Note 385 — Chapter IX
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Thus on April 14, 1607, Rob. Thompson was presented for building a cottage or habitation for John Joye of Alne, labourer, now occupied by the same, without assigning to it four acres of land &c., contrary to the statute 31 Eliz. North Riding Sessions Rolls, Vol. I. p. 68. Several cases of the same kind were presented at Richmond Oct. 8, 1607, and they occur frequently throughout the North Riding Sessions Rolls of our period until 1672, except from the period 1634 to 1647. North Riding Sessions Rolls, vol. VI. 177, Oct. 8, 1672. See also pp. 28, 94, 99, 112 &c.
Like presentments were made for harbouring inmates or undersettles (i.e. lodgers) until 1675, VI. p. 232, e.g. Oct. 8, 1607. Leon. Marshall of Ravensworth "for keeping of an undersettle for the space of a moneth &c. and also John Ramshawe, James Foster and Richard Dunn all of the same: they were fined 10s. each." Ib. vol. I. p. 95.