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, with Snitterton and Lea Wood, Ashover, Bonsall, Darley, Rowley, Tansley and Wensley.

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.

Ashover.			Snitterton.
The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, bart. K.B.			Mr. Benj. Stone.
Rev. Lawrence Short			Edmund Eaton.
John Nodder, Esq.			Thomas Cotterill.
Mess. W. and J. Milnes Sykes, Milnes & Co.			Anthony Raynes.
Brumby, Colmore and Harvey			Matlock
Proprietor's of Gregory's Mine			Rev. George Holcombe.
Ditto of Cockwell ditto			Rd. Arkwright, Esq.
Ditto of Wetledge ditto			Thomas Leacroft, Esq.
Mr. R. S. Kirk			Mr. George Evans.
George Allen			George Wolley.
John Twigg			Adam Wolley, sen.
John Gregory			Adam Wolley, jun.
Wm. Bamford			W. H. Hodgkinson.
Enock Stevenson			John Nuttall.
Joseph Stevenson			Jonathan Gilbert.
Robt. Waterhouse			John Leedham.
Samuel Limb			George Saxton
Thomas Torr			Thomas Froggatt
Thomas Haslam			Joseph Fletcher.
Thos. Hedgecock			Mess. Watts, Lowe, & Co.
Joseph Allen			Mr. Thomas Lowe.
Bonsall.			John Walton.
Rev. Robt. Greville			Mr. Luke Wilson
Mr. Anthony Eaton			Thomas Pearson.
Job Marple			John Henshaw.
Wm. Loxley			William Potter.
Robert Hobson			Robert Ward.
Job White			Peter Bown.
John Gratton			John Goodwin.
Henry Ferne			Tansley.
Francis Raynes			Mess. Unwin and Co.
Darley.			Willoughby and Co.
George Barker, Esq.			Mr. George Smith
Messrs. D. Dakeyne and Sons			John Smith
Mr. Robert Mason			Benjamin Gregory
John Robinson			Ralph Lomas
John Alsop			Rowsley.
John Needham			Thomas Bourne Esq.
George Wall			Mrs. Elizab. Goodie
Benj. Parkes			Mr. Samuel Smith
Wm. Holehouse			John Goodie
Miss Bower			Thomas Goodwin
Wensley.			Matthew Gibbons
Mrs. Radford			Peter Bailey
Mr. Thomas Dunn			John Shaw
Anthony Alsop			Lea Wood.
Joseph Stone			Mess. Downall & Saxton.
Isaac Flint			Mr. Wm. Downall.
Richard Clay

Names of those in the Southwingfield Association - including Shirland, Alfreton, Crich and adjacent settlements - in 1796 are elsewhere on this website

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.
Information shared from the Mike Spencer collection.
Ashover, Bonsall, Darley, Rowley, Tansley and Wensley, also part of the group, were added Sept 2023.