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17^th October 1743]] Mannor of Wilbrook
alias
Wirkbrook
Jurors presentment.

[These details were added to the dorse of the document by a later hand. Perhaps in 1818 ]

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Michaelmas 1743

Mannor of Willbrook alias Wirkbrook.

At the court baron of John Delahay esq lord of the said mannor kept at the dwelling house of Thomas Draper within the said mannor called or known by the name or sign of the Hostrey the 17^th day of October in the seventeenth year of the reign of our sovereign lord George the second by the grace of God of Great Britain and so forth. And in the year of our lord 1743. John Weare gent steward.

The names of jurors, or homage.

John Powell

Thomas Floyer

Silvanus Lloyd

Robert Howorth

John Evans

Richard Ball

Thomas Lewis

John Rudge

Francis Pritchard

Roger Jones

Richard Williams

John Morgan

James Legg

Henry Prosser

John Beavan

Thomas Draper

John Lewis

John Lovell.

Imprimis   We the jurors being sworn and impannelled to enquire on behalf of the lord of the mannor do present as followeth.

Item   We present Edward Glover, William Williams, John Weston, John Draper, William Jones, John Jones, Charles Watkins, William Jones of Upper Crossway, John Jones flax dresser, Tho Pritchard, John Thomas, Daniel Bird, Walter Powell, William Price & James Pritchard, who severally owe suit & service to this court, And made default in appearing, And we do amerce each of them in the sum of two shillings each.

Item   We also present that a common foot passage over ther Old Brook between the township of Hinton & Peterchurch within this mannor leading from Hinton to Wilmeston is in  decay & dangerous to passengers, and ought to be repaired by the Revd Mr William Seward Mr Walter Delahay & Mr Henry Llanwarn ,and we do lay a pain of thirty nine shillings on each of them the said William Seward, Walter Delahay & Henry Llanwarn, that they repair the same on or before the 25^th day of December next, And that John Beavan & Henry Prosser or one of them certify at next court under the like penalty.

              We have nothing more to present.

[signed or mark of]

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Transcription details are based on the work of Dewi Bowen Williams, see http://www.ewyaslacy.org.uk/Michaelchurch-Escley-and-Peterchurch/Manorial-Court-Records-for-the-Manors-of-Clothy-Hopkin-Urishay-Trenant-amp-Wellbrook/1466-1833/tg_mic_0127

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