Box 2 - Miscellaneous papers and strays Record of administration of Justices’ oath by new magistrates: 1761-1764 and 1776 Summonses, defence, notice of appeal, statement of claim and related correspondence relating to dispute between Derbyshire County Council and Midland Railway Company about repair of a bridge at Breadsall: 1908-1909 Documents relating to the suppression of tumult and illegal meetings (Chartism): draft resolution of meeting of justices: 22 Aug 1842 instructions for Heads of Sections: printed document from County Hall, Derby about appointment of special constables; with circular letter from Head Constable requiring principal inhabitants to be informed about recent resolutions: 22 Aug 1842 copy of letter 28 Aug 1842: from (illegible, commanded by the Duke of Devonshire) to Sir W Warren: only two troops of yeomanry in the county: Derby and Chaddesden troop under Captain Story and Radbourne troop under Captain Pole. Each officer to be under your orders. Pleased to say the town of Derby is at present quiet copy letter from J R Graham, Whitehall to the Duke of Devonshire: 15 Aug 1842: urges need for immediate measures for repression of tumult, with accompanying note to Derbyshire magistrates from John Charge, clerk of the peace draft resolutions about execution of powers to suppress riots and illegal meetings; with one handwritten and two printed copies dated 22 Aug 1842 Confidential District Orders for Troops called out in aid of the civil power: with letter: 20 Aug 1842 from Duke of Devonshire: recipient not named: two troops of yeomanry should be called out if necessary; please send Sir William Warren at Manchester a report about state of Derbyshire Yeomanry and Cavalry Resolutions of justices at a meeting on 22 Aug 1842: “sent to every magistrate and to High Constables for each constable” printed proforma (blank) for swearing-in of special constables: township of Denby: 1842 specimen printed letter from High Constable: 22 Aug 1842: about laying before principal inhabitants the justices’ resolutions hand written note: appears to be a draft of a speech of appreciation for magistrates action in relation to preserving public peace: no writer named, but initials on reverse “DD” might indicate Duke of Devonshire General Order (printed): 8 Oct 1842: by John Macdonald, Adjutant General: appreciation of response of the Yeomanry: includes text of appreciative letters, (23 and 26 Sep 1842) from J R Graham, Whitehall, to Duke of Devonshire; with annotation: “copies sent to Captain Story and Captain Pole” letter: 10 Nov 1842: from Thomas Arbuthnot, Manchester, to Duke of Devonshire: has General Order of 8 Oct 1842 been received? copy letter: 18 Oct 1842: to Captain Story and Captain Pole: to accompany copies of General Order of 8 Oct 1842 letter: 17 Aug 1842: from William Warren, Head Quarters, Northern District. Manchester to Duke of Devonshire: in response to a request from Mayor of Derby for assistance of troops, a mob having entered the town and compelled the stocking weavers to leave their employment, a troop of 2nd Dragoon Guards has proceeded from Nottingham to Derby. Suggests that four troops of Derbyshire Yeomanry and Cavalry should be sent without delay letter: 16 Aug 1842: from B Currey, Chatsworth to John Barber: sends a copy of a letter from Secretary of State to Duke of Devonshire: asks for magistrates to be made aware letter:15 Aug 1842: from Joseph Paxton, Chatsworth to John Barber: sends proclamation from James Graham: Duke of Devonshire asks for everything necessary to be done: with letter: 14 August 1842 from Sir James Graham to accompany the proclamation letter: 20 Aug [1842]: from Joseph Paxton, Chatsworth to John Barber: about travel and luncheon arrangements for Duke of Devonshire’s attendance at meeting in Derby poster: 2 Aug 1842: Notice to Colliers and Others from the