a fortnight ago.
Place name given as Cortlingstocke.
AN/PB 314/1/53
19.4.1620
Radcliffe-on-Trent
Easter 1620
Churchwardens and swornmen present the following: Mr Leemynge, the farmer
of our parsonage, for not repairing our chancel; it is between my Lorde
Stanhop and him, and my Lorde has been made acquainted with it, and he
says he is free therein; Mr Richard Palmer for not receiving [communion]
within Ratcliffe last Easter.
Place name given as Ratcliffe super trent.
Written in another hand, 'em in 17 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/1/54
19.4.1620
Tithby
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Robert Wallis for a common fame of
fornication with Anne Hoppweell [of Owthorpe; see AN/PB 314/1/60] before
he married her.
Place name given as Tythbie.
Written in another hand, 'em in 17 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/1/55
19.4.1620
Ratcliffe-upon-Soar
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: the inhabitants of Thrumton [Thrumpton]
and Kinston [Kingston-on-Soar] for not repairing the church of Ratlife.
Place name given as Ratlife.
AN/PB 314/1/56
19.4.1620
Colston Bassett
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Mr Thomas Taylor and his wife for
not receiving the communion at our parish church last Easter.
Written in another hand, 'dim'.
AN/PB 314/1/57
1620 (c)
Rempstone
Easter 1620
Swornmen and churchwardens present the following: we do not have a box
with locks and keys to put the alms in, but this is because the box has
been broken, our church standing half a mile or thereabouts from the town,
and so for more safety we have a chest with locks standing at the parsonage
house; we have had two or three graves made very lately in the church,
which are not yet covered and paved again, because if it was done so suddenly,
they would fall in again and sink and so put us to a double charge; our
minister is conformable; we have the holy communion ministered every quarter
of the year; the churchwardens of the last year have made their account;
all of our parish received last Easter.
Place name given as Remstone.
AN/PB 314/1/58
19.4.1620
Keyworth
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Greaves for being absent
from the church for six months.
Place name partially obscured by damage; '[-]rth' can be read.
Written in another hand, 'em in 15 Julij'.
AN/PB 314/1/59
19.4.1620
Normanton-upon-Soar
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Fraunces Dutton and Margaret his
wife for fornication before marriage; Elizabeth Burbidge for a fame that
she has committed adultery with Robert Leaper, who is now of Gotham; Richard
Haithwaie for not receiving the holy communion last Easter.
Place name given as Normanton super Sore.
Written in another hand next to Fraunces Dutton's presentment, 'prius
vocat', and at the end of the presentment bill, 'em in 27 Maij'.
AN/PB 314/1/60
19.4.1620
Owthorpe
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Anne Wallis for fornication before
marriage with one [blank] Wallis of Cropwell Butler [Robert; see AN/PB
314/1/54].
Written in another hand, 'em in 17 Junj'.
AN/PB 314/1/61
19.4.1620
Bingham
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Anne Pacy for committing fornication
with Rob. Bush; Alice Simpson for committing fornication with Will. Bowrrin.
Written in another hand, 'em in 17 Junj'.
AN/PB 314/1/62
19.4.1620
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Mary Garton for committing fornication
with Willm Gowleder of Dalbie in Leic. [Dalby in Leicestershire]; Thomas
Knighte for having carnal knowledge with his wife before marriage.
Place name given as Willoughby.
Written in another hand, 'em in 15 Julij'.
AN/PB 314/1/63
19.4.1620
Bunny
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Roberte Cartwrighte and Alice his
wife for being married without banns or licence to our knowledge; Fraunces
Robbinson and Anne Clarke for suspicion of incontinency together, as the
common fame goes; Widdow Orridge for harbouring the said Fraunces and
Anne at unconvenient times.
Place name given as Bunney.
Written in another hand, 'em in 27 Maij'.
AN/PB 314/1/64
19.4.1620
Thoroton
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: our church or chapel is in decay,
and we crave a time for its repair.
Written in another hand, 'em in 27 Maij'.
AN/PB 314/1/65
19.4.1620-23.4.1620
Ruddington
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: [19 April 1620] nothing to present;
[added later] William Hutchinson for striking Edward Robinsone in the
chapel [on] 23 April 1620.
Place name given as Ruddingtone.
Written in another hand, 'em in 27 Maij'.
AN/PB 314/1/66
19.4.1620
Scarrington
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Ales Asslenn and Richard Tomsonn
for fornication; Ales Hill for the like.
Written in another hand, 'em in 13 Maij'.
Written on the back, upside down, title for bundle: 'Detect 1620 Nottingham
and Bingham'.
AN/PB 314/1/67
19.4.1620
Granby
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Henry Hardowe for fornication with
Elizabeth Blagge; Anne Flower for fornication with Peter Sleight.
Place name given as Granbie cum Sutton.
Written in another hand, 'em in 13 Maij'.
AN/PB 314/1/68
1620 (c)
Car Colston
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: John Ball and Joane Foster, widow,
for not receiving the holy sacrament last Easter.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1620.
Written in another hand, 'em in 13 Maij'.
AN/PB 314/1/69
19.4.1620
Orston
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: M'ris Ane Fairburne, wife of Anthony
Faireburne, gent., for not coming to the church; Isabell Warren, servant
to the said Anthony Faireburne, gent., upon a fame to be gotten with child;
John Hanle of Orston, victualler, for keeping people in his house in the
time of divine prayers on 23 January last, the third Sunday after Epiphany.
Written in another hand, 'em in 13 Maij'.
AN/PB 314/1/70
19.4.1620
Holme Pierrepont
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Frances Ward and Marie More for living
in adultery according to the common fame in divers places in the town.
Place name given as Houmeperponte.
Written in another hand, 'em in prima sessione'.
AN/PB 314/1/71
19.4.1620
Clifton
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Francis Wallis of Garbarthorpe in
the parish of Cliftone, for denying to pay a lay made on 13 June 1619
for the repair of the parish church; the said Francis Wallis, and Gervase
Thorpe of Garbarthorpe, for receiving [communion] at their own parish
church only once in this last year.
Place name given as Cliftone.
Written in another hand, 'em in prima sessione'.
AN/PB 314/1/72
19.4.1620
West Bridgford
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Henrie Cake for standing excommunicate
since 20 November 1619; his daughter-in-law [step-daughter] Bridget Butler
for not receiving [communion] last Easter; Henrie Beeston of Gamston for
not coming to his parish church any time this half year.
Written in another hand, 'emt in prima sessione'.
AN/PB 314/1/73
9.5.1620
Orston
Easter 1620
Letter from Arthur Hargrave [vicar], Orston, Nottinghamshire, to Mr [John]
Tibberd:
It has pleased God to visit him in grievous manner with gout; is not able
to go to Orston church or chapel so cannot get any Easter duties; there
are some 50 householders to pay; if Tibberd will show him the favour of
letting him have a 'queram nominare', he will send all their names; has
given notice to 'Mr Officiall' concerning one church wall and fence, but
they lie down still; every man knows his part, but few make them according
to the canons; prays that the churchwardens may be called in before Mr
Purephey.
AN/PB 314/1/74
1620 (c)
Hawksworth
Easter 1620
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Hawxwourth.
AN/PB 314/1/75
19.4.1620
Thrumpton
Easter 1620
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Thrumton.
AN/PB 314/1/76
19.4.1620
Gotham
Easter 1620
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/1/77
19.4.1620
East Bridgford
Easter 1620
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/1/78
19.4.1620
Hickling
Easter 1620
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Hicklenn.
AN/PB 314/1/79
19.4.1620
Wysall
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: Houmphray Hickingebothom for fornication
with Mary Scolles.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Place name given as Wissalle.
Written in another hand, 'prius dismisse ut patet'.
AN/PB 314/1/80
19.4.1620
Elton
Easter 1620
Churchwardens present the following: we have lately built the north side
of our church, and it is not yet beautified within; we crave that we may
have time until Michaelmas to do it.
Written in another hand, 'ontill lammas [signed] MP [Michael Purefey]'.
AN/PB 314/1/81
19.4.1620
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
Easter 1620
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stanton.
11.4.1621-28.7.1621
Easter 1621
Churchwarden presentment bills, formerly in an original bundle; Bingham
deanery, Easter 1621
For a presentment bill from Adbolton parish, April 1621, misplaced in
another bundle, see AN/PB 302/101.
AN/PB 314/2/1/1
1621
Easter 1621 and Michaelmas 1621
Tag for bundle of churchwardens' presentment bills, 'Decret infra Decanatum
de Bingham Anno dni 1621'.
AN/PB 314/2/1/2
11.4.1621
Scarrington
Easter 1621
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/2/2
11.4.1621
Barton in Fabis
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Mr Ralphe Hannesbie our minister
for suffering the chancel windows to be ruinous in his default; Sisley
Harrison, widow, for not paying 6s 8d due to be paid to the churchwardens
on behalf of the church; Thomas Dore and Alice his wife for fornication
before marriage.
Place name given as Barton.
Written in another hand, 'em in 19 Maij'.
AN/PB 314/2/3
11.4.1621
Granby
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: we have made provision of timber
for repairing our church, and will finish the same with as much speed
as may be; George Hall of Hawton, labourer, and Katheren Squier of Granbie
fo fornication.
Place name given as Granbie cum Sutten.
Written in another hand, 'em in 5 Maij'.
AN/PB 314/2/4
11.4.1621
Colston Bassett
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Elizabeth Taylor, wife of Mr Tho.
Taylor, for not receiving the holy communion last Easter.
Written in another hand, 'em in ult Junij'.
AN/PB 314/2/5
11.4.1621
Thrumpton
Easter 1621
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/2/6
11.4.1621
Ratcliffe-upon-Soar
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Kinston [inhabitants of Kingston-on-Soar]
and Thrumpton [inhabitants] for want of repair to the church.
Place name given as Ratlife upon the Sore.
AN/PB 314/2/7
11.4.1621
Normanton-upon-Soar
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: William Morrice for attempting the
chastity of Alice Robertes, and for attempting the chastity of Anne Toone
of Stanford [Stanford-upon-Soar], as the common fame goes; Adrian Towle
for allowing company to drink in his house on a Sabbath day in evening
prayer time about a fortnight before Lammas; Andrue, servant to Luke Trees,
for not receiving the communion last Easter; Robert Pillinges for chiding
and brawling with George Tomson in the church; Katherine Sarson for not
receiving the holy communion last Easter.
Place name given as Normanton super Sore.
Written in another hand, 'em in 19 Maii'.
AN/PB 314/2/8
11.4.1621
Edwalton
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Sir John Byron, knight, for suffering
our chancel to fall down.
AN/PB 314/2/9
11.4.1621
Costock
Easter 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Cortlingstock.
AN/PB 314/2/10
11.4.1621
Kneeton
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Dorothie Darbeshier for fornication
with a stranger whose name we do not know [crossed out, 'George Woolhouse'
added above].
Written in another hand, 'em in 5 Maii'.
AN/PB 314/2/11
11.4.1621
Kingston-on-Soar
Easter 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Kinston.
AN/PB 314/2/12
11.4.1621
Widmerpool
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Mris Amye Widmorpoule, being a recusant;
Darrythie Morris her maid for the same; Willam Smallewood for fornication
before marriage.
Place name given as Widmorpoule.
Written in another hand, 'prius vocat'.
AN/PB 314/2/13
11.4.1621
Orston
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Mrs Anne Fairbarne for not coming
to church.
AN/PB 314/2/14
11.4.1621
Stanford-upon-Soar
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Marie Tomson for being brought to
bed of a child suspected to be got in fornication.
Place name given as Stanford.
Written in another hand, 'em in 19 Maii'.
AN/PB 314/2/15
11.4.1621
Bunny
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: John Eglinston, servant to Mr Nixon
of Bradmore, for not receiving the communion last Easter.
Place name given as Bonnay.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 19 Maii'.
AN/PB 314/2/16
11.4.1621
Bingham
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Bryan Wheatley, son of Bryan Wheatley,
husbandman, for committing fornication with Mary Sleight; John Lees, son
of John Lees, for committing fornication with Katherne Walker; Katherne
Ansley for incontinency with Thomas Lam.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 5 Maii'.
AN/PB 314/2/17
11.4.1621
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
Easter 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stanton.
AN/PB 314/2/18
11.4.1621
West Leake
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Emmit Robardes for committing fornication,
with we know not whom.
Place name given as Weste Leake.
Written in another hand, 'em in 19 Maii'.
AN/PB 314/2/19
11.4.1621
Whatton
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Lambe for incontinency with
Katherine Anseley.
Written in another hand, 'prius vocat'.
AN/PB 314/2/20
11.4.1621
Keyworth
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: whereas William Swift had a 'mat'
in his hand, John Sellwell brought it out of his hand in jest and threw
it, whereupon William Swift punched John Sewell on the shins, and the
said John Sewell to keep him from punching him offered his hand to put
him back, which happened to light on his nose and made it bleed.
Written in another hand, 'John Sewell is dismissed, apparitori 6d, pd'.
AN/PB 314/2/21
11.4.1621
Wilford
Easter 1621
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/2/22
11.4.1621
Elton
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: our chancel is unpaved and we would
desire to be given a time until next Lammas.
Written in another hand, 'habent ad reparand citra primum Augusti prox
et ad cert die Sabati tunc sequen etc', and in a further hand, 'cert'.
Payment of 6 recorded.
AN/PB 314/2/23
11.4.1621
Hickling
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: our church is out of repair; a beam
in the south aisle has falled down and remains underpropped; the whole
church walls want whiting and painting; as these reparations were such
as could not be performed in the winter, we humbly crave further time
to be assigned and granted us.
Place name given as Hicklinge.
Written in another hand, 'habent ad reparand citra primum Augusti prox
et ad cert die Sabati tunc sequen etc'.
Payment of 6 recorded.
AN/PB 314/2/24
11.4.1621
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Alice Garton for suffering her daughter
Marie Garton, who was a fornicator with William Goulder [of Dalby Wolds,
Leicestershire; see AN/PB 314/1/62], to depart unpunished; William Soer
for not receiving the holy communion at our church last Easter; because
of the greatness of the wind, our chancel is somewhat ruinous, therefore
we would desire to be given time to amend the same, until the feast of
St Michael the Archangel.
Place name given as Willoughbie on the Wouldes.
Written in another hand, 'habent ad reparand decass citra festum Mich.
et ad cert die Sabti tunc sequen'.
Payment of 6 recorded.
AN/PB 314/2/25
11.4.1621
Wysall
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Mercer and Jane Roberts for
fornication before matrimony; they have been called into the courts already
for it, as we are certified.
Place name given as Wyshall.
Written in another hand, 'prius dim'.
AN/PB 314/2/26
11.4.1621
Sutton Bonington (St Anne)
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Humfrie Hooton for leaping upon the
communion table in the chancel and breaking it.
Place name given as St Annes in Sutton bonnington.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 19 Maii'.
AN/PB 314/2/27
1621 (c)
Screveton
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: our steeple is not yet sufficiently
repaired although we have been at great charges for it; it would have
been performed this last year if Christopher Gascoine of Nott[ingham],
mason, had performed his promise which he was tied to by bond; our churchyard
fence cannot be repaired until the steeple is finished.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1621.
AN/PB 314/2/28
11.4.1621
Gotham
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: William Whitehead and Barbara his
wife for standing excommunicate; Jane Vainsor, wife of Robert, for striking
a woman in the churchyard; William Spenser and William Smalewood, two
aged persons, who being unable to stir abroad, did not receive communion
last Easter; they sent to our minister to desire him to come to them,
but he refused to come to minister the communion to them.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 16 Junij', but written next to Jane Vainsor's
presentment, 'emt in 2 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/2/29
11.4.1621
Tithby
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: John Browne, late of Cropwell Butler,
for fornication with Mary Whaley of the same; the chancel is out of repair,
but there is provision of limestone and other things for repairing it,
and we desire Michaelmas twelvemonth for the finishing of the work.
Place name given as Titheby.
Written in another hand, 'habent ad reparand citra Mich. prox. 6d', and
'emt in 26 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/2/30
11.4.1621
Ruddington
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Sir John Byron, knight, for not keeping
the chancel in repair; William Mattershawe and Jane his wife for committing
fornication before the solemnizing of their marriage; Richard Chaddocke
for not receiving the communion at our parish church.
Place name given as Ruddingtone.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 2 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/2/31
11.4.1621
Clifton
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Frances Wallis of Gargathorpe in
the parish of Clifftone for not paying a lay made on 2 June 1620 after
the rate of 8d per oxgang of land, totalling 4s 8d; the same Frances Wallis
for not paying another lay made on 16 July 1620 after the rate of 6d per
oxgang, total 3s 6d; the same Frances Wallis for not paying another lay
made on 17 March 1620 [Old Style] after the rate of 4d per oxgang, total
2s 4d; Gervase Thorpe for not paying the lay made on 2 June 1620, total
3s 4d; the same Gervase Thorpe for not paying the lay made on 16 July
1620, total 2s 6d; the same Gervase Thorpe for not paying the lay made
on 17 March 1620, total 20d; Mr Bacon for going on perambulation for only
one day.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Place name given as Clifftone.
AN/PB 314/2/32
11.4.1621
Sutton Bonington (St Michael)
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: William Peake and his wife for being
excommunicated persons; Thomas Bond for not receiving the holy sacrament
last Easter; Thomas Stronge for not receiving the holy sacrament last
Easter; Thomas Lees for absenting himself from the church some Sabbath
days.
Place name given as St Michaells in bunington.
Written in another hand above the names of Thomas Stronge and Thomas Lees,
'stet'; written in another hand at the end of the presentment bill, 'emt
in 19 Maij'.
Payment of '8d appar' [to the apparitor] recorded next to Thomas Stronge
and Thomas Lees' presentments.
AN/PB 314/2/33
11.4.1621
Shelford
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Edward Woodhouse for fornication
with Alice Bushe; the aforesaid Alice Bushe for fornication with the said
Edward Woodhouse.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 2 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/2/34
21.4.1621
Upper Broughton
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: John Gervis for swearing in the chancel,
and, being reproved for the same by Mr Colebrand our minister, for giving
undecent speeches to him in the same place and at the same time.
Place name given as Broughton.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 2 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/2/35
1621 (c)
Rempstone
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: our church Bible of the greatest
volume is defective in 'Ganysesse' [Genesis]; two or three chapters are
wanting, which was found in the reading at Easter; we entreat to be given
time, until Michaelmas, and in the meantime we shall 'sharch' [search
for?] the chapters and put them in order.
Place name given as Remston.
Date given is 1620, referring to the previous year; found in bundle of
presentment bills from Easter 1621.
Written in another hand, 'habent ad reparand citra festum Scti Jo. Babtista
prox et ad cert die Sabti tunc sequen'.
AN/PB 314/2/36
11.4.1621
Cotgrave
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: William Hall alias Henson for not
receiving the holy communion last Easter.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 2 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/2/37
21.4.1621
Holme Pierrepont
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Henson, miller, for grinding
corn on Sunday 25 March and many other Sundays besides; [blank] Steele
of Lambcot in the parish of Holme, and [blank] his wife for absenting
themselves from our parish church on Sundays and holy days many times
within these last twelve months; Thomas Marshall, Tho. Pilkington and
Robert Hallam for absenting themselves often times from their parish church,
and for counting cattle in evening prayer time on Sunday 25 March; John
Walker for counting cattle on the same day and time; our church leads
are somewhat in decay, and we desire to have time to mend them, until
next Lammas.
Place name given as Holme Pierpoint.
Written in another hand, 'habent ad reparand citra primum Augusti px et
ad cert Sabti tunc px sequen, 6d, J.T. [John Tibberd]', and 'emt'.
AN/PB 314/2/38
15.4.1621
Radcliffe-on-Trent
Easter 1621
Minister, churchwardens and swornmen present the following: the Lorde
Philip Stanhope for not sending us someone to preach our quarter sermons.
Place name given as Ratcliff super trent.
AN/PB 314/2/39
11.4.1621
Thoroton
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Edward Barkas, late servant of John
Salter of Thoroton, for unlawfully begetting Elizabeth his wife with child
before marriage; Robt Machin for being publicly defamed to have had carnal
knowledge with Grace Salter, wife of John Salter aforesaid; John Mawer
for not receiving the holy communion three times in the last year; the
workmen have not fully finished the repair of the church, and we crave
a little longer time for the same.
Written in another hand, 'habent ad cert citra Mich. et ad cert Sab tunc
sequen', and 'emt in ult Junij'.
AN/PB 314/2/40
20.4.1621
West Bridgford
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Henrie Beeson of Gamston for not
coming to his parish church these twelve months; the reason is not religion,
but for fear of an execution [of a writ or warrant].
AN/PB 314/2/41
11.4.1621
East Bridgford
Easter 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Est Bridgforth.
AN/PB 314/2/42
28.4.1621
Plumtree
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Margaret Tayles for being brought
to bed of a child begotten in fornication, but with whom we know not;
Marie Mason for fornication, with whom we know not.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 2 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/2/43
11.4.1621
Hawksworth
Easter 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Hawxwourth.
AN/PB 314/2/44
27.4.1621
Langar
Easter 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Langer cum Barnston.
AN/PB 314/2/45
1621 (c)
Car Colston
Easter 1621
Nothing to present.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1621.
AN/PB 314/2/46
11.4.1621
Tollerton
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Geruase Richmond has for the last
eight years wrongfully detained and kept in his hands four pieces of meadow
ground worth 50 shillings per year for letting, totalling £20 for
the whole eight years; this £20 and the grounds should by right
be employed by the churchwardens for the repairing of the church and other
charitable uses; the said Geruase refuses to deliver the money and grounds
up to the churchwardens.
Place name given as Tolerton.
AN/PB 314/2/47
18.5.1621
Normanton-upon-Soar
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Johnson, servant to John
Merrill and Christopher Northe, for the common fame that he committed
fornication with his now wife before he married her.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Place name given as Normanton super Sore.
Written in another hand, 'emt'.
AN/PB 314/2/48
1621 (c)
Owthorpe
Easter 1621
Nothing to present.
Dated 'this present yeare 1620'; but found in bundle of churchwardens'
presentment bills from Easter 1621.
AN/PB 314/2/49
23.6.1621
Tithby
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Andrue Hunter and Marie his wife
for committing fornication before marriage; John Browne and Marie Whaley
of Cropwell Butler for the common fame that they have committed fornication.
