Catalogue description Folios 62-66. Letter from William Willey and Richard Whitworth, overseers of the poor,...

Folios 62-66. Letter from William Willey and Richard Whitworth, overseers of the poor, Sutton in Ashfield, Mansfield Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Board enclosing a petition from the ratepayers of the parish.

The ratepayers ask that Gathorne Hardy, President, Poor Law Board, support the bill presented to Parliament by Percy Wyndham for the rating of mines and woodlands. The parish rateable value, £10,442, contains 4582 acres, 850 of which are woodlands and exempt from parish rates. This exemption seems unfair to the ratepayers, as the timber yields more profit to the owners than agricultural land. The ratepayers feel that from general law, all property which brings a profit should be rated.

Signatories are:

William Beecroft, churchwarden and guardian.

George White, churchwarden.

William Oates, guardian and chairman of local board.

Charles Oscroft, guardian.

William Willey and Richard Whitworth, overseers.

Members of the local board:

Samuel Hardwick, William Parker, H Charlton, Samuel Littlewood, [Robert S--], John Pickard, William Mart, George Clarke, George Kitchen, Charles Tudsbury, William Adlington, J K Danbury.

Ratepayers:

William Barnes, Matthew Radford, William Rhodes, Michael Heathcoat, Germom Buxton, Peter Ward, John Clary, Joseph Fox, Samuel Willey, [George Linnet], Charles Beecroft, Martha Dove, [James G Simmon], William Sampson, Henry Brown, John Aked, William Hall, Samuel Hibbert, John Stoakes, Samuel Allen, Thomas Straw, Joseph Scott, Benjamin Wragg, James Wragg, William Wragg, John Briggs, E S Shaw, George Taylor, Samuel Hill, [Isaac Glayes], Samuel Oscroft, Phebe Barratt, [William Bonner], E Buckland, John Elliott, Richard Barnes, William Antill, [N Coates], William Chambers, William Dove, John Oscroft, Josiah Towers, Richard Needham, James Stanhope, John Brenthill, [M Richardson], John Elliott, William Cooke, Samuel Heathcote, Daniel Fisher, Ann Fisher, Thomas Wild, Benjamin Oscroft, Charles Allwood, Ann Aked, Archelaus Rhodes, Eleanor Jephson, Edwin Buxton Jephson, John Wright, George Walton, George Clarke, [James Hinkton], William North, William Butler, Sarah Askew, James Wightman, William Clarke, Samuel Shephard, William Wilson, Elizabeth Berry, Ann Fisher, Hannah Radford, Martha Norris, Ann Burton, Matthew Walker, John Straw, Samuel Alvey, William Smith, [Izekiah Hilbert], Joseph Radford, Joseph Searson, Francis Bradley, John Webster, Thomas Shore, Ann Jennings, [George Cross], Thomas Oldham, Charles Aked, [John Shenson], Thomas Walker, John Radford, Charles Plumbe, William Castle, [Cath Miller], John F Butterworth, Samuel Nowell, Charles Wilson, Joseph Wild, Frank Oscroft, Joseph Alvey, William Ward, John Searson, Jane Adlington, Richard Adlington, Samuel Dove, William Clark, [Isaac Wass], Walter Straw, William Brittain, Samuel Wass, William Buxton, Curtis Turner, Reuben Parsons, Thomas Sellars, John Milnes, Joseph Hawkins, Timothy Haslam, [George Marriott], John Charlton, Samuel Stevenson, John Ghent, William May, Charles Robinson, William Beeley, Edward Baker, J E Burrows, Thomas Stendall, W H Boler.

Paper Number: 12056/1867.

Poor Law Union Number: 337.

Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.