Catalogue description Bundle of letters and copy letters re appointment of H F Rigge as Justice of the Peace and as Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire

Copy letter from H F Rigge to John Fell of Flan How 4 January 1868:

"You well know my personal objections to the office [of Justice of the Peace] owing to my views of the disagreeable nature of its duties, which in this Cartmel district chiefly giving up a day fortnightly to sitting on petty police case, and being pestered at home on other days by policemen and others about information on such cases. You and my other friends among the J.P's press me to agree to be proposed for the office on the grounds that there is a defficiency in this district in getting country gentlemen of the desired standing to be appointed, and that at present there is no other one here but myself to make a suitable addition to the bench.

Should the County Authorities not be able to find any other satisfactory person, and should I on that consideration consent to undertake County business I should expect at the same time to have the nearly sinecure appointment of Deputy Lieutenant in addition to J.P. as my father Gray Rigge, and my grandfather Fletcher Rigge had before me."

(Several letters also contain matters relating to local fisheries).