Magistrates, Wolverhampton Public Office: warning against going about uttering threats letter: 25 Aug 1842: from R W Birch to John Barber: sends forms for swearing in of special constables, requested by Mr Jessop of Butterly to be forwarded to the High Sheriff draft letter: 22 Aug 1842: request to lay Resolutions before principal inhabitants: with a list of those who attended meeting on 22 Aug specimen circular letter: invitation to magistrates to meet the Lord Lieutenant: 19 Aug 1842 Agreements for letting the Kings Arms tavern, All Saints, Derby: Thomas Neale: 13 Nov 1840 Joseph Dodgson: 20 Sep1830 Six plans rolled together: Duffield Chapel Street, Tamworth Street and Town Street junctions; 40cm x 60cm; scale 16 feet to one inch; by T H Thorpe of Derby; 20 Jan 1923; plan is marked “Middleditch and Fryer” [See Derby and Chesterfield Reporter, 23 Feb 1923: action for damages at Derby Assizes between Mary Stella Middleditch of Duffield and J H Fryer of Derby following a road accident in Duffield.] Orton Lane, Ivy Row and Conery Lane, Whatton; 42cm x 53cm; scale about 30 feet to one inch; by T H Thorpe of Derby; 3 Feb 1926; plan is marked “Rowles v Greaves” [See Nottingham Evening Post, 20 Feb 1926: action for damages at Derby Assizes between Willie Rowles, Grace Mabel Rowles, Madeline Mary Rowles of Peterborough and Mr & Mrs John Henry Greaves of Derby following a road accident at Whatton.] King Street, Belper: 38cm x 57cm; scale 16 feet to one inch; by C D Collin, Palmers Road, Norbury, SW16; undated; plan is marked “Litchfield v Bloomer (deleted) Chapman and Grant” Four copies [See Derbyshire Times, 27 Feb 1926: action for damages at Derby Assizes between Elsie May Litchfield of Kilburn and James Grant of Belper and or George Chapman and Sons, bus proprietors, following a road accident at Belper.] Bundle with label ”Session Roll 1776”: three incomplete deeds with margins cut off: it appears that the documents have possibly been used as wrappers. Assignment for 500 years: a third part of several closes in Handley, parish of North Wingfield in trust for Thomas Hopkinson: 13 Apr 1776 Document not identified (names John Smith and Bernard Lucas): marked on outside “Translations Sessions 1811 Recog File” Document not identified (names William Smith, John Saxton, Joseph Clay, William Tebb?, William Bower, Robert Thornley, Elizabeth Tomlinson of Newbold, spinster, Mary Thacker, widow of William Thacker and Robert Newton of Norton): marked on outside “Epiph Sessions 1791 Recog File” Appointment by William, Duke of Devonshire of Walter Salmond as supernumerary lieutenant in the First Regiment of Militia: 1 Mar 1872 Resolutions of a meeting of justices held on 10 Dec 1830: (printed document: refers to “present disturbed state of many parts of the Kingdom”) with specimen circular letter from the High Constable to constables requiring the resolutions to be made known and requiring a response in relation to the appointment of special constables Abstract from present County Rate and from Returns to Precepts for New County Rate: Hundred of Repton and Gresley: 1833 Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch:1833 Writs from William Drury Lowe to John Webster, James Webster and James Bradley, bailiffs, requiring attendance of defendants: David Whitaker to answer Fleetwood Churchill 3 Jul 1795 Thomas Allen to answer William Eborall 21 Feb 1795 George Roe to answer Francis Greasley 22 Dec 1795 Charles Cowlishaw to answer William Wright 3 Dec 1795 William Hartshorn to answer Joseph Hunt 30 Oct 1795 Edward Willoughby to answer John Greaves 16 Jun 1795 John Brassington to answer Thomas Whetton 8 Aug 1795 Samuel Haslam to answer Lewis Latuffiere, Thomas Brentnall and Mary Roe 29 May 1795 John Twigge to answer Stephen Gavill 7 Oct 1795 John Twigge to answer Thomas Champion 7 Oct 1795 John Twigge to answer Henry Chester 7 