Place name given as Teethbie.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 30 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/2/50
28.7.1621
Keyworth
Easter 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Robert Harte and Joane his wife for
fornication before marriage, as the common fame goes; the churchyard is
not sufficiently repaired in fences, by the town's default.
Written in another hand, 'ad certificand citra crastinum Scti Matthei
Apli prox', and 'cert'.
1.10.1621-28.3.1622
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwarden presentment bills, formerly in an original bundle; Bingham
deanery, Michaelmas 1621
For a presentment bill from Barton in Fabis parish, misplaced in a bundle
of bills from Nottingham deanery, see AN/PB/302/154.
AN/PB 314/2/51
6.10.1621
West Bridgford
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Henrie Beeston of Gamston for not
coming to his parish church these twelve months; his cause is not recusancy
as we think, but fear of his creditors; we have nothing else to present,
because when any offence is committed we instantly present it.
AN/PB 314/2/52
1.10.1621
Tithby
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: our chancel is out of repair in the
default of Mr John Chaworth of Southwell, who is owner of the tithes in
Cropwell Butler, and of the lady Anne Cope of Bruerne in the county of
Oxford who has provided coals and some stone for lime and walling towards
the repair of it.
Place name given as Titheby.
AN/PB 314/2/53
1.10.1621
East Leake
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Este Leake.
AN/PB 314/2/54
27.10.1621
Widmerpool
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Darrythe Morris for not coming to
church these twelve years; we think her to be a recusant.
Place name given as Widmorpoule.
AN/PB 314/2/55
27.10.1621
Granby
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Granbye.
AN/PB 314/2/56
27.10.1621
West Leake
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Phillip Dunkerley for being with
child, by whom we know not.
Place name given as Weste Leayke.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 8 Decembris'.
AN/PB 314/2/57
27.10.1621
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Willabye.
AN/PB 314/2/58
27.10.1621
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stantton of the Wouldes.
AN/PB 314/2/59
27.10.1621
Elton
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
Anonymous: no churchwardens or any other names given.
AN/PB 314/2/60
27.10.1621
Hickling
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Dafte senior for not coming
to the church according to the institution of the canons; Thomas Dafte
junior and Robert Dafte his brother, sons of George Dafte, deceased, for
refusing to pay the parish clerk his wages according to ancient custom;
the said Robert Dafte for not paying a sum of 10 shillings which was given
by his late father George Dafte, by his last will and testament, for the
repair of the church; Robert Dafte was one of the executors and the said
10 shillings has been oftentimes demanded from him in friendly manner.
Place name given as Hicklinge.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 24 Nouembris'.
AN/PB 314/2/61
27.10.1621
Keyworth
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/2/62
22.10.1621
Clifton
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/2/63
27.10.1621
Bunny
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: George Bate of Bradmore for getting
a child before marriage with Anne Dickinson.
Place name given as Bonnaye.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 19 Januarij'.
AN/PB 314/2/64
27.10.1621
Sutton Bonington (St Anne)
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Sente Annes in Sutton.
AN/PB 314/2/65
27.10.1621
Whatton
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Lambe for getting Francis
Wallis with child; Garvis Smyth for not coming to the church this quarter
of a year at least.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 24 Nouembris'.
AN/PB 314/2/66
27.10.1621
Scarrington
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Skarington.
AN/PB 314/2/67
27.10.1621
East Bridgford
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Eayste Brigforth.
AN/PB 314/2/68
27.10.1621
Ruddington
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Jarvas Mansfield for baking on the
Sabbath day.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 10 No'.
AN/PB 314/2/69
27.10.1621
Screveton
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Screaton.
AN/PB 314/2/70
1621 (c)
Costock
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
Presentment bill headed 'The Church Wardens', but no churchwardens' names
given.
Place name given as Costicke.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1621.
AN/PB 314/2/71
27.10.1621
Flintham
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Stevenson for refusing to
pay his lay demanded from him by the churchwardens; [added in another
hand:] memorandum that Thomas Smith of Flintham struck Richard Picot in
the churchyard about a month ago.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 24 Nouembris'.
AN/PB 314/2/72
27.10.1621
Owthorpe
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/2/73
27.10.1621
Edwalton
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Edhoulton.
AN/PB 314/2/74
1621 (c)
Thrumpton
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1621.
AN/PB 314/2/75
27.10.1621
Car Colston
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/2/76
27.10.1621
Ratcliffe-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: the church of Ratcliffe for being
in decay, in the default of Kingston and Thrumpton [chapelries].
Place name given as Ratcliffe upon Soare.
AN/PB 314/2/77
27.10.1621
Hawksworth
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Hawxwourth.
AN/PB 314/2/78
27.10.1621
Rempstone
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Rempston.
AN/PB 314/2/79
27.10.1621
Kingston-on-Soar
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Kingston.
AN/PB 314/2/80
22.10.1621
Gotham
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/2/81
27.10.1621
Thoroton
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/2/82
22.10.1621
Adbolton
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/2/83
27.10.1621
Bingham
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Cristopher, a tailor who chanced
into our town to work for a certain season, and Elezabeth Gunthorpe, for
committing fornication together.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 10 No.'
AN/PB 314/2/84
27.10.1621
Shelford
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: John Warde and Ann Heefeelde for
fornication.
Place name given as Shelforde.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 19 Januarij'.
AN/PB 314/2/85
27.10.1621
Normanton-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: John Newton for turning hay in prayer
time on the Sabbath day.
Place name given as Normanton uppon Sore.
AN/PB 314/2/86
27.10.1621
Kneeton
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/2/87
27.10.1621
Stanford-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Mr Nicholas Clarke for his chancel
being forth of repair; John Marson for suffering evil company in his house
in evening prayer time on the Sabbath day; Fransis Bate for drinking and
swaggering on the Sabbath day in evening prayer time; Tristram Silcooke
for being in the alehouse in evening prayer time on the Sabbath day; Richarde
Tayler for being in the alehouse in evening prayer time on the Sabbath
day.
Place name given as Stanford.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 10 No.'
AN/PB 314/2/88
3.11.1621
Orston
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Marmaduke [space for surname left
blank] for committing fornication with Margaret Greeneleafe as the common
fame goes; Mr Hughe Kerchevall for absenting himself from our parish church
these three months at the least.
Place name given as Orstone.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 24 Nouembris'.
AN/PB 314/2/89
10.11.1621
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Laurance Cowper and Marie Garton
for committing fornication together.
Place name given as Willoughbie.
AN/PB 314/2/90
27.10.1621
Wilford
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/2/91
1621 (c)
Holme Pierrepont
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1621.
AN/PB 314/2/92
10.11.1621
Tollerton
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: the church porch and church door
for being out of repair; John Pare, clerk, for letting the tithe barn
go down and not repairing it.
Written in another hand, 'h'ent ad reparand et ad cert Sab pt Epiphanum',
and in a further hand, 'cert de reparacionem eiusdem'.
AN/PB 314/2/93
17.11.1621
Sutton Bonington (St Michael)
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Vinsonne for fornication
with his wife before marriage; Edward Hancocke and Jane Clarke for fornication;
William Peake and his wife for living as excommunicate persons; Mary Shaw,
wife of Martin Shaw, for raising scandals concerning the dead, who were
well known as honest and sufficient people.
Written in another hand, 'em in 8 Decembris'.
AN/PB 314/2/94
17.11.1621
Plumtree
Michaelmas 1621
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/2/95
24.11.1621
Orston
Michaelmas 1621
One churchwarden presents the following: John Milnes for misbehaviour
in the church, and striking the said churchwarden in the church porch.
Place name given as Orson.
AN/PB 314/2/96
11.1.1622
Hickling
Michaelmas 1621
Letter from Edw. Cooper [curate] of Hickling, to Mr Tibberd:
Reports that Thomas Gesson has brought [back] the book he was presented
for [see AN/PB 314/2/98], but the bearer can testify in what manner he
took the book out of the church chest; bearer will affirm that he did
not lend the book, but that Gesson took it out of the chest when he was
busy in providing for a communion; Cooper and the churchwardens are agreed
that the word 'lend' can be altered in the former presentment; they presented
less than the truth because at the time they did not know the whole truth;
the bearer John Rawlinson can testify that he demanded the book from him
for his own private reading, and that though Gesson had restored it, he
did it in contempt.
He does these things against Cooper undeservedly and is set on by others
who also malice Cooper undeservedly; Ralinson can also testify how Gesson
laughed aloud and molested Cooper in time of divine service on New Year's
Day at evening prayer; asks that if the oaths of Cooper and Rawlinson
will stand good, this fame of disorder and misdemeanour in the church
be added into the presentment; neither Mr Bardsey [parson of Hickling]
nor Cooper want two separate presentments, but would like these things
to aggravate the other [existing] presentment.
Place name given as Hicklin.
Dated 11 January 1621 [Old Style].
AN/PB 314/2/97
1622 (c)
Hickling
Michaelmas 1621
Anonymous presentment of the following: Thomas Jesson took the book of
the Defence of the Apology of the Church of England out of the chest in
the chancel on Christmas Day last, at such time as the parish clerk was
busy about bread and wine for communion, saying that he would use the
said book in prayer time and that he would restore the same again; but
when the book was demanded from him by the parish clerk, he said that
he had taken it away and would keep it a week; he kept the book from Christmas
Day at morning prayer until twelfth day at evening prayer, so that the
minister could not have the book for his own private use; also he talked
and laughed in prayer time on New Year's Day.
Place name given as Hicklinge.
Dated '1621' only [Old Style]; found in bundle of presentment bills from
Michaelmas 1621-1622.
AN/PB 314/2/98
4.1.1622
Hickling
Michaelmas 1621
Minister and churchwardens present the following: Thomas Gesson for carrying
out of the church, at morning prayer on the feast of the Nativity of our
Saviour Christ, a book called The Apologie of the Church of England; he
took the book away without any of our consents and without our knowledge
of it; when the book was demanded from him at evening prayer on the same
day by John Rawlinson the parish clerk, who had lent him the said book
to read in morning prayer only, the said Thomas refused to bring it to
the church, and neither has he brought it back as yet; the said Thomas
for committing misdemeanours in the church also.
Place name given as Hicklin.
Dated 4 January 1621 [Old Style].
AN/PB 314/2/99
19.1.1622
Thoroton
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: John Knight of Newark, farmer of
the parsonage of Thoroton, for not repairing his part of the church or
chapel yard, in default of which the yard is turned or wrought up by swine;
John Salter of Thoroton for not coming to the chapel to hear divine service
read on the Sabbath day.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Dated 19 January 1621 [Old Style].
Written in another hand, 'emt'.
AN/PB 314/2/100
1622 (c)
Rempstone
Upper Broughton
Michaelmas 1621
Anonymous presentment of the following: Thomas Woodrouf of Remson [Rempstone]
for setting up a seat without the consent of his Ordinary, and stopping
up the end of Ebe[?]'s seat so that all who sit in the same long seat
come in at one end of it and disturb the whole desk.
Written below, in same hand, an anonymous presentment of the following,
headed 'Broughton': John Fransis for ditching on the Sunday before New
Year's Day last.
Broughton presentment dated '1621' [Old Style]; found in bundle of churchwarden
presentments from Michaelmas term 1621-1622.
AN/PB 314/2/101
2.3.1622
Cotgrave
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: William Henson alias Hall for not
coming to the church to hear divine service for the space of six months.
Place name given as Codgrave.
Dated 2 March 1621 [Old Style].
AN/PB 314/2/102
28.3.1622
Hickling
Michaelmas 1621
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Dafte junior for not coming
to church to hear divine service on Sundays or holy days from 25 December
to 10 or 17 February last; on Twelfth Day last he came to the church in
prayer time and clapped his brother Richard Dafte on the back and gave
him a shake or two by the shoulder, and whispered something unintelligble
to William Smyth, one of the churchwardens, and then immediately went
out of the church again; he would not humble himself on his knees to say
his prayers and would not take a place in any seat to hear divine service
although the one he has used for at least 20 years was empty, and so were
divers other decent seats [locations and usual occupiers of which are
stated in detail]; Thomas Dafte junior for being absent from church from
10 or 17 February until today's date.
Ann Dafte, wife of the said Thomas Dafte, for being absent from divine
service on Sundays and holy days from 9 December to 3 February last; on
9 December, the said Ann Dafte went out of the church during divine prayers,
although there was room in her usual seat, she was not molested by any
person, and other honest women with no usual seats had quietly placed
themselves without urging the churchwardens to place them as she the said
Ann did, just when the minister had put on his surplice ready to open
his mouth and begin prayer.
Richard Dafte, son of John Dafte senior, for refusing to pay 4d due to
the parish clerk for his accustomed wages; the said Richard Dafte inhabits
the west end of the house in which his father John dwells, and keeps his
fire and family by himself and pays his several 'waxchotes' due to the
parson; the custom is that where 'waxchotes' are due for any new erected
house, even when more than one are under the same roof, the sum of 4d
per year is likewise due and payable to the parish clerk; the clerk has
no other wages than the accustomed dues at marriages, and his dinner at
the churching of every woman; when a house decays or is not used, the
parish clerk loses his 4d per year from it [various examples given of
householders whose houses are decayed, and of people who thirty years
ago and at the present time lived under the same roof and nevertheless
each paid separate 'waxchotes' and wages].
Charles Collington, yeoman, for not paying his levy to the churchwardens
towards the repair of the parish church; the levy was agreed on 30 May
1621 at a rate of 6d per oxgang of land, 2d per house, 2d per beast and
8d per score of sheep; the churchwardens have already spent more than
was received, but the inhabitants have refused to grant another levy until
those who are behind have paid what they owe; Richard Smyth alias Cooke
for not paying his levy as above.
6.5.1622-22.7.1622
Easter 1622
Churchwarden presentment bills, formerly in an original bundle; Bingham
deanery, Easter 1622
Bundle includes one stray presentment bill from Kirkby-in-Ashfield parish
in Nottingham deanery, Easter 1622 [AN/PB 314/3/13].
AN/PB 314/3/1/1
1622
Easter 1622
Thong originally used to tie bundle of churchwardens' presentment bills,
Bingham deanery, Easter 1622.
AN/PB 314/3/1/2
6.5.1622
Elton
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: our church porch is forth of repair,
but we desire Lammas time [to mend it by].
Written in another hand, 'untell Lamma, Mich. Purefey'.
On back, upside down, title page for bundle: 'Presentments 1622, 1623,
1624'.
AN/PB 314/3/2
6.5.1622
Sutton Bonington (St Anne)
Easter 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Sente Annes in Sutten a bonnington.
AN/PB 314/3/3
6.5.1622
Rempstone
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Willam Pallmer for not coming to
the church, nor any of his family, on 5 November which was appointed to
be kept holy.
Place name given as Remstonne.
Written in another hand, 'appar - 8d pd'.
AN/PB 314/3/4
6.5.1622
Keyworth
Easter 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Keaworth.
AN/PB 314/3/5
6.5.1622
Thoroton
Easter 1622
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/3/6
6.5.1622
Wilford
Easter 1622
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/3/7
6.5.1622
Edwalton
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: our chancel is in default, by old
Sir John Biron, knight, senior.
Place name given as Edoultton.
AN/PB 314/3/8
6.5.1622
Sutton Bonington (St Michael)
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Will Peake and his wife for standing
excommunicate.
Place name given as Sutten Bunningtone.
AN/PB 314/3/9
6.5.1622
Holme Pierrepont
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: the parsonage house is out of repair,
in the fault of Mr John Speede, now parson there.
Place name given as Holme Pierypoint.
Written in another hand, 'emt'.
AN/PB 314/3/10
25.5.1622 (c)
Bingham
Easter 1622
Nothing to present.
Dated 25 May, no year; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter
1622.
AN/PB 314/3/11
18.5.1622
Langar
Easter 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Langar cum Barnston.
AN/PB 314/3/12
6.5.1622
Scarrington
Easter 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Scarington.
AN/PB 314/3/13
11.5.1622
Kirkby-in-Ashfield
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Reyneld Clarke for not paying his
lay of 10d for 40 acres at a farthing per acre, according to an assessment
made on 16 September 1621 by Thomas Newton, Xp'er Newton, Lawrence Newton,
Willm Hunt, Anthony Farnworth and Anthony Euerat, assessors; Humfry Ward
for not paying his lay of 2d for 10 acres at a farthing per acre according
to the above assessment; Elizabeth Rowbothom, wife of Alexander Rowbothom,
for not coming to the church on Easter Day and for refusing to receive
the holy sacrament that day.
Place name given as Kyrkbie in Ashfield.
Found misplaced in bundle of presentment bills from Bingham deanery, Easter
1622.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 25 Maij'.
AN/PB 314/3/14
6.5.1622
West Bridgford
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Henrie Beeston of Gamston for not
coming to his parish church these twelve months; Anne, servant of Henry
Nedham of Basingfeild [Bassingfield], for a public fame to be got with
child, but who is the supposed father we cannot learn; Nicholas Skinner
of Bridgford for a public fame of being a userer.
Written in another hand, 'em in 25 Maij'.
AN/PB 314/3/15
6.5.1622
Barton in Fabis
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Hewgh Hartlife and Isabell his wife
for fornication before marriage.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 25 Maij'.
AN/PB 314/3/16
6.5.1622
Whatton
Easter 1622
[Churchwardens] present the following: Jarvis Smith for standing excommunicate
for three years and not seeking means to be absolved; William Walles for
suffering card play in his house in time of divine service on the Sabbath
day; Thomas Hough of Aslockton and Thomas Wilson of the same, and George
Story of Orson [Orston] and Thomas Story of Flawborowe [Flawborough] for
playing at cards in Willm Walles' house on the Sabbath day; Thomas Beane
upon a common fame of unlawful company with Anne, wife of Mr George Milner.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 25 Maij'.
AN/PB 314/3/17
6.5.1622
Tithby
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: the chancel is out of repair, and
is to be repaired by the Lady Anne Cope and Mr John Chaworth, and there
have been stones and coals provided by the Lady Cope, who is very willing
to have it done; John Wilson, now dwelling at Bingham, for committing
fornication with Dorothie Bird who is now dead; Launcelott Morice, now
of Gedlinge, for committing fornication with Anne Beeston, now of Cropwell
Butler; Henry Wilcocke for fornication with Anne Benbrigge, now of East
Bridgeford; Richard Chadwicke for a scandal of his committing fornication
with the same Anne Benbrigge; there is a vehement suspicion of Roberte
Wrighte of Tithebye for committing the like offence with the same Anne
Benbrigge.
Place name given as Tithbye.
Written in another hand, 'em in 25 Maij'.
AN/PB 314/3/18
6.5.1622
Thrumpton
Easter 1622
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/3/19
1622 (c)
Screveton
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: the steeple is under the workman's
hand at this present time, and would have long since been finished if
the workman had performed his promise; the churchyard cannot be fenced
until the steeple is finished by reason of continual carrying of stone
to the steeple; our bells cannot be in good order until the steeple is
finished; John Fossick and Anne his wife 'made bold a litle' before marriage;
Thomas Smith alias Elce refuses to pay the lays which are laid for the
duties of the church.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1622.
Written in another hand, 'em in 25 Maij'.
AN/PB 314/3/20
6.5.1622
Hawksworth
Easter 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Hocksworth.
AN/PB 314/3/21
6.5.1622
Clifton
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Henry Bacon, parson, for not preaching
the word of God on some Sundays or holy days quarterly during this last
year.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 8 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/3/22
6.5.1622
Colston Bassett
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Simmione Ougnell for a recusant;
Thomas Taler for not receiving communion last Easter; his wife for a recusant.
Place name given as Coulsonn; 'Basset' added in another hand.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 8 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/3/23
25.5.1622
East Bridgford
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Anne Bornebricke, servant of Humphreie
Wright, who is now with child; John Toppliue for not paying 2s due to
the church.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 8 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/3/24
6.5.1622
Bunny
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Roberte Cartwrighte for harbouring
Alice Cartwrighte his wife, whom he knows wilfully to stand excommunicate.
Place name given as Bonnay.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 8 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/3/25
6.5.1622
Granby
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Water Flower and Susan Blagg for
committing fornication before marriage; William Mafeild and Alice [altered
to Margret] Worthington for committing fornication, and not married.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 8 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/3/26
6.5.1622
Plumtree
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Cutler and Issabell March
for fornication before marriage.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 8 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/3/27
6.5.1622
Stanford-upon-Soar
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: James Trentham for not repairing
his part of the church yard fence sufficiently.
Place name given as Stanford.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 8 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/3/28
6.5.1622
Widmerpool
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Dorethye Morris for not coming to
the church for three months; Alice [altered to Francis] Hudsone, who is
brought to bed in our town of a child whom she says was got by someone
from Hollwell in Leicestershire; our church is forth of repair about the
leads, but they are now in repairing at this time.
Place name given as Widmerpoole.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 8 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/3/29
6.5.1622
Kingston-on-Soar
Easter 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Kingstone.
AN/PB 314/3/30
6.5.1622
Normanton-upon-Soar
Easter 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Normanton.
AN/PB 314/3/31
6.5.1622
West Leake
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Gabriell Burrowes and Marye his wife
for fornication before marriage; Bryan Barnes for standing excommunicate
these two years, and has been away so long and is now come again.
Written in another hand, 'emt'.
AN/PB 314/3/32
6.5.1622
Radcliffe-on-Trent
Easter 1622
Churchwardens and swornmen present the following: our chancel is out of
repair, which has been presented before but no reformation done, for which
we present Mr Timothie Leemenge.
Place name given as Ratcliffe super trent.
AN/PB 314/3/33
6.5.1622
Wysall
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Willam Briges for fornication with
Elizabeth Poote before marriage; likewise, they were married without licence
or banns to our knowledge.
Place name given as Wisalle.
Written in another hand at the end of the presentment concerning their
marriage, 'prius vocat'.
