I agree with Honor, thank you for the post Jane. My 3x great grandmother was sent packing with a flea in her ear from Horningtoft back to Witchingham in the 19th century so the officers of the village were still vigilant about who had leave to stay in their village. I am slightly curious though, about why people from Babraham or Bourn in Cambs, Hadley in Suffolk and especially Lancashire were in Horningtoft in the first place in the 16th Century, especially in a condition of vagrancy. Fakenham and Gressenhall I can understand. Would these have been individuals on the tramp, or members of bands of vagrants/travellers or employees who had been sacked? Presumably they were being sent back to the villages of their origin -but how was that enforced or were they just shuffled from village to village? Horningtoft is a bit of a one horse village these days, even if very nice, and there are a number of almost deserted medieaval villages in the area, and I can't find what it had of any great significance in the 16th C. Was it because of the cross Norfolk/Fens route that is now the B1145 and its junction at Brisley with the north south B1110/A1075 down to Thetford? I think I must read up on this. Rosie On 25/09/2011 22:25, Honor wrote: > An excellent post Jane, > This tpye of material is probably lost unless posted in the registers. > thanks Honor. Vanc. island > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jane Milbourne"<jane.milbourne@ntlworld.com> > To:<NORFOLK@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 8:03 AM > Subject: [NFK] Horningtoft 1598 LITTLE WILSON WOODS GRAY HARRISON > > >> > From Horningtoft register: >> >> A note of vagrants taken at Horningtoft in the yeare of o' Lord god 1598 >> in >> the fowerth yeare of the ragine of our soveragine lady Elizabeth queene of >> England France and Ireland >> >> Margaret Little taken vagrant at the towne above saide the 20th of Aprill >> in >> the yeare above saide and sent to Hadley in Suffolk >> >> Elazabeth Wilson sent to Gresnoll the eight of October in the one and >> forth >> yeare of the ragine of Elizabeth >> >> Leanard Woods was taken vagrant and sent to Baburne(?) in Cambridgshire >> 26th >> of January Anno praedicto (in the year already mentioned) >> >> Kateren Gray taken vagrant the five and twenty of November in the yeare >> above said and sent to Faknam in the yeare above said >> >> John Harrison taken vagrant the 28th of January and sent into Lancheshire >> in >> the yeare above said >> >> A note of what money was collected in this towne of Horningtaft for and >> toward the releife of those that suffered losse by a lamentable fire which >> hapned the last day of Aprill in the eleventh yeere of the Reigne of our >> Soveraigne Lord King Charles the second in the the towne of Fakenham. >> >> Collected as above said 13s 8d by Christopher Moulton Curate ibid (in the >> same place) and Edmond Ridgewell and Ed* Le* Churchwardens >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message