Oct 1795 Joseph Hatfield to answer John Holmes and Bartholomew Holmes 11 Jun 1795 Specimen circular letter from John Charge, clerk of the peace, to churchwardens and overseers: requests a return of estates and rateable property in their location: 1836 Presentments Court: Little Chester Manor: 6 Nov 1869 Draft minutes: Derbyshire June Sessions 1836: including: orders for maintenance of illegitimate children: Thomas Smith of Tissington: child born 27 Apr at Tissington of Sarah Twigge Joseph Thompson of Belper: child born 20 May at Stanton of Sara Laynam/Lynam John Hardstone of Crich: child born 22 May at Crich of Phoebe Walker John Waterhouse of Gorton, Lancashire: child born 24 Jan at Chinley (deleted) Gorton of Mary Barnes list of jury members and outcome of criminal cases dispute about poor rate: Derby Canal Co and Little Eaton appeal against removal order: parishes of Castleton and Bradwell Schedule of Thomas Corbett’s estate; (prisoner in Derby gaol at the suit of Robert Winterbotham of Saddleworth, Yorkshire on 1 Jan 1781) with declaration signed by Thomas Corbett. List of sums owed to Thomas Corbett for work done as a tailor: was formerly in partnership with John Bilbrough [See Q/SP/5/2/1 Calendar of Prisoners, 1781) Memorials to be registered at Wakefield: land at Ecclesall Bierlow: Philip Gell of Hopton, Rev James Wilkinson of Broomhall, Sheffield and Joseph Cecil of Dronfield: 12 Jul 1803 lease between John Wastell of Risby near Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, and Charles Brooke, Upper House, Liversedge; and release (2 Mar 1811) between John Wastell, Charles Brooke, Peggy Brooke otherwise Margaret Brooke of Upper House, spinster, John Nowell the younger of Cleckheaton, wool card maker, Mary Nowell and Elizabeth Sidney Griffith and Henrietta Griffith of Barnborough Hall, Yorkshire lease between Michael Stocks of Catherine House, Halifax and Bernard Lucas of Chesterfield: and release (12 May 1814) between Michael Stocks and Jane, his wife, Bernard Lucas: on reverse: addressed to Clerk of the Peace, Chesterfield with illegible postmark Information sworn by William Freer of Cauldwell, farmer: theft of eight geese, the property of William Freer: 20 Nov 1835 Letter from E[dward] N[icholas] Hurt of 34 Dorset Square to John Barber: 22 Nov 1841: sends an account of proceedings at Cheshire Quarter Sessions: thinks the Derbyshire account is too scanty: also sends a copy of a newspaper and refers to the report of the County Treasurer about the cost of lock-ups: and original newspaper: The Macclesfield Courier and Herald 26 Dec 1840 Confidential District Orders: undated: relates to provision of military assistance to the civil authorities Agenda of Michaelmas Sessions of County of Warwick: addressed to P Morewood, Esq, Alfreton Park, Derbyshire: 18 Oct 1847: postmark Stratford on Avon 1 Oct 1847 18 Oct 1842: postmark Stratford on Avon 10 Oct 1842 Account of convicted prisoners for the half-year ending 25 Mar 1854: April Sessions, Chesterfield: 4 Apr 1854 Derby County Sessions Oct 1879: detailed report reprinted from Derby Reporter of 17 Oct 1879 and Record of Orders made Copy of Mr Erskine’s opinion: case relating to delivery of a parcel containing a gun, the property of Mr Boden: 19 Apr (no year) Booklet: Standing Orders for Conduct of Business: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions: revised 5 Apr 1905 (two copies) Booklet: Proposal for Dividing the County into Electoral Divisions: 2 Nov 1888 County of Derby Criminal Statistical Return: Quarter ending 30 Jun 1879 Envelope containing various accounts/invoices, being Parliamentary election expenses of William Pole Thornhill: 1857 Warrant by John Frederick Hilditch, deputy clerk of Nottingham Assizes, for arrest of Matthew Moss of Misterton, Nottinghamshire, boatman. Indicted for damaging a hang lock at Trent Lock: 30 Jul 