
St Albans Archdeaconry Court 1567-1602
The Archdeacon of St Albans dealt with moral and religious offences by the inhabitants of Winslow, as well as making grants of probate and administration. The list of interesting cases below has been compiled from a Herts Archives index, and the original documents haven't yet been consulted. The names of people involved include prosecutors (promoters) as well as offenders. Numerous cases concerning failure to attend church, which was compulsory at the time, haven't been included.
Date | Names of people involved | Offence | Reference |
14 June 1568 | Margery Hamond | Adultery | ASA7/7 f83 |
14 June 1568 | John Mason | Incontinence | ASA7/7 f83 |
23 Nov 1568 | William Eares, Robert Hassill, Thomas Norman, Edward Owvering, Thomas Owveringe, Martin Porter & Dennys Robynson | Incontinence [i.e. sexual misbehaviour] | ASA7/7 ff143-62 |
15 Sep 1569 | Margaret Jeffes | Incontinence | ASA7/8 f5, f8 |
10 May 1571 | Mary Overinge | Incontinence | ASA7/8 f73 |
12 Jul 1571 | Robert Dawnce (vicar), Uriah Varney (churchwarden) & Francis Varney | Defamation | ASA7/8 ff82-83 |
15 Dec 1572 | Anthony Lucas | Refusing to answer churchwardens’ articles | ASA7/9 f46 |
1 Dec 1573 | Robert Warde | Incontinence | ASA7/9 ff86-112 |
18 April 1575 | John Clement, Thomas Cooper, [blank] Hassall, Nicholas Geffes & Thomas Partridge | Incontinence | ASA7/10 ff35-45 |
29 Jul 1575 | John Leeche | Incontinence | ASA7/10 f48 |
23 April 1577 | Margaret Gorar & James Greene | Incontinence | ASA7/10 f116 |
4 Nov 1579 | Robert Bampton, William Tomlyns & Churchwardens | Bell ringing contrary to injunctions | ASA7/10 ff220-27 |
19 Nov 1579 | John Hogston & John Shelton | Sabbath breaking | ASA7/10 ff222-24 |
13 March 1581 | John Crobye and wife & churchwardens | Right to seats in the church | ASA7/10 ff281-83 |
13 March 1581 | John Kyrbye | Misbehaviour in church | ASA7/10 f281 |
6 Nov 1581 | Richard Fawconer & Ellen Thorneton | Incontinence | ASA7/10 ff310, 325-26 |
19 Feb 1582 | Augustine Deverell & Isabel Ruffe | Defamation | ASA7/10 ff323-24 |
19 Feb 1582 | [blank] Dewberry & Joan Stuttesbery | Incontinence | ASA7/10 ff323-25 |
29 April 1583 | Nicholas Allen, Francis Andrewes & Peter Francklyn | Profaning the church | ASA7/11 ff17-38 |
29 April 1583 | William Braster & Anthony Jackson | Unlicensed ministry | ASA7/11 ff17-38 |
29 April 1583 | William Gyles & John Jeffes | Profaning the Sabbath | ASA7/11 ff18-35 |
29 April 1583 | Augustine Senner | Allowing profanation of the Sabbath | ASA7/11 ff17-38 |
29 Apr 1583 | John Jeffes | Abusing officers | ASA7/11 ff18-35 |
20 July 1583 | Magdalen Myll(er?) | Defamation | ASA7/11 f31, f32 |
2 Sep 1584 | Robert Lowndes & Grace Tymberley | Incontinence | ASA7/11 f60 |
26 Jul 1585 | John Baylye, Augustine Senner, Nicholas Warde & Mary wife of Alexander Warde | Incontinence | ASA7/11 ff103-07 |
31 May 1586 | Jane Chersley in the house of William Owen | ? | ASA7/11 f132, f135 |
This must be connected to an entry in the baptism register for 6 April: Margery a child at one Owyns which one fortune tither & was bought abed - a taylor [traveller?] whose father we know not | |||
6 Sep 1588 | Richard Huet & Agnes Huet | ? | ASA7/12 ff28-32 |
Connected to this entry in the baptism register for 15 May: Richard Hewit who was Loundes man & got a child of Thorns daughter. Richard Hewit married Ann Thorne on 6 June 1588. | |||
5 Dec 1593 | Anne Wendover | Incontinence | ASA7/16 f2 |
18 Dec 1593 | Hugh Seaton | Incontinence | ASA7/16 f2, f4 |
19 Dec 1593 | William Barker & John Scott | Defamation | ASA7/16 f3, f8 |
8 April 1594 | William Baker [Barker?] | Procuring the bell to be rung out for his wife when she was well | ASA7/16 f14 |
2 Oct 1594 | [blank] Hickman | Incontinence | ASA7/17 f1 |
16 Oct 1594 | Mrs Wyndover or Wendover | Incontinence | ASA7/17 f1, f3 |
12 Nov 1594 | William Carter & Richard Easte | Profaning the Sabbath | ASA7/17 f1 |
14 May 1595 | William Barker | Playing cards in service time | ASA7/17 ff28-31 |
18 May 1595 | Richard Easte (promoter) & Philip Favor (incumbent); Peter Fige, [blank] Leache & Nicholas Mychell | Incontinence | ASA7/17 ff32-34 |
27 May 1595 | William Leache (churchwarden), [blank] Lunn (alias?) Spooner, John Storke, [blank] Watson | Playing cards in service time | ASA7/17 f29, f31 |
23 April 1596 | Thomas Daniels, Nicholas Heyward & Elizabeth Heyward | Defamation | ASA7/17 f64, f90 |
9 March 1597 | Philip Favor (vicar) & Agnes wife of Thomas Pursell | Defamation | ASA7/17 ff119-27 |
20 April 1597 | Walter Leno & Joan Leno | Defamation | ASA7/17 ff129-33 |
3 May 1597 | Thomas Deverell & Margaret Stevens | Laughing in church during service | ASA7/17 f131 |
6 March 1598 | [blank] Seabrooke | Irregular marriage | ASA7/18 f41 |
24 Sep 1599 | Stephen Andrew | Not learning catechism | ASA7/11 ff103-07 |
18 March 1600 | Mary Shettles & Elizabeth Stuttesbery widow | Incontinence | ASA7/18 f261 |
5 Nov 1600 | Hugh Seaton | Incontinence | ASA7/18 f237 |
7 April 1601 | Henry Bawly | Restitution of conjugal rights | ASA7/18 f265, f272 |
Henry Bawley was buried in 1610 and his wife Sybil in 1608; they (or at least Henry) had a child baptised in 1592. | |||
1 June 1602 | Judith Cooke | Incontinence | ASA7/19 f57 |
Matthew son of Judith Cooke was baptised 26 April 1601 | |||
13 Sep 1602 | Seth Mason & Agnes Williams | Defamation | ASA7/19 f72 |
See also:
- Robert Daunce (vicar 1565-90)
Copyright
5 November, 2020