AN/PB 314/3/34
6.5.1622
Orston
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Mris Anne Ferbarne, a recusant.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 13 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/3/35
6.5.1622
Hickling
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Agnes Winthorpe, Katherine Waye and
Alice Knutton for going from their own parish church at morning and evening
prayers to another church on Sunday 14 April last, at which time there
was a sermon at our own church; Matthew Hart, son of Thomas Hart, for
disturbing William Smith, one of the churchwardens, in morning prayer
on Sunday 7 April last; the said Matthew Hart for pulling the said William
Smith out of his seat in evening prayer time on 7 April, and not resting
content therewith until his brother Thomas Hart took him away; Thomas
Dafte, husbandman, for refusing to pay 6d due to the parish clerk last
May Day for his half-year wages; the money was due for the house where
he now lives, which he bought from his brother Richard Dafte; Robert Dafte,
brother of the said Thomas Dafte, for refusing to pay 2d due to the parish
clerk on May Day, for the erected house in which he now dwells, which
is under the same roof as where his brother lives.
Note added at the bottom of the page: the churchwardens desire that this
[presentment bill] may not go forth until 8 June, when they will come
themselves to speak about it.
Place name given as Hicklinge.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 22 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/3/36
6.5.1622
Gotham
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Georg Winfeild's daughter for getting
'pescods' [pea-pods] in the prayer time on the Sabbath day; Henerye Spencer
for brabbling in the churchyard.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 22 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/3/37
18.5.1622
Cotgrave
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Allice Henson, daughter of John Henson,
for not receiving [communion] last Easter.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 22 Junij'.
Payment of 4s 8d recorded.
AN/PB 314/3/38
3.6.1622
Clifton
Easter 1622
Rector presents the following: the Books of Common Prayer are not in prose
and metre, 'but the one halfe of the one doth want'; the steeple wants
pointing, the bells and bell ropes are out of repair, also the church
floors want paving; the revestry is ready to fall; we cannot go on the
perambulation as in times past we have done; Richard James and John Kyrke
are presented for neglecting their office [of churchwarden] at the visitation,
for their causes going before; the churchyard fence is out of repair.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 22 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/3/39
6.6.1622
Costock
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: John Hydes for not receiving the
holy communion last Easter.
Place name given as Cortlingstocke.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 22 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/3/40
1622 (c)
Car Colston
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Henrie Porter, William Westby and
John Peck of Eastbridgeford [East Bridgford] for refusing to pay what
they were cessed for the repair of the church of Carcolston, according
to the quality or acres or land which they farmed within the parish.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 22 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/3/41
6.5.1622
Adbolton
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Mr More our parson, for not living
at his parsonage house and for [letting it] go down to decay.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 22 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/3/42
7.5.1622-17.6.1622
Hickling
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following, on 7 May 1622: Agnes Winthorpe, Katherine
Waze and Alice Knutton for going from the parish church both at morning
and evening prayers on Sunday 14 April last, on which day there was both
a sermon and also communion in our parish church; Thomas Dafte, yeoman,
for refusing to pay 6d to the parish clerk, due on 1 May for the clerk's
half-year wages; the sum is for the dwelling house in which Thomas Dafte
now lives, which was bought from his brother Richard Dafte, and which
was lived in by their father George Dafte for a long time; George Dafte
paid the 12d per year for this house without fraud or any denial.
Robert Dafte, husbandman and brother to the said Thomas Dafte, for refusing
to pay 2d to the parish clerk, due on May Day for the newly erected house
in which he lives, which is under the same roof as where his brother Thomas
Dafte lives, being the former kitchen to the house in which the late George
Dafte lived; George Dafte held the house and other property in fee simple
and in his lifetime conveyed one half of the same to his fourth son Richard
Dafte and the other half to his fifth son Robert Dafte, and since the
death of George Dafte, Richard and Robert made a perpetual division of
the house and all the other houses and lands, so that there are now two
separate houses in which Thomas and Robert keep their separate fires and
families; and the ancient custom of the parish is that newly erected houses
are charged with 4d per year for the parish clerk.
Mathew Hart for violently and wilfully disturbing William Smyth, one of
the churchwardens, in morning prayer on Sunday 7 April last, in thrusting
him with his buttocks and also nudging him with his elbow when the said
William was seated to hear divine service; the said Mathew Hart for wilfully
and violently pulling the said William Smithe out of his seat in evening
prayer time on the same day, and not ceasing such disorder until his brother
Thomas Hart arose out of his seat to take the said Mathew away.
Note added on the back of the presentment bill, signed by the churchwardens:
prays that this draft, sent under our hands on 17 June, be shown to the
parties presented, and the former bill put in on 7 May withheld [former
bill actually dated 6 May, see AN/PB 314/3/35]; also wishes a speedy course
to be taken against Robert Dafte, formerly presented for the legacy of
10s, which is still unpaid.
Place name given as Hicklinge.
AN/PB 314/3/43
6.5.1622
Ratcliffe-upon-Soar
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Kingstonne [the inhabitants of Kingston-on-Soar]
for not repairing our church; Thrumpton for the same.
Place name given as Ratlefth of sore.
AN/PB 314/3/44
6.5.1622
Upper Broughton
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: John Francis and Jone Masson for
suspicion of adultery.
Place name given as Ouerbroughton.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 13 Julij'.
AN/PB 314/3/45
6.5.1622
Ruddington
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Joann Buttone who confesses herself
to be with child, begotten by one Tymothie Kellott, servant to Robert
Woode of Nottingham, gentleman; Richard Chaddocke for not receiving the
communion at our church this Easter.
Place name given as Ruddingtone.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 13 Julij'.
AN/PB 314/3/46
6.5.1622
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: William Sore for not receiving holy
communion at our parish church last Easter.
Place name given as Willoughbie.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 13 Julij'.
AN/PB 314/3/47
2.6.1622
Tollerton
Easter 1622
One churchwarden presents the following: Geruas Richmond has for this
year and the last seven years wrongfully detained and kept in his hand
several pieces of meadow ground worth 50s per year when let, totalling
£20 for these eight years; the £20 and the ground ought to
belong to and be employed by the churchwardens of Tollerton towards the
repair of the church and other charitable uses; John Pendocke and Frances
his wife have been absent from Tollerton church on several Sundays and
holy days this last year, but they did receive the sacrament last Easter;
Geruas Richmond did not receive the sacrament last Easter, nor did George
Ludlam; John Pare, clerk, has not kept the parsonage barn in repair, but
it has fallen down and is clean decayed.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 6 Julij'.
AN/PB 314/3/48
1622
Shelford
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: William Smythe and Margrete Storey
for committing fornication.
Place name given as Shelforde.
Dated '1622' only; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1622.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 13 Julij'.
AN/PB 314/3/49
6.7.1622
Bunny
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Henrie Crosse, late churchwarden
of Bradmore within the parish, for not giving an account of his office
last Easter.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Place name given as Bonney.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 13 Julij'.
AN/PB 314/3/50
6.5.1622
East Leake
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: William Bradshawe for serving a process
in the churchyard when the prayers were done on 5 May; our chancel is
out of repair, but the parson desires a month's time.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 13 Julij'.
AN/PB 314/3/51
13.7.1622
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Easter 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Robart Pawmer and An alias Agnes
Garton, for fornication as she has confessed before Sir Gorge Parkenes;
Elizabeth Tow[-] the younger for fornication with Michell Pare.
First churchwardens' name written as William, but known to be John by
comparison with other presentment bills and the call books.
Place name given as Wiloby.
AN/PB 314/3/52
22.7.1622
Barton in Fabis
Easter 1622
One churchwarden presents the following: Henry Widdowson for filling the
'meaner carte' on Sunday 14 July, likewise Nich. Boote, Joh. Wallis and
William Wallis at the same time; Issable Cripples for striking Ann Jesson,
daughter of Thomas Jesson, in the churchyard on Wednesday 17 July; Jane
Jonson for grinding malt on the Sabbath day on 14 July; Elizabeth Dutton
for a common scold; [added at the bottom in the same hand, in Latin:]
John Winfild of Barton in Fabis, fornicator before marriage, dismissed
on payment of 20s, 20 July.
Place name given as Barton in the beans.
28.9.1622-5.10.1622
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwarden presentment bills, formerly in an original bundle; Bingham
deanery, Michaelmas 1622
For a stray presentment bill from Clifton parish, Michaelmas 1622, misplaced
in another bundle, see AN/PB 314/6/54.
AN/PB 314/3/53
28.9.1622
Thoroton
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Robert Machin for being reputed by
common fame to have committed adultery with Grace Salter, wife of John
Salter; Robert Hollingworth for being reputed by common fame to have committed
fornication with Anne Dringe.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 5 Octob'.
AN/PB 314/3/54
28.9.1622
Edwalton
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Sir George Chayworth for not keeping
our chancel in repair; Mr Storer for not doing service at morning prayer
on Sunday 8 September.
Place name given as Edwalltone.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 5 Octob'.
AN/PB 314/3/55
28.9.1622
Ruddington
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Joan Button for coming to the church
and not being churched according to the order of the book of common prayer;
Marie Debell for not coming to the church.
Place name given as Ruddongtone.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 5 Octob'.
AN/PB 314/3/56
28.9.1622
Thrumpton
Michaelmas 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Thurmton.
AN/PB 314/3/57
28.9.1622
Costock
Michaelmas 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Costocke.
AN/PB 314/3/58
1622 (c)
Car Colston
Michaelmas 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Carcoleson.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1622.
AN/PB 314/3/59
28.9.1622
Ratcliffe-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Ratlife upon Sore.
AN/PB 314/3/60
28.9.1622
Clifton
Michaelmas 1622
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/3/61
9.1622
West Bridgford
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Henerie Beesonn for not coming to
the church.
Place name given as West Bridgforth.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 5 Octob'.
AN/PB 314/3/62
28.9.1622
Elton
Michaelmas 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Ellton.
AN/PB 314/3/63
9.1622
Stanford-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwardens present the following: James Trentam for not repairing his
fence in the churchyard.
Place name given as Stanforth.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 5 Octob'.
AN/PB 314/3/64
28.9.1622
Radcliffe-on-Trent
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwardens present the following: John Welles for misdemeanour in words
within our church; Richard Wilforde for the like.
Place name given as Ratcliffe super trent.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 5 Octob'.
AN/PB 314/3/65
9.1622
East Bridgford
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwardens present the following: John Rollinson and Anne Scartclift
for fornication.
Place name given as Est Bredgforth.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 5 Octob'.
AN/PB 314/3/66
28.9.1622
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stantone.
AN/PB 314/3/67
28.9.1622
Kingston-on-Soar
Michaelmas 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Kinston.
AN/PB 314/3/68
28.9.1622
Widmerpool
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Amy Widmorepoole for not coming to
the church; Darothie Morrice for the like.
Place name given as Widmorepole.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 5 Oct'.
AN/PB 314/3/69
28.9.1622
Whatton
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Anne Dent of our parish for committing
fornication with one Christofer Orson, as she herself reports.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 5 Octob'.
AN/PB 314/3/70
28.9.1622
Screveton
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwardens present the following: our church yard fence is out of repair,
because we took it down to bring carriages towards the building of our
steeple and church; we would desire to be given a time [for completion
of the work].
Place name given as Screatton.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 5 Octob'.
AN/PB 314/3/71
28.9.1622
Sutton Bonington (St Michael)
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Bonnd for not coming to the
church; William Peake and his wife for the like.
Place name given as Suttone Boningtone.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 5 Octob'.
AN/PB 314/3/72
28.9.1622
West Leake
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Bryan Barnes for not coming to the
church.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 5 Octob'.
AN/PB 314/3/73
28.9.1622
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Willobye wouldes.
AN/PB 314/3/74
28.9.1622
Holme Pierrepont
Michaelmas 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Houmeperpont.
AN/PB 314/3/75
28.9.1622
Adbolton
Michaelmas 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Adboulton.
AN/PB 314/3/76
28.9.1622
Bunny
Michaelmas 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Bounnie.
AN/PB 314/3/77
28.9.1622
Keyworth
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Greaves for not coming to
the church according to the King's Injunctions; Widdow Elldershawe for
the like.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 5 Octob'.
AN/PB 314/3/78
28.9.1622
Kneeton
Michaelmas 1622
One churchwarden presents the following: William Darbyshire for the common
fame that he has committed fornication with his brother's wife, being
beaten out of the house by his brother.
Place name given as Knifton on the hill.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 5 Octob'.
AN/PB 314/3/79
28.9.1622
Bingham
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Margaratt White of Newton in the
parish of Bingham, for being unlawfully begotten with child by Richd Cay
of Ratcliff upon Trent [Radcliffe-on-Trent]; George Goodwin of Bingham,
the younger, for having unlawfully begotten Ann Bartram of Shipley in
the county of Derby with child; Jarvas Lovett of Ruddington for misbehaving
himself with uncivil words in the church, for being 'Damde of Ringing'.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 9 Octob'.
AN/PB 314/3/80
5.10.1622
Wilford
Michaelmas 1622
Nothing to present.
Presentment made by churchwardens; two marks made on the presentment bill,
but no names given.
Place name given as Willforth.
AN/PB 314/3/81
5.10.1622
Tithby
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwardens present the following: our chancel is out of repair in the
default of Lady Anne Cope, who for her part is very willing it should
be repaired; the greater part is to be repaired by Mr John Chaworth of
Southwell, as we suppose; Henry [space for surname left blank], servant
of Robt Fillingham, for fornication with [space for name left blank],
who was likewise servant there.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 9 Octob'.
AN/PB 314/3/82
5.10.1622
Barton in Fabis
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwardens present the following: the 'doufe howse' and another house
[out of repair] in the parson's default.
Place name given as Barton.
AN/PB 314/3/83
9.1622
Cotgrave
Michaelmas 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Codgrave.
AN/PB 314/3/84
28.9.1622
East Leake
Michaelmas 1622
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/3/85
5.10.1622
Tollerton
Michaelmas 1622
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Tollerstone.
12.4.1624-26.6.1624
Easter 1624
Churchwarden presentment bills, formerly in an original bundle; Bingham
deanery, Easter 1624
For a misplaced bill from Adbolton parish, Easter 1624, see AN/PB 326/6/2;
for a bill from Radcliffe-on-Trent parish, Easter 1624, see AN/PB 326/1/42.
AN/PB 314/4/1/1
1624
Easter 1624
Thong originally used to tie bundle of churchwardens' presentment bills,
Bingham deanery, Easter 1624.
AN/PB 314/4/1/2
12.4.1624
Wysall
Easter 1624
Nothing to present.
Numbered '3' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/2
12.4.1624
Wilford
Easter 1624
Nothing to present.
Numbered '4' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/3
14.4.1624
Thrumpton
Easter 1624
Nothing to present.
Numbered '5' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/4
14.4.1624
Scarrington
Easter 1624
Nothing to present.
Numbered '6' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/5
14.4.1624
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
Easter 1624
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stanton super le Wolds.
Numbered '7' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/6
14.4.1624
Shelford
Easter 1624
Nothing to present.
Numbered '8' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/7
12.4.1624
Sutton Bonington (St Anne)
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: our parson Mr Thomas Sauidg for not
repairing the chancel.
Place name given as St Annes.
Numbered '9' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/8
26.6.1624
Car Colston
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: John Chauntler and Anne Bagula, wife
to Symon Bagula, for they are vehemently suspected of incontinency together.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 10 Julij'.
Numbered '10' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/9
12.6.1624
Screveton
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Jane Belwood for not receiving the
communion these two years last past, alleging that she was not in charity;
the said Jane Belwood for going to divers wisemen, as she terms them,
for help with her infirmity; the said Jane for railing and reviling her
neighbours in the church, amongst the whole assembly.
Place name given as Screaton.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 10 Julij'.
Numbered '11' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/10
1624
Screveton
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Jane Belwood for not receiving the
communion these two years last past, alleging that she was not in charity;
the said Jane Belwood for going to divers wisemen, as she terms them,
for help with her infirmity; the said Jane for railing and reviling some
neighbours openly in the church after prayers, amongst the whole assembly.
Dated '1624' only; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1624.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 10 Julij'.
Numbered '12' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/11
12.4.1624
Bingham
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: William Lealand of Thorroton [Thoroton]
and Elisabell Hemsley of the parish of Bingham, for unlawfully begetting
a child; Steeuen Dore for not receiving the holy communion last Easter,
and not coming to the church at all.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 29 Maij'.
Numbered '13' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/12
31.4.1624
Upper Broughton
Easter 1624
One churchwarden presents the following: John White on suspicion of incontinency
with [blank], wife of John Harte, by reason that they were locked up together
in the house of the said John Harte and [there was] no company with them,
as the fame goes; the said [blank] Harte on the like suspicion and fame;
the said John White, for on Sunday 30 May 1624 the churchwarden and his
fellow churchwarden Hughe Bishop came to White in good sort to enquire
concerning the above premises, whereupon White broke forth into many evil
speeches against them, and afterwards prepared himself with a staff and
met the churchwarden in the street and 'bett' him and broke his head so
that he bled 'in great abundance', upon which some company laid hands
on him; after he had got away he cried out from the company and said he
would have his life; John Gervase for not coming to our parish church
on Sundays and holy days to hear divine service and sermons.
Place name given as Broughton Soulney.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 12 Junij'.
Numbered '14' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/13
5.6.1624
Upper Broughton
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Roberte Brette for not paying 6s
8d due to the church for the burial of his father and mother there; Willm
Browne for the common fame that he was seen with his breeches about his
heels in the company of Hellen Harte, by means whereof they are suspected
of incontinency.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Place name given as Broughton Soulney.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 12 Junij'.
Numbered '15' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/14
12.4.1624
Cotgrave
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: John Henson and his daughter Alles
Henson for not receiving [communion] last Easter.
Place name given as Codgrave.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 29 Maij'.
Numbered '16' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/15
1.5.1624
Holme Pierrepont
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Mr John Speede, clerk, for we had
no divine service on a Sabbath day around the feast of the Purification
of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Place name given as Holme Pierepont.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 29 Maij', and 'dim. cum monicione'.
Numbered '17' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/16
12.4.1624
Plumtree
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: William Shittellwood for getting
Elesabeath Tomson with child before marriage; Thomas Henson for the like
offence with Mary Howet.
Written in another hand, 'emt in ult Aprilis', and, above Thomas Henson's
name, 'prius dim'.
Numbered '18' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/17
1624 (c)
Normanton-upon-Soar
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Elnor Robertes for being gotten with
child by Francis Blount of Stanford; John Foster for being vehemently
suspected to have gotten Elizabeth Howett with child.
Place name given as Normanton on Sore.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1624.
Written in another hand, 'emt in ult Aprilis'.
Numbered '19' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/18
12.4.1624
Langar
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Lorance Godfray for committing fornication
before marriage with his wife.
Place name given as Langer cum Barnsson.
Written in another hand, 'emt in ult Aprilis', and 'dim'.
Numbered '20' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/19
12.4.1624
Granby
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: our church, for not being in repair.
Place name given as Granbye com Suttonn.
Written in another hand, 'emt in ult Aprilis'.
Numbered '21' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/20
12.4.1624
Hickling
Easter 1624
Minister and one churchwarden present the following: Thomas Dafte the
eldest, one of the churchwardens, for not receiving holy communion last
Easter, nor since the Easter before; George Dafte, son of the said Thomas
Dafte, for being absent from the parish church for 12 weeks before Easter
Day; the said George Dafte for not receiving holy communion at Easter
nor since the Easter before; Richard Pilkinton for a fame of incontinency
with Ann Faukes ['pauper' written above her name], wife of Olliuer Faukes.
The said Richard Pilkinton for wilfully striking, plucking, drawking and
molesting John Rollinson, parish clerk, in the parish church on 26 December
last; Henrie Langton for wilfully striking and scratching the said John
Rollinson, so that he bled, in the churchyard on 29 March last; Francis
Dafte, son of the said Thomas Dafte, for likewise striking and scratching
John Rollinson at the same time, and also making him bleed; the aforesaid
George Dafte for a fame of incontinency with Frances Hill, wife of William
Hill.
John Faukes, tailor, for taking and fetching away a piece of an ancient
cross of 'freeston' and other stones from the church, and detaining the
same although he has been willed in friendly manner to restore them; Robert
Dafte the eldest, for refusing to pay 4d which is due by right and custom
to John Rollinson the parish clerk for his yearly wages, although he has
often been willed and requested in friendly terms to pay the same; Charles
Collington for not receiving holy communion in the year 1623, except at
Easter time.
Written in another hand, 'emt in ult Aprilis'.
Numbered '22' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/21
12.4.1624
West Bridgford
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Joane Seemons, wife of Michaell Seemons
of Bassingfeild, for not coming to the church for the last nine years,
and for obstinately refusing to receive the communion last Easter; Henry
Cock of West Bridgford for not receiving the communion last Easter.
Written in another hand, 'emt in ult Aprilis'.
Numbered '23' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/22
1624 (c)
Edwalton
Colwick
Easter 1624
Presentment bills for Edwalton and Colwick, both on the same sheet of
paper:
Churchwardens of Edwalton present the following: our chancel for being
out of repair in the default of Sir George Chaworth, and we desire time
until next Whitsuntide; Mr Storer our vicar, for that we do not have service
at a seasonable time; at nine o'clock, when he should begin, he has ended.
Churchwardens of Colwicke [Colwick] have nothing to present.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1624.
Written in another hand at the end of the Edwalton presentment bill, 'emt
in ult Aprilis'.
Numbered '24' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/23
4.1624
Barton in Fabis
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: John Farraye for standing excommunicate,
and not seeking to be absolved.
Place name given as Borton.
Numbered '25' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/24
12.4.1624
Ratcliffe-upon-Soar
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: the churchwardens of Kinston [Kingston-on-Soar]
for want of repair to the church; likewise the churchwardens of Thrumton
[Thrumpton]; their names are Thomas Masson, John Hallam, Robart Whitehed
and Roger Kighlay.
Place name given as Ratlife uppon Sore.
Numbered '26' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/25
12.4.1624
Ruddington
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Elizabeth Jacksone for standing excommunicate
since about Midsummer last.
Place name given as Ruddingtone.
Numbered '27' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/26
12.4.1624
Orston
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Mrs Anne Ferbarne, wife of Mr Anthonie
Farbarne, for not coming to the church these three months; William Tippinge
junior for not receiving the communion last Easter.
Place name given as Orssonn.
Numbered '28' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/27
14.4.1624
Elton
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: our church floor is not sufficiently
paved.
Written in another hand, 'habent ad reparand citr festum Sti Jo. Babtiste'.