1803 Printed list of magistrates and principal officers, West Riding of Yorkshire: undated: most recent entry dated Apr 1852 Notice to constables, headboroughs and others: 15 Jan 1793: to bring Thomas Bower of Winster, grocer, to Quarter Sessions at Derby Presentment: 6 Apr 1790: Township of Hope have provided a temporary place of confinement for paupers and vagrants: signed by William Greaves, overseer, James Eyre, constable, John Dakin, John Middleton, John Hadfield, Nathan Woodroffe and John Ibbotson, inhabitants: windows and doors are not well secured, but are intended to be done as soon as possible: on reverse addressed to Anthony Lax Maynard, clerk of the peace, Chesterfield Letter: 10 Apr 1790: from Robert Wharton, overseer of the poor and Samuel Eyre, constable, to A L Maynard, Chesterfield: certify that there is a place of temporary confinement at Trusley Letter: 30 Aug 1836 from Sarah Richardson, Sandford, to Jeffrey Lockett, Wardwick, Derby. Asks for half-year’s interest; asks about health; hopes to hear from her brother; her sister sends respects; with note “remitted a check on Smiths for £5-16-6.” Tenancy agreements with clerk of the peace for individuals employed as watchmen or turnkeys at Derby prison: Charles Birch of Derby, turnkey: 3 Jun 1828 John Castlick of Sawley, watchman:19 Jan 1829 John Collier, watchman: 20 Sep 1831 William Slater, watchman: 21 Jun 1828 John Thompson, watchman: 27 Oct 1832 Thomas Bretner, turnkey: 3 Jun 1828 Documents relating to Queen’s Bench case: Ephraim Gibson and another v. Justices of Derbyshire and Inhabitants of Township of Newbold Schedule of costs: Trinity term 1869: Richard and W B Smith, 7, New Square, Lincoln’s Inn Copy Rule: 11 Jun 1869: Barker and Curry, Derby Correspondence and schedules of costs: 1869-1870: Regina v. Inhabitants of Newbold Brief for the Justices Notice of appeal: refusal of licence for Coach and Horses, Fenny Bentley: John Potter Bowers: undated [1891] Standing Orders of House of Lords relating to deposit of plans, etc: one copy dated Sep 1845 and one copy dated Nov 1845 Comparative Table of the Expenditure of the Four Westen Counties, with explanatory statement: presented at Devonshire Epiphany Sessions 1820 Notes about meetings and practice of Tax Commissioners: contains references to High Peak and Wirksworth Divisions: names Arthur Morton and J Waddell: undated Orders [minutes]: Derbyshire October Sessions 1875 Brief for the Defendants: Regina v. Brampton and Walton Local Board: Oct 1890: concerns repair of highway between Ashgate and Cutthorpe Return of insulated parcels of land belonging to the County of Derby but locally situated within another county, with amount of County Rate and Land Tax levied 15 Apr 1825: with related correspondence and information Reports: 1878 and1879: various printed reports, presumed for presentation to forthcoming Quarter Sessions meetings Minutes of Proceedings, Cheshire Quarter Sessions: 22-24 March 1841: addressed to John Charles Ryle, Henbury, Macclesfield Petitions for clemency from John Henry Sims, governor of Derby Gaol and Henry Moore, chaplain: William Kenyon: 8 Apr 1861 Peter Ward: 2 Apr 1860 Bundle: with label “Box(20) 13” Derby County Sessions Re-committal lists: 1881-1888: lists names of accused with details of previous trials/convictions Minutes of Sessions: 14 Oct 1879 and 19 Oct 1882: (handwritten) Record of appeals: Jun and Oct Sessions 1880 Various papers and motions in relation to Sessions business in 1880 Letter, and a copy: 13 Jun 1873: from Selborne to Duke of Devonshire: sets out (at length, like a legal judgement) findings in relation to conviction of Henry Gregory for assault and actions of John Charles Cox in relation to meeting of Land Tax Reform Association: concludes that John Charles Cox should not be removed from magistracy. [Note that the text of this letter is