The 'Loathsome Smell', 1614

E.R.O. reference Q/SBa 1/18

'The jury present Lancelot Gamblyn lately of Stratford Langthorne, starchmaker, because by his unlawful making of starch such a stink and ill-favour continue and daily arise so that the liege subjects of the present King along the highway in Statford Langthorne are not able to come and go as accustomed without great danger to their lives through the loathsome smell'.