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TO HANG:
Michaell HALL of St James parish Dover, yeoman, - burglary on 24 May 1570 from house of John HEWESON at Dover, stole £31 from a chest. Guilty - to hang.
(Canterbury Assizes 35/12/5-m2, PRO Assizes above ref, from Calendar of Assize Records, Kent Indictments Eliz. I, publ by HMSO)
TO BE WHIPPED:
Ralph WATSON of Dover, sawyer, indicted for seditious words. On 26 April 1584 at Dover he publicly said: "This is a very evill land to lyve in except yt be for a man that hath a very good occupacon. I wold yt were warre. I know a great many richemen in the land; I wold have some of there money yf yt were so come to passe. I knowe a thowsand, yea and a thowsand that wold yt were come to passe so the Queene were dead. There is a towne between England and Scotland ther is in yt 200 horsemen and 400 footmen, had the Scotts gotten the towne they wold overcome the whole realme for that is the key from thence onto England. Were the Queene dead the Flemissh and the French men and Dutch men and all the whole heape on the other side wold come upon this land, and the Towne of Dover is able to howld 200 men". Guilty: to be whipped and pilloried in market-time for 3 hours.
(Rochester Assizes 13.7.1584: PRO Assizes ref.355/26/5 - m.17)
[Calendar of Assize Records - Kent Indictments Eliz.I. HMSO]
PUT IN STOCKS:
John ELLIS + others convicted at Dover for playing Cricket in the parish of Charlton on the Sabbath. He and WILSON were put in the stocks for 3 hours not being able to pay the fine.
(Kentish Gazette Aug 31 1821 p.4 col.4)
Swing Riots:
Mr John COLEMAN, farmer of Kearsney Nr Dover: a threshing machine of his (in the barnyard of Mr BROMLEY, farmer at Hougham Nr Dover), was broken.
A party had assembled for that purpose at 2 o'clock in the morning "Sunday" (Kentish Gazette 20 Aug 1833 p.3 col.2)
[NB. This is probably part of the "Swing Riots" when threshing machines were destroyed by labourers worried about their jobs]
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#2
Hoots mon! But we got here eventually.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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#3
Hi Kath,
great stuff
.You do not have anything on John Lilburne being imprisoned at the castle circa 1652-53 in your archive
Terry Nunn
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#4
I'm sure Terry Sutton would have reported on it John.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Thank you very much Tom
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Eventually the Scots got to Dover, the Union Jack Flying High!
They must have come from the Wall and marched South, crossed the Garden of England and descended Shooters Hill, entering the Town!
They came down Scotland Common, passing through River!
The Fair Lady smiled!
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then they found out we didn't serve porridge and they immediately cleared off.
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Thanks Tom, for the Lilburn info; nothing in my archive about him.
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The paper-back of the Biography advertised on the site is on Amazon for around £8 (with p&p).
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Dover reference:
1660: Whereas Nicholas Bland his Majesty's polterer hath lately imbezilled from him and others severall sums of mon(ey) to the value of 2 hundred pounds, with which he is fled and indeed is believed to make his escape beyond the seas;
These are herefore in pursuance of His Royal Highness Command to will and require you forthwith to use your arms and diligence within you severall and supportive libertys to hinder his escape. And if ye shall be found cause him to be apprehended and kept in safe custody until further order shalbe given about him.
His description, - Nicholas Bland a short slender man of an indifferenty long visage, a high nose, black eye brows, thin body, whitely coloured, low forehead and comonly wears a light colloured perrie wigg. Hee is supposed to bee in the company of one Mers Alfrey a black woman with turn-upp nose and not much unlike himself.
They tooke away with them two ore threee trunks, which are desired may be likewise seised.
(found among Hythe town archives, in E.Kent Archives Centre, mentioned in E.K.Archives News Spring 1999)
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DARING OUTRAGE - Tarred and Feathered, in Deal:
Whereas Stephen SPAIN, James BOBIAS, John MACKNEY and Henry STOKES, late of Deal, mariners, and others, stand impeached with having violently assaulted John SMITH and Edmond PAIN the elder, of Deal, with having tarred and feathered them, and dragged them about the town of Deal in a cart, and committed other outrages upon the persons of said John SMITH and Edmond PAIN -
The Commissioners of Excise, for bringing these offenders to Justice, do hereby offer a reward of One Hundred Pounds, to any person or persons who shall discover the said Stephen SPAIN, James BOBIAS, John MACKNEY, and Henry STOKES, so that they may be apprehended; to be paid by the Secretary, on the commitment and safe delivery of two or more of them, into the custody of the keeper of any of His Majesty's gaols. By order of the Board, Thomas BURTON, Secretary, 7 July 1821.
(Kentish Gazette 17 July 1821 p.1 col.2)
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Northbourne:
Elizabeth WYBORN of Northbourne, convicted of stealing at Northbourne part of a roast leg of mutton, part of a loin of mutton, and a towel the property of Joseph RUSE.
- the prisoner who is far advanced in pregnancy was sentenced to six calendar months' hard labour. (Kentish Gazette 6 July 1832, p.3 col.3 "East Kent Sessions")
Dover:
Mary RILEY was charged by Supt. Laker with loitering about the streets in a state of comparative nudity. The charge was supported by P.C.Geddes who took her into custody.
It was also stated that a shilling had been given the prisoner by W.P.Elsted Esq. with the understanding that she should get out of town, which however she had not done
- ordered to leave the town forthwith. (Dover Telegraph Sat. Dec.1 1849, p.8 col.2, Dover Petty Sessions)
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The Sheer Hulk Beer Shop and Prostitutes:
From Dover Telegraph Saturday 10 May 1856, back page col.4: Dover Petty Sessions -
"Monday" "Thomas Robert BOURNER of Sheer Hulk Beer-shop, Commercial Quay, was charged with a similar offence (ie to above item, which was a publican on Commercial Quay knowingly permitting notoriously bad characters, ie. prostitutes, to assemble at his house - evidence from statement of young woman witness Sarah Ann Marsh age l7 of Drellingore, Alkham, who in the first charge took a man into the pub for the night, later returning with another man, "conclusive proof that the information would be sustained) "but as the defendant (ie Thos Robt Bourner) was not at home when summons was served, nor had he since returned (in addition to which the licence was not in Court), the case adjourned till Friday and fresh summons obtained.
"Friday": "Thomas Robert Bourner, landlord of the Sheer Hulk was fined 10s. including costs for allowing improper characters to assemble at his house. The Bench cautioned him touching a repetition of the offence, and allusion was made to the fearful responsibilities of the keepers of such houses, where many a young woman that might otherwise be moving in the paths of virtue, were encouraged in the road to infamy and ruin."
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Elizabeth CULLEN. Dover Police Report, accused - "a nymph of the pave'. Fined 12/-
(Dover Telegraph 10 Jan 1846 p.8 col.1
(see also Dover Telegraph 14 Mar 1846 p.1 col.4, a similar case, fined £1)
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