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From: M L Crocker< >
Subject: Re: [CROCKER-L] Myrtis Handley ramblings (*corrections*)
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 20:23:58 -0500


CORRECTIONS:
Should be Francis PREWE of Ottery (source King James 1st, Vol. 103, No.
87. I. and Virginia Historical Magazine)>

>Examination of Francis Prewt of Ottery--Thomas Crocker,William
>Mitchell and
>John Watts were taken before Sir Edward Hext on the 16th and 31st of
>Oct.
>1618,.It was in reference to the procedings of Owen Evans in
>endevoring to
>press
>maidens to be sent to the Bermudas and to Va.That same bred such
>terror
>as above that forty women fled out of the Parish of Ottery,and were
>not yet
>found

SHOULD BE: (PREWE )
>that he threatened Prewt should answer his conduct in another place
>,if he
>failed
>that Thomas Crocker should be hanged in the morning if he failed to
>press him
>some maidens,and that Mitchell compound some with Evans for ten
>shillings to
>be free
>and that Evans give John Watts four shillings to press him four
>maidens and
>free( should be: (BRING) )

SHOULD BE:
(Sherborne, Co. Dorsett )
>them to him at Strbone Co.Dorsett ??????

(Sherborne, Dorset Co. Eng. located west of Southampton on road A-30 at
Junction with A-352, and south of Bristol, east of Exeter, England.
Ottery is not now a co. but old town Othery exist.)

BALANCE OF TEXT should be added:

and twelve pence to one Jacob Cryste to press Evans his (Cryste's)
daughter.

ADD:
Thomas Crocker of Ottery, banishment to the new world (Virginia)
1645.

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