Showeth that your petitioners have for several years past, by licence from the Worshipful Justices of Peace, kept ale and beer to sell, and hope therein they have well, and without just cause of complaint behaved themselves: that upon Sunday the twelfth day of February last past, one John Hey (a man of known miscarriage) came into your petitioners house late at evening, and being overcharged with drink threatened your petitioner and the family for denying him drink and to stay and further to add unto his drunkenness, he challenged one George Winstanley a stranger which was in your petitioners' house (who he the said Hey had before unto several neighbours sworn to do a mischief to) to go forth of the house with him, that the said stranger indiscreetly going forth with him, the said Hey fell upon him, and with a great key of a mill door which he had all the night carried in his hand so struck and wounded the said Winstanley that it was doubted of his life: that to prevent the killing of the said stranger, the son and the daughter of your petitioners went forth, and your petitioner Margaret who only but laboured to draw off the said Hey from killing the said Winstanley; as some of the neighbourhood are able to witness: that the said Hey being a man wholly given to contention, hath since procured warrants of the peace against your petitioners and several of their family, and others that came and acted nothing against him for unjust vexation to drive them, to give unto him money for agreement which several times he hath demanded: that your petitioners have heard divers to report (and himself hath confessed) and they doubt not but to prove that the said Hey then was and... is an outlawed person… Therefore your petitioners humbly pray that your worships would be pleased not only to free them your petitioners and others, from the said unjust vexation of the said Hey, but to inflict upon him such due punishment... as your worships in discretion shall see meet... And your petitioners as in all duty bound will every pray etc.
Petitions
LRO
QSP 95/17
Petition
Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
1654 (Easter)
Petition
Complaint
1654
Intoxicants
Alcohol | Ale
Alcohol | Beer
Relates To
Drunkenness
Fights and violence
Setting
Alehouse
Transcription
Petitionee
John Hey
male
Petitioners
John Dam
male
Spouse
Margaret Dam
female
Haighton, Lancashire, England
Margaret Dam
female
Spouse
John Dam
male
Haighton, Lancashire, England