Numbered '29' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/28
12.4.1624
Rempstone
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Grysell Wolley for not receiving
[communion] last Easter; Rochard Jhonson for incontinency with Elezabeth
Halley before marriage.
Written in another hand, '8 Maij in mensem dim'.
Numbered '30' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/29
12.4.1624
Colston Bassett
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Willm Smith for not receiving holy
communion this last year.
Place name given as Colsten Basset.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 12 Junij'.
Numbered '31' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/30
1.5.1624
Keyworth
Easter 1624
Nothing to present.
Numbered '32' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/31
1624 (c)
Tollerton
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Geruas Richemond for not receiving
the holy communion last Easter.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 12 Junij'.
Numbered '33' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/32
12.4.1624
Stanford-upon-Soar
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Franncis Blunte for not receiving
the holy communion last Easter; Roberte White for reading divine service
and teaching school without authority; our chancel is not in repair in
the windows, in the default of Mr Nicholas Clarke, parson.
Place name given as Stanford.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 12 Junij'.
Numbered '34' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/33
12.4.1624
Sutton Bonington (St Michael)
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Bonde and his wife for not
receiving the communion last Easter and for not coming to church these
three months; William Peake and his wife for standing excommunicate and
not seeking to be reformed.
Place name given as Suttonn bonington of St Michell.
Numbered '35' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/34
12.4.1624
Tithby
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: our chancel is in decay and is to
be repaired by Mr John Cheworth and the Lady Ane Cope; there is time given
to repair it in; the Lady Ane Cope has provided both stone and coal towards
the repairing.
Place name given as Tythbee and Cropwelbutler.
Numbered '36' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/35
12.4.1624
Whatton
Easter 1624
Five individuals [probably churchwardens and sidesmen] present the following:
Jhon Bartram and Elizabethe his wife for incontinency before marriage;
Thomas Beane the elder and Anne, wife of Mr George Milner, upon suspicion
of adultery by a common fame; Jarvis Smith for standing excommunicate
for five years and not seeking any means to be absolved; Richard Bell
for standing excommunicate and not using his best means to be absolved.
Written in another hand above the names of Jhon Bartram and Thomas Beane,
'emt in 12 Junij'.
Numbered '37' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/36
12.4.1624
Widmerpool
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Mris Amye Widmorpoule for a recusant;
Darrythe Morris for the same.
Place name given as Widmorpoule.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 12 Junij'.
Numbered '38' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/37
14.4.1624
Bunny
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Mr Thomas Wade and [blank] his wife,
for not receiving the communion lsat Easter, because they both stand excommunicate
and have continued so for at least forty days.
Place name given as Bonney.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 12 Junij'.
Numbered '39' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/38
1624
Clifton
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Francis Wallis for not coming to
his parish church for the space of two months, and for not paying his
lays of 9s towards the repair of the church.
Dated '1624' only; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1624.
Numbered '40' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/39
1624 (c)
East Bridgford
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: John Topley for standing excommunicate
these twelve months, and not seeking absolution.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1624.
Numbered '41' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/40
24.4.1624
East Leake
Easter 1624
Nothing to present.
Numbered '42' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/41
12.4.1624
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Wyllyam Brett for 'refusing nay contemming'
both divine service and sermons at his own parish church, and frequenting
other churches; Wyllyam Soare for obstinately refusing to participate
in the holy communion kneeling, and thereupon departing and not participating
at all; Margarett Wryde, servant to Wyllyam Garton the younger, who obstinately
refused to participate in the holy communion kneeling, and thereupon departed
and would not participate at all.
Place name given as Wylloughbye.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 12 Junij'.
Numbered '43' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/42
12.4.1624
Gotham
Easter 1624
Nothing to present.
Numbered '44' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/43
12.4.1624
Kingston-on-Soar
Easter 1624
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Kinston.
Numbered '45' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/44
12.4.1624
Car Colston
Easter 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Robt Foster for not receiving communion
last Easter.
Place name given as Carcolson.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 12 Junij'.
Numbered '46' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/45
12.4.1624
West Leake
Easter 1624
Nothing to present.
Place name given erroneously as East Leake; the churchwardens are those
for West Leake.
Numbered '47' in top left-hand corner.
25.9.1624-29.5.1629
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwarden presentment bills, formerly in an original bundle; Bingham
deanery, Michaelmas 1624
Presentment bills predominantly dated September 1624 to February 1625.
Bundle includes stray certificate of penance from East Leake parish, probably
from Easter 1629 [AN/PB 314/4/48].
AN/PB 314/4/46
29.1.1625
Costock
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Katherin Webster, now inhabiting
our town and parish, for being unlawfully begotten with child and in the
way of fornication by John Street who lives in Widdmorpoole [Widmerpool],
in which town and parish they both lived when the default was committed.
Place name given as Cottlingstock.
Dated 29 January 16[-], remainder of date missing through damage; found
in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas term 1624-1625.
Numbered '46' in top left-hand corner.
On back, upside down: title for bundle, 'Bingham Michas 1624'.
AN/PB 314/4/47
1624 (c)
Sutton Bonington (St Anne)
Michaelmas 1624
One churchwarden presents the following: Henrie Roubothom and Winefrid,
now his wife, for committing fornication before the time of their marriage,
as the common fame goes; Willm Dafte of Remstone [Rempstone] for committing
fornication with Ellen Harteshorne, now his wife, before marriage.
Place name given as Sutton bonnington Scte Anne.
Date missing through damage; found in bundle of presentment bills from
Michaelmas term 1624-1625.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 19 Feb'.
AN/PB 314/4/48
29.5.1629 (c)
East Leake
Easter 1629
Certificate of minister and churchwardens that John Foster has done the
penance enjoined by the court, in our parish church of East Leake on last
Sunday, 24 May, in the open view of the whole congregation at morning
prayer.
No year given; identified as 1629 from 24 May falling on a Sunday; found
misplaced in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1624.
AN/PB 314/4/49
30.10.1624
Radcliffe-on-Trent
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens and sidesmen present the following: George Ketlebarne, servant
to Willm Duisbery, for 'settinge, overhorlinge and meesusinge' [setting,
overhauling and misusing] our bells.
Place name given as Ratcliffe super trent.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 27 No.'.
Numbered '52' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/50
1624
Normanton-upon-Soar
Kingston-on-Soar
Michaelmas 1624
Presentment bills for Normanton-upon-Soar and Kingston-on-Soar, both on
one sheet of paper: nothing to present.
Top of page missing through damage; Normanton-upon-Soar identified through
names of churchwardens. Other place name given as 'Kinston'.
Dated '1624' only; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas
1624.
AN/PB 314/4/51
1624
West Leake
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens present the following: [some words missing through damage]
and Dorothie Sutberrie [altered to] Waleberry, for living together ...
for the space of a quarter year.
Place name partially obscured by damage; '[-]ke' can be read; identified
as West Leake from names of churchwardens.
Dated '1624' only; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas
1624.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 11 Decemb'.
Numbered '54' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/52
1624 (c)
Ratcliffe-upon-Soar
Thoroton
Michaelmas 1624
Presentment bills for Ratcliffe-upon-Soar and Thoroton, both on one sheet
of paper:
Churchwardens of '[-]cliffe super Sore' present the following: the churchwardens
of Thrumpton for not repairing the aisle of the north side of Ratcliffe
church; the churchwardens of Kinston [Kingston-on-Soar] for not repairing
the south side aisle of Ratcliffe church.
Churchwardens of Thurrerton [Thoroton] have nothing to present.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1624.
AN/PB 314/4/53
16.10.1624
Flintham
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Mr Daniell Odingsells, clerk, for
frequenting the alehouse, and because we have had no divine service on
a Sabbath day at evening prayer within this last month; John Coe for sleeping
in time of divine service and sermon; Frauncis Hall for not paying 12d
due for the parish clerk for the last three years; John Clarke for not
paying 2s due to the parish clerk in like sort, for six years; John Claye
for not paying 12d in like sort, for three years; Walter Chilvester for
not paying 4d due in like sort, for two years; Katherine Lunne for not
paying the clerk his wages due for five years, totalling 20d.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 30 Octob.'
Numbered '56' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/54
16.10.1624
Bingham
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Francis Halle and his wife for committing
fornication before wedlock; Steven Dore for not coming to the church at
all; Willam Gooding upon a fame of fornication with Elizabeth Rivite;
our minister for not having divine service last Sunday 10 October.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 30 Octob.'
Numbered '57' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/55
16.10.1624
Car Colston
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Mr Thomas Broone, executor of the
last will and testament of Gregorie Heason late of Flintham, for withholding
£12 and one little bell which the late Gregorie Heason gave for
the buying of a new bell for the church.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 30 Octob.'
Numbered '58' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/56
16.10.1624
Screveton
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens present the following: we and the whole town desire some
time for the repairing of our steeple and other things about our church,
which we are doing as fast as we can.
Place name given as Scretton.
Numbered '59' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/57
16.10.1624
Hawksworth
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Bartell Bottingson and Ame his wife
for fornication before marriage; he says he has discharged the court.
Place name given as Haukeworth.
Numbered '60' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/58
2.11.1624
Ruddington
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens present the following: John Willkinsone, labourer, and Alce
his wife, for suspicion of carnal knowledge before their marriage; James
Soarsbey, John Leuosley and Godfrey Jacksone for drinking and taking tobacco
on Sunday 6 June in time of morning prayer; Thomas Weale for suffering
disorder to be kept in his house on Sunday 4 July at evening prayer time,
in time of sermon.
Place name given as Rudd.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 27 No'.
Numbered '61' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/59
10.10.1624
Sutton Bonington (St Michael)
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Mongg and Ales Strong upon
a common fame of suspicion of incontinency; Richard Mongg and George Wilsonn
for going with their cart on Whitsunday [and] Monday; Willm Peake and
his wife for standing excommunicate and not seeking to be absolved; Thomas
Bond and his wife for the like.
Place name given as Sutton Bonnington of St Michell.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 11 Decemb'.
Numbered '62' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/60
16.10.1624
Orston
Staunton Chapel
Michaelmas 1624
Presentment bills for Orston cum Stanton, and for 'Stanton Capello' [Staunton
Chapel], both on one piece of paper:
Churchwardens of Orston present the following: Robert Wycombe and Margaret
Greenleafe upon suspicion of fornication, as the fame goes; the said Roberte
and Margaret for living together as man and wife, and we have no knowledge
of their marriage.
Churchwardens of Staunton Chapel have nothing to present.
Dated 16 October, no year visible; found in bundle of presentment bills
from Michaelmas 1624.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 15 Novemb'.
Numbered '63' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/61
18.10.1624
Bunny
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Mrs Wade for standing excommunicate.
Place name given as Bonney cum Bradmoore.
Numbered '64' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/62
1624 (c)
Upper Broughton
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens present the following: John Gervis for keeping company in
his house at time of divine service on the Sabbath day; Richard Smith
for fornication before marriage; Robert Brett for grinding on the Sabbath
day; Robert Holland, Robert Willimott and George Loe for working in time
of divine service on 1 August.
Place name given as Broughton.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1624.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 25 Novemb'.
Numbered '65' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/63
16.10.1624
Hickling
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens present the following: the common fame is that Willm Smith's
wife has divers times caused one of her maids to wash clothes on the Sabbath
day within these last two years.
Place name given as Hicklinge.
Written in another hand, 'emt in xv Nov'.
Numbered '66' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/64
16.10.1624
Granby
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens present the following: we have bought wood to repair the
church with.
Place name given as Granby and Sutton.
Numbered '67' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/65
16.10.1624
Widmerpool
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Mrs Amie Widmerpoole, widow, and
Dorothie Morris for absolute recusants, and so have continued for many
years.
Place name given as Widm[er]poole.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 11 Decemb'.
Numbered '68' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/66
10.1624
Adbolton
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Numbered '69' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/67
1624 (c)
Cotgrave
Michaelmas 1624
One churchwarden presents the following: John Henson and Alice Henson
his daughter for not coming to the church this half year.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1624.
Numbered '70' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/68
1624
Costock
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Second churchwarden's surname not given; identified as Hunt from comparison
with the call book.
Place name given as Coodlinstock.
Dated '1624' only; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas
1624.
Numbered '71' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/69
18.10.1624
Thurgarton
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Presentment made by churchwardens, and two marks made, but no names given.
Misplaced in bundle of presentment bills from Bingham deanery, Michaelmas
1624.
Numbered '72' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/70
10.1624
West Bridgford
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Place name given as West Breedgforth.
Dated October, date and year obscured by damage; found in bundle of presentment
bills from Michaelmas 1624.
Numbered '73' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/71
16.10.1624
Whatton
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Numbered '74' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/72
16.10.1624
Wysall
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Wisall.
Numbered '75' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/73
16.10.1624
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stannton on the Wolds.
Numbered '76' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/74
16.10.1624
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Willughbee.
Numbered '77' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/75
16.10.1624
East Bridgford
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Eastbridgfforth.
Numbered '78' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/76
10.1624 (c)
Langar
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Langar cum Barnestone.
Dated October, date and year obscured through damage; found in bundle
of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1624.
Numbered '79' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/77
16.10.1624 (c)
Owthorpe
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Dated 16 October, year obscured through damage; found in bundle of presentment
bills from Michaelmas 1624.
Numbered '80' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/78
16.10.1624
Tithby
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Tythby.
Numbered '81' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/79
1624 (c)
Clifton
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Numbered '82' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/80
25.10.1624
Elton
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Numbered '83' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/81
16.10.1624
Keyworth
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Numbered '84' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/82
16.10.1624
Scarrington
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Numbered '85' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/83
16.10.1624
Gotham
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens present the following: John Houghton and Isabell, who was
his maid, for fornication.
Numbered '86' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/84
16.10.1624
Radcliffe-on-Trent
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Ratcliff super trent.
Numbered '87' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/85
16.10.1624
Colston Bassett
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Second churchwarden does not sign or make a mark; 'valetudinarius' [an
invalid] written next to his name.
Numbered '88' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/86
25.9.1624
Thrumpton
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Numbered '89' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/87
16.10.1624
Wilford
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Numbered '90' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/88
16.10.1624 (c)
Holme Pierrepont
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Houlme Pierrepont.
Dated 16 October, no year; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas
1624.
Numbered '91' in top left-hand corner.
On back, upside down: title for bundle, 'Detecta 1624'.
AN/PB 314/4/89
18.10.1624
East Leake
Michaelmas 1624
Nothing to present.
Numbered '92' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/90
26.2.1625
Keyworth
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens present the following: Elizabeth Baker for committing fornication
with Frances Hollinworth of Loughborw [Loughborough].
Place name given as Kewerth.
Dated 26 February 1624 [Old Style].
Written in another hand, 'emt in 5 Martij'.
Numbered '93' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/4/91
1624
Screveton
Michaelmas 1624
Churchwardens present the following: John Holmes, bachelor, and Anne Caunte,
wife of Symon Caunte, husbandman, for keeping company unlawfully together
in the house of the said John Holmes in time of prayers and divine service
on 31 October last, a Sabbath day.
Place name given as Screaton.
Dated '1624' only; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas
1624.
Numbered '94' in top left-hand corner.
26.11.1624-11.2.1626
Easter 1625
Churchwarden presentment bills, formerly in an original bundle; Bingham
deanery, Easter 1625
Presentment bills for Easter 1625 are dated May and June 1625.
Bundle also includes three stray Michaelmas 1625 bills from the parishes
of Bunny, Tollerton and Thoroton [AN/PB 314/5/50-52]; and an earlier certificate
of penance used as a tag for the whole bundle [AN/PB 314/5/1/1].
AN/PB 314/5/1/1
26.11.1624
Long Clawson
Easter 1625
Tag and thong originally used to tie together AN/PB 314/5/1-54; the paper
tag, now folded, was originally a certificate by the vicar of Claxton
alias Longe Cleaston [Long Clawson], Leicestershire, that Richard Smithe,
of many abodes but resting at Broughton Sulney [Upper Broughton] when
he pleases, and his now wife Elizabethe, did their penance at the church
of Claxton on Sunday 17 October last.
See AN/PB 314/4/62 for presentment of Richard Smith by the churchwardens
of Upper Broughton.
AN/PB 314/5/1/2
3.5.1625
Elton
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Robert Bladg for adultery with his
servant [name obscured by damage] Winter.
Place name given as Eltonn.
On back, upside down: title for bundle, 'Bingham Easter 1625'.
AN/PB 314/5/2
3.5.1625
Normanton-upon-Soar
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: [name obscured by damage] Blouke
for not receiving holy communion at Easter; Richard Mason for not receiving
the holy communion last Easter.
Place name given as Normanton super Soar.
AN/PB 314/5/3
3.5.1625
Scarrington
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Hewgh Rest for committing adultery
with Marie Pacie of the parish of Orsonn [Orston].
Place name given as Scaringtonn.
Written in another hand, 'prius v[ocat]'.
AN/PB 314/5/4
1625
West Bridgford
Easter 1625
Minister and churchwardens present the following: Joane Simons, wife of
Michaell Simons of Basingfeild [Bassingfield], is a popish recusant; the
rest of the delinquents are already punished.
Dated '1625' only; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1625.
AN/PB 314/5/5
3.5.1625
Ratcliffe-upon-Soar
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Robert Whitehead and Roger Kicheley,
churchwardens of Thrumpton, for neglecting to repair the aisle on the
side of our church which they ought to do; John Halley and Thomas Mason,
churchwardens of Kingston [Kingston-on-Soar] for the like, for the south
aisle of our church which they ought to repair; there was and is a common
fame that John Holmes and Marie Holmes alias Hallam, his now wife, had
committed fornication together before their marriage.
Place name given as Ratcliff super Soar.
AN/PB 314/5/6
3.5.1625
Car Colston
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Willm Laming of Saxendale in the
parish of Shelford and Alice Hiues of Carcolston, for fornication.
AN/PB 314/5/7
3.5.1625
East Bridgford
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Nicholas Askew for not paying his
lay of 6d due to the church; one of our seats is out of repair, and we
desire time for the mending of it, because we have lately been at great
charge with our church.
Place name given as Eastbridgeford.
AN/PB 314/5/8
3.5.1625
Hickling
Easter 1625
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/5/9
3.5.1625
Stanford-upon-Soar
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: the windows of our church are in
default, but we crave some time for the mending of them; the chancel windows
are likewise in default; Edward Firken has committed fornication with
Edith Feilding and has done penance, but whether the Court is discharged
or not we do not know.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Place name given as Stanford.
Written in another hand, 'time iiii wickes [weeks]'.
AN/PB 314/5/10
3.5.1625
Kingston-on-Soar
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Edward Barwell, parson of Keyworth,
for refusing to pay 2s 2d upon a cessment for the repair of our church,
laid upon him for certain grounds occupied by him within our parish; Wm
Eldershawe of Keyworth for the like, 15d; Laurence Harteshorne of Keyworth
for the like, 3s 8d; John Hudson, son of Barthol. Hudson, for brabbling
in the churchyard with Henerie Ruinton[?]; the said John Hudson for ringing
our bells in our church out of order, and turning them over and sometimes
leaving them standing on end, and the wind blowing them down in the night
[they rang out] as though something were amiss by fire in the town.
Place name given as Kingstone.
Written in another hand next to John Hudson's presentment concerning the
bells, 'cum monicione dim'.
AN/PB 314/5/11
3.5.1625
Thrumpton
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Zouch Thrumpton for being vehemently
suspected of committing fornication with one of Gotham whose name they
do not know, but she is presented by the churchwardens of Gotham [Anne
Smith; see AN/PB 314/5/24]; the communion is ministered often without
the surplice; they do not know whether they have the books of Homilies,
Constitutions, Juell, Harding etc.
AN/PB 314/5/12
3.5.1625
Thoroton
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: the aisle on the south side of the
church is in some defect, but they crave time to be allowed to the parish
for its mending.
Place name given as Thoroughton.
Written in another hand, 'untill Lammas, M.P.'
AN/PB 314/5/13
1625
Hawksworth
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Henrie Kay for committing fornication
with Elizabeth Walker; Bartholomew Bettison for committing fornication
before marriage.
Place name given as Hawkesworth.
Written in another hand, 'Ex[amined]'.
AN/PB 314/5/14
3.5.1625
Sutton Bonington (St Michael)
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Bond for standing excommunicate,
and his wife for not coming to the church; Thomas Leese and his wife for
only receiving the communion once in the year.
Place name given as Suttunn Buningtonn in St Michell p[ari]sh.
AN/PB 314/5/15
3.5.1625
Sutton Bonington (St Anne)
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Elizabeath Bossworth for standing
excommunicate and not seeking to be absolved.
Place name given as St Anns of Suttunn Bonningtonn.
Written in another hand, 'dim'.
AN/PB 314/5/16
3.5.1625
Plumtree
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Ward of Ruddington for committing
fornication before marriage with Margarett Hooton; Willm Willms for turning
over our bells.
Written in another hand, 'Ex[amined]'.
AN/PB 314/5/17
3.5.1625
Kneeton
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Elizabeth Stamp for refusing to pay
4d cessment towards the repair of the church.
Place name given as Knighton super montem.
AN/PB 314/5/18
3.5.1625
Screveton
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: our bells are not hung up as they
ought, nor have we been able to do it considering the great charges we
have been at with our steeple, and therefore we must crave a reasonable
time; John Holmes refuses to pay lays and other duties.
AN/PB 314/5/19
1625 (c)
Cotgrave
Easter 1625
'We' [no names given] present the following: John Henson for absenting
himself from the church and for not receiving the communion; Alce Hensin
his daughter likewise; Mr Waldram for not receiving the communion; Alce
Forster for committing an offence before her mariage, she being gotten
with child before she was married.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1625.
AN/PB 314/5/20
3.5.1625
Costock
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Gabriell Hebb for his churchyard
fence being out of repair, he being often required to mend the same.
Place name given as Cortlingstock.
Written in another hand, 'Ex[amined]'.
AN/PB 314/5/21
3.5.1625
Staunton Chapel
Easter 1625
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stanton Capella p[ar]och[ae] Orston.
AN/PB 314/5/22
3.5.1625
Colston Bassett
Easter 1625
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/5/23
3.5.1625
Flintham
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: John Waren and his new wife for committing
fornication together before marriage.
AN/PB 314/5/24
3.5.1625
Gotham
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Anne Smith for fornication.
