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Archive Reference / Library Class No.Q/UBOX/19
TitleBox 19 - Presentments (civil and criminal), Notices, Lunacy returns, Militia
Date1765-1892
Description- Notice to constable, church wardens and overseers of Mappleton re Abraham Smith dangerous, to be securely locked up, 23 Apr 1778

- Notice to Thurston re Sarah Middleton hired as servant to Mr Massey (?) at Swarkestone, then to Mr Bakewell of Stenson, but then returned to Mr Massey, Michaelmas 1772

- Complaint on oath by James Sims of Chesterfield, innkeeper, re theft of items of clothing, scales and weights, suspects John Groom of Chesterfield, labourer, 5 Feb 1794

- Presentments (rolled bundle)
16 Apr 1765: John Gillott of Heanor, collier: assaulting Sarah Evans
27 Apr 1813: Henry Wilkinson, John Swift the younger and George Mosley, all labourers of Edensor: assaulting John Bark of Edensor, labourer
13 Jul 1813: Thomas Gilbert of Repton, farmer: assaulting Richard Prichard Smith
13 Jul 1813: Peter Morrison of Glossop, calico printer: assaulting John Davis
13 Jul 1813: Charles Abell of Bakewell, bookseller: libel - falsely writing and publishing about Samuel Frith, Ashton Ashton Shuttleworth and Marmaduke Middleton Middleton

- Presentments (rolled bundle)
10 Jul 1804: William Tongue, overseer of Little Eaton and Thomas Tempest: conspiring to cause a marriage between William Walker with settlement in St Mary, Nottingham, and Elizabeth Hall, with settlement in Little Eaton, being with child; to avoid the child becoming chargeable to the parish of Little Eaton
11 Jul 1809: inhabitants of Chapel en le Frith to repair Lower White Hough bridge (see also D1673/Z/73)
9 Jan 1810: parishioners of South Wingfield to repair a section of highway between South Wingfield and South Wingfield Park
3 Oct 1809: Alexander Grant Carmichael of Bakewell; assaulting John Wild
9 Jan 1810: inhabitants of Tideswell to repair a length of road in Tideswell
11 Jul 1809: George Booth of Bakewell, farmer: erecting a wall blocking a highway on Harthill Moor, Bakewell
7 Apr 1813: Charles Abell of Bakewell, bookseller: assaulting Ann Abell
6 Oct 1812: Samuel Marsden of Matlock collar maker: defrauding Frances Gladwin of Stubbing, widow
14 Jan 1812: Daniel Glossop, keeper of House of Correction at Chesterfield: allowing the escape of Peter Mitchell, in custody for fathering the child of Ann Wetton/Witton, likely to become chargeable to the parish of Repton
15 Jan 1765: John Townsend of Youlgreave: taking a guinea from Hugh Palfreman and replacing with a base coin
15 Jan 1765: John Higton of Wirksworth: assaulting Samuel Barton
16 Apr 1765: George Goodwin and Michael Goodwin: persuading Hugh Palfreman not to give evidence
11 Jul 1825: Joseph Shaw of Eckington, labourer: assaulting Joseph Lowe
10 Jan 1825: Edward Dennis, otherwise Edward Bramley, Isaac Elliott and Isaac Hays, all of South Normanton, labourers: assaulting Joshua Green
10 Jan 1825: William Dodsley Flamstead of Ilkeston: assaulting Francis Smith
18 Oct 1824: Thomas Grayson of Stanton by Dale: assaulting the Rev John Dale Wawn
19 Oct 1819: Charles Fox, Francis Fox and Joshua Ward, all of Pilsley (North Wingfield), labourers: taking Benjamin Lim[b], a pauper dangerously sick, weak and debilitated, from Pilsley and leaving him at a roadside in Matlock where he died within twenty four hours
19 Oct 1819: Thomas Gisborne of Quorn, Leicestershire: constructing a buiding on the highway at Chapel en le Frith

- Annual Returns by Unions of Lunatics Chargeable to the Common Fund or to Parishes
Jan 1875: Ashby de la Zouch, Basford, Belper, Hayfield, Tamworth
Feb 1875: Burton upon Trent, Worksop
Jan 1876: Ashbourne, Bakewell, Basford, Belper, Burton upon Trent, Chapel en le Frith, Chesterfield, Derby, Ecclesall Bierlow, Glossop, Hayfield, Shardlow, Uttoxeter,
Feb 1876: Ashby de la Zouch, Mansfield, Tamworth,
Apr 1876: Worksop
Dec 1876: Basford
Jan 1877: Bakewell, Belper, Burton upon Trent, Chapel en le Frith, Chesterfield, Derby, Ecclesall Bierlow, Hayfield, Launceston, Cornwall (in respect of one individual at County Asylum, Mickleover), Shardlow, Uttoxeter
Feb 1877: Ashbourne, Tamworth, Worksop
Apr 1877: Mansfield
Jun 1877: Glossop
Jan 1883: Ashbourne, Bakewell, Basford, Belper, Burton upon Trent, Chapel en le Frith, Chesterfield, Derby, Ecclesall Bierlow, Glossop, Hayfield, Mansfield, Uttoxeter
Feb 1883: Tamworth
Mar 1883: Ashby de la Zouch
Jan 1892: Ashby de la Zouch, Bakewell, Basford, Belper, Burton upon Trent, Chesterfield, Ecclesall Bierlow, Glossop, Hayfield, Mansfield, Rotherham, Shardlow, Worksop
Jan 1893: Shardlow

- Quarterly Lists of Lunatics: Ashbourne Union: Mar/Apr 1875, Jun/Jul 1875, Oct 1875, Jan 1876, Apr 1876, Jun 1876, Dec 1876/Jan 1877, Mar/Apr 1877, Jun/Jul 1877, Oct 1877; with separate lists for Ashbourne, Brassington, Hartington, Longford and Parwich: note that Longford and Parwich are “nil” returns

- Return of Volunteers enrolled at Chesterfield for the 2nd Derby Militia, Jul 1875 (stray item bundled with Annual Returns of Lunatics)
Extent1 box
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorDerbyshire County Quarter Sessions
FormatDocument
AcknowledgementsBox-listed by volunteer Roger Jennens, February 2026.
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