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RefNoKQ/SO/1/p85
AltRefNoQ/SO1 pages 85-86
TitleTwo indictments (not in this book) have been preferred against the Master and Fellows of Magdalene College for stopping up a footway from Chesterton through the college to Cambridge: at the Assizes on 30th July 1663 it was ordered that the College should maintain a footway with posts in the lane leading from Chesterton by St Giles' church, adjoining the college wall as far as it extends and across the cartway at the south end of the footway, and the rest of the footway southwards should be repaired by the inhabitants of St Giles and the way was to be repaired by Michaelmas and process to be stayed meanwhile: as the order has now been carried out process is t be stayed. Philip and Katherine Beamont of Foxton are charged with others of defrauding John Beavis of Foxton of a great part of his real and personal estate, and Philip has been bound at the Quarter Sessions to appear at the next Assizes: as Katherine could not then be apprehended and take her before a JP to be bound to appear at the next Assizes and meanwhile to be of good behaviour and failing that she is to be committed to gaol until then.
Date12 January 1664/1665
CreatorNameCambridgeshire Quarter Sessions: entries in early Order Book
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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