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Srs I wrote you some time ago, of a Complaint sent me by Mr Abraham Bunting The Com[missioner]s of Greenwich Bailiffe for the Manor of Wark on which you desired a State of that affair. The Case is this - at the last Court Baron held for the Manor of Wark Judgem[en]t was given, in two plaintifs on account of debt for 39s:11d tryed there. For respective pl[ain]t[iffs] in Each accot. One ag[ains]t One Thos. Read of Humshaugh and another against Wm. Smith of Haughton with the said Smith & Read refusing to pay; Executions were issued out by the Steward according to Custome ag[ains]t each of them, & Mr Buntings Under Bailiff Jno. Murdee, sent to levy on their goods for the money for which the judgem[en]t was given with the Costs adjudg’d thereon. Murdee Accordingly levyed, & when he had taken the goods & were bringing them away in order to be sold to satisfye the judgement Def[enden]ts Read & Smith, Each rescued by force their goods Murdee had levy’d. They now pretend that the s[ai]d places called Humshaugh, & Haughton Answer to another Court Baron & are not within the Manor of Wark, & therefore refuse to do suite & service to Wark Court; & will not sufferr, Executions to be levyed within those places of Judgemts obtained in the sd Court ag[ains]t persons residing therein. It appears by the Court Rolls of the sd Manor fro[m] the year 1708 (beyond which wee have no Court Rolls) that the inhabitants of Humshaugh & Haughton have all along till abt. 2 or 3 years ago Appeared at Warks Court & done suite & service there & served on the Jurys for the sd Courts Baron & the Leat & brought ac[tion]s in the sd Courts Baron & had ac[tion]s [reserved] ag[ains]t them therein & when not p[ai]d levys have been made thereon, till ab[ou]t 3 years ago when one Heron, a troublesome & desperate Person having a judgement obtained ag[ains]t him Refused to suffer the officer to levy. The stile of the Courts run thus The manor of Wark the Court of our Soveraigne Ld King Geo: the Second of Great Britain France & Irel[an]d defender of the faith & so forth held at Wark within the sd Manor the 6th day of Oct 1743 & for the manor before Jno. Reed Esq. Forster Charlton Gent & other sutors of the sd Court Jno. Airey Steward & by these present - Ab: Bunting Bailif The Entry is made thus Cuthb ert Stoker complaines ag[ains]t Robt. Dent in an A[ction] of trespass on the Case to the pl[ain]t[if]s Damage xxxixs : x d Mr Green per pl[ainti]f Mr Ilderton per Deft. Judgement for 6s for goods sold & delivered and the Execution run thus [annotated on cover:] JA’s Lre to Mr Wm Radley of Greenwich Sol[icitor] for the Hospitall, touching the refusall of the People of Humshaugh & Haughton refusing to do Suite & Service there.
ZC/4/1/26. It is a very rough draft, with a lot of crossing out and interlining. Undated but assumed to have been written soon after the date of the court referred to below. 7 Oct 1743 used here, a day after the court date quoted.
