Sedbergh, Garsdale, And Dent: Peeps At the Past History And Present ...
Sedbergh, Garsdale, And Dent: Peeps At the Past History And Present ...
W Thompson
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-**good abearing as barrators, — that haunted alehouses, the " great fault of this country, and were daily fighting, quarrel- **ling, and disquieting this good people. In Dent only one "was brought before me, for very undutiful parties to his ** father. This is notable amongst so many hundredth house- " holders. Now your Lordship cometh to the marvel; no " Justice of the Peace is resident within thirty myles of them "in their county."* In 1791 there was no^ acting magistrate within fifty miles ...of Sedbergh, and a petition was sent to the lord-lieutenant calling his attention to the circumstance, and requesting that certain names might be placed in the commission. Probably about this time the need of some repressive agency had become apparent; for in 1783 the Gentlemen and Principal Inhabitants of Sedbergh gave public notice that they had bound themselves by a Deed, dated April 2 1 St, 1783, "to join at the expense of attending the "punishing of all Vagrants, and the Harbourers or Enter- " tainers of them, the suppressing of all disorderly Alehouses, "or otherwise punishing the Keepers thereof, the prosecuting "of Persons gfuilty of any kind of Nuisances in the public "Streets or Highways within the said Township, and the "carrying on Prosecutions against all Persons guilty of any "Murder, Robbery, Rape, Burglary, burning of Houses or "other Buildings, stealing of Sheep, or other kind of Theft, "Felony, Misdemeanor, Breach of the Peace, Breaking of "Hedges, or any other Offence whatsoever of a criminal " nature." While magistrates were so inaccessible, ordinary breaches of the peace would be dealt with by the usual village author- ities — the constable, churchwardens, and overseers.
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