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Extracts from Burton Latimer
Constables' Accounts 1634 - 1709

A combination
Stocks and
Whipping Post
The great majority of entries in the Constable's Accounts concern people that had left their own parish to travel elsewhere and were given money for food and lodgings when they passed through 'the towne', or to the owners of carts or horses that had been used to transport them to the parish boundary. This was a reciprocal arrangement throughout the country.

Other payments were made to the Parish Officers who had been appointed to kill moles, hedgehogs, and other animals and birds regarded as pests.

Payments were also made to the Constables for serving warrants, accompanying prisoners to gaol or setting up a 'Hue and Cry', i.e. to search for and detain wrongdoers from this or other parishes.

They also had the responsibility of maintaining the roads, ditches and bridges, the parish stocks, whipping post and the parish pound.

Burton Latimer's whipping post and stocks were situated at The Cross, (the area where the war memorial now stands) The parish pound was situated at the end of what is now known as Meeting Lane .

The sums of money are accounted for in the former currency of pounds, shillings and pence. See the Glossary (info symbol at the top left of the page) for an explanation of this system.

Extracts From Burton Latimer Constable's Accounts 1634-9
   
 
Year and Month Details
Costs
   
£
s
d
1634 For making the Whipping post and setting it up at the Crosse
0
0
6
  ffor a Theale to make the same post with
0
2
0
  ffor the Iron worke about it
0
1
6
   
 
 
 
  ffor a warrant to bring Margerie Baxter before the Justices for divers misdemeanoers she had committed
0
0
6
   
 
 
 
  ffor a Warrant to carrie the said Margerie to Bridewell - and spent uppon the Watchmen
0
3
6
   
 
 
 
  Paid for a warrant for Margerie Walter to Convey her awaie being gotten with Childe at Wellingborow
0
0
6
  For a horse hyer to Carrie her
0
1
2
  For a mans wages to goe with her
0
0
6
   
 
 
 
1635  
 
 
 
20 Apr Item ffor stone to mende the Common pound
0
1
4
  Item ffor mending the said Pounde
1
1
0
  Item Laid out uppon the Masons when they had done the same
0
0
2
   
 
 
 
1638  
 
 
 
20 Aug Item For making of foure hue and cryes to send east west north and south after a Rogue one Giles Tompson whoe was whipped in our towne for taking Widdow foothills petticoate off of the hedge, and was sent with a passe to Rothwell where he said he last dwelled. And in our field gave Whitlarke our bedle a box on the Eare and ran away from him
0
0
4
 
 
 
 
  ffor sending of a hue and cry in the night tyme for 3 cowes stolne from Stoke Doyle
0
0
4
   
 
 
 
16 Sep To the Watchmen at Burton feast 1638
0
1
0
   
 
 
 
1639  
 
 
 
06 Feb ffor sending a hue and crie to Isham in the night tyme which came from Old Weston westward after one that had stolne a browne cowe stilted of both eares with the top of her horne sawne off with a calf
0
0
4
   
 
 
 
Extracts from Burton Latimer Constable's Accounts 1680-1709
         
1680  
 
 
 
Dec For charges and mending ye stocks
0
0
6
   
 
 
 
1684  
 
 
 
14 May To Henry Clark for carrying a Hue & Cry
0
0
2
   
 
 
 
1685  
 
 
 
20 Feb To Michael James for carrying a Hue & Cry in ye night
0
0
4
   
 
 
 
March To John Moor for stocks mending
0
0
6
   
 
 
 
1686  
 
 
 
Decr To Wm Patrick and Robt Shatton for mending ye pound wall
0
1
8
   
 
 
 
1687  
 
 
 
July To John Moor for mending ye pound door
0
0
3
   
 
 
 
1690  
 
 
 
July For sending a Hue & Cry
0
0
1
   
 
 
 
Aug For mending ye stocks
0
1
6
  To John Moor for mending ye pound lock
0
0
2
  For mending ye stocks
0
0
8
   
 
 
 
1691  
 
 
 
09 Feb For watching Wm Bodgenor in ye stocks all night for being drunk
0
0
1
   
 
 
 
1693  
 
 
 
29 Sep To Richard Croxen for mending ye stocks and a lock
0
1
4
  To Richard Blowfield for mending ye pound door
0
1
4
   
 
 
 
October To Henry Piggot for carrying out a Hue & Cry
0
0
3
   
 
 
 
1694  
 
 
 
04 Apr To Robert Glover for carrying a Hue & Cry
0
0
1
   
 
 
 
1696  
 
 
 
April To Richard Page for carrying a Hue & Cry
0
0
1
   
 
 
 
15 May For a new whipping post
0
2
6
   
 
 
 
1697  
 
 
 
Sept To going before the Justices with Widow Ball
0
2
6
   
 
 
 
1698  
 
 
 
April To Richard Sharp for joining a Hue & Cry to Thingdon (Finedon)
0
0
2
   
 
 
 
07 Apr For stone and repairs to the town pound
0
8
5
   
 
 
 
20 Oct To Richard Croxen for ironwork for ye stocks
0
3
0
   
 
 
 
1704  
 
 
 
08 Jan To Richard Croxen for mending ye whipping post
0
0
10
   
 
 
 
1706 Spent on ye Jury when ye child was found in ye ponde
0
5
4
   
 
 
 
1708  
 
 
 
20 Jul For keeping Will Hall and Will Barker prisoners being took by a Justices Warrant one nights charge
0
2
8
  For a man to look after them a night and a day
0
2
0
   
 
 
 
Christmas For mending ye stocks
0
2
0
  For a new lock
0
0
8
  For sending of a Hue & Cry by night to Cranford
0
0
2
   
 
 
 
1709  
 
 
 
24 Feb To John Coalman and 6 other men for looking for old Chapman when he was lost. Bread and Drink
0
2
4

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