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Archive Reference / Library Class No.Q/UBOX/5
TitleBox 5 - Miscellaneous including Justices of the Peace, Sheriff and court papers
Date[17th cent]-1905
Description• Quit roll of the accounts of Thomas Wilson as sheriff of Derbyshire: 1791
• Writ from Sir Henry Harpur to bailiffs Samuel Simpson and John Gowling [?]: John Mason to answer William Spalton: 21 Jan 1775
• Writ from Robert Cheney to bailiffs Samuel Simpson, James Bradley and Thomas Hefford: John Mason to answer William Spalton: 10 Feb 1776
• Writ from Henry Harpur to bailiffs Samuel Simpson and John Gowling [?]: John Twigg to answer William Spalton: 21 Jan 1775
• Writ from Robert Cheney to keeper of the gaol: Onesiphorus Scott, late of Tutbury, yeoman, to answer William Astbury: 1 Jul 1775
• Writ from Robert Cheney to bailiffs Samuel Simpson, James Bradley and Thomas Hefford: John Leaver to answer John Carrack: 27 Jul 1775
• Writ from Robert Cheney to bailiffs Samuel Simpson, James Bradley and Thomas Hefford: John Twigg to answer William Spalton: 10 Feb 1776
• Oaths against bribery and corruption during Parliamentary election: John Radford 15 Apr 1784; Thomas Prinsep 15 Jul 1802; Francis Bradshaw, 10 Nov 1806
• Instruction (21 Dec 1738) signed by Verney Bridges to administer oath of allegiance to Strelly Pegg; declaration by Peter Parr, clerk and Isaak [?] Walton, gentleman, of administration of the oath at Stanhope, Staffordshire (19 Jan 1739); and oath of allegiance by Strelly Pegg
• Writ from High Court Queens Bench: 25 Nov 1844: Derbyshire justices to hear an appeal by John Worton against an affiliation order for a child born 1 Apr1844 of Jane Morledge
• Writ from High Court Queens Bench: 25 Sep [?] 1846: Derbyshire justices to hear an appeal by James Green against conviction of being a rogue and a vagabond
• Conviction certificate: 21 Jun 1804: John Attleborough of Chapel en le Frith assaulted John Jackson
• Oath taken by High Sheriff upon the election of two knights to serve in Parliament: Francis Mundy; witnessed by B Heathcote and W Halton: 20 Mar 1819
• Book: 1798: “Instructions For The Use of The Commissioners Appointed By His Majesty for the Sale of the Land Tax” 128 pages plus index pages
• Bundle: lists parish by parish for each petty sessional division of Derbyshire of names, addresses and, in some instances, occupations of men nominated (generally two for each parish) as meresmen to assist Ordnance Survey surveyors to identify parish boundaries: 1871; with associated correspondence (1871-1874) from Ordnance Survey Boundary Office, Pimlico about format of lists and admissibility of expenses claim
• Bundle: papers relating to an appeal in the High Court Kings Bench: 1905: affiliation dispute about a child born 10 Nov 1904 to Mary Jane Taylor of High Lane, Ridgway, Eckington; alleged father Francis Joseph Bolsover
• Bundle: papers relating to an appeal in the High Court Kings Bench: 1905: affiliation dispute about a child born 27 Oct 1904 to Bertha Ellen Dolman of Repton; alleged father Benjamin Bentley of Repton. Note: within this bundle is a record of evidence given in an appeal before justices (5 Apr 1905) in an affiliation dispute about a child born 8 Dec 1904 to Mary Emma Bayliss of Tibshelf; alleged father Joseph Cauldwell of Whitechapel Farm, Tibshelf
• List of Perpetual Commissioners for Act of 3 and 4 Will IV : includes names and dates 1833-1885; with related letter (6 Jan 1834) from Thomas Sherwood, Clerk of the Enrolment of Certificates, Common Pleas Office to Clerk of the Peace, Derby
• Calendars of Justices, Coroners, High Constables, Bailiffs, Gaoler: fourteen lists: various dates 1821 – 1862 (some lists are undated)
• Unidentified, Latin, dated 1633, 1649, 1707 and 1733. Including re highway repair in Tideswell [1633]
Extent1 box
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorDerbyshire County Quarter Sessions
FormatDocument
AcknowledgementsBox-listed by volunteer Roger Jennens, November 2025.
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