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1 - Machine-Breaking: Robert Wright Laxton, Morborne, farmer, deposed that a very great number of unknown persons had come between 5 and 6 a.m. Saturday, November 27th to his dwellinghouse and destroyed a thrashing machine (Sworn at Stilton) November 13th. 1830. James Hayes, Elton, Millwright, deposed that on November 27th William Askew of Morborne and John Goodliffe of Haddon, labourers, with other persons unknown, entered the premises of Edmund Jones, Elton and destroyed a threshing machine, property of the deponent. (December 2nd) A letter, Peterborough January 11th 1831, from Morley and Lawrence to Messrs. Sherard and Maydwell, Solicitors, Oundle, says that Hayes assesses his damage at £90, and refers to the distinction in Peele's Act.
2 - Machine-Breaking: Notice to Mr. John Islip, one of the High Constables of Leightonstone Hundred from William Wright, that he intended to claim compensation from the inhabitants of the Hundred for £20 damage done November 25th by the destruction of his threshing machine in Upton by a riotous crowd. The High Constable is asked to have a special petty session appointed to determine the claim. (cf Depositions Laxton and Hayes).
3 - Body-Stealing: William Patrick and William Whayley, labourers, of Farcet were charged with stealing from Yaxley churchyard the recently interred body of Jane Mason. Patrick said a certain Grimmer repeatedly offered him money for body snatching. There was a man and a child buried that day. Grimmer says we must have that there, or we shall lose the season.
4 - Body-Stealing: Whayley, in a long statement, deposed to being persuaded by Patrick to dig up the corpse of Jane Mason (a graphic and ghoulish description). Patrick give him half a sovereign, adding that it was easier than working a whole week for it, and mentioned his hope of being able to send the corpses direct to London another year. A certain attorney named Wilkinson had visited Whayley in prison and asked him if he were one of the Resurrection men advising him to say nothing because they were tired of the concern and would soon quash it. The Gaoler, Mr. Joyce, was present during the conversation.
5 - Body-Stealing: Thomas Pindard, Farcet, shoemaker, deposed to thinking that he had seen Patrick and Whayley near Yaxley churchyard.
6 - Body-Stealing: Thomas Gilbert, Yaxley, labourer, said his mother, Jane Mason, had been recently buried and, learning from Abraham Rist that a body-stealer was at work, he watched with Rist in the churchyard, fired shots, then went home. Days later he found the body had been taken from the grave and had been buried in Peterborough. He suspected Patrick because the latter's cap had been found near the grave.
7 - Body-Stealing: Abraham Rist, Yaxley, labourer, spoke of Patrick's attempts to get him to enter the body-snatching partnership. Patrick had assured him that the watchman never saw him (Patrick) carrying the sacks to Peterborough for they're tipped with a bit of silver whenever I go on such jobs as them. Later Rist had given Gilbert a hint of what was going on.
8 - Body-Stealing: William Weston, Woodstone, fisherman, deposed to finding a corpse in Mr. Johnson's hovel near Thorpe Lane, (Peterborough)
9 - Body-Stealing: Samuel Ladds, Peterborough, Whitesmith deposed to going with a Mr. Grimmer and a certain Hemment to take away a corpse found in Dr. Johnson's Hovel and meeting John Spriggs and three other persons near Saxon Barns carrying a body in a sack. The body was supposed to be that of a Mrs. Billings but Gilbert claimed it as his mother's. Billings said nothing, and Gilbert took it away.
10 - Body-Stealing: John Spriggs, New Town, Peterborough, victualler, deposed to going, on information received from Weston, to the hovel, and to the removal of the corpse to his brewhouse. A certain styles locked the door and took the key. Next morning Spriggs drew the stafle of the brewhouse and admitted Billings and others. Billings thought it was his wife but altered a good deal. He went away, returning in two hours with a coffin, saying his wife had been stolen.
