Nottinghamshire. 1670, 1674.
TAken to the value of 695 l. 3 s. 6 d. in Cattle and Houshold-Stuff, from some all their goods, excepting a Barrel of Beere, a Cradle, and some Bread and Cheese, which the Officers for pitty hid, and told the women of it; the Justice bid the Officers take three or four times as much as the fines that they might allow good penny worths. They took from a poor fatherless Boy, his Coat and Breeches; not leaving the Woman at one house a Stool to sit on to dress her Child: Two persons appealing to the Sessions, they ordred them their mony again; but Pennistoni Whaley, called a Justice, fraudulently detains 60 l, in his hands contrary to the orders of the Sessions.
Note, Colgrave the grand Informer, swearing falsly several times, as that persons were at a Meeting, when they were not, and that there was preaching, when there was not one word spoken; and that divers were not worth 10 s. though it was proved in open Court, they had Horses, Beasts and Sheep of their own at that time.