| Administrative History | Badgers (or itinerant sellers of corn, fish, butter or cheese) and drovers had to enter into a recognisance (bond) when licensed at Quarter Sessions, under an Act of 5 Eliz I c 12 (1563) and their particulars were to be entered into a register.
In the Quarter Sessions papers (see Q/SB/2/) there are returns of badgers, drovers and other itinerant tradesmen such as swa(i)lers (dealers in corn). The registers listed below were perhaps compiled from such returns. The Act was repealed by the Act of 12 Geo III c 71 (1772) |