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1 - Election of a Governor of the County Gaol: A letter to the Justices from Mr. Reynolds of Paxton Hall on the necessary appointment, following the forfeiture by the Gaoler of his office. [ ]
2 - Election of a Governor of the County Gaol: Applications and Testimonials: James William Pocock, builder and surveyor, Huntingdon (an imposing testimonial headed by Lady O.B. Sparrow and many others)
3 - Election of a Governor of the County Gaol: Applications and Testimonials: Thomas Cooper, Thrapston, Northants, currier.
4 - Election of a Governor of the County Gaol: Applications and Testimonials: John Giddens, Hemingford Abbots.
5 - Election of a Governor of the County Gaol: Applications and Testimonials: Charles Mitchell, Rectory House, Thurning.
6 - Election of a Governor of the County Gaol: Applications and Testimonials: Thomas Francis, Wold. Nr. Lamport, Northants, whose letter to - Sherard, Esq., Clerk Peace's Office, Huntingdon said that he had applied to Mr. Sherard at Oundle to solicit his interest with the High Sheriff. Mr. Sherard and I have arrangements in case I should succeed of pecuniary advantage to him.
7 - Election of a Governor of the County Gaol: Applications and Testimonials: John Payne, governor of Cambridge Town Gaol, warmly recommended by leading citizens, including the Mayor of Cambridge and members of the University.
8 - Election of a Governor of the County Gaol: Applications and Testimonials: Samuel Young, late of Shelford, now of Cambridge.
9 - Election of a Governor of the County Gaol: Applications and Testimonials: Richard Chambers, farmer, Overton Waterville.
10 - Election of a Governor of the County Gaol: Application of Herbert Risely, Cambridge.
11 - Election of a Governor of the County Gaol: Applications and Testimonials: William Reyse, bailiff, Saint Pancras.
12 - Election of a Governor of the County Gaol: Applications and Testimonials: John Cole, March.
13 - Election of a Governor of the County Gaol: Applications and Testimonials: F. Torkington, Junr.
14 - Election of a Governor of the County Gaol: Applications and Testimonials: William Chapman, Master of the Bedford House of Industry
15 - Election of a Governor of the County Gaol: Applications and Testimonials: Abel Blades, a Stamford Constable (Glowing testimonial from Captain Saint George Lyster reminding Hunts. Magistrates of the capture and detention by Blades in Stamford of John Smith who had stolen a horse at Godmanchester, and of a prisoner escaped from Huntingdon jail whom he had recaptured.
16 - Election of a Governor of the County Gaol: Applications and Testimonials: Edmund Maile, Sheriff's Officer, Cambridge.
17 - Letters, Ely, February and March from Thomas Page, High Sheriff. The March 17 letter disagreed on the grounds of age of lack of prison experience with the Justices recommendation of Mr. Descow.
18 - A letter from George Smith, Essex County Gaol, Chelmsford (subsequently appointed).
19 - A statement from the Committee appointed March 16, to report on the state of the gaol, did not consider it necessary to dismiss the Rev. Bucley Lee from the Chaplaincy but recommended he be requested to furnish the necessary licence from the Bishop.
20 - A testimonial to the fitness of the Rev. Harry Augustus Maule B. A., for the Chaplaincy.
21 - A Certificate from George Smith, Keeper, as to the due Government of the prison.
22 - Presentment: Philip Reece, Brampton, labourer, stealing money and clothes from Charles Peat. True Bill
23 - Presentment: James Mutton, St. John's Parish, Huntingdon, Tailor, assaulting Richard Heaps. Lee, at Woodstone. True Bill.
24 - Deposition and Presentment: Elizabeth Haslem, Stilton, stealing one pair of shoes (3/-), metal tankard (1/-) dresser cloth (6d.) from Charles Barker. Witness statements and True Bill.
25 - Presentment: Robert Gilbert, Hail Weston, labourer, stealing 3 pecks of wheat in the chaff (1/-) from James Banks. True Bill.
26 - Presentment: Peter Perkins, Hemingford Abbots, labourer, assaulting Robert Fuller, Constable. True Bill.