AN/PB 314/5/25
3.5.1625
Whatton
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: William Worsedale and Rachell his
wife for incontinency before marriage.
Written in another hand, 'em'.
AN/PB 314/5/26
3.5.1625
Clifton
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: [name obscured by damage] Lummas
for that she did not receive the holy communion last Easter; Francis Wallis
of Barton [Barton in Fabis] who lives in our parish, for not coming to
our parish church on [Sundays] and holy days to hear divine service and
sermons, and for not paying lays towards the repair of our church; Gervas
Thorpe, Robert Stone, Francis Wright, John Winfeild and Thrustans Harri[-]
for not coming to our parish church; the said Gervase Thorpe for that
he would not bury his mother at her own parish church.
AN/PB 314/5/27
3.5.1625
Rempstone
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: John Sandes for committing fornication
with Faith Waren late of Remstone, as the common fame goes; the said John
now dwells at 'Mr St Andrews' of Gotham, but where the said Faith is now,
we know not.
Place name given as Remstone.
Written in another hand, 'quere who conveyed the woman'.
AN/PB 314/5/28
3.5.1625
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Wyllyam Soare for standing excommunicate
above forty days, and for not receiving the holy communion last Easter.
Place name given as Willoughbye.
Written in another hand, 'prius ex'.
AN/PB 314/5/29
3.5.1625
East Leake
Easter 1625
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/5/30
3.5.1625
Ruddington
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: John Spencer and Elizabeth Plummer
for committing fornication; Richard Chaddocke for not receiving the holy
communion at Easter at our church, being the parish church where he lives;
Margarett Kidduere for the like; Elizabeth Jacksone for living in our
town as an excommunicate person and not coming to the church.
Place name given as Ruddingtone.
Written in another hand, 'until Batholomewside M.P.' [unclear to what
this refers].
AN/PB 314/5/31
3.5.1625
Barton in Fabis
Easter 1625
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Barton.
AN/PB 314/5/32
3.5.1625
Orston
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: their third bell is now cast, but
they have not hung it up yet and crave time to be allowed them for that
purpose; Anne, wife of Mr Anthonie Faireburne for that she will not come
to their parish church on Sundays and holy days to hear divine service
and sermons.
Written in another hand, 'until Midsomer, M.P.'
AN/PB 314/5/33
3.5.1625
Owthorpe
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Elizabeth Browne for being married
without licence, to our knowledge, to one of Hickling whose name we cannot
learn; Elizabeth North for fornication with one Richar Gray.
Written in another hand, 'Ex[amined]' and 'emt 18to Junij'.
AN/PB 314/5/34
1625
Granby
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: our church is not in sufficient repair,
but we are providing and have provided wood this year to the value of
£7.
Place name given as Granbye cum Sutton.
Dated '1625' only; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1625.
Written in another hand, 'Emt in xxj Maij'.
AN/PB 314/5/35
3.5.1625
West Leake
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Mathew Sudburie and Darothee Sudburie
alias Welbure, for committing the act of fornication before they were
married.
AN/PB 314/5/36
3.5.1625
Widmerpool
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Mrs Amie Widmerpole for recusancy;
Alice her daughter for the like; Darothie Morris, servant to the said
Mrs Widmerpole, for the like; John Streete for begetting Katherin Webster,
now dead, with child in fornication; Wm Webster and Alice Webster alias
Forster, for fornication before marriage.
Place name given as Widmerpole.
AN/PB 314/5/37
3.5.1625
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
Easter 1625
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stanton super de Wouldes.
AN/PB 314/5/38
3.5.1625
Tollerton
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Mr John Pendock for standing excommunicated
for about six weeks; Mr Pare, our parson, for his tithe barn being fallen
down and in great decay; Jervis Richmond for not coming to our parish
church this half year, and for not receiving the communion this last Easter.
Written in another hand, 'Ex[amined]'.
AN/PB 314/5/39
3.5.1625
Bingham
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: they had no divine service in their
church on the first Sunday in Lent, for which neglect they present their
parson Mr Mathew Wren, Doctor in Divinity; Thomas Derrie for winnowing
peas on a holy day around Michaelmas last, [but] on which day they cannot
certainly present.
Written in another hand, 'Ex[amined]'.
AN/PB 314/5/40
3.5.1625
Holme Pierrepont
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Mrs Marie Allen of Adboulton [Adbolton]
in their parish, for standing excommunicate and not using any course to
procure her absolution.
Place name given as Holme Pierpont.
AN/PB 314/5/41
3.5.1625
Adbolton
Easter 1625
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Adboulton.
AN/PB 314/5/42
3.5.1625
Edwalton
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Lyones Bradshawe, gentleman, for
not receiving the holy communion this Easter.
Place name given as Edwalltone.
Written in another hand, 'dim ex gra.'
AN/PB 314/5/43
3.5.1625
Wilford
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Alice Wright for fornication with
Steven Pindar, as she confesses.
AN/PB 314/5/44
14.5.1625
Upper Broughton
Easter 1625
One churchwarden presents the following: John Francis for divers times
sleeping in the church in time of divine service and sermons on Sundays
and holy days, 'and that Mr Colebrand our minister once for that called
openly upon [him] at the verie time'; the said John Francis upon suspicion
of incontinency with one Joane Mason, a woman who, never having been married,
has had children; the said Francis keeps her locked up with him in his
house divers times, very suspiciously.
Place name given as Broughton Sowlney,
Written in another hand, 'Ex[amined]' and 'Emt 18 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/5/45
14.5.1625
Wysall
Easter 1625
Minister and churchwardens present the following: Henrye Gamble and Ann
his wife for fornication committed between them before their matrimony.
Written in another hand, 'Emt 18 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/5/46
14.5.1625
Keyworth
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Edward Martin for refusing to pay
his accustomable duties to the parish clerk, due according to the ancient
custom, of 4d per year and four wheat sheaves.
Place name given as Keyworthe.
Written in another hand, 'Emt 18 Junij'.
AN/PB 314/5/47
11.6.1625
Radcliffe-on-Trent
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: there is a common fame that [blank]
Rogers, wife of William Rogers, has lived incontinently with one William
Champion, now gone for a soldier, and that the said William Rogers has
himself reported that he has such a suspicion.
Place name given as Ratcliff super Trent.
AN/PB 314/5/48
1625 (c)
Shelford
Easter 1625
Anonymous 'note to Mr Wyghtman', headed 'Shelford': it is reported that
there is fornication committed between George Sharpe and Jane Howborne;
also between George Mee and Elsabeth Scarborow.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1625.
AN/PB 314/5/49
1625 (c)
Easter 1625
Anonymous note 'for Mr Hodgekinson of Elton': 1. for Thomasin Hylton,
wife of Raphe Hylton, in a cause of defamation; 2. for William Lytherland
'pro eadem causa' [referring perhaps to processes or other documents to
be sent out from the court].
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1625.
AN/PB 314/5/50
1.10.1625
Bunny
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Roberte Cartwrighte, late churchwarden,
for not exhibiting a bill of presentment at the last visitation according
to warning given to him, having at that time the gates around the churchyard
unrepaired; we do not have a sufficient surplice.
Place name given as Bonney cum Bradmore.
Found misplaced in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1625.
Written in another hand, 'usque ad festum Natiuita habent a restan.. superp..,
M.P.'
AN/PB 314/5/51
11.2.1626
Tollerton
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Mr John Pendock for standing excommunicate
this half year; Annis Henson, daughter of Goodman Henson, for committing
fornication with Luke Blanke; Mr Pare for our chancel being out of repair.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Dated 11 February 1625 [Old Style]; found misplaced in bundle of presentment
bills from Easter 1625.
AN/PB 314/5/52
17.12.1625
Thoroton
Michaelmas 1625
One churchwarden presents the following: Grace Psalter, wife of John,
for selling ale in her house in time of evening prayer on the Sabbath
day, to strangers and to Thomas Rutter of Thurrerton, a miller; Richard
Machin and Francis Upton for being there present.
Place name given as Thurrerton.
Found misplaced in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1625.
AN/PB 314/5/53
14.5.1625
Upper Broughton
Easter 1625
One churchwarden presents the following: Edward Urson for his irreverence
towards Mr Colebrand our parson in saying that he [Urston] was as honest
as him and as good a man as Mr Colbrand; Elizebeth Urson, wife of Edward
Urson, for being vehemently suspected of incontinency for divers reasons:
first because one Willm Muggleston said to divers [people] that 'he took
her by the tayle', in the hearing of Mr Colebrand and Hugh Bishopp; secondly
because, her husband being from home, she lodged a tailor for one night
in her own chamber and in her own bed, and lay herself in another bed
in the same chamber, no others being there but themselves; thirdly because
she invited one Richard Coote to come to her house after 9 or 10 o'clock
in the night, her husband being away from home; also, about 4 February
last, she received the aforesaid Coote into her house after 9 o'clock
in the night until cockcrow.
Place name given as Broughton.
AN/PB 314/5/54
3.5.1625
Tithby
Easter 1625
Churchwardens present the following: their chancel is in great decay and
ruinous in the leads and timber, and also the walls need to be taken down
and new built, in the default of the Ladie Anne Cope, who has the tithes
of Tithbie and is willing for her part to do [it], and of Mr John Chaworth
of Sowthwell [Southwell], Esq., who has the tithes of Cropwell.
Place name given as Tithebie cum Cropwell butler.
On back, upside down: title for bundle, 'Bingham pasch 1625'.
3.10.1625-15.12.1625
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwarden presentment bills, formerly in an original bundle; Bingham
deanery, Michaelmas 1625
For stray Michaelmas 1625 bills from the parishes of Bunny, Tollerton
and Thoroton, misplaced in another bundle, see AN/PB 314/5/50-52.
AN/PB 314/5/55/1
1625
Michaelmas 1625
Thong originally used to tie bundle of presentment bills, Bingham deanery,
Michaelmas 1625.
AN/PB 314/5/55/2
3.10.1625
Whatton
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Mathewe Hart for not paying his levies
agreed on by all the inhabitants towards the repair of our church.
On back, upside down: title for bundle, 'Bingham Michas 1625'.
AN/PB 314/5/56
8.10.1625
Edwalton
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Michell for giving railing
speeches in the church to the churchwardens.
Place name given as Edoulton.
AN/PB 314/5/57
10.1625
Hawksworth
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Cursom of Authorpe [Owthorpe]
for a public fame with Katherine Hardall of Hausworth.
Place name given variously as Hauksworth and Hawsworth.
AN/PB 314/5/58
8.10.1625
Sutton Bonington (St Michael)
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Bande for standing excommunicate
and not seeking to be absolved; Amee his wife for standing excommunicate
and not seeking to be absolved; Elizabeath Standley for disturbing Elizeabath
Smyth in the church on Sunday 21 August; she bid her sit up, she would
not, then [she said] 'thou and I will trie weather thou or I be the master
before the Clarke and others after it [the bell] had Cheimed'.
Place name given as St Michaells in Sutton Boningeton.
AN/PB 314/5/59
8.10.1625
Stanford-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Whitbee for disturbing the
minister at the beginning of evening prayer; Mr Nicolas Clarke, parson,
for the chancel [being out of repair] in his default.
Place name given as Stanforth.
AN/PB 314/5/60
1625 (c)
Hickling
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Jhon Browne and Mary Mussonne upon
a common fame of incontinency.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1625.
AN/PB 314/5/61
8.10.1625
Clifton
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: John Wood and Margerie Godfrey for
committing fornication together; the said John Wood dwells at Barton [in
Fabis]; Thomas Thompson and Nich'as Oliver of Clifton for talking and
wrangling together in the church in service time.
AN/PB 314/5/62
8.10.1625
Radcliffe-on-Trent
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: George Leeson for suspicion of incontinency
with Elizabeth Cliffe before their marriage; Briget Baumford for incontinency
with Anthony Morris.
Place name given as Ratcliffe super Trent.
AN/PB 314/5/63
1625 (c)
Tithby
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Goadbye for fornication with
Marye Whauley.
Place name given as Tithbie.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1625.
AN/PB 314/5/64
8.10.1625
Widmerpool
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Mris Amye Widmorpoule for a recusant;
likewise Darrythe Morris her maid; Willam Michell and his wife for fornication
before marriage.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Place name given as Widmorpoule.
AN/PB 314/5/65
8.10.1625
Barton in Fabis
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Henrye Widdowson for getting a child
by Isabell Crippell, as she says; John Wood for the same, with one from
Clifton whose name we do not know.
Place name given as Barton.
AN/PB 314/5/66
1625 (c)
West Leake
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Abbott for very commonly using
'the trade of Barbinge' on the Sabbath day, having had warning to the
contrary.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1625.
AN/PB 314/5/67
8.10.1625
Rempstone
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: George Lovet and Elisabeth Mugge
upon a common fame of incontinency.
Place name given as Rempston.
Written in another hand, 'comp[ar]uere et dim'.
AN/PB 314/5/68
8.10.1625
Shelford
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: George Sharpe and Jane Holburne for
fornication; Richard Mee and Elizabeth Scharbrough for the like.
Written in another hand, 'dim'.
AN/PB 314/5/69
1625 (c)
Upper Broughton
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: William Loe for suspicion of fornication
with Anne Brette.
Place name given as Broughton.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1625.
AN/PB 314/5/70
8.10.1625
Bingham
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Roger Wallis and Isabell Dodge for
committing fornication together; Robert Somer the younger and Robert Harringson
for 'hinging up a Cock one the Sabarth daye in the preaching tyme for
weding folke to ride, at which did distorgich the congregacion' [meaning
obscure, possibly translated as 'hanging up a cock on the Sabbath day
in the preaching time for wedding folk to ride, at which the congregation
disgorged (from the church)'].
AN/PB 314/5/71
1625 (c)
Holme Pierrepont
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: William Allin of Adboulton [Adbolton]
in our parish for not coming to the church to communicate.
Place name given as Holme Peirpoint.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1625.
AN/PB 314/5/72
8.10.1625
Screveton
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: their bell frames and wheels are
somewhat decayed so that they should be repaired or made new; they crave
time for the amendment of the same because their parish is poor.
Place name given as Screveton alias Screton.
AN/PB 314/5/73
8.10.1625
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Wyllyam Soare for being excommunicate
more than twelve months.
Place name given as Wylloughbie.
AN/PB 314/5/74
8.10.1625
Ruddington
Michaelmas 1625
Nothing to present.
Space has been left for churchwardens to make their marks, but they have
not done so.
Place name given as Rudington.
AN/PB 314/5/75
8.10.1625
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1625
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stanton of the ouldes.
AN/PB 314/5/76
10.1625
Keyworth
Michaelmas 1625
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Kewerth.
AN/PB 314/5/77
8.10.1625
Elton
Michaelmas 1625
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Ellton.
AN/PB 314/5/78
1625 (c)
Costock
Michaelmas 1625
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Cortlingstocke.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1625.
AN/PB 314/5/79
8.10.1625
Adbolton
Michaelmas 1625
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Adboulton.
AN/PB 314/5/80
8.10.1625
East Bridgford
Michaelmas 1625
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/5/81
8.10.1625 (c)
Langar
Michaelmas 1625
Nothing to present.
Dated 8 October, no year; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas
1625.
AN/PB 314/5/82
8.10.1625
Flintham
Michaelmas 1625
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/5/83
8.10.1625
Normanton-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1625
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Normantonn upon Soore.
AN/PB 314/5/84
8.10.1625
Granby
Michaelmas 1625
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Granbee.
AN/PB 314/5/85
8.10.1625
Scarrington
Michaelmas 1625
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Carintonn.
AN/PB 314/5/86
8.10.1625
Wysall
Michaelmas 1625
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Wisall.
AN/PB 314/5/87
8.10.1625
Thrumpton
Michaelmas 1625
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/5/88
8.10.1625
Staunton Chapel
Michaelmas 1625
Nothing to present.
Marked by one churchwarden only; note at bottom of presentment bill, next
to the name of Willimus Rose, states 'alter gard egrotat' [the other churchwarden
is ill].
Place name given as Stanton capella p[ar]ocie de Orston.
AN/PB 314/5/89
15.12.1625
Cotgrave
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Harrolde Humphrey and An Wyre for
the common fame that they have committed fornication together; Nicholas
Benet and his wife for fornication before wedlock.
Place name given as Codgraue.
AN/PB 314/5/90
8.10.1625
Car Colston
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: the farmer of the parsonage for the
chancel not being repaired.
AN/PB 314/5/91
8.10.1625
Orston
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Mestris Anne Faireburne for not coming
to church to hear divine service and sermons.
Marked by one churchwarden only; note at bottom of presentment bill, next
to the name of John Maltbie, states 'alter gard egrotat' [the other churchwarden
is ill].
AN/PB 314/5/92
1625 (c)
Colston Bassett
Michaelmas 1625
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Greenwoode for fornication,
and Ellen Henson for fornication committed with the said Greenwood.
No churchwardens' names given.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1625.
Written in another hand, 'memorand'.
12.10.1622-11.11.1626
Easter 1626
Churchwarden presentment bills, formerly in an original bundle; Bingham
deanery, Easter 1626
The majority of presentment bills are dated April 1626, with occasional
bills dated March to July 1626; the bundle also includes one stray bill
from Clifton parish, Michaelmas 1622 [AN/PB 314/6/54] and one stray bill
from Shelford parish, Michaelmas 1626 [AN/PB 314/6/5].
AN/PB 314/6/1
24.4.1626
Whatton
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Katherin Wright for fornication with
John Orson; Thomas Wilson for fornication with Elizabeth Simson; Elizabeth
Crosley for refusing to pay 3s 6d for her lay towards the repair of our
church according to a cessment; Wm Wallis for having company drinking
in his house on a Sunday in divine prayer time.
Written in another hand, 'primo Julij prox.'.
Numbered '1' in top left-hand corner.
On back, upside down, title page for bundle: 'Bingham, Easter 1626'.
AN/PB 314/6/2
24.4.1626
Widmerpool
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Mrs Alice Widmerpole and Darothie
Morice for popish recusants.
Place name given as Widmerpole.
Numbered '2' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/3
24.4.1626
Tithby
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: the chancel is in decay and is to
be repaired by the Lady Anne Cope and by Mr John Chaworthe of Southwell;
the Lady Cope for her part is willing to bear her part and has left money
for performance of it in the bailiff's hands, 'if it pleased Mr Chaworthe
to wyne with her'; the tithes of the Lady Cope in Titheby are of the value
of £26 13s 4d per year; the tithes of Cropwell Buttler in the tenure
of Mr Chaworth are of the yearly value of £100.
Place name given as Titheby.
Numbered '3' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/4
24.4.1626
Shelford
Easter 1626
Nothing to present.
Numbered '4' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/5
11.11.1626
Shelford
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Benit, Richard Tindall, Heanerie
Tindall, Heanirie North, Nicolas Wilsonn and two of the Stories, but we
do not know their Christian names - one of them dwells at Orsson [Orston]
and the other at Flawborow [Flawborough] - with certain others whose names
we do not know. [offence not specified]
Place name given as Chelforth.
Misplaced in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1626.
AN/PB 314/6/6
24.4.1626
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Nicholas Webster, who has intermeddled
with the goods of his late deceased father without lawful authority from
the Ordinary; Wyllyam Arnold and Elizabeth Tompson who live together as
man and wife and are not lawfully married; John Welch and Robret Arnold,
who have raised a great contention among neighbours by reporting that
we [churchwardens] have received 30 or 40 shillings that we cannot account
for, which they can in no way prove.
Place name given as Wyllowbie.
Written in another hand, 'in quine Julij dom[inu]s reservavit Johanem
Welch et Robertum Arnold', and [possibly unconnected to this presentment:]
'Mr Wightman primo Julij px'.
Numbered '7' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/7
25.7.1626
Radcliffe-on-Trent
Easter 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Ratcliff super Trent.
Numbered '8' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/8
24.4.1626
West Bridgford
Easter 1626
Rector and churchwardens present the following: Mary Dauson, late of our
parish, and servant to the late Mr Henry Cock, for being got with child
by her said master, as she confessed in her travails.
Numbered '9' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/9
1626 (c)
Elton
Easter 1626
Rector and churchwardens certify that the repair of the church, for which
time was granted until the feast day of 'this' St John the Baptist, has
been done.
Place name given as Ellton.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1626.
AN/PB 314/6/10
1626 (c)
Ruddington
Easter 1626
Vicar presents the following: John Ellote for often sleeping in the church
in time of divine service on divers Sabbath days.
Place name given as Rudington.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1626.
AN/PB 314/6/11
1626 (c)
Edwalton
Easter 1626
Vicar presents the following: Thomas Pight for sleeping in the church
on the Sabbath day in time of divine service, very often, and being absent
from the church on divers Sabbath days, in the field with his sheep in
time of divine service.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1626.
AN/PB 314/6/12
24.4.1626
Adbolton
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: they want the second tome of the
Book of Homilies.
Place name given as Adboulton.
Numbered '10' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/13
13.5.1626
Plumtree
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: John Willsonne for committing fornication
with Elizabeath Pight, both of Cliptson [Clipston] in the parish of Plumtree;
Willm Beell for not receiving the communion last Easter; Phillipp Felton
for the same.
Written in another hand next to Willm Beell's presentment, 'dim cum monicionem
ad recipiend et cert in mensem', and at the bottom of the presentment
bill, 'x junij px'.
Numbered '11' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/14
24.4.1626
Bunny
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: George Sills of Bradmore for committing
fornication with Marie Pes before they were married, as the common fame
goes; we do not have a sufficient Bible, nor a sufficient cloth for the
communion table.
Place name given as Bonney.
Written in another hand, 'x Junij px'.
Numbered '12' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/15
12.5.1626
Hickling
Easter 1626
Letter from Edmund Bardsey, rector of Hickling, to Mr Purfrye [Michael
Purefey, Deputy Official of the Archdeaconry of Nottingham]:
Certifies that there is a book of Homilies well and sufficiently bound,
and of the best edition, provided for the parish.
Numbered '13' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/16
24.4.1626
Wilford
Easter 1626
Nothing to present.
Numbered '14' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/17
24.4.1626
West Leake
Easter 1626
Nothing to present.
Numbered '15' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/18
24.4.1626
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
Easter 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stanton super ley wolds.
