Jean Claude Newbright was living in Ipswich and in the Byfield parish area of Newbury. On January 1675 he received 2 shillings and 6 pence from the town of Newbury “for killing a wolf”. 3 years later he was called into court along with William Longfellow, the ancestor of the the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, for slaughtering “an oxe and some piggs”. The claim came from Joseph Plumer and Robin Robinson aka “The Scotchman”. The court ruled in favor of Plumer and Robinson and Jean Claude and his associate were forced to pay them the value of the animals in question. Since he was not able to do so he was sentenced to jail where he never came out of.