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1 - Deposition: Statesments from Richard Kirby, St. Neots, auctioneer and his daughter Elizabeth concerning an umbrella said to have been stolen by a servant Jane Gooding (Goodman?) on Diddington Feast Sunday (Aug 28).
2 - Deposition: Statements from Charles Warner, Somersham, farmer, James Wesson, Earith, blacksmith, Isaac Benton, Somersham, labourer, William Thompson, concerning a gun lost by Warner in 1829 and allegedly stolen by Thompson and sold to Wesson.
3 - Deposition: By Susannah Barton, widow, Elton, charging James Atkins, John Chadbon, Andrew Hospital and William Drake with following her from the Royal Oak, Elton, tying her in a chair, breaking open a linen chest and stealing clothes and bed clothes. John Eayre, constable of Elton, Lydia Goodwin wife of the publican of the Royal Oak, Elizabeth and Mary Chadbon, Elizabeth Merlow also deposed.
4 - Deposition: From John Page, Wistow, victualler, asking for surety of the Peace against his son John.
5 - Deposition: From Samuel Marriott, Titchmarch, Northants, draper, accusing Mary Smart, Woodford, of obtaining from him by forging an order from Mrs. Freeman of Ringstead, printed calico, seal skin caps etc.
6 - Conviction: Samuel Bellamy convicted of damaging the house of Sarah Morgan at Stanground, by breaking a glass window. Fined 6/6, and 11/6 costs, both sums to be payable to Sarah Morgan. In default, 6 weeks' hard labour.
7 - Conviction: Joseph Clarke for the same damage to Sarah Morgan's house and on the same day (July 19) was fined 6/6 and 15/6 costs, 15/6 payable to Sarah Morgan, 6/6 to Bartholemew Deacon, a Stanground overseer. On default, 2 month's hard labour.
8 - Conviction: Joseph Read, Stow, labourer, for using a gun to kill game in Kimbolton, fined £5. Informer Richard Rickett Wells, Eynesbury, gentleman, who received half the fine, Kimbolton poor the other.
9 - Conviction: William Goodwin of the Crown public house, Elton, victualler, fined £5 (mitigated to £2.10.0. for first offence) and 10/- costs for allowing Henry Gaskell, Thomas Barr and Daniel Parish to tipple on his premises on Sunday afternoon during Church hours.
10 - Hurstingstone Petty Sessions. Charge - that on Sunday, at Saint Ives, they did use and employ certain boats or barges in navigating the River Ouse.
11 - Christopher Garner, Houghton, licesed victualler, fined £2.3.6. (first offence) and 16/6 costs for permitting drunkenness on his premises.
12 - John Hubbard, Warboys, £5. for permitting drunkenness on his premises. Second offence.
13 - John Ratcliff, St. Neots, Labourer, one month's hard labour in Gt. Stukeley for leaving wife and family dependant on the Parish of St. Neots. George Ashley, St. Neots, 3 months for similar offence.
14 - George Fuller, Thomas Roast and William Coker, St. Ives, labourers, indecency. Two months' hard labour.
15 - John Goodes, Hemingford Abbots, licensed retailer, fined 40/- and 11/6 costs for keeping open after 10 p.m. Barrett (29) Selby (22), Pridmore (26), Staughton (30) Page (20)
16 - Presentment: Josiah Bellamy, Farcet, labourer, gross offences against sanitation. True Bill
17 - Presentment: William Patrick, Farcet, labourer, opening the grave of Jane, wife of Thomas Mason, and taking out the body (cf 1830 Depositions) True Bill
18 - (1) Presentment: William Gunton, St. Ives, Labourer, stealing 5 lbs beef (2/-) and one loaf (6d) from William Hobbs. Mark Glover for recovering the articles. True Bill. (2) Information: Joseph Papworth of Earith, Hugh Burgess, constable of St. Ives and William How Smith regarding the case.
19 - Presentment: Thomas Dixon, Brampton, indicted for a nuisance in that he had refused to take down a house built, against a sessions ruling, on the highway at the West end of Brampton, He promised to take it down.
20 - Presentment: James Barrett, Elton, stealing 9 bushels of barley from William Davey.