Numbered '16' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/19
1626
Sutton Bonington (St Michael)
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Band and Amett his wife for
standing excommunicate.
Place name given as Sutton Bonigton St Michaell.
Dated '1626' only; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1626.
Numbered '17' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/20
24.4.1626
Car Colston
Easter 1626
Nothing to present.
Numbered '18' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/21
24.4.1626
Thrumpton
Easter 1626
Nothing to present.
Numbered '19' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/22
24.4.1626
Hawksworth
Easter 1626
Nothing to present.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Place name given as Hawkesworth.
Numbered '20' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/23
24.4.1626
East Leake
Easter 1626
Nothing to present.
Numbered '21' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/24
24.4.1626
Normanton-upon-Soar
Easter 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Normanton upon Sore.
Numbered '22' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/25
24.4.1626
Langar
Easter 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Langar cum Barnestone.
Numbered '23' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/26
24.4.1626
Costock
Easter 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Cortlingstocke.
Numbered '24' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/27
24.4.1626
Bingham
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Gorge Goodwin and Agnes Bartram for
fornication together; Thomas Pacie and Ellner Burgbie for fornication
together; Roberte Grene and Jane his wife for fornication together before
they were married; Lenard Clarke for not receiving communion last Easter;
Nicolis Roades for not receiving communion last Easter; Francis Cowper
for not receiving communion last Easter.
Written in another hand, 'Emt xiij Maij'.
Numbered '25' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/28
24.4.1626
Upper Broughton
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Wade and Joane his wife for
fornication before marriage; he lives at Clipstone in the parish of Plumtree.
Written in another hand, 'dim. intuitu[?] iuri. monij'.
Numbered '26' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/29
24.4.1626
Clifton
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Anne Lummas, daughter of Anne Lummas,
widow, for not receiving the communion last Easter; Elizabeth James, wife
of Richard James, for going from the church and whispering with others
in the sermon time on 16 February last; Elizabeth Gilman, her maid, for
the like offence at the same time; Marie Lambard for going from her own
parish church on divers Sabbath days within these last two months; Franncis
Wallis and his wife, Gervas Thorpe and his son and his daughter, all dwelling
at Barton [Barton in Fabis], for not receiving the holy communion in our
church last Easter, as they have usually been accustomed to do as in former
times, being commonly reputed and taken to be parishioners of Clifton.
Written in another hand, 'x Junij px'.
Numbered '27' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/30
24.4.1626
Colston Bassett
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Wm Robinson of Kinoulton 'in the
parish of Colstone Basset', for fornication with his now wife before marriage,
as the common fame goes.
Written in another hand, 'x Junij px'.
Numbered '28' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/31
24.4.1626
East Bridgford
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Rowland Mapelles for fornication
before marriage with one Eliz. Porter.
Place name given as Easte Brigforth uppon the hill.
Written in another hand, 'fecit et dim. per ultimo Aprilis'.
Numbered '29' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/32
24.4.1626
Elton
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: their church is in defect, in want
of painting with lime.
Written in another hand, 'unto Midsommer'.
Numbered '30' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/33
24.4.1626
Edwalton
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Mr Thomas Storer, their vicar, for
christening Henrie Pight's child within this last half year without his
surplice; the chancel is in decay and almost utterly ruinous in the fault
of the Lord Chauvendish; their vicar does no divine service on Wednesdays,
Fridays and Saturdays.
Numbered '31' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/34
24.4.1626
Flintham
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: John Cowe for profaning the Sabbath
day by carrying straw upon his back on a Sunday about Candlemas last.
Written in another hand, 'comp[arui]t postea fatetur d[o]m[inu]s cum monic[i]o[ne]m
dim[issi]t'.
Numbered '32' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/35
24.4.1626
Kingston-on-Soar
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: the common fame is that Elizabeth
Savidge is suspected of fornication before marriage; Elizabeth Hawkin
for being with child in fornication, as the common fame is, but with whom
we do not know; Ellen Wrighte for hedging or setting up rails last Sunday
23 April.
Place name given as Kinstone.
Written in another hand, 'x Julij'.
Numbered '33' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/36
24.4.1626
Holme Pierrepont
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Xpofer Jennison for using vile oaths
in the church on the last Sabbath day; Mr William Allen for not coming
to our church nor receiving the communion.
Place name given as Holme Pierepont.
Written in another hand, 'emt xvj Maij 1626'.
Numbered '34' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/37
24.4.1626
Hickling
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Roo for a common fame with
Mary Musson for adultery.
Written in another hand, 'x Jun. px'.
Numbered '35' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/38
24.4.1626
Gotham
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: John Shepeside for sleeping in prayer
time and for disturbing the parson in prayer time; Willam Heayes for fornication
with Elizabeth Deayne of Nott[ingham].
Written in another hand, 'Emt 13 Maij 1626'.
Numbered '36' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/39
24.4.1626
Granby
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: our church is not in good repair,
and we desire a time to repair it; Richard Robinson and Margaret Ricke
of Sutton in the parish of Granbie for suspicion of fornication before
they were married.
Written in another hand, 'donec Mich. 6d', and 'In xiijto Maij 1626'.
Numbered '37' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/40
24.4.1626
Kneeton
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Robert Peper and Margery his wife
for fornication before marriage.
Place name given as Kneton.
Written in another hand, 'Cognat. xs an'.
Numbered '38' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/41
24.4.1626
Owthorpe
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Byrd the younger for fornication
with Alice Greene of Hickling.
Numbered '39' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/42
24.4.1626
Orston
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: George Storie for not receiving holy
communion last Easter in his own parish church of Orston; John Dennys
for being divers times drunk within these last six months; the common
fame is that Gabriel Dennys was drunk last Easter day.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Written in another hand, 'x Julij'.
Numbered '40' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/43
1626 (c)
Sutton Bonington (St Anne)
Easter 1626
One churchwarden presents the following: Gorge Adleton and Eline his wife
for fornication ['before marriage' added in another hand].
Place name given as St Tanes Parich Sutton Boniton.
Dated '1626' only; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1626.
Written in another hand, 'Emt xiij Maij 1626'.
Numbered '41' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/44
24.4.1626
Ruddington
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Chaddocke for not receiving
the holy communion this year in our parish; Elizabeth Plummer for committing
fornication with John Spencer, who has done his penance and satisfied
the court; but the said Elizabeth escaped punishment by fleeing our parish,
until she lately returned to our parish again; the said Elizabeth has
not received the holy communion in our parish this year.
Numbered '42' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/45
24.4.1626
Screveton
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: our bells are not as well hung up
as we intend they shall be, but we are carefully about it to have them
done before August; Jane Belwood has not received the communion this Easter,
nor could she be admitted because she openly professes herself out of
charity with her neighbours.
Place name given as Screueto[n].
Numbered '43' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/46
24.4.1626
Staunton Chapel
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: there is a common fame that one Anne
Mosse, remaining in the house of Thomas Rose, is got with child in fornication.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Place name given as Stanton capella p[ar]ocie Orston.
Numbered '44' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/47
24.4.1626
Stanford-upon-Soar
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Tristram Shilcocke and Anne his wife
for fornication before marriage; Willm Skelson and Agnes or Anne his wife
for fornication before marriage; our chancel windows are out of repair
for want of glazing, in the fault of Mr Nicholas Clarke, our parson.
Place name given as Stanford.
Numbered '45' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/48
24.4.1626
Scarrington
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Dorothie Hus did not receive the
communion at Scarrington last Easter.
Written in another hand, 'primo Julij px'.
Numbered '46' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/49
7.3.1626
Tollerton
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Issabell Richmond, widow, for not
paying her due lays to the church for her cattle and land; Thomas Wortley
for hurling over our bells divers times, the churchwardens warning him
to the contrary; Willm Wilson alias Fox, John Watts' man, for the same
offence; Issabell Leeson for misbehaviour in church at divine service,
in hurling stones from one desk to another; George Ward for not paying
all of the dues that he should pay to the church; John Fillingham for
the same.
Dated 7 March 1625 [Old Style].
Written in another hand above George Ward's name, 'dim cum monicionem
18 Mart sol. etc.', and above John Fillingham's, 'ex gra dim'.
Numbered '47' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/50
24.4.1626
Thoroton
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Matthewe Linsdale for fornication
with Frauncis Keye, now his wife, as the common fame goes.
Place name given as Thoroughton.
Written in another hand, 'primo Julij 1626'.
Numbered '48' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/51
24.4.1626
Wysall
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: one of our bells has been lately
broken, and we humbly entreat a convenient time to be assigned us for
its repair.
Place name given as Wisall.
Numbered '49' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/52
13.5.1626
Rempstone
Easter 1626
Churchwardens present the following: our minister, for his chancel window
being out of repair, but it is not through his negligence, but rather
the glazier's prolonging of time; our minister craves a month for repairing
the said window; our church stands more than half a mile from the [town],
therefore we do not usually have divine service on the days mentioned
in the Act [Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays]; William Jackeson for a
fame of fornication with Margaret Right.
Place name given as Remston.
Numbered '50' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/53
1626 (c)
Easter 1626
Scrap of paper, edges damaged, on which are written various names, meaning
obscure: Robart Cliff junior; Elizabeth ...; Fransis King; Luse Humph[rey];
Robart Cliff senior, Thomas Cliff, John Scrimshaw and John Cliffe of Codgraue
[Cotgrave]; Thomas Fox of Wimesall [Wymeswold, Leicestershire]; Humphrey
Burros of the same.
Written on the back, in the same hand, list of clergy and churchwardens:
[Kinou]lton; [-]ntinie Robinson, vicar; [-]ge Woloton and [-] Clarke,
old churchwardens; [-]ward Frith.
AN/PB 314/6/54
12.10.1622
Clifton
Michaelmas 1622
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Shepard and Anne Maunesfeild
for being married without banns being asked and without any lawful licence.
Misplaced in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1626.
Numbered '5' in top left-hand corner.
On back, upside down, title page for bundle, 'Archid. Nott. 1623' [sic].
1.5.1626-18.11.1626
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwarden presentment bills, formerly in an original bundle; Bingham
deanery, Michaelmas 1626
The majority of presentment bills are dated 30 September 1626, with occasional
bills dated August and November 1626; the bundle also includes one stray
memorandum relating to three parishes in Nottingham, dated May 1626 [AN/PB
314/6/64].
For a stray bill from Shelford parish, Michaelmas 1626, misplaced in another
bundle, see AN/PB 314/6/5; for stray bills from Cropwell Butler and Staunton
Chapel parishes, Michaelmas 1626, misplaced in another bundle, see AN/PB/302/455-456.
AN/PB 314/6/55
30.9.1626 (c)
West Leake
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name partially obscured by damage; Weste L[-]e can be read.
Dated 30 September, year obscured by damage; found in bundle of presentment
bills from Michaelmas 1626.
On back, upside down, title page for bundle, 'Bingham Mich'as 1626'.
AN/PB 314/6/56
30.9.1626
Flintham
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Henrie Whelpeley and Elizabeth Rocoorth
for fornication together; John Coe for refusing to pay 6d for his church
lay.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Numbered '2' in top left hand corner.
On back, upside down, title page for bundle, '1626 Pntmts Nott et Bingham
Et cetera vizt 1624 1625 1626'.
AN/PB 314/6/57
16.9.1626-18.11.1626
Staunton
Radcliffe-on-Trent
Michaelmas 1626
Curate of Staunton [in the deanery of Newark] presents the following,
16 Sep 1626: Edward Cowtridge and Richard Cullen, churchwardens, for not
providing sufficient wine on the last communion day, so that there were
many persons who did not receive at that time.
Written below, presentment by Roger Campion [churchwarden], and headed
'Ratcliff super Trent', of the following, 18 Nov 1626: Willm Greeneall
and Anne his now wife for committing fornication together.
Written below in the same hand, [unconnected] list of names of clergy
in Retford and Nottingham deaneries: Tho. Bowles, gent., impropriator
of Worksop; Franciscus Stevenson, vicar of Norton Cuckney; Anthonius Nevill,
gent., impropriator of Mattersey; Gilbertus Nevill, gent., impropriator
of [West] Burton; Richardus Mustin, vicar of South Leverton; Mr Zacharias
Saunders, rector of Linby; Mr Hickman, vicar of Basford; Mr Robertus Malham,
rector of St Nicholas, Nottingham.
Numbered '3' in top left hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/58
8.8.1626
Bingham
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Leanord Clarke for getting a child
of Ellizabeth Gunthrope.
Numbered '4' in top left hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/59
1626 (c)
Tollerton
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Tollarton.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1626.
Numbered '5' in top left hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/60
30.9.1626
East Bridgford
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: two of Willm Mafeld's men, one [named]
Thomas Bladg, and other one's name we do not know, for mending some 'heacookes'
that a bull had thrown about, on the Sabbath day; Margerit Warnerbee for
being married with a stranger without any licence or banns asking to our
knowledge or the parson's.
Place name given as East Breedgforth.
Written in another hand above Willm Mafeld's name, 'pd forthe vijs', and
at the end of that presentment, 'cum monicionem dim'.
AN/PB 314/6/61
1626
Cotgrave
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: John Henson, with his two daughters
Alles Henson and Easter Henson, being recusants.
Place name given as Cotgraue.
Dated '1626' only; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas
1626.
Numbered '7' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/62
30.9.1626
Scarrington
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
Numbered '8' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/63
30.9.1626
Sutton Bonington (St Michael)
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Suttenbonington Sent Michele.
Numbered '9' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/64
1.5.1626
Nottingham
Easter 1626
Anonymous memorandum that on 1 May 1626, William More of the parish of
Saint Peters in Nottingham, alehouse keeper, kept company in his house
all the time of divine service in the afternoon; the names [of the company]
were Will. Slater of the parish of Saint Nicholas, Thomas Street of the
same, Henrie Wood of the parish of Saint Peters, William Knight of the
same, Roger Cowper of the parish of Saint Maries; and on Ascension Day,
William Slater and Thomas Street were at the same house in time of divine
service, and Thomas Wells of Nott. [Nottingham].
Misplaced in bundle of presentment bills from Bingham deanery, Michaelmas
1626.
Numbered '10' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/65
30.9.1626
Keyworth
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Robert Hardie for fornication with
Catteren Barrow.
Place name given as Kewerth.
Written in another hand, 'xvij Octobris'.
AN/PB 314/6/66
1626 (c)
Upper Broughton
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Ouer Broughton.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1626.
AN/PB 314/6/67
30.9.1626
Whatton
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Emmatt Hooton for incontinency with
Peeter Gelstropp the younger, as she confesses.
Place name partially obscured by damage; '[-]hatt[-]' can be read.
AN/PB 314/6/68
30.9.1626
Adbolton
Michaelmas 1626
One churchwarden presents the following: John Hallam for setting peas
in service time on the Sabbath day about Midsummer last; Katherine, wife
of Henrie Archer of Westbridgeford [West Bridgford] for the like at the
same time.
Place name given as Adboulton.
Written in another hand, 'xiij Octobris'.
AN/PB 314/6/69
30.9.1626
Edwalton
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Edoulton.
AN/PB 314/6/70
30.9.1626
Owthorpe
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/6/71
30.9.1626
West Bridgford
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/6/72
30.9.1626
Costock
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Joane Eastwood, wife of Willm Eastwood,
for 'braking towe' on May Day last; Marie Mee, widow, for weeding corn
on a holy day, as we think on St James's day last or some other holy day
or festival since Midsummer.
Place name given as Corlingstocke.
Written in another hand, 'xiij Octobris'.
AN/PB 314/6/73
1626 (c)
Clifton
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1626.
AN/PB 314/6/74
30.9.1626
Wysall
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Whisall.
AN/PB 314/6/75
30.9.1626
Kneeton
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Willm Gill for fornication with Margerit
Swaine.
Written in another hand, 'xiiij Octobris', and above Willm Gill's name,
'dim 7 Octobris intuitu iurim monij'.
AN/PB 314/6/76
30.9.1626
Orston
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Ales wife of William Tourrs for gathering
peas on the Sabbath day.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Place name given as Orson.
Written in another hand, 'xiiij Octobris'.
AN/PB 314/6/77
30.9.1626
Hawksworth
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Hawxwourth.
AN/PB 314/6/78
30.9.1626
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: William Soore for not receiving the
communion last Midsummer.
Place name given as Wollowbe.
Written in another hand, 'xiij Octobris'.
AN/PB 314/6/79
30.9.1626
Colston Bassett
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Coulsonbassit.
AN/PB 314/6/80
30.9.1626
East Leake
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Este Leake.
AN/PB 314/6/81
1626 (c)
Thrumpton
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Thrumton.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1626.
AN/PB 314/6/82
30.9.1626
Holme Pierrepont
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Dorothey Leeson of Holme for behaving
herself unquietly in time of divine service, [on] divers Sundays; Issabel
Marshall of Bassingfeild [Bassingfield] for her negligent coming to church.
Place name given as Holme Peripont.
AN/PB 314/6/83
30.9.1626
Shelford
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: 'Newton younmen' [the young men of
the hamlet of Newton] for 'goeing with a meay gam' [going with a May game?]
on the Sabbath day.
Place name given as Shellforth.
AN/PB 314/6/84
30.9.1626
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stanton super le woldes.
AN/PB 314/6/85
30.9.1626
Sutton Bonington (St Anne)
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Suttenbonington Senttanes.
AN/PB 314/6/86
30.9.1626
Granby
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Granbye.
AN/PB 314/6/87
30.9.1626
Gotham
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Willm Heayes for standing excommunicate
for five weeks.
AN/PB 314/6/88
30.9.1626
Widmerpool
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Ammie Widmerpoole for not coming
to the church for three months.
AN/PB 314/6/89
30.9.1626
Ratcliffe-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Ratlife upon Sore.
AN/PB 314/6/90
30.9.1626
Elton
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: James Warde for default of the church
wall; James Rowes for the like.
Place name given as Ellton.
Written in another hand next to and above James Warde's name, '3s, dim
cert ad solvend apx.'
AN/PB 314/6/91
1626 (c)
Kingston-on-Soar
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: George Draper for a suspicion of
fornication with Frances Wright, who was his servant.
Place name given as Kingston.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1626.
Written in another hand, 'xiij Octobris'.
Numbered '69' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/6/92
30.9.1626
Car Colston
Michaelmas 1626
Churchwardens present the following: Gillibauld Pee and Alice his wife
for fornication.
Place name given as Carcorlston.
Written in another hand, 'xiij Octobris'.
AN/PB 314/6/93
30.9.1626
Hickling
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Hicklen.
AN/PB 314/6/94
30.9.1626
Normanton-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1626
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Normanton super soar.
12.5.1627-28.4.1628
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwarden presentment bills, formerly in an original bundle; Bingham
deanery, Michaelmas 1627
The majority of presentment bills are dated 29 October 1627, with occasional
bills dated May 1627 to March 1628.
Bundle also includes one stray bill from Car Colston parish, Easter 1628
[AN/PB 314/7/64].
AN/PB 314/7/1
20.10.1627
Costock
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Cortlingstocke.
Numbered '1' in top left-hand corner.
On back, title page for bundle, 'Bingham Michas 1627'.
AN/PB 314/7/2
20.10.1627
Cotgrave
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: John Henson and Alles his daughter
and Heaster his daughter, for absolute recusants.
Place name given as Codgrave.
Numbered '2' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/3
20.10.1627
Staunton Chapel
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Staunton Chappell.
Numbered '3' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/4
20.10.1627
Ruddington
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Numbered '4' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/5
20.10.1627
Wysall
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: John Street and his wife for fornication
before marriage.
Numbered '5' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/6
20.10.1627
Langar
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Numbered '6' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/7
20.10.1627
Ratcliffe-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Ratliffe upon Soore.
Numbered '7' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/8
20.10.1627
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: Willm Sowes for being excommunicated
four months.
Place name given as Willoughby.
Numbered '8' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/9
20.10.1627-24.11.1627
West Bridgford
Plumtree
Michaelmas 1627
Two churchwardens' presentment bills written on one sheet of paper:
West Bridgford, 20 Oct 1627: nothing to present.
Plumtrie [Plumtree], 24 Nov 1627: Willm Bell, one of the said churchwardens,
for fornication with Sarah, his now wife, before marriage; he is willing
to submit himself and to take order therein.
Numbered '9' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/10
20.10.1627
Thrumpton
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Numbered '10' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/11
20.10.1627
Kingston-on-Soar
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Kingston.
Numbered '11' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/12
20.10.1627
Edwalton
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: the chancel is in decay and has neither
roof nor windows; the Lord Candyishe, now Earle of Devenshire, is o[wner]
of the parsonage, to whom the repair belongs, and Sir George Chewo[rth],
knight, is the receiver of the tithes and fruits belonging to the same.
Place name given as Edwoltonn.
Numbered '12' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/13
20.10.1627
Granby
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: their church is in defect and needs
to be wholly taken down and newly built again, which cannot be done this
winter.
Place name given as Granbie.
Numbered '13' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/14
20.10.1627
Rempstone
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: their church wants pointing with
lime in some off places in the middle of the church.
Place name given as Rempston.
Numbered '14' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/15-16
20.10.1627
Scarrington
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: Elizabeth Rest for a common scold
and disquieter of her neighbours.
On a separate piece of paper [AN/PB 314/7/16, originally attached to AN/PB
314/7/15]: note stating that 'we the churchwardens' mistaked the name
of the woman they presented; her name is Isbell Reste, wife of Will Rest.
AN/PB 314/7/15 numbered '15' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/17
20.10.1627
Barton in Fabis
Michaelmas 1627
One churchwarden presents the following: there is a common fame that Henrie
Widdowson and Issable Cripple have committed incontinency.
Place name given as Barton.
Numbered '16' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/18
20.10.1627
Clifton
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: Mris Anne Lummas, widow, for refusing
to receive the communion at the feast of St Michael last past, because
it might not be ministered to her sitting; Mris Anne Lummas junior in
like manner for the same.
Numbered '17' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/19
20.10.1627
Adbolton
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Numbered '18' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/20
20.10.1627
Flintham
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: Adam Pacye for refusing to pay and
not paying two lays or cessments made in the last year, one of them being
layed by land being 9d and the other one by goods, which we think extends
to 2s or more but do not know for certain; Henrie Raggesdall for incontinency
with Marie Marshe, widow, as the common fame goes.
