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Q - Derbyshire County Quarter Sessions - 1558-1971
- AM - Quarter Sessions (Administration): Various functions carried out by the court (index available to download) - 1744-1955
  - 1 - Weights and Measures - 1797-1847

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	Q/AM/1/9
Title	Hundred of Scarsdale: account of persons who have had their weights and balances tried and adjusted
Date	1797
Description	Gives place, name, occupation. At the end is a report on convictions and an account of the inspector's expenses
Level	file
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Derbyshire County Quarter Sessions
Transcript or Index	[Known abbreviations expanded, without square brackets] CHECK ORIGINAL INDEX An Account of the several Persons who have had their Weights and Ballances tried and adjusted by John Latham and John Snibson, Inspectors & Examiners of Weights and Ballances in the said Hundred, together with an Account of the Expences incurred by making a Private search in different parts within the said Hundred. DATE/PLACE TO BE CHECKED Joseph Wall; John Sellers (Shopkeeper); George Allen (Shopkeeper); John Greaves (Shopkeeper); George Ellis (Blacksmith) At Bolsover and Parishes adjoining: William Milward (Tallow Chandler); Samuel Charlesworth (Shopkeeper etc.); George Palmer (Shopkeeper etc.); William Spray (Shopkeeper); William Wild (Shopkeeper & Innkeeper); William Allwood (Mercer etc.); Miss Hinde (Shopkeeper); Job Wild (Palterton); Richard Charlesworth (Shopkeeper); John Hinde (Butcher); Widow Drable); Elizabeth Jepson; Elizabeth Wild; John Brown (Butcher); George Pearson; Mʳ Jackson (Shopkeeper); Mʳ Hodgkinson (Sutton & Duckmanton); G. Wilde); William Armstrong); Mʳˢ Jackson (Shopkeeper); John Shacklock (Shopkeeper); Mʳ Beardmore (Miller); Joseph Brown (Butcher); Stephen Johnson; Thomas Salom (Butcher) Barlborough and Parishes adjoining: John Hancock (Maltster etc.); Mary Whiting (Shopkeeper); Richard Milner (Shopkeeper); Joseph Hill (Shopkeeper, Clown); George Jackson (Shopkeeper); Richard Rotheram (Shopkeeper); John Scales (Mercer etc.); George Baker (Shopkeeper); Joseph Rivington (Shopkeeper); Henry Perry (Shopkeeper); John Littlewood Eckington: John Hardy (Currier); George Wilde (Shopkeeper); George White; John Shepherd; Lee Spakeman) Joseph Mayor (Butcher); Sarah Morton; Benjamin Cousin; Mr. Gales (Innkeeper etc.); William Barber (Butcher); Job Allen; John Barber (Grocer etc.); Joseph Littlewood; Mʳ Glossop (Currier) Dronfield &c.: John Cartledge; Richard Walker (Innkeeper etc.); John Bargh; Mʳ Outram (Butcher); John Frith (Shopkeeper etc.); Ellen Norris (Shopkeeper etc.); Thomas Newton (Shopkeeper etc.); Isaac Moore (Shopkeeper etc. & Mercer); George Bennett; Robert Linley (Shopkeeper); Jonathan Dicken (Shopkeeper); John Warhurst (Shopkeeper); William Turner (Shopkeeper); Mr. Brocksopp (Tallow Chandler etc); Elizabeth Webster; Mark White (Miller); T. Pearson; John Foulds (Miller); Thomas Parker; John Moore (Shopkeeper); Hannah Outram; Mrs. Goodison; Abraham Shaw (Currier) N.B. in the present Month (April) the following Persons have had theirs Weights and Balances tried in their Shops, Warehouse etc. of which no previous notice were given them, several of whom have been Convicted. Chesterfield: John Harvey (Butcher); John Fidler (Butcher); Peter Milnes (Butcher); John