21 - Presentment: William Richford and Henry Hopkins, St. Ives, assaulting James Kearley True Bill
22 - Presentment: Henry Jacobs, Ramsey, entering the house of Elizabeth Barnes and stealing a ham (3/-) a cheese (3/-) 10 lbs butter (3/-) True Bill
23 - Presentment: Thomas Scargell, March, tallow chandler, maiming two mares (£20) the property of John Barlow at Somersham. True Bill
24 - Presentment: Shepherd Goodfellow, Houghton, labourer, stealing faggots (1/-) from John Selby.
25 - Presentment: James Huckle, Little Paxton, labourer, stealing one silver watch (10/-) and five shilling pieces from James Arthur True Bill.
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27 - Precepts, Writs, Constables' Presentments, Magistrates' Qualifications, Oaths, Jury Panels, etc.
28 - Inquest on John Green: (1) A letter, January 29, to the incumbent of St. John's, Huntingdon from inhabitants of the Borough warning him not to inter the body of John Green, found drowned the preceding day, no inquest having been yet held in the absence of the Mayor and Coroner. William Margetts, coroner of Hurstinstone Hundred, had been asked to hold one.
29 - Inquest on John Green: (2) A letter from William Margetts (Jan 30 1830-1) to Huntingdon Borough JPs requiring them to summon a jury for the purpose.
30 - Inquest on John Green: (3) A certificate stating that at an inquest on Jan 28 at Theophilis Maugham's house, The Rose and Crown, St. Johns Parish, Huntingdon, thirteen jurors found that Green had been drowned by means unknown, no marks of violence appearing. The coroner's (David Rowley) sufficient deputy had presided.
31 - Inquest on John Green: (4) The draft of an answer, unsigned, to William Margett's letter(2) regarding the validity of the inquest already held and the legality of otherwise of further measures.
32 - The Poor Rate Assessment of the Rev. Philip Jodrell. Rector of Yelling (cf H.C.R.): Notice by the Rev. P. Jodrell of appeal against the rate. Writs to Justices.
33 - The Poor Rate Assessment of the Rev. Philip Jodrell. Rector of Yelling (cf H.C.R. ): Michaelmas Term in the King's Bench. Affidavit of Charles Margetts, Huntingdon gentleman, on the judgment, which confirmed the rate.
34 - The Poor Rate Assessment of the Rev. Philip Jodrell. Rector of Yelling (cf H.C.R. ): Writ, recognizance, judgment in the appeal of Simon Maine, St. Neots, against a Poor Law assessment.
35 - The Poor Rate Assessment of the Rev. Philip Jodrell. Rector of Yelling (cf H.C.R. ): Notice from John Carstairs to the Revd. Cuthbert Johnson Barnes, Vicar of St. Ives, of an application to Sessions to ascertain the average price of wheat in order to fix the rent payable to him instead of vicarial tithes (following the division and enclosure of Somersham Heath).
36 - Removal Order: John, Goodman, wife Elizabeth, daughter Sarah - Kimbolton to Gt. Barford, Beds.
37 - Removal Order: James and Hannah Clipson, Bythorn to St. Martins in the Fields, Middlesex.
38 - Account presented by the Clerk of the Peace to the Magistrates for Oct and Nov £75. 4. 2. (Quarter's salary £5.5.-.)
39 - A report, May 28, 1831, by J. Linton and G. Rust, visiting magistrates, of the satisfactory condition of the gaol. There were 46 prisoners, in good health and of orderly conduct, except for two escapes, John Buncle and William Patrick (vide depositions).
40 - A letter from L. Reynolds, Esq., to Robert Castel Sherard, Esq in which, as a very old friend of Sherard's father, he advises him to use great caution, in Quarter Sessions, in dealing with the question of the liability of the Borough for the maintenance of felons convicted of offences committed within the Borough. Mr. Reynolds cites the precedents of Cambridge, Northampton and Bedford.
41 - A petition from Alexander Peterkin, Stationer, Huntingdon, asking permission to supply the Shire Hall with stationery.
42 - Recognaizances: uncatalogued bundle - 39 items plus 3 summary lists
43 - Gaol calendars: uncatalogued bundle
44 - Examination and Removal Order: George Parish and Frances Parish his wife from Hail Weston to Holy Trinity, Cambridge.
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