Marked by one churchwarden only; note added that Edward Crossland, churchwarden,
is sworn and has given his consent [to the presentment] but is absent.
Numbered '19' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/21
20.10.1627
Whatton
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Numbered '20' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/22
20.10.1627
Stanford-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stanford super Sore.
Numbered '21' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/23
20.10.1627
Tithby
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: the chancel being out of repair in
the default of Ladie Anne Coope and John Chaworth Esq.
Place name given as Tythbie.
Numbered '22' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/24
20.10.1627
Elton
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: Hugo. Hillton for default of the
church wall, letting it lie out of repair.
Place name given as Ellton.
Numbered '23' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/25
20.10.1627
Orston
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Orson.
Numbered '24' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/26
20.10.1627
Sutton Bonington (St Anne)
Michaelmas 1627
One churchwarden [not named] presents the following: William Marciall
for a common fame of incontinency between himself and Ales Abot.
Place name given as Sentans Sutton Bunnington.
Numbered '25' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/27
1627 (c)
Sutton Bonington (St Michael)
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following, also signed by the parson: John Sheapard
and Anne Hickling, wife of Bartle Hicklinge, upon a common fame of incontinency
together; Darathy [altered to Alice] Abbott for a common fame of incontinency
with Willm Marshall; Elisabeth Peake for a common fame of incontinency
with Thomas Sireson, as she has confessed; note added below that the last
presentment is not new, but a repetition of the presentment which was
formerly given in by the old churchwardens at the last visitation.
Place name given as St Michaell in Sutton Bonnington.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1627.
Numbered '26' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/28
21.10.1627
Gotham
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Numbered '27' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/29
20.10.1627
Shelford
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Shelforth.
Numbered '29' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/30
20.10.1627
Widmerpool
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: Amye Widmerpoole, widow, Mrs Alice
Widmerpoole, spinster, and Dorothye Morris, spinster, recusant papists
who do not come to their parish church.
Memorandum added at foot of presentment that on St Luke's Day 12 carts
from Widmerpoole were seen in Nott. [Nottingham] at 11 o'clock, and so
consquently they were neither at morning nor evening prayer that day.
Place name given as Widmerpoole.
Numbered '30' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/31
20.10.1627
Hickling
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Hicklinge.
Numbered '31' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/32
20.10.1627
Normanton-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Normanton upon Sore.
Numbered '32' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/33
20.10.1627
Thoroton
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: their church windows want some repairs,
but they have a workman now mending them, and desire a time to mend them
in and to certify it.
Place name given as Thurraton.
Numbered '33' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/34
20.10.1627
Wilford
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Wilfforthe.
Numbered '34' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/35
20.10.1627
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stanton of the ouldes.
Numbered '35' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/36
20.10.1627
Colston Bassett
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Cowlson Basset.
Numbered '36' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/37
20.10.1627
Owthorpe
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Awthroppe.
Numbered '37' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/38
20.10.1627
Radcliffe-on-Trent
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Ratcliff super Trent.
Numbered '38' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/39
20.10.1627
East Bridgford
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Bridgford super montem.
Numbered '39' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/40
20.10.1627
Keyworth
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: Edward Marten the elder for not paying
his lay to the church, that he was layed according to custom before time;
the said Edward Marten for holding a seat in the church and refusing to
pay for it, and for not paying the clerk's wages.
Numbered '40' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/41
20.10.1627
West Leake
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Numbered '41' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/42
20.10.1627
Hawksworth
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Hawxworth.
Numbered '42' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/43
5.11.1627
Bunny
Bradmore
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens of Bonney [Bunny] present the following: the seats in the
parish church are insufficient and in decay, which was presented at the
last visitation; it was answered at the last 'sceane' that wool [perhaps
an error for 'wood'?] was prepared for the purpose, upon which Mr Gymney
made answer in our behalf, at the request of our minister, that it pleased
the Doctor to give us time until the next 'sceane'; Thomas Lowe and Elizabeth
Wilson alias Lowe, supposedly married but we know not where nor by what
authority; touching their suspicion of fornication, we think it not fit
to present before we have sufficient knowledge of the day of their marriage,
and so we leave it to your consideration; Elizabeth Dudley for fornication
with Samuell Twinbury, as she says, of the parish of Lenton.
One churchwarden of Bradmore [in the parish of Bunny] presents the following:
Richard Smythe and Ursula Osborne, late servant to Willm Bond, upon a
common fame of fornication.
Numbered '43' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/44
3.12.1627
Car Colston
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Numbered '44' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/45
10.11.1627
Upper Broughton
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: Roberte Oldefeilde for absenting
himself from church at morning prayer on 7 October last.
Place name given as Broughton.
Numbered '45' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/46
3.11.1627-1.12.1627
Tollerton
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: Mr John Pare, parson, for the chancel
being out of repair, but he desires your worship to give him until Whitsunday
for its repair.
Place name given as Tollarton.
Written in another hand, 'Penticost px'; and written at the foot of the
presentment, note in Latin by Hatfeild Reckles, notary, dated 1 Dec 1627,
stating that Mr Pare was given until the feast of Pentecost next to certify
the work done.
Numbered '46' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/47
17.11.1627
West Bridgford
Michaelmas 1627
Parson presents the following: Thomas Bagguley, labourer, for incontinency
with Elizabeth Waine, spinster, who is, as it is reported, with child.
Numbered '47' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/48
17.11.1627
Holme Pierrepont
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: Willam Bruenne for spreading manure
on the Sabbath day.
Place name given as Houlme Pereponte.
Numbered '48' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/49
8.12.1627
Kneeton
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: Margerie Stafford upon a common fame
of fornication with George Leevesley of 'Crockwell', and she is with child
and he got it, as the common fame is.
Numbered '49' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/50
8.12.1627
Bingham
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Numbered '50' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/51
15.12.1627
Screveton
Michaelmas 1627
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Screatton.
Numbered '51' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/52
25.6.1627
Gotham
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Spenser, singleman, and Emmot
Sare, singlewoman, upon a public fame of fornication.
Presentment sent to 'Mr Recclesse' [Hatfield Reckles], proctor, at his
chambers in Nottingham.
Written in another hand, 'cit erga Sabb 13 oct 1627'
Numbered '52' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/53
12.5.1627
Keyworth
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: Katherine Barrowe for fornication;
she had a bastard child since last Candlemas, and Robert Hardie was and
is the reputed father.
Written in another hand, 'cit erga 13 oct 1627'
Numbered '53' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/54
1.9.1627
Plumtree
Michaelmas 1627
One churchwarden presents the following: John Dickson, Jane Milner, Elizabeth
Hebb, William Fisher, Elizabeth Welch and John Welch, who are ignorant
of the grounds of religion and utterly neglect and refuse to come to be
catechised according to the Book of Common Prayer.
Written in another hand, 'cit erga Sab 13 oct 1627'
Numbered '54' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/55
6.2.1628
Elton
Michaelmas 1627
Parson presents the following: John Willson and Anne Fenton, late of the
parish of Ellton [Elton], now of Bingham, for fornication together within
the parish of Ellton.
Dated 6 February 1627 [Old Style].
Numbered '55' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/56
1628 (c)
Bingham
Michaelmas 1627
Anonymous presentment of the following: William Suersbey and Jone his
wife for fornication before marriage.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1627-1628.
Numbered '56' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/57
9.2.1628
Car Colston
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: William Deane for the chancel wanting
tiling, glass windows broken, want of desk and the floor wanting stoning.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Place name given as Carcoulston.
Dated 9 February 1627 [Old Style].
Numbered '57' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/58
9.2.1628
Radcliffe-on-Trent
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: Elzabeth Rasonn for being with child.
Place name given as Ratcleff of Trente.
Dated 9 February 1627 [Old Style].
Numbered '58' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/59
9.2.1628
Holme Pierrepont
Michaelmas 1627
Churchwardens present the following: Francis Ward for adultery with Elizabeth
Bradshay; Willam Brombee for 'fetheringe his beasse in the churchyard
and seteth a Chrach in hit'.
Place name given as Houlme Pereponte.
Dated 9 February 1627 [Old Style].
Numbered '59' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/60
9.2.1628
Bingham
Michaelmas 1627
One churchwarden presents the following: Bridget Bayley for fornication
with [blank] Pots of Epperson [Epperstone]; William Sare and his wife
An for fornication before wedlock.
Dated 9 February 1627 [Old Style].
Numbered '60' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/61
8.3.1628
Costock
Michaelmas 1627
Gabriell Wiersdale [curate] presents the following: Gabriell Hebb for
not repairing his part of the churchyard fence.
Dated 8 March 1627 [Old Style].
Numbered '61' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/62
8.3.1628
Ruddington
Michaelmas 1627
Vicar and churchwardens present the following: Ellyne Hallam, wife of
Heughe Hallam, for a common scolder, curser and slanderer of divers of
her neighbours, being a scandalous person and a stirrer up of debate between
divers persons in our parish, and breeding much contention and debate
among the people and parishioner, banning and cursing them.
Place name given as Rudington.
Dated 8 March 1627 [Old Style].
Numbered '62' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/63
17.3.1628
Rempstone
Michaelmas 1627
Minister presents the following: the fence of the churchyard is very defective
and greatly out of repair; it is to be made and maintained by the parishioners,
therefore craves that the churchwardens may be called to the court to
present all the delinquents in this case, and to be charged to make a
sufficient gate with a lock and a key, the churchyard being far in the
field from the town.
Place name given as Rempston.
Dated 17 March 1627 [Old Style].
Numbered '63' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/7/64
28.4.1628
Car Colston
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Cercume for fornication.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Place name given as Carcoulston.
Misplaced in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1627.
Numbered '10' in top left-hand corner.
21.2.1628-3.7.1628
Easter 1628
Churchwarden presentment bills, formerly in an original bundle; Bingham
deanery, Easter 1628
The majority of the presentment bills are dated 28 April 1628, but the
series includes bills and a letter from February to July 1628.
For a presentment bill from Car Colston parish, Easter 1628, misplaced
in another bundle, see AN/PB 314/7/64.
Three documents dated July 1628 and now found in the Michaelmas 1628 bundle
[AN/PB 314/8/109, 111 and 113] have annotated numbers on them corresponding
to numbers found on presentment bills in the Easter 1628 bundle, indicating
that they were originally filed together.
AN/PB 314/8/1/1
1628
Easter 1628 and Michaelmas 1628
Two thongs originally used to tie together bundles of churchwardens' presentment
bills from Bingham deanery, Easter 1628 and Michaelmas 1628
AN/PB 314/8/1/2
28.4.1628
Thrumpton
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Thrumton.
On back, upside down, title page for bundle, 'Easter 1628'.
AN/PB 314/8/2
28.4.1628
Ratcliffe-upon-Soar
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Ane Davie for fornication before
marriage, with whom she will not tell.
Place name given as Ratlef super sore.
Numbered '6' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/3
28.4.1628
Widmerpool
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Amie Widmerpoole, widow, Alice Widmerpoole
her daughter, and Dorothie Morris her servant, for absolute recusants.
Place name given as Widmerpoole.
Numbered '7' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/4
28.4.1628
Costock
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Only one churchwarden's name given.
Place name given as Costocke alias Cortlingstocke.
Numbered '8' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/5
1628 (c)
Easter 1628
Fragment of churchwarden presentment; words 'Gorge' [George] and 'bodie
of' visible.
Place name and date obscured by damage; found in bundle of presentment
bills from Easter 1628.
AN/PB 314/8/6
28.4.1628
Staunton Chapel
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stanton Chapple.
Numbered '9' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/7
21.2.1628 (c)
Orston
Easter 1628
[Vicar] informs 'Good Sir' that the fences about the churchyard of Thorowton
[Thoroton] are out of repair, which he has often spoken of but sees no
reformation; the churchwardens may well smother [the fact] 'when they
winke at faults of an higher nature'.
Dated 21 February, no year; found in bundle of presentment bills from
Easter term 1628.
AN/PB 314/8/8
28.4.1628
Wilford
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: James Wightman of our parish and
Anne Wildye of St Maryes pa[rish] in Nott[ingham] for the fame is that
they have lived together in fornication.
Numbered '11' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/9
28.4.1628
Owthorpe
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: some part of our church is blown
down with the last great tempest; we are working at the church as fast
as may be to build it up again, and desire your worship's patience in
this case.
Place name given as Ouththarpe.
Written in another hand, in Latin, note that the judge has given until
Michaelmas next to certify the work done.
Numbered '12' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/10
28.4.1628
Radcliffe-on-Trent
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Ratclif super Trent.
Numbered '13' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/11
28.4.1628
West Bridgford
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Numbered '14' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/12
28.4.1628
Wysall
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: we have been at £12 charges
with repair of our church this year, and if there is anything still to
repair we crave time until Michaelmas, by which time it will be either
amended or presented.
Numbered '15' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/13
27.4.1628
Sutton Bonington (St Michael)
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Richerd Whately for refusing to pay
his lays for the house wherein Mris Simpsonne now dwells; William Gad
for refusing to pay his lays for the same house; Henrie Stanley for a
fame of givine Richard Gisborne a blow in the churchyard; Richard Gisborne
for his misdemeanour against the said Henry Stanley as he was coming into
the church; Elizabeth Peake for still standing excommunicate and not seeking
to be reformed.
Note added, signed by the parson: William Gad and Richard Wheatley have
not performed their part of Mr Tho. Stanley's will concerning the payment
of 10 groats a year between them to the poor of the parish, because of
some land which they hold by conveyance from him to that end, and are
above twenty years behind in it.
Place name given as Sutton Bonington Sancti Michis'.
Written in another hand next to Henrie Stanley's presentment, 'actum est
28 April 1628'.
Numbered '16' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/14
1628 (c)
Sutton Bonington (St Michael)
Easter 1628
Anonymous memorandum: 20d to be paid yearly out of the lands owned by
Tho. Stanley, sometime parson of St Annes in Sutton Bonington, which he
purchased from one John Wild in Sutton Bonington; and also 20d out of
his lands in Sutton Bonington which he purchased from one Smith alias
Packinton.
[Refers to sums of money for the poor, unpaid for at least twenty years
by William Gad and Richard Wheatley; see AN/PB 314/8/13].
AN/PB 314/8/15
28.4.1628
Elton
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: our steeple is in default, but we
would desire to be given until Lammas next for its repair.
Place name given as Ellton.
Written in another hand, '...ad reparendum et cert[ificand] prox festum
sive diem scti Petri advinculi prox'.
Numbered '17' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/16
28.4.1628
Shelford
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Numbered '18' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/17
28.4.1628
East Bridgford
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Numbered '19' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/18
28.4.1628
Keyworth
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Keaworth.
Numbered '20' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/19
28.4.1628
Thoroton
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Thurton.
Numbered '21' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/20
28.4.1628
Screveton
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Edward Daniell for not receiving
the communion last Easter.
Place name given as Screaton.
Numbered '22' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/21
27.4.1628
Sutton Bonington (St Anne)
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Sutton Boningtonne St Anne.
Numbered '23' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/22
1628 (c)
Flintham
Easter 1628
One churchwarden presents the following: Richard Smith for not coming
to his parish church for two months.
Place name given as Flintam.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1628.
Numbered '24' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/23
28.4.1628
Gotham
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: William Whitehead and Marye Smallwood
for fornication.
Numbered '25' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/24
28.4.1628
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Willam Sores for not coming to his
parish church, nor receiving the sacrament.
Place name given as Willibe.
Numbered '26' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/25
28.4.1628
Colston Bassett
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Colston Basset.
Numbered '27' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/26
28.4.1628
Bunny
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Bunie.
Numbered '28' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/27
28.4.1628
Edwalton
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: the chancel, at the Erle of Deuinshire's
[Earl of Devonshire's] default.
Place name given as Ewolton.
Numbered '29' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/28
28.4.1628
Kneeton
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Elizabeth Marrat for fornication
with one Thomas Porter.
Place name given as Knetton.
Numbered '30' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/29
28.4.1628
Bingham
Easter 1628
Minister and churchwardens present the following: Katharine Mason, with
child by one unknown to us, but who was no town dweller and is gone from
us.
Numbered '31' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/30
28.4.1628
Scarrington
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Gorge Litell, late of Scarrington
but now of Hoxworth [Hawksworth] for a common fame upon himself; likewise
Hennerie Normane for workin on the Sabbath day; 'frehowders' [freeholders].
Numbered '32' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/31
28.4.1628
Langar
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Willam Sare and Ane Wheat for fornication
before marriage, both of Bingham.
Place name given as Langer.
Written in another hand, 'pruis vocat et dimiss'.
Numbered '33' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/32
28.4.1628 (c)
Normanton-upon-Soar
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: the chancel leads were blown up with
great winds and are not as yet repaired, but 'hee' will have workmen to
set them in repair between this and Midsummer.
Place name given as Normonton uppon Sore.
Dated 28 April, no year; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter
1628.
Written in another hand, 'Mr Archinas ass'st ter'm pro arbitro suo etc.'
Numbered '34' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/33
28.4.1628
Ruddington
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: the chancel is not in good repair,
and we present the Erle of Devenshire for the same.
Place name given as Ruddingtone.
Numbered '35' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/34
28.4.1628
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stanton super ley woldes.
Numbered '36' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/35
28.4.1628
Hawksworth
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Haxworth.
Numbered '37' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/36
28.4.1628
Whatton
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: William Lighten for keeping company
in his house to drink in time of divine prayer; Blanshe, late servant
to William Lighten, for incontinency with Thomas Anseley, as she says;
William Barrowe and Katherine Nottingham for incontinency before marriage.
Written in another hand next to the presentment concerning William Lighten,
'expedit 24 Maij 1628'.
Numbered '38' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/37
28.4.1628
Kingston-on-Soar
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Kingston.
Numbered '39' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/38
28.4.1628
Hickling
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Hicklinge.
Numbered '40' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/39
28.4.1628
Tithby
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Tythbie.
Numbered '41' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/40
28.4.1628
East Leake
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Numbered '42' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/41
28.4.1628
Adbolton
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Adboultton.
Numbered '43' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/42
28.4.1628
Orston
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Francis Gibson of Arnall [Arnold]
and Margreat Hargrave for a public fame before marriage, being with child;
Thomas Keaye and Marye Bell for the like.
Numbered '44' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/43
28.4.1628
Barton in Fabis
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Barton.
Numbered '45' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/44
1628
Plumtree
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: John Balldocke for fornication with
Ellen Rowes; Catherine Bell, wife of John Bell, for not receiving the
communion at Easter.
Dated '1628' only; found in bundle of presentment bills from Easter 1628.
Written in another hand next to the presentment concerning John Balldocke,
'iam pendet in iudicio ut patet ex actes curie'.
Numbered '46' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/45
10.5.1628
Upper Broughton
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Elizabethe Weston for departing out
of the church in evening prayer time since this time twelve months [ago];
Alice Hemsley, wife of Richarde Hemsley, for talking in evening prayer
time, since 1 March last.
Place name given as Broughton.
Numbered '47' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/46
10.5.1628
Holme Pierrepont
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: John Feildinge and John Hallom, churchwardens
for the year 1626, for not delivering the keys of the chest in the church,
wherein the book of Canons and Constitutions and other books and ornaments
and the register book ought to be kept, to their successors; Mr Rewlen
Eastroppe our minister for omitting to read a great part of divine service
and common prayers on Sundays and holy days, omitting to bid fasting days
and holy days, omitting to wear the surplice on Sundays and holy days,
and many times omitting to wear the surplice in the time of his ministration
of the holy communion and baptism; his parsonage house and other houses
belonging to it are in decay and want repairs; the said Mr Eystrop for
keeping our register book from us, whereby we cannot have it to set our
hands to it as we ought to do and to make a certificate of all weddings,
christenings and burials.
Place name given as Holme Perpoynte.
Numbered '48' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/47
28.4.1628
Clifton
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Mrs Ane Lumas, widow, for not receiving
the communion at her own parish church last Easter; Frances Walles, John
Walles, Elesabeth Walles and Heneri Walles for not receiving as aforesaid;
Garwis Tharpe for not paying his church barley; Mrs Ane Lumas, widow,
for absenting herself from her own parish church and going to others;
Elesabeth James and Mary, servant of Richard Bacon, for the same.
Written in another hand next to the presentment concerning the Walles
family, 'coram iudice lis est'.
Numbered '49' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/48
28.4.1628
Tollerton
Easter 1628
Nothing to present.
Numbered '50' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/49
3.7.1628
Tollerton
Easter 1628
Parson presents the following: Elsabeth Rose for suspicion of fornication
with Thomas George, late of Tollerton.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 12 Julij 1628'.
Numbered '53' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/50
28.4.1628
Stanford-upon-Soar
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Henry Seareson and Elizabeth Bate
for fornication, as the fame goes; Richard Barret and Ann his wife for
being married without licence, as the fame goes; Robt Deane for living
[apart] from his wife.
Place name given as Stanford.
Written in another hand next to the presentment concerning Richard and
Ann Barret, 'prius vocat coram Archiepo'.
Numbered '2' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/51
28.4.1628
Granby
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Samuell Morrice and Elizabeth Tales
upon a common fame of fornication together; the body of their church is
in ruin and decay; they have workmen upon it and they desire further time
for repairing it.
Place name given as Granbie.
Written in another hand, 'dnus ad eos peticionem ass's eis ad reparand
et cer'd in festum Pasche prox'.
Numbered '5' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/52
7.6.1628
Flintham
Easter 1628
One churchwarden presents the following: An alias Anes Smith for fornication,
with whom we do not know.
Place name given as Flintam.
Numbered '51' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/53
6.6.1628
Rempstone
Easter 1628
Churchwardens and swornmen present the following: our minister is conformable,
but he does not catechise on Sundays and holy days except in Lent or a
little before, when he prepares the younger sort of people for the receiving
of the sacrament at Easter; the reason for his not catechising at other
times is the distance of the church, being almost a mile from the town;
likewise he does not always read the litany on Sundays, only when there
is no sermon; we certify that because the poor man's box has heretofore
been broken open, the alms for the poor are put into the overseers' hands,
and the chest for keeping the ornaments of the church stands at the parsonage
house, as the church is in the fields far from any house; we have no schoolmaster,
nor any recusant papists within our parish.
Place name given as Rempston.