Nall (Butcher); William Jennings (Butcher); John Cole (Butcher); Robert Silcock (Butcher); Robert Nall (Butcher); Isaac Page (Butcher); James Wright (Butcher); Job Denham (Butcher); James Morley (Butcher); James Raines (Butcher); George Lee (Butcher); Samuel Bower (Butcher); William Garratt (Butcher); George Pearson (Butcher); Richard Wragg (Butcher); Mʳ J. Wilkinson (Merchant etc.); Joseph Glossop (Butcher etc.); John Hokesley (Baker); George Hoole (Butcher); Miss Hoole (Milliner etc.); James Wragg (Flaxdresser); Robert Bambridge (Grocer); George Martam (Grocer); Joseph Burton (Shopkeeper); Daniel Hill (Flaxdresser); William Smith (Grocer); Anthony Johnson (Grocer); Jospeh Gregory (Shopkeeper); Richard Roberts (Shopkeeper); Francis Smith (Fishmongers Troy's); Samuel Totley (Shopkeeper); Messeurs Hewitt & Bunting (Mercer etc.); John Walker (Grocer); Mʳˢ Hutchinson (Shopkeeper); John Calow (Shopkeeper); MesseursRadley & Hewitt (Mercer ); Joseph Gratton (Grocer); Chapman & Gratton (Mercers); George Taylor (Grocer); John Bradley (Baker); William Cadman (Blacksmith); Jospeh Rooth (Currier); Isaac Townsend (Grocer); John Hueson (Grocer); Samuel Inman (Flour Seller); Miss Hague (Shopkeeper); Thomas Holland (Flour Seller); James Stanhope (Grocer); William & Joseph Cooper (Bakers); Willia Robinson (Mercer); Messeurs Dutton & Fletcher); Messeurs Gell & Brown (Grocers); Sampson Holland (Mercer); M. Holland (Shopkeeper); Miss Linney (Shopkeeper); John Frith (Tallow Chandler); Jacob Hatfield (Shopkeeper); Josiah Claughton (Druggist etc.); Samuel Winchester (Baker); Robert Shirt (Mercer); William Wingfield (Grocer); D. Taylor (Druggist etc.); John Taylor (Grocer); John Barnes (Grocer); Jonathan (Fishmongers Troy's); Joseph Nall (Hosier); Valentine Wilkinson (Shopkeeper); Marmaduke Eyre (Shopkeeper); Mr. Harvey (Shopkeeper); Godfrey Widdowson (Shopkeeper); Benjamin Kenworthy (Shopkeeper); John Loe (Grocer); William Bradley (Baker); James Jennings (Butcher); Mʳ Hazard (Grocer); James Sims (Grocer); William Slack (Glue Maker); Jarvis Prince (Fallmonger); Joseph Bowes (Tanner); George Street (Skynner); David West (Shopkeeper); Edward Dixon (Tanner); Thomas Webster (Currier); George Wright (Shopkeeper); Thomas Holehouse (Shopkeeper); William Robinson (Shopkeeper); Henry Heathcote (Shopkeeper); William Hardy (Baker); Joseph Glossop (Cornfactor etc.); Edensor Brown (Shopkeeper); Mʳ Sharpe (Grocer); John Thompson (Carrier); Martin Wilson (Grocer); Elizabeth Needham (Shopkeeper); John Wilson (Baker); Robert Turner (Nailmaker); William Batteson (Grocer); Thomas Browne (Cornfactor etc.); William Trueman (Shopkeeper); Joseph Clarkson (Shopkeeper); William Taylor (Worsted Seller etc.); Robert Silcock (Butcher); Samuel Wilcockson – (Miller – Had at his Mill good weights & Balances & also a Table of Fees etc. for grinding affixed over them); [Samuel Wilcockson] at his retail sale shop); Robert Stevenson (Baker); Thomas Caldwell (Shopkeeper); James Nicholls (Shopkeeper); Mrs. Wilcockson (Shopkeeper); James Tomlinson (Shopkeeper); Robert Hurst (Baker); John Rooth (Cornfactor etc.); Ralph Froggatt (Blacksmith); Mrs. Pointer (Grocer); Mark Thickett (Flour Seller); William Robinson (Shopkeeper); Mʳ Hopkinson (Currier); Richard Collis (Grocer) Villages and Country Places Scarcliffe: Joseph Wardley Palterton: Job Wilde; William Spray Bolsover: William Milward (Grocer); Miss