27 - Presentment: True Bills against John Nicoll, William Lambert, Mary Austin, Jacob Whitsey Cunnington (verdict not guilty), Jane Goodwin.
28 - Presentment: Faith Leach, Woodwalton, stealing three hundred ears of wheat to the value of (1/-) from George Barnett. No true bill
29 - (1) Deposition: William Flint, Eversholt, Beds, dealer in calves, deposed that he had spent a night at the Golden Ball, St. Neots, (kept by Joseph Allison); in another bed was Edward Alfred Baker. In the morning deponent found his silver watch and a sovereign and half sovereign was missing. Baker was suspected but nothing was found on him. Thomas Dodson, Needingworth, labourer, states that he had later changed half a sovereign for Baker. Matthew Edis Maile, turnkey, Gt. Stukeley, County Gaol, George Smith, Keeper, George James, baker and miller at the gaol, deposed that Baker, being brought in and searched, had swallowed what was presumably the sovereign. The prisoner received permission to write to Mr. Flint offering to help him to recover the watch (since it was Mr. Flint's father's!) and was allowed a private interview (not on a Sunday - gaol rules) with his prosecutor. (2) Presentment: Edward Alfred Baker of St. Neots.
30 - Deposition: On October 16, Matthew Edis Maile, turnkey, deposed that, on searching Baker in August, he had found a counterfeit shilling which he had sealed up and now produced. Baker had asked him to destroy it. William Everitt, a fellow prisoner with Baker, stated that Baker had asked him, as a favour to take over a packet containing nine shillings. Everitt, on being sent for by Mr. Smith (Keeper) to be searched for tobacco, gave the parcel to Mr. Smith who found the coins to be counterfeit.
31 - Deposition: Sarah Price, wife of Thomas Price, Woodwalton, labourer and her sister, Mary Austin, wife of William Austin, Shepherd, had tea together at Sarah's house and then went to mangle clothes on the mangle of Mark Duberey (or Dewbery), carpenter, who returned home from work to find his house in an uproar, Mrs. Price accusing her sister of having stolen handkerchiefs, stockings, towels etc., subsequently found in her (Mary Austin's) linen basket. Mary Austin, charged, said she was troubled with fits; she had had four that day and did not know what she was doing.
32 - Deposition: Concerning the alleged theft of three shirts from Thomas Lindsell, Hemingford Grey, gentleman, by his groom, John Nicoll. Statements by Mr. Lindsell and by Harriet Stangwood, servant, Charles Earl, footman, about finding a linen shirt in the stable on Saint Ives second Fair Day, June 12th.
33 - Deposition: Statements by Thomas Garratt, Great Gidding, farmer, John Manning, labourer, John Crawley and Isaac Hughes, accusing a former servant, William Glover, of entering Garratt's house by a loft and stealing a purse full of money.
34 - Deposition: Concerning the theft from a box belonging to Charles Thurloe, employed at the Falcon Inn, St. Neots, of 34 sovereigns, by Charles Davey and Thomas Millard, journeymen shoemakers, working for John Jeaves, Eaton Socon. Statements by a number of witnesses about the prisoners' suspicious behaviour in public houses and their arrest. Full confessions. The employer Jeaves, deposed Davey earns from 16 to 18 or 20 shillings per week - finds him meat and lodges in his house and has money when he asks for it... James Millard.... has about 16 shillings a week, he lodges and boards in deponents house.
35 - Deposition: Statements by Elizabeth Chattell, Gt. Catworth, William Pashler, Gt. Catworth, farmer and Thomas Whitway, Constable, about the alleged theft of a hen by Jacob Whitsey Cunningham from Pashler.
36 - Deposition: Statements by Laetitia Ward, Diddington, Harriett Elizabeth Usher (servant to George Thornhill, Esq. Her signature is exceptionally good). Anne Eady Stirtloe, Sarah Leach, wife of Richard Leach, Huntingdon, concerning the alleged theft by Jane Goodwin of a bonnet, a cap and a pair of stockings from Laetitia Ward.