Numbered '51' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/54
28.6.1628
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
Easter 1628
One churchwarden presents the following: Roger Mee and Marie Laongton,
for she has said that Roger Mee has had the use of her body three times
since last May Day; Jane Flower for the common fame that she has committed
fornication with [blank] Sillvester of the parish of Plumtree; our chancel
is forth of repair, in whose default I do not know.
Place name given as Stanton of the ouldes.
Written in another hand, 'emt in 12 Julij'.
Numbered '52' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/55
28.4.1628
Cotgrave
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: John Henson, husbandman, Alice and
Esther his daughters, and Gregorie his son, all for absolute recusants;
his son is the youngest, of 15 or 16 years of age.
Numbered '4' in top left-hand corner.
AN/PB 314/8/56
28.4.1628
West Leake
Easter 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Katherine Crosse, suspected to be
with child in fornication, but by whom we know not.
Numbered '3' in top left-hand corner.
2.7.1628-4.1.1629
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwarden presentment bills, formerly in an original bundle; Bingham
deanery, Michaelmas 1628
The majority of the presentment bills are dated 27 September 1628, but
the series continues up to January 1629.
Bundle includes three documents dated July 1628 [AN/PB 314/8/109, 111
and 113] which have annotated numbers on them corresponding to numbers
found on presentment bills in the Easter 1628 bundle, indicating that
they were originally filed together, and were misplaced in this bundle.
AN/PB 314/8/57
27.9.1628
Flintham
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: William Rosse's wife for a common
scold.
Place name given as Flintham.
On back, upside down, title page for bundle, in Latin: detections in the
deanery of Bingham, at the Visitation of the Archdeacon of Nottingham
held at Nottingham on 25 [actually 27] September 1628, signed by Ric.
Wightmam.
AN/PB 314/8/58
1628 (c)
Widmerpool
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Mrs Allis Widmorpolle, a recusant;
Dorothie Morise her 'medone' [maid] for the same; John Morise, as the
fame goes, for getting Elizabeth Berige with child.
Place name given as Widmorpolle.
Date obscured by damage; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas
1628.
AN/PB 314/8/59
27.9.1628 (c)
Tollerton
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Dated 27 September, no year visible; found in bundle of presentment bills
from Michaelmas 1628.
AN/PB 314/8/60
27.9.1628
Clifton
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/8/61
27.9.1628
East Bridgford
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Bridgford.
AN/PB 314/8/62
27.9.1628
Whatton
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/8/63
27.9.1628
Thoroton
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Thurraton.
AN/PB 314/8/64
27.9.1628
Hawksworth
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Hakesworth.
AN/PB 314/8/65
27.9.1628
Car Colston
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Henerie Hall, son of Henerie Hall
the freeholder, for throwing stones upon the church leads in time of prayer;
Henerie Hall the son of 'great Henerie Hall' and John Greene, the man
of Henrie Hall, for the like.
AN/PB 314/8/66
27.9.1628
West Bridgford
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Bridgford.
AN/PB 314/8/67
27.9.1628
Bunny
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Bunnie cum Bradmore.
AN/PB 314/8/68
27.9.1628
Sutton Bonington (St Michael)
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Sutton Bonington.
AN/PB 314/8/69
27.9.1628
Langar
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Sayer and Henerie Beston for
quarrelling in the churchyard on a Sunday.
Place name given as Langer cum Barneson.
AN/PB 314/8/70
27.9.1628
Normanton-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Normanton super sore.
AN/PB 314/8/71
27.9.1628
Staunton Chapel
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Staunton chappell.
AN/PB 314/8/72
27.9.1628
Orston
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/8/73
27.9.1628
Bingham
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Edward Betinson and Elizabeth his
wife for fornication before marriage.
AN/PB 314/8/74
1628 (c)
Elton
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1628.
AN/PB 314/8/75
27.9.1628
Granby
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: John Foster for emptying a load of
barley on the Sunday morning before prayers.
Place name given as Granby cum Sutton.
AN/PB 314/8/76
9.1628
Colston Bassett
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Coulsonn bassit.
AN/PB 314/8/77
27.9.1628
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stanton of Woulds.
AN/PB 314/8/78
27.9.1628
Cotgrave
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Alies Henson and Easter Henson for
recusants; William Archer and Elizabeth Campion for fornication before
marriage.
Place name given as Codgrave.
AN/PB 314/8/79
27.9.1628
Edwalton
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Eoowlton.
AN/PB 314/8/80
27.9.1628
Costock
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Marke Wyresedaell, parson, for not
wearing the surplice and not reading the litany in time of divine service
according to the book of common prayer.
Place name given as Costocke.
AN/PB 314/8/81
27.9.1628 (c)
Stanford-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stanford.
Dated 27 September, no year; found in bundle of presentment bills from
Michaelmas 1628.
AN/PB 314/8/82
27.9.1628
Ruddington
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Rudington.
AN/PB 314/8/83
1628 (c)
Tithby
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Tithbye.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1628.
AN/PB 314/8/84
27.9.1628
Owthorpe
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Owthrape.
AN/PB 314/8/85
27.9.1628
Keyworth
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Keworth.
AN/PB 314/8/86
27.9.1628
Thrumpton
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: George Chambreland for not making
good his fence in the churchyard, as others have done.
Place name given as Thrummton.
AN/PB 314/8/87
27.9.1628
Ratcliffe-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Ratclife sore.
AN/PB 314/8/88
27.9.1628
Upper Broughton
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Broughton.
AN/PB 314/8/89
27.9.1628
Wysall
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/8/90
27.9.1628
Rempstone
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Elisabeth Palmer, wife of John Palmer,
for being a Papist, refusing to come to our church.
Place name given as Rempston.
AN/PB 314/8/91
27.9.1628
Kingston-on-Soar
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Kingston.
AN/PB 314/8/92
27.9.1628 (c)
Hickling
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Dated 27 September, no year; found in bundle of presentment bills from
Michaelmas 1628.
AN/PB 314/8/93
27.9.1628
Barton in Fabis
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Robert Rawlinson and Elizebeth Ballard
upon a common fame of fornication; Alice Dann for a common scold.
Place name given as Barton.
AN/PB 314/8/94
27.9.1628
Screveton
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Screaton.
AN/PB 314/8/95
27.9.1628
Wilford
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Willford.
AN/PB 314/8/96
27.9.1628
Adbolton
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Adboulton.
AN/PB 314/8/97
27.9.1628
West Leake
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: William Plats for fornication with
his wife before marriage.
AN/PB 314/8/98
27.9.1628
Plumtree
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/8/99
27.9.1628
Kneeton
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/8/100
27.9.1628
Radcliffe-on-Trent
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Raclef trent.
AN/PB 314/8/101
27.9.1628
Scarrington
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Margret Husse for a scold; Dorothie
Henley for the like.
AN/PB 314/8/102
27.9.1628
Shelford
Michaelmas 1628
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/8/103
29.9.1628 (c)11.10.1628
Greasley
Orston
Michaelmas 1628
Michaelmas 1628
Certificate of curate and churchwardens [of Greasley], partly in Latin,
of the appearance [to do penance?] of 'uxor huius viri' [the wife of this
man, not named] on the feast day of St Michael [29 September]; note added
in the same hand that that day was chosen rather than the Sunday before
because there was a greater congregation, as there was a funeral sermon
made by Mr Westobee for John Twells of Watnow [Watnall].
Parish identified as Greasley from names of churchwardens.
Paper re-used for presentment by Gabriell Bynnys [churchwarden] of Orson
[Orston] of the following, dated 11 October 1628: Alice Cliffe for suffering
her servant Peter Cooke to 'feay' a ditch on Michaelmas day in time of
divine service, and for hiring another man to help at the same time.
AN/PB 314/8/104
27.9.1628
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Willam Sore for not coming to his
own parish church on Sundays and holy days; John Wrighte and Elizabeth
Pare for fornication together.
Place name given as Willobie.
AN/PB 314/8/105
12.11.1628
Scarrington
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Gorge Dickenson and Ales Hill for
the common fame that they have committed fornication together.
Place name given as Scarington.
AN/PB 314/8/106
1.11.1628
Hickling
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: John Marcer and Alice Greene for
fornication, as the fame goes; Elizabeth Browne for 'picking of a milne'
on the Sabbath day in time of divine service.
Place name given as Hecklyn.
AN/PB 314/8/107
31.12.1628
Edwalton
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Hemfrey for filling the muck
cart on the Sabbath day between Whitsunday and Lammas.
Place name given as Edolton.
AN/PB 314/8/108
1629 (c)
Bingham
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: John Wightman and his wife for fornication
before wedlock; John Warde and Katheren Hardie for the common fame that
they have committed fornication together.
Place name partially obscured by damage; '[-]gham' can be read.
Date partially obscured by damage; '[-]vij Ja[-]... 28' can be read; found
in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1628-1629.
AN/PB 314/8/109
12.7.1628
Holme Pierrepont
Michaelmas 1628
Rector presents the following: Willyam Leeson, weaver, because he 'in
a sawcy fashion' went into the minister's seat and opened the Bible and
on the Sabbath in the presence in many people did vilify and gainsay the
doctrines which he preached, which he is sure and is ready to justify
before authority were agreeable to the word of God and the doctrines of
the church; earnestly desires that Leeson may make public acknowledgement
of his impudence.
Numbered '56' in top left-hand corner [indicating that the presentment
was originally filed with those from Easter 1628].
AN/PB 314/8/110
4.1.1629
Edwalton
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Henfrey for receiving the
communion on 4 January and absenting himself from evening prayer the same
day.
Place name given as Edolton.
Dated 4 January 1628 [Old Style].
AN/PB 314/8/111
2.7.1628 (c)
Orston
Michaelmas 1628
Letter from Jo. Musson [vicar] of Orston, to Mr Hatfeild Reckles at Nottingham:
Has received a writ of excommunication against his parishioner Marie Bell;
dares not stay it without warrant from the court; desires Reckles to certify
that 'shee waites her everie houre' and is unable to travel half a mile;
entreats that what is done may be reversed, or else that she be again
absolved, so that she may not be deprived of women's help which she now
needs; hopes Reckles will pity her; also mentions that the churchyard
is so badly fenced that it cannot be kept with the decency it ought to
have; it is rather a common than a sanctified place; will not determine
whether it is the fault of the churchwardens or the parishioners; asks
that Reckles would reform the abuse and 'terrifie, if not punish' the
delinquents.
Dated 2 July, no year; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas
1628.
Written in another hand that Johannes Smith and Johannes Tutburie, 'pro
defectu cemiterij ut supra in presenti litteram cit in 12 Julij 1628'.
Numbered '54' in top left-hand corner [indicating that the letter was
originally filed with presentments from Easter 1628].
AN/PB 314/8/112
11.10.1628
Costock
Michaelmas 1628
Rector presents the following: Thomas Hall for not repairing his part
of the churchyard fence.
Place name given as Cortlingstock.
AN/PB 314/8/113
12.7.1628
Tollerton
Michaelmas 1628
Churchwardens present the following: Elsabeth Rose of Tollerton for suspicion
of fornication with Thomas George, late of the same.
Numbered '55' in top left-hand corner [indicating that the presentment
was originally filed with those from Easter 1628].
10.10.1629-7.1.1630
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwarden presentment bills, formerly in an original bundle; Bingham
deanery, Michaelmas 1629
The majority of the presentment bills are dated 24 October 1629, but the
series continues up to January 1630.
AN/PB 314/9/1
1629
Michaelmas 1629
Title page for bundle, in Latin: presentments exhibited at the Visitation
of the Archdeacon of Nottingham held at Nottingham on 24 October 1629.
AN/PB 314/9/2
1629 (c)
Screveton
Michaelmas 1629
Anonymous memorandum headed 'Screuaton' [Screveton]: Richarde Baker of
the same [and] Richard Midwinter of Narmanton of Trent [Normanton-on-Trent]
near Sutten of Trente town [Sutton-on-Trent] were to pay the lay to Thomas
Pickron, mason, of Est Bridgford [East Bridgford], 7s for seven days'
work; Richard Baker put down in his accounts that the mason was paid and
that the alewife was paid 4s, [but] he paid neither of them.
[Richard Baker and Richard Midwinter, churchwardens of Screveton for the
year 1628-1629. See AN/PB 328/1/46 for churchwardens' accounts for Screveton,
c.1629]
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1629.
AN/PB 314/9/3
26.12.1629
Gotham
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Franses Jones and Elizabeth Needam
for fornication etc.
Written in another hand, 'emat in 16 Januarij'.
AN/PB 314/9/4
7.1.1630
Widmerpool
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Longley and Jone Resdon for
the common fame that they have committed fornication together.
Place name given as Widmorepoole.
Dated 7 January 1629 [Old Style].
Written in another hand, 'emat in 16 Januarij'.
AN/PB 314/9/5
31.12.1629
Bradmore
Michaelmas 1629
One churchwarden presents the following: John Laton for not paying a double
lay of 5s and a single lay of 2s 6d to the church and chapel of Buney
[Bunny] and Bradmore.
Written in another hand, 'emat in 16 Januarij'.
AN/PB 314/9/6
24.10.1629
Adbolton
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Adboulton.
AN/PB 314/9/7
1629 (c)
Sutton Bonington (St Anne)
Michaelmas 1629
Parson presents the following: Tho. Browne, churchwarden, for drinking
and tippling at the house of William Marshall at unseasonable hours at
night on the Sabbath day.
Place name given as St Annis in Sutton Bonington.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1629.
Written in another hand, 'emat in 28 No.'
AN/PB 314/9/8
24.10.1629
Holme Pierrepont
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Holme Parpoynt.
AN/PB 314/9/9
24.10.1629
Radcliffe-on-Trent
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Ratlife upon trent.
AN/PB 314/9/10
24.10.1629
Shelford
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/9/11
24.10.1629
East Bridgford
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Eastbridgfothe.
AN/PB 314/9/12
24.10.1629
Kneeton
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/9/13
24.10.1629
Car Colston
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Marke Bickets and Margret his wife
for fornication before marriage; John Wilson of Bingham for denying to
pay his church lays for two lays, of the sum of 5d.
Written in another hand, 'emat citac s. Wilson in xij dec et pro reliquis
in 16 Janrij'.
AN/PB 314/9/14
24.10.1629
Screveton
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Bellwood and Mary Hall, widow,
for fornication; William Howet the younger for lodging in the house of
the said Mary Hall 'unconveniently' and keeping her company; Richard Midwinter
for not paying his lays towards the repair of the church; Richard Midwinter
and Richard Baker, the last year's churchwardens, for not giving in their
accounts for the last year [see AN/PB 328/1/46 for a copy of these accounts];
the said Richard Baker for detaining 3s 8d due for the church grounds.
Place name given as Screaton.
Written in another hand, 'Comp[arui]t Baker 14 Janrij. Emat citac pro
reliquis in 16 Janrij'.
AN/PB 314/9/15
24.10.1629
Flintham
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/9/16
24.10.1629
Aslockton
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Alice Allin for fornication with
Thomas Selbie [of Tithby; see AN/PB 314/9/32] before marriage; Marie Dickinson
for not paying her church lays; Wm Clater and Hellen Peele for fornication
before marriage; Willm Gunthorpe and Marie Hemsell for fornication before
marriage.
Place name partially obscured by damage: '[-]cton & [-]atton' [Aslocton
and Whatton] can be read.
Written in another hand, 'emat pro Alleyne and Selbie ult oct' and 'emat
pro reliq. 28 No'.
AN/PB 314/9/17
24.10.1629
Hawksworth
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/9/18
24.10.1629
Staunton Chapel
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Staunton Chappell.
AN/PB 314/9/19
24.10.1629
Scarrington
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Martindall for not paying
his church lays; Thomas Gallond for not repairing the church walls.
Place name given as Scarington.
Written in another hand, 'emat in 28 No.'
AN/PB 314/9/20
24.10.1629
Thoroton
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: our church being out of repair, we
desire a little time for its repair.
Place name given as Thurraton.
AN/PB 314/9/21
24.10.1629
Orston
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Orson.
AN/PB 314/9/22
24.10.1629
Elton
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Mathew Hilton and Susan Dames for
committing fornication together.
Written in another hand, 'emat citac in ult Octobr. 1629'.
AN/PB 314/9/23
24.10.1629
Granby
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Granby cum sutton.
AN/PB 314/9/24
24.10.1629
Colston Bassett
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Colson Basset.
AN/PB 314/9/25
24.10.1629
Keyworth
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
Place name obscured by damage; identified as Keyworth from names of churchwardens.
AN/PB 314/9/26
24.10.1629
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Stanton of the oldes.
AN/PB 314/9/27
24.10.1629
Widmerpool
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Mistris Alice Wydmerpooll and Dorathie
Morrice for popish recusants.
Place name partially obscured by damage; '[-]merpooll' can be read.
Written in another hand, 'emat citac in xvj Janrij'.
AN/PB 314/9/28
24.10.1629
Wysall
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/9/29
24.10.1629
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: John Cooper and Anne Asher for fornication;
William Soores for standing excommunicate.
Place name given as Willowbie.
Written in another hand, 'emat in 23 Julij 1631'.
AN/PB 314/9/30
24.10.1629
Upper Broughton
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Broughton.
AN/PB 314/9/31
24.10.1629
Owthorpe
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Owtharpe.
AN/PB 314/9/32
24.10.1629
Tithby
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: our chancel, at the repair of my
Lord Cheworth and my ladie Cope; Thomas Selbie for fornication with Ales
Alline of Asslotton [Aslockton] in the parish of Whatton.
Place name given as Tithebie.
Written in another hand, 'emat citac in ult octob 1629'.
AN/PB 314/9/33
24.10.1629
Cotgrave
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Gregorie Henson, Alice Henson and
Heaster Henson for recusants.
Place name given as Codgraue.
Written in another hand, 'emat in 28 No.'
AN/PB 314/9/34
24.10.1629
Tollerton
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/9/35
24.10.1629
Plumtree
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas South and Elizabeth his wife
for fornication before they were married; Robert Henson, Richard Henson
and Christopher Jarden and Mary Langton for living incontinently.
Written in another hand, 'emat citac in ult octobr. 1629'.
AN/PB 314/9/36
24.10.1629
Edwalton
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Jane Spenser for fornication with
John Cliff of Tollerton.
Place name given as Eddolton.
Written in another hand, 'emat citac in ult octobr. 1629'.
AN/PB 314/9/37
24.10.1629
Ruddington
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Huge Browne and his wife for suspicion
of fornication before marriage.
Written in another hand, 'emat in 28 No.'
AN/PB 314/9/38
24.10.1629
Bunny
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Edward Martin and his wife, and George
Martin his son, for not coming to their parish church every Sabbath day.
Place name obscured by damage; identified as Bunny with Bradmore from
names of churchwardens.
Written in another hand, 'emat cit in 14 No.'
AN/PB 314/9/39
24.10.1629
Normanton-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: William Lane and Dorothy Stanley
upon great suspicion of living incontinently together; the said Dorothy
Stanley for not coming to church.
Place name partially obscured by damage; '[-]nton [-]per Sore' can be
read.
Written in another hand, 'emat in 14 No.'
AN/PB 314/9/40
24.10.1629
Stanford-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Matha and Jane Matens, now
wife of Thomas Matha, for fornication before wedlock; our church for being
out of repair, and we desire time until next Candlemas.
Place name given as Stanford.
Written in another hand, 'emat in 14 No. 1629'
AN/PB 314/9/41
24.10.1629 (c)
Rempstone
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Eliezabettes Pallmer for a recusant.
Place name given as Remston.
Dated 24 October, no year; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas
1629.
Written in another hand, 'emat citac in 14 No.'
AN/PB 314/9/42
10.10.1629
Costock
Michaelmas 1629
Rector presents the following: Henry Sarson, lately of Stanford [Stanford-upon-Soar],
for committing the foul crime of fornication with Margery Crosse of the
parish of Costock.
AN/PB 314/9/43
24.10.1629
Costock
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Henerie Sarson and Margret Crosse
for fornication together.
Written in another hand, 'emat in xiii No.'
AN/PB 314/9/44
24.10.1629
East Leake
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/9/45
1629
West Leake
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: our minister is a preacher of God's
word, a maintainer and furtherer of religion, and preaches every Sabbath
and does all other things according to the public authority established
in this realm of England.
Place name given as West Leak.
Dated '1629' only; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas
1629.
AN/PB 314/9/46
24.10.1629
Sutton Bonington (St Anne)
Michaelmas 1629
One churchwarden presents the following: Richard Tomson, butcher, for
absenting himself, along with his family, from divine service on Sunday
6 September and other times within this present year, and going to other
parish churches to hear divine prayer or sermons; Thomas Tomson, butcher,
for the same, on Sunday 6 September and other times.
Place name given as St Tann in Sutton end Bonington.
Written in another hand, 'emat in 14 No.'
AN/PB 314/9/47
24.10.1629 (c)
Sutton Bonington (St Michael)
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Thomas Bond and his wife and his
son Edward for recusants.
Place name given as St Michaels Sutton Bonington.
Dated October 24, no year; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas
1629.
Written in another hand, 'emat in 14 No.'
AN/PB 314/9/48
1629 (c)
Kingston-on-Soar
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Richard Hides and Edward Hides for
teaming a load of hay on the Sabbath day.
Place name given as Kingston.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1629.
Written in another hand, 'emat in 14 No.'
AN/PB 314/9/49
24.10.1629
Ratcliffe-upon-Soar
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Ratcliff of Sore.
AN/PB 314/9/50
24.10.1629
Clifton
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/9/51
24.10.1629
Barton in Fabis
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Barton.
AN/PB 314/9/52
24.10.1629
Gotham
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/9/53
24.10.1629
West Bridgford
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
Place name given as West Bridgforde.
AN/PB 314/9/54
24.10.1629
Hickling
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Hicklinge.
AN/PB 314/9/55
24.10.1629
Langar
Michaelmas 1629
Churchwardens present the following: Hugh Ashlyn and his now wife for
fornication before marriage.
Place name given as Langar cum Barnston.
Written in another hand, 'emat citac in ult. octobr. 1629'.
AN/PB 314/9/56
24.10.1629
Bingham
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
AN/PB 314/9/57
1629 (c)
Thrumpton
Michaelmas 1629
Nothing to present.
Place name given as Thrumton.
No date given; found in bundle of presentment bills from Michaelmas 1629.
