Ihe said Nicholas Swan is a common drunkard and one that usually frequenteth harlots' company… Item the said Swan is a common suer, a profane fellow, a despiser of God's Holy Word and that seldom or ever cometh to hear divine service at his parish church… Item the said Swan is a common setter of discord between party and party, a scandalous opprobrious rude fellow that abuseth his neighbours by false reports in taking away the good name and credits of his honest neighbours for which he standeth and hath been a long time excommunicated… Item the said Swan being a miller doth usually take excess toll and unlawful; measure of his neighbours' corn as well of the poor as rich… Item the said Swan being a man of singular strength liveth as a lawless person and threateneth men to whom he is indebted to beat and kill them if they arrest him… Item the said Swan being drunk did beat and abuse the wife of Thomas Busgate of Cockley Cley in most detestable manner and doth make a practice to beat and abuse poor men and their wives when he is drunken… Item the said Swan is a common quarreller, a dangerous desperate person, one that most liveth in fear of beating and maiming… In tender consideration whereof the parties whose hands are hereunder subscribed do humbly beseech for their better safety that the said Nicholas Swan may be bound with good security to his good behaviour… Item the said Nicholas did upon the 18th day of March last beat and dangerously assault and maim one Thomas Machin of Hilborough in such sort as the said Machin was then in peril of death and still liveth in fear of the said Swan.
Petitions
NRO
C S/3/23
Quarter Sessions Roll, 1621-2
Norfolk, England
24 March 1621
23 March 1622
Petition
Complaint
1 April 1621
Relates To
Drunkenness
Transcription
Petitionee
Nicholas Swan
male
Miller
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Petitioners
William Stoneham
male
Cicely Busgate
female
[Presumably Cicely]
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Signature
Nicholas Lakmar
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Basic Mark
John Benstead
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Signature
Thomas Hamont
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Basic Mark
Noye Wade
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Basic Mark
Mary Rickes
female
'Marie Rickes'
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Signature
Robert Coale
male
Possibly Beale: surname very uncertain.
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Basic Mark
William Wade
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Signature
John Rickes
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Signature
William Daye
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Signature
Margaret Snelling
female
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Elaborate Mark
William Rame
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Signature
Mary Busgat
female
'Marey Busgat'
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Basic Mark
Thomas Busgat
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Basic Mark
Jeremy Snowes
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Elaborate Mark
Henry Goodridge
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Signature
William Beales
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Basic Mark
William Barricke
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Elaborate Mark
John Howgate
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Elaborate Mark
Henry Wier
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Elaborate Mark
Richard Craven
male
Possibly Croun
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Elaborate Mark
John Whitefend
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Elaborate Mark
Thomas Machin
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Elaborate Mark
William Raines
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Basic Mark
Thomas Morley
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Elaborate Mark
Richard Coover
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Basic Mark
John Greenwood
male
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Morly
male
[best reading of surname]
Spouse
[Not specified]
[Not specified]
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Basic Mark
Elizabeth Wright
female
Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Basic Mark
Other Actor