37 - Deposition: Statements from John Bull of Yelling and William Woods respecting the cutting-off of horses' manes and tails in September and December. Information by James Carrington (a journeyman to William Hagger of Potton) about horsehair offered for sale by William Roper, the accused.
38 - Deposition: John Bird, Yaxley, farmer, accused his labourer, William Lambert, of stealing two bushels of beans. Lambert stated he had taken a quantity of undressed beans from the barn and thrown them into the cribs for the horses to eat. Thomas Mason, another labourer, said he had taken two bushels of beans from the cribs.
39 - Deposition: George Barnett, Woodwalton, Farmer, accused Faith Leach of stealing sheaves of wheat. Francis Berridge, constable, deposed to finding the wheat in Leach's bedroom (Prisoner on bail).
40 - Deposition: Articles of the Peace exhibited by Samuel Wilson of Brington, labourer, against Philip Hustwaite, farmer of Molesworth, who would have thrown him into a brook had not William Drage, Molesworth, yeoman, intervened.
41 - Conviction: Joseph Clarke, Stanground, bricklayer, for destroying four young ash trees in the grounds of the Revd. Edward Rutter Theed, Fletton, fined £5. (to go to George Wyman, Fletton overseer), 6/- for injury to the trees and 7/6 costs, both the latter to go to the prosecutor. In default four month's hard labour.
42 - At the Petty Sessions, July - September: Francis Marriott, Ramsey; John Page, Wistow; Richard Cox, Hemingford Abbots; John Teat, Hartford were fined for suffering tippling and other disorderly conduct in their public houses (Francis Marriott's offence having occurred on a Sunday) (possibly the others).
43 - Gaol Calendar: William Hale (28) labourer - no surety in a bastardy charge (Gt. Gransden); Edward Cox (32) baker - refusing to find surety not to assault his wife; James Huckle, stealing a a watch and purse from James Arthur; Thomas Wright, assault on his wife - no surety; John Nicoll, stealing a linen shirt from Thomas Lindsell.
44 - Gaol Calendar: 3 uncatalogued calendars
45 - Reports of the visiting justices re. County Gaol
46 - Gaoler's reports and certificates
47 - Surgeon's and Chaplain's reports re. County Gaol
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49 - Precepts, Jury Panels, Magistrates' Oath, Constables' presentments.
50 - Writ to inhabitants of King's Ripton to answer indictment for state of disrepair of a road leading to Wistow. Instructions to Mr. Gunning to move, at the Midsummer Sessions, respite of judgment in view of the poverty of the Parish. Reference to be made to Thos. Collett, acting surveyor, William Holmes, farmer, John Merrill, farmer.
51 - Letter from William Day, Clerk to the Trustees of the Turnpike Road, about the repair of Stonely Bridge, indicted for disrepair.
52 - A circular letter to the Clerk of the Peace from Buckinghamshire Justices asking for co-operation, in view of the enormously increasing expenditure of counties on bridges, in obtaining from Parliament authority to collect tolls from passengers over county bridges.
53 - (a) Accounts: Treasurer's financial statement for the magistrates.
54 - (b) Accounts: Statements from the Clerk of moneys due to him (£117. 18. 0. for 1832). A draft of R. Sherard, Esq.'s bill returned, with marginal comments by his Gray's Inn solicitors.
55 - (c) Accounts: Allowance of 12/- for expenses to prosecutor in Warner v. Baxter.
56 - (d) Accounts: A ruling that no more than ¾ of expenses for the County Hall roof was to be borne by the County.
57 - (e) Accounts: Expenses in the case Alconbury v. Leighton.
58 - Declaration (according to Seditious Practices Act, 1799) by David John Stott of the possession of a printing press to be set up in the High Street, St. Neots.
59 - Names of guests invited to the Tithe Feast at Bluntisham and Earith.
60 - A letter (Jan 2nd 1832) from Joseph Dean, St. Ives, testifying to the honesty of his former servant, William Gunton, apparently to be tried at Court.
61 - Recognaizances: uncatalogued bundle - c.48 items plus 2 summary lists
62 - Bundle of uncatalogued items
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