Dispute over Road Repairs 1681

 

Indictments

Oxfordshire Trinity Sessions 1681

1. Marston Road from Marston to Oxford out of repair for three furlongs 13 yards wide. The inhabitants of Marston should repair it. [p28]

Epiphany 1681

1. Inhabitants of Marston, for a highway out of repair, being three furlongs in length of the road from Marston to Oxford, 10 yards wide, called Marston Lane.

[p.59]

Recognizance

Epiphany 1681

1. viii Wright Crook of Marston in £40, before Gilbert Ironside, Vice-Chancellor.

For his appearance at the next sessions

Noted: Non solutum comparuit et exoneratur [p58]

Petty Jury Panel for Marston highway case (see 1. and 2. above)

1. Frank Page of Wheatley

Thomas Cox of Garsington

Nicholas Hasey of Wheatley

Edward Nash of Arncott

Thomas Caplin of Piddington

John Stevens of the same

William Robbinson of Cassington

John Mortimore of Beckley

John Hinton Forest Hill

William Webb of Burcott

William Almont of Burcott

Robert Day of Burcott

 

1. Frank Syms and Mark Bolt of Marston were on the panel (but not sworn) in the case of John Guy of Hook Norton (assault on Thomas Wise). Richard Smith of Marston sworn to Petty Jury in the case of John Miles (of Witney, labourer, 'for using the mistery of a fuller without apprenticeship')

Trinity Sessions 1688

Joseph Hew of Marston (with William Hatton of St Clements) sworn to Grand Jury for Bullindon Hundred.