printed in the Derby and Chesterfield Reporter 11 Jul 1873, page 6] Envelope: marked Recognizances and Instructions for indictment: Jan 1920 Envelope: Claim for Damages by Riot: with claim form and associated correspondence: 1893: claim by F[rederick] C Corfield: damage to trees, fencing and glass at Ormonde Fields, Codnor Poster: 6 Feb 1952: Proclamation of Accession of Queen Elizabeth II Newspaper cutting: about meeting of Anti-Corn Law League: date and source not identified: 1842? Proclamation: 5 Oct 1951: Dissolution of Parliament Veterinary Certificate: 29 Jan 1888: by George Wartnaby: bay cart mare, property of John Thorp of Repton suffering from “Flounders” Swine Fever Certificate: 10 Sep 1888: Samuel Revill, Inspector: swine fever at a pigsty at Derby Road, Ilkeston, occupied by Paul Hodgkinson Derbyshire Constabulary: Distribution of Force: Quarter ending 31 Mar 1879 Index booklet: various items of local legislation, (including Inclosure Acts) with dates 1731-1857 Newspaper cutting: reprints document from 1681 about Jesuits at West Hallam, submitted by Edwin Cooling junior of St Mary’s Gate, Derby: the cutting is clipped to what appears to be a list of document categories and applicable legislation. [The cutting is from the Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal, 5 Mar 1875, page 3] Notes: meeting at Chesterfield on 30 Nov 1857 relating to Chesterfield lock-up Subscription form: Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals: J Charles Cox Reports of the Police Committee to Quarter Sessions: 7 Apr 1874 and 6 Apr 1875; including Mr Bridgart’s report about repairs needed to old lock-ups and requirement for lock-ups Printed letter: 8 Apr 1879 from F J Parry, Chief Constable to Justices: submits crime statistics for past quarter Booklet: 3 Aug 1923: verbatim record of proceedings: Durham Quarter Sessions: London and North Eastern Railway Company and Easington Union: about rating assessment Writs from Sir Robert Wilmot to John Webster, James Webster and James Bradley, bailiffs, requiring attendance of defendants: Philip Orme at the suit of John Smedley: 5 Mar 1796 Thomas Marshall to answer Thomas Smith: 18 Jul 1796 To take £45 of goods of Francis Tantum deceased in custody of Richard Tantum: damages to be recovered by George Barker: 16 May 1796 Samuel Winchester to answer Samuel Lloyd, James Bury and John Bury: 1 Oct 1796 Elizabeth Thompson: damages to be recovered by Richard Goodwin: 12 May 1796 Peter Hough to answer Jonathan Pym: 18 Jan 1796 To levy goods of William Frith: damages to be recovered by Isaac Greaves: 5 May 1796 John Roe to answer James Rowbotham: 27 Jan 1796 Thomas Holmes to answer Elizabeth Wilson: 27 May 1796 Anthony Riley to answer John Bertrand Denis and Robert Pashley: 13 Jul 1796 (additional bailiffs named: Joseph Greenwood and Richard Allsebrook) James Griffiths to answer Samuel Payne: 15 Aug 1796 Samuel Warren to answer George Orton: 19 Jan 1796 George Beardmore, late of Ashbourne, victualler, to answer Wiliam Wayte and John Ford: 1 Mar 1796 Edward Salmon, late of Brierly [?] Hall, gentleman, to answer William Hudson and Thomas Addison, assignees of the estate of John Ellis, a bankrupt: 20 May 1796 Edward Salmon, late of Brierly [?] Hall, gentleman, to answer William Hudson and Thomas Addison, assignees of the estate of John Ellis, a bankrupt: 4 Mar 1796 To levy goods of Joseph Hind: damages to be recovered by John Mullis, debtor: 6 Jun 1796 John Cooper to answer to William Taylor: 3 May 1796 “Inventory of goods” of William Bowyer seized by John Webster under authority of John Campion for a year’s rent for house at Sadler Gate Derby: followed by notice of seizure addressed to William Bowyer: 30 May 1796 [Note that there is no inventory: a section of the page is blank] Booklet: proposed Standing Orders Derbyshire Quarter Sessions: 1894: two copies 1731-1952