Catalogue description 11th January [1596/7] at Canterbury

[Illegible]............ at Canterbury Castle on Tuesday the 11th January [1596/7] before...........? Michael............, William Crowmer, John Boys, ? Edward Boys, esquires, ............ [illegible]............. Mathew Hadd, esquire, and others, justices of the peace.

[1] Richard Gregory, labourer and Edward Tanner, carpenter, both of St. Dunstan's, [Canterbury], William Hadman of Ewell, labourer, Edward Berry, yeoman, and Richard Adys, labourer, both of Wincheap, [Canterbury], Mathew Godders of Sandwich, yeoman, Samuel Taddaye, gentleman, and Thomas Man, labourer, both of Longport, on 3rd December, 1506, during the night between the hours of ten and two with swords and sticks and other arms, burgled the house of Ralph Terry at 'Howfeilds' with the intent of plundering the goods and money of the said Ralph and Anne his wife, and insulting and killing them.

Plead not guilty. Guilty. They are to be hanged.

Later before the justices assigned to deliver the gaol at the aforesaid castle, at Rochester on Thursday the 17th February next following [1596/7] came the said Edward Bery and Samuel Toddy. Plead not guilty. Guilty. They are to be hanged.

[2] Alexander Oven of Hoath, [in Reculver], labourer, on the 17th July, 1596, at Hoath, maliciously knew and desired that the Spaniards (who are enemies of our Lady the Queen) would come and invade this realm of England, saying in these English words 'they (meaning the said Spaniards) be long a commynge yt is no matter if they (meaning the said Spaniards) were come and I Would they (meaning the said Spaniards) Were come for the people here (meaning the aforesaid Lady the Queen) be all naught a plague of God light upon them all (meaning the aforesaid Lady the Queen)' against the form of a certain statute making provisions for such occasions and passed in the parliament of our Lady the Queen held at Westminster in 1581.

Pleads not guilty. Verdict guilty of speaking the said words but not of speaking them maliciously.