Matlock & Matlock Bath Lists Through the Centuries: The Eighteenth Century: Association for the Prosecution of Felons, 1799

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The Eighteenth Century:
ASSOCIATION Of the Inhabitants of the Parishes of
Ashover, Bonsall, Darley, & Matlock,
For the Prosecution of FELONS, &c., 1799

Lists Through the Centuries

Names of those in the parish of Matlock, including Snitterton and Lea Wood, only.

At the Annual Meeting of the Members of the Association held here this Day, after having examined and allowed the Treasurer's Accounts, the Members entered into a fresh Subscription for the Ensuing Year, and the following Resolutions, viz.

Resolved. That any Person residing in any of the above Parishes, or any other adjoining Parish, who shall be desirous of entering into this Association, and shall pay Three Shillings into the Hands of the Treasurer on or before the first Day of February, be admitted a member thereof ; and that such of the present Members as are in arrear, and shall neglect paying their fill Subscription till after that Day, shall be excluded this Association.

Resolved. That the Committee (appointed at this Meeting) shall be paid by the Treasurer to Informers (not being Subscribers) for every Person who shall be convicted of any of the Offences hereinafter mentioned, that shall be committed on the Persons or Property of any of the Members of this Association, viz.

Resolved also, That the Rewards shall be paid by the Treasurer to Informers (not being Subscribers) for every Person who shall be convicted of any of the Offences hereinafter mentioned, that shall be committed on the Persons or Property of any of the Members of this Association, viz.

		£.	s.	d.
For every burglary or other capital Offence,	}	3	3	0
For stealing any sort of Grain out of any Barn, Mill or Outbuildings or for stealing any Bull, Ox, Cow, Calf, Heifer, Stirk, Pig or Sheep	}	2	2	0
For stealing Rabbits, Poultry, Grain, Coals, Turnips, Potatoes, or any other Sort of Garden Stuff.	}	0	10	6
And for cutting or stealing any kind of Timber, or any Wood or Underwood, or stealing, or breaking of any Gates, Stiles, Boards, Planks, Posts, Rails, Hedges, or Fences, or any Iron Work belonging thereto, or stealing or damaging of any Waggon, Cart, Plough, Harrow, or any other Implements of Husbandry, or Iron Work belonging thereto ; and for any other Kind of Petit Larceny, not within the above Description,	} }	0	10	6

ADAM WOLLEY, Junior,
Treasurer
Matlock-Bath, 15th Nov. 1799.

PRESENT MEMBERS.
Snitterton
	Mr.	Benj. Stone.
		Edmund Eaton.
		Thomas Cotterill.
		Anthony Raynes.
Matlock
	Rev.	George Holcombe.	Mr.	Luke Wilson
	Rd.	Arkwright, Esq.		Thomas Pearson.
	Thomas	Leacroft, Esq.		John Henshaw.
	Mr.	George Evans.		William Potter.
		George Wolley.		Robert Ward.
		Adam Wolley, sen.		Peter Bown.
		Adam Wolley, jun.		John Goodwin.
		W. H. Hodgkinson.
		John Nuttall.
		Jonathan Gilbert.
		John Leedham.
		George Saxton
		Thomas Froggatt
		Joseph Fletcher.
	Mess.	Watts, Lowe, & Co.
	Mr.	Thomas Lowe.
		John Walton.
Lea Wood
	Mess.	Downall & Saxton.
	Mr.	Wm. Downall.

Transcribed by Ann Andrews.
Extracted from the "Derby Mercury", 20 February 1800. The information was also published on posters that were printed by Drewry of Derby.
With thanks to Mike Spencer for his help.