Vicar fined three times (1672 -6)

Post date: Jun 17, 2012 2:30:56 PM

At Maidstone Assizes on 17th March 1675 Benjamin Cutter, vicar of Wateringbury, was indicted for not scouring a ditch near the highway adjoining the vicarage at Wateringbury. It was endorsed as "a true bill" and he was fined 3s 4d on 14 March 1676.

In a separate case at the same assizes Benjamin Cutter, now described as "of Wateringbury " and "a clerk" was indicted for digging a ditch in the highway at Wateringbury on 1st June 1674. He was again fined 3s 4d on 14 March 1676.

A Benjamin Cutler is on the list published by R.A.Adams of Wateringbury vicars although shown as taking the role in 1693.

Benjamin had previous form: he had been indicted at Maidstone Assizes on 1st August 1672 (described as a clerk) for depositing 5 cartloads of straw in the highway at Wateringbury on 12th February 1672 . He confessed and was fined 6s 8d at the summer assizes in 1674.