Hindes; James Wild; John Hinde (Butcher); Matthew Jackson); John Brown (Butcher; William Allwood (Shopkeeper); Sarah Armstrong (Shopkeeper); William Armstrong); George Palmer; George Pearson; William Kitchen (Butcher); Richard Charlesworth); Sarah Lowe Little Bramcote: Miss Smith (Grocer); Abraham Lingden (Grocer); Benjamin Ling (Butcher); Hannah Boras (Flour Seller) Holymoorside: John Belfield (Shopkeeper); Robert Botham (Miller) Convicted for short Weighs 20/-, Convicted for not having a Table of the prices of Grinding etc. 5/-; Sarah Wilson (Shopkeeper) – convicted for having some defective Weights 5/-; Joseph Cundy; Joseph Stoppard (Shopkeeper); Elizabeth Mead (Shopkeeper) Walton: Robert Longson (Grocer); George Booker (Grocer); William Goodison (Grocer); M. Johnson (Grocer) Newbold: William Swift (Shopkeeper); John Cheffaney (Shopkeeper) Holmsfield: John Shirt (Grocer) – Convicted for having short Weights 5/-; Matthew North (Grocer) – Convicted for having short Weights 7/6 Barlow: Mr. Owen (Grocer); Mʳ Hancock (Flour Seller) Cutthorpe: James Barnes (Grocer) – Convicted for having defective Weights 10/- Newbold Green: John Deakin (Flour Seller); Thomas Heath (Grocer) Wingerworth: Thomas Walkington (Flour Seller) – Convicted for having defective Weights 20/-; William Higginbotham (Grocer) Tupton: Edward Bown (Grocer etc. (Convicted for having defective Weights 20/- Mary May (Grocer) Clay Cross: Thomas May (Grocer etc.); Thomas Stanley (Grocer etc.) – Convicted for having short Weights 10/-; James Boorbanks (Grocer) – Convicted for the like offence 5/- Higham: John Breffit (Grocer) – Convicted for the like offence 10/-; Peter Henstock (Grocer) – Convicted for the like offence 5/-; Miss Clay (Grocer; Philip Webster (Grocer) – Convicted for the like offence 20/- Shirland: John Rawson (Grocer); William Bennett (Grocer); John Greaves (Grocer); John Brailsford (Grocer) Wingerworth Mill: Arthur Robinson (Miller) – Convicted for short Weights 20/- ); Convicted for not having a Table of Fees for Grinding in his Mill 5/- N.B. The amount of the present Convictions paid into the Treasurers hands is £7-17-6 and the Inspectors have no doubt provided they had during their first Inspection caused Informations to be laid against the owners had defective weights in their possessions (there being further without) and not adjusting them, that at least two Hundred persons must have had Informations laid against them in which case the Fines would have amounted to a large sum of Money. An Account of Money expended by J. Carter & G. Gosling 1797 January } Paid James Plant for making a large strong Box to contain the Weights, Scales &c. as per Bill – 14s Thomas Shepherd for driving the Cart and Horse 12 days and Assisting us in going round the Hundred the first time – £1 4s Paid for the Cart & Horse 12 days at 3/6 per day – £2 2s Paid for the Toll Bars – 5s 3d Paid Expences upon the road & at Public Houses &c. for 3 Men & Horse at 17/- per day – £10 4s To J. Carter & G. Gosling 12 days trouble N.B. We walked ourselves the whole of the Journeys Expences in making the private Search in the present month of April To ourselves & Thomas Shepherd’s expences 6 days – £5 2s Paid Thomas Shepherd 6 days – 12s To J. Carter & G. Gosling 6 days trouble [Total] – £20 3s 3d 18 days 13 10 0 D. O. G. Ordered at Easter 1797

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