Noe vnlicenced Alehouses, noe disorder, watch and ward duely kept, vagrants punished according to the Lawe, xs leuied vpon drunkards to the vse of the poore. Gabraell Whittawe, his wife, sonne and daughter liue idly and are hedgbreakers, noe stocke in the parish to sett the poore on worke. A greate stocke of corne laid in for the poore at iiis iiijd the bushell, none want worke, all being set one worke in the parish, iili xs yearly rent distributed to the poore by the donors, xi boyes and girles to be put to service....
Richard Shepheard, Robert Goulett, Consta.
Thomas Thackguere, William Addams, Churchwar.
Abraham Thorogood, Simon Abbott, Ouerseers....
Stortford.
Stocke to set the poore one worke to make Clothe 22li: 10s: of hempe, towe and flax; 24 children to put to seruice, 22 poore spinners sett to worke, none sell beare or ale wthout licence, noe disorder in Innes or Alehouses, iiii rogues punished, watch & ward duely kept, noe Money leuied vpon drunkards since our last returne: Thomas Gurston goeth aboute wth a Gunne or Peece, Tobias Chandler hath noe Lawfull calling.
Tho. Barnard, gen. Church.
Leonard Knight, Robert Freeman, Constables.
John Jones, James Scruby, Ouerseers.
Westmill.
Tenn pounds, thirteene shillings Stocke for the releife of the poore in corne; Richard Beadle, John Beadle idle liuers out of seruice, noe Inne or Alehouse in the parish, the Guifts formerly given imployed as by the donors wills, watch and ward duely kept, three rogues punished....
Thomas Kirbey, Michaell More, Churchwardens.
Tho. Ancell, Richard Haruey, Ouerseers.
An Abstract of the Returnes made Aprill the iiiith Anno d(omi)ni 1631....
Braughinge.