11 - Concerning a riot in Kimbolton on Nov 5th - subsequent indictment of (1) John James, John Gardner, John Maile, William Ashby for taking hurdles, rails, poles etc. from the Duke of Manchester's property to kindle a fire on the Market Hill and for assault on Isaac Moore and William Warren, in the Duke's employ. Statements by Charles Ibbs and Job Wilson (Glover) constable and assistant constable of Kimbolton, and by Isaac Moore. (2) Charles Horsford for assaulting Wilson who had arrested him in connection with the above riot and John Horsford, his father, for rescuing him from custody.
12 - Mary Ann Lombe, Ramsey, wife of Samuel Lomben, labourer, charged John Palmer, farmer, with attempted criminal assault. He countercharged her with snatching from him two ten-pound notes. Statements by Charles Robinson, constable, James Hughes, blacksmith, and Jane Kilby, wife of Richard Kilby, labourer.
13 - Elizabeth Cook, St. Neots accused James Huckle, Little Paxton, labourer, of assault [deposition and recognizance].
14 - William Ladds, Spaldwick, farmer, accused James Bailey of stealing hay. Witnesses John Rowe and James Robinson.
15 - Statements by John Richardson, Birmingham, and Ann, wife of James Usher, blacksmith, Buckden, about an unprovoked assault with a hayfork by Joseph Virgin on Richardson.
16 - William Gifford, Overseer of the Poor, St. Ives, accused William Epey. Labourer, of obtaining 3/6d. from him by fraud, by declaring he was unemployed whereas he had earned 5/- by driving beasts (Admission by Epey).
17 - George Ekins, Overseer of the Poor, Somersham, accused Thomas Briggs, tailor, of obtaining from him 3/- by stating he had five children (10/6 relief) instead of three (7/6)
18 - Statements by Thomas Morton, Offord Darcy, yeoman, and his servant John Smith, concerning the theft of two pullets by Yarnold (Yarwell) Clarke of Graveley, Cambs. who had worked as a labourer for Morton.
19 - Articles of the Peace exhibited by Susanna Richford against her husband, William Richford, labourer (married in 1829).
20 - Conviction: Thomas Usher and William Barnett, Everton, Beds, fined £5 for setting snares in Tetworth, Hunts. Informer James Jiggles of Everton, Beds, labourer.
21 - Conviction: John Milton, Abbotsley, Hunts, labourer, fined £5 for using a lurcher and a snare on Boulby Hill, Waresley; witness Thomas Page, Waresley, labourer; informer Thomas Porter, Waresley, gamekeeper.
22 - Conviction: Robert Day, St. Neots, farmer, fined £5 for using a greyhound in Eynesbury. Confession by defendant. Informer William Baker, Croxton, Cambs, labourer. Witness William Kidman, Croxton, Cambs. gardener.
23 - Conviction: William Ekins, St. Neots, Labourer, fined £5 for using a lurcher to kill and destroy game; Thomas Porter, informer. Thomas Page, witness.
24 - Conviction: Moses Oates, Gamlingay, Cambs, farmer, fined £5 for using a setter dog and gun in Tetworth. William Carey, Everton, Beds, gamekeeper, informer.
25 - Conviction: Robert Cave Beck, Earith, gentleman, fined £20 (mitigated to £10) for using a gun and pointers to kill game in Bluntisham, without obtaining a licence.
26 - Conviction: Joseph Clarke, Fletton, labourer, fined 5/- for drunkenness in Stanground. John Crunkhorn, prosecutor.
27 - Conviction: John Warren, ten days' hard labour for vagrancy in Bluntisham. Elizabeth Weatherfield, Warboys, one month's hard labour for obtaining 2/- from Frances Peacock and Charlotte Tebbutt (both of St. Ives) by telling their fortunes.
