Catalogue description Memoranda of convictions classified under convictions

Relate to a number of offences under various statutes, most of which either lay down that the conviction must be forwarded to the clerk of the peace or impose specific penalties for a second or third offence.

1-3 Selling ale and cider without licence, 1738-1771.

Retailer not entitled to a brewer's abatement, 1753

Keeping a common alehouse, 1764-1765, 1768

Swearing, 1766

4 Stealing wood, 1766-1770

5 Bakers for making and selling bread not having the proper mark, Epiphany 1754

6 Buying and receiving woollen material, 1752, 1767, 1769-1770

Collecting and carrying ends of yarn, 1751, 1767-1768

Stealing potatoes, 1766

Having custody of stolen iron, 1765

7 Under Broad Wheel Act (7 Geo. II, 1769)

8 Selling ale and cider without a licence and swearing, 1763

9 Stealing timber, swearing, buying woolen material and taking a hare, 1781

10 Stealing turnips and potatoes, 1770

11-14 Swearing, 1728-1770

Bail allowed in case for stealing 5 harrow tires, 1751

Drunkenness, 1764

Drunkenness and tippling, 1768

15 Offences against the game laws, 1748, 1761-1762, 1764, 1767-1770

Keeping disorderly house and allowing card playing, 1763