| Description | Indictments
• Robert Milward of Oaken Clough, Alstonefield, cheese factor, re-grating and selling one hundredweight of cheese, purchased from William Prince at Chesterfield market and sold there to Laurence Plant, 25 Sep 1795
• Joshua Heathcote and Joseph Needham, both of Hartington Middle Quarter, farmers, persuading George Brown to marry Mary Harrison, thus freeing the inhabitants of Hartington of the maintenance of Mary Harrison, 30 Aug 1807 [Separately almost at the bottom of the box is a traverse dated 11 Apr 1809, relating to this allegation, recording that George Brown’s settlement was in Upper Hallam and indicating offers of payment for a marriage licence, a wedding breakfast and other costs and a payment of £10 to George Brown]
• Joseph Newton of Crich, yeoman, overseer of the poor of Wessington, Joseph Hopkinson of Morton, constable of Wessington and Samuel Marshall of Crich, assistant constable, conspiring to persuade John Unsworth to marry Ellen Smithurst, thus burdening the inhabitants of Alfreton with the maintenance of Ellen Smithurst, 15 Jan 1808
• George Newton of Upper Haddon, shoemaker, building a cottage without assigning four acres of ground, 4 Oct 1761
- Traverse: Joseph Morley of Ednaston, famer, to repair a section of the highway between Brailsford and Longford, 15 Jan 1771
- Article of the peace: William Bentley of Spondon, yeoman, alleges threatening language and breaking of windows by William Cotton of Spondon, officer of excise, who lodged at William Bentley’s house
Indictments
• Inhabitants of Ashbourne to repair a section of highway, 2 Jan 1792
• Thomas Bower of Winster, grocer, publishing a libel, witnesses William Goodwin and George William Greaves, 6 Dec 1792
Articles of the peace
• Hannah Bentley, wife of Thomas Bentley of Brimington, labourer, alleges threatening language and frequent beating by Thomas Bentley, 7 Aug 1804
• Elizabeth Boot, wife of Richard Boot of South Normanton, labourer, alleges threatening language and beating by Richard Boot, 7 Aug 1804
• George Allen of Ashover, gentleman, alleges threatening language by Joseph Stevenson of Ashover, miller, including offering James Milnes £5 to shoot George Allen’s dog; 7 Aug 1804
• Henry Bray of Glossop, parish clerk, alleges threatening language by George Wagstaff of Glossop, yeoman, heard by Samuel Dearnley of Glossop, yeoman, 10 Apr 1804
- Traverse: John Dixon of Melton Mowbray, horse dealer, assaulting Richard Frisby, 2 Apr 1799
Indictments
• Charles Fox, Francis Fox and Joshua Ward, all of Pilsley, labourers, removing Benjamin Lim by cart to Matlock (where he died), 19 May 1819
• John Bramhall of Dronfield, labourer, servant to Samuel Lucas, embezzlement, 23 Sep 1835
• Joseph Marson of Alfreton, stockinger, Richard Gibson of Alfreton, tinman, and Thomas Hopkinson of Alfreton, blacksmith, assaulting Edward Lester of Tapton, appointed to apprehend Joshusa Green, accused of stealing one cock, the property of William Bower of Chesterfield, farmer, 17 Aug 1811
• Samuel Needham of Darley, farmer, keeping at large in a field at Matlock a bull which ran at Samuel Flint and others, 23 Aug 1795
• Sacheverell Chandos Pole of Radbourne, esq, impeding the highway with an earth mound and posts and rails, 1 May 1808
• William Bennett Garlike, accused of libel by George Ferguson, 8 Mar 1819, “a Noli Prosequi entered to this indictment”, attached is a related memorandum (7 Jun 1820) to clerk of the peace for county of Derby
• Joseph Marsden of Norton, labourer, obtaining money by false pretences by offering to John Morgan, sergeant, to enlist in Royal Marine forces when already enlisted in the third West York Regiment of Militia
• Mary Smith, wife of John Smith of Chesterfield, labourer, procuring counterfeit shillings, 25 Oct 1818
• Thomas Willder of Kirk Langley, yeoman, making a dwelling house and blacksmith’s shop on the highway at Kirk Langley, 1 Apr 1818 |