Nottinghamshire County Council 18th century records

The following extracts compiled by K Tweedle Meaby

• Persons receiving Sacrament in Woodborough Parish were: 14th July 1713 Edward Rotheram (Officer of Excise) the Clergyman was Edmund Davis, Minister; Churchwarden was John Thorp, witnessed by Henry Clemson and Nathaniel Wylde. 10th October 1714 Edward Rotheram, Clergyman was Christopher Raleigh Seton. Churchwarden was Nathaniel Wylde, witnessed by Samuel Foster, Gent, and Henry Clemson, Yeoman.

• At Nottingham on 11th July 1737 Samuel Alvey of Burton Joyce, farmer, was charged by the Overseers of Woodborough with detaining a stocking frame and opposing their seizing it by virtue of a Justice’s warrant. It appears that the frame belonged to John Alvey of Woodborough who had left his family likely to become chargeable to that parish. Discharged.

• At Nottingham on 15th April 1776 five men all from Nottingham with various occupations were charged with having riotously assembled at Woodborough with intent to do bodily harm and mischief to William Gallimore or his goods and one of these five men, James Straw was also charged with assaulting the said William Gallimore, brickmaker, in his brick yard at Woodborough by fastening iron screws commonly called thumbscrews about his thumbs and falsely imprisoning him. The Jury found a true bill on all counts.

• At Nottingham on 14th July 1783 William Coape Sherbrooke returned the conviction of John Mellows of Woodborough for having in his house part of a Fallow Deer suspected to have been unlawfully killed. Mellows was adjudged to have forfeited the sum of £30.

• At Nottingham on 8th January 1787 Benjamin Richardson a labourer, was sentenced to be transported for seven years to parts beyond the seas for stealing one hempen bag and four pecks of wheat value 10d. the property of William Edge.

• The growth of industry and the increase in the population during the late 1700’s were the main factors in bringing about the formation of the Friendly Societies, which have become such an important and useful part of social life. An Act of 1793/4 brought the Societies within the scope of the Justices and was the first Act to deal with the matter. Sections two and three of the Act required the rules and any alterations thereof of any such society to be submitted to the Justices in Quarter Sessions and within the Act they were required to approve them. A copy of the rules had to be left with the Court for filing. The only record of a Friendly Society in Woodborough is from the list confirmation of rules and regulations and an entry for 12th November 1794 that Mr Jno. Gadsby of Four Bells had been registered.

• Land at Woodborough listed for Inclosure in 1795 was 1,266 acres. Receiving Parliamentary confirmation, Statute number 35 George III, chapter 92.

• At Nottingham on 9th July 1798 a certificate was ordered to be inrolled from John Morley of Woodborough, farmer, certifying that the public roads set out by the Commissioners for inclosing the Open and Common Fields in the parish of Woodborough had been made fit for the passage of travellers and carriages.

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