28 - Conviction: John Burton, Earith, and John Hubbard, Warboys, retailer of beer, both fined 40/- and 6/- costs for selling beer in their houses after 10 p.m. (First Offences)
29 - Conviction: Jeremiah Brewster, Stanground, victualler, fined £5. and 10/6 costs for allowing drunkenness on Sunday in the Woolpack Inn, Stanground (First offence)
30 - Hurstingstone Petty Sessions Fines for defective weights, unequal balances, deficient measures. Thomas Harris (St. Ives, £1.); John Offley (St. Ives 10/-); John King (Needingworth 10/-); John Sharp (Holywell 10/-); William Griffin (Woodhurst 10/-); Richard Wheaton (Woodhurst) James Papworth (Somersham), Sarah Pearson (Ramsey), Thomas Day (Holywell), Thomas Wildershin (Holywell), William Reave (Earith), James Hull (Warboys), Thomas Earl (Earith), (all 5/- fine).
31 - Joseph Franklin, St. Neots, carrier fined £5. for illegally stocking the common called the Islands (St. Neots) by turning thereon one brown mare - one half of the fine to go to the howard or stock-keeper of the Common, the other to the treasurer of the common (i.e. John Islip, St. Neots, draper, the prosecutor).
32 - Presentment: (1) John Rawley, Fenstanton, labourer, assaulting John Mowkes. (2) William Geeson, Hemingford Grey, labourer, assaulting George Hardy. (3) John Poulter, and William Cook, Ramsey, labourers, stealing 6d of hay from William Butler (True Bills).
33 - Deposition and Presentment: (1) Complaint of John Knighton who accuses Adam foster of stealing his oaken gate in Molesworth. Including evidence given by Thomas George, Thomas Atkins, Adam Foster and Thomas Gor. (2) Adam Foster, Brington, labourer, one oaken gate (7/-) from John Knighton (True Bill)
34 - Presentment: Adam Foster, Brington, labourer, one gun (10/) from Thomas George (True Bill)
35 - Presentment: Thomas Smith, Hamerton, 5 pecks potatoes 1/3, from Jonathan Lewen
36 - Presentment: Joseph Virgin, Buckden, assaulting John Richardson (True Bill)
37 - Presentment: James Bailey, Little Catworth, stealing 1 cwt. hay (2/-) from William Ladds (True bill).
38 - Presentment: William Ashby, Kimbolton, stealing one pair of leather shoes (10/-) from Samuel Ellis (True Bill)
39 - Presentment: John Selby, St. Neots, stealing a cheese (5/-) from Samuel Bedel (True Bill)
40 - Presentment: James Huckle, Little Paxton, labourer, assaulting Elizabeth Cook (True Bill)
41 - Presentment: William Patrick, Farcet, stealing two small spades called casting tools (5/-) from Joseph Smith (if Depositions) (True Bill)
42 - Presentment: Thomas Wade, Stilton, labourer, terrorizing the Stilton populace by walking (June 23) up and down disguised by having a pair of painted rams horns on his head and a green veil over his face and making divers strange and frightful noises (True Bill).
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46 - Precept: Magistrates' Oath (E.M. Peck).
47 - Bill for £2. 12. 0. from George Goodman Hewett to the Parish of Hilton for necessary maintenance, at 2/6 a week of Mary Tasker, a pauper of Hilton, whom the overseer refused to relieve because she would not comply with his order of turning out of her house (to oblige the churchwarden) to let his servant go in.
48 - Summons on information lodged by Joseph Bull, overseer of Hilton, served on George Goodman Hewitt for unpaid rates.
49 - Recognizance given by George Goodwin, St. Ives, liquor merchant in connection with a licensing appeal.
50 - Uncatalogued Recognizances - witnesses, prosecutors etc.
51 - Formerly Uncatalogued Depositions - (1) Information from John Ward regarding the case of William Patrick and William Whalley both of Farcet, accused of stealing a shovel [possibly related to the Body Stealing case HCP/1/14/3-10]. (2) The complaint and information of George Hardy of Hemingford Grey accusing William Geeson of Hemingford Grey, Miller, of assault. Including warrant.
52 - Removal order: Thomas Wells and family (Jane his wife, Elizabeth, 5, John, 1) from Little Stukeley to Hamerton
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