1841 BEDALE Assc Protection Property & Prevention of Crime Police MINUTE BOOK

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This is a really interesting book which will suit a serious private collector, someone into the history of Bedale and the surrounding villages, a local family history group or a museum alike.....this will be the ONLY book like this.. it is part printed at the front few pages as well as having a lot of hand written information in it as well...manuscript.
So .. the cover.. as you can see its got original marbled boards which have been later restored with the leather spine and corners.. these are very soft leather..the board edges are scuffed and the top surface as these sort of covers tend to wear on the high areas.
It has its original leather morocco lable on the front picked out in gilt wording.
GENERAL ASSOCIATION
FOR THE PROTECTION OF PROPERTY AND PREVENTION OF CRIME
1841.
First inner page you can see is nice and clean...you can just see the edge of the original paper stuck beneath this....the next page is stiffer and it has been stuck to another page which has once had 1940-56 writing upon it..  someone has used the book in the spare margins and areas for their own BOOKWOOK ACCOUNTS from 1946-53 .. these accounts I will come to later... they do SPOIL this original book ....BUT .. at least it has not been thrown out, burnt or discarded.

So this first blank page is stuck to a page which had writings on it from this later period.. you can see the wording in a strong light.. its a list of peoples names ...all of which are Bedale area residents..1943-56 which will relate to the wording and accounts further on.

So going back to the ACTUAL 1841 book now... the first few pages are printed ...but have certain names and address crossed out and manuscript wording in place.
MINUTES OF A MEETING.
Held at the Magistrates Room in Bedale, on Tuesday, the 12th day of January, 1841 for the purpose of forming an Association for the Protection of property and prevention of Crime, at which meeting the following Proprieters and Occupiers of Manors and Estates ( amongst many others ) were present ....it then names 12 men... including THE DUKE OF LEEDS - THE HON & REV THOMAS MONSON - THE HON JOHN DUNDAS - MARK MILBANK ESQ - CAPTAIN HARCOURT - MARMADUKE WYVILL ESQ - TIMOTHY HUTTON ESQ - HENRY COORE ESQ - THE REV MONSON - JOHN HICKS ESQ - JAMES D'ARCY HUTTON ESQ - THE REV PETER EWART - EDWARD J CARTER ESQ - THE REV RICHARD ANDERSON - JOHN BOOTH ESQ - THE REV EDWARD WYVILL - THE REV WILLIAM GLAISTER - JOHN FORSTER ESQ - THE REV WILLIAM LOCKWOOD - THE REV PHINEHAS STUBBS - JOHN L HAMMOND ESQ - JAMES ROBSON ESQ.
It goes on to discuss the 4 agreements.... and then gives another LIST of names of the men in charge of certain areas and districts to get all the people within those areas to apply and get subscriptions ...it has 49 names on this list.. some are on the list above of course.... some of these names are crossed out and other names written instead. 
Number 4. says the meeting of members of this association shall be held at the magistrates room in Bedale 26th January at 12 noon. ...then it has MARK MILLBANK , Chairman... ( Mark Millbank was from Thorpe Perrow Estate. )...second page is proper printed too and has TOWNSHIPS INCLUDED IN THIS ASSOCIATION and then has 50 listed.. as well as that another 7 have been added by hand.... then it has GENERAL ASSOCIATION .... and half a page of writing about the occupiers, proprietors, tenants, landlords and members of the association are entitled to the following terms .. anyone with over 2000 acres have to pay ONE POUND subscription annually..anyone with land off less than that but have game, leases, or manors also pay ONE POUND subscription ..everyone else pays FIVE SHILLINGS annually...and afew other rules about acreages of lesser amount...and other rules... then GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ...onto the 3rd printed page.. another Adjourned MEETING held at the MAGISTRATES ROOM in BEDALE 9th Day of February 1841..... the reps from the certain areas made their reports and various resolutions were passed from 1 - 10 ..... the committee meet once a fortnight to examine the books of the Policeman .... Henry R Glaister was appointed Secretary with a salary of 21l per year ..he being the Solicitor for the Assc as well... William Burrill of the Swaledale & Wensleydale Bank be the Treasurer.. the Competant POLICEMAN at a salary of not exceeding £120 per annum, such Policeman to furnish his own clothing, horse and arms. ...a Book for subscriptions should be prepared etc ..the policeman is to have a number of books for such as names of all offenders , info against ale and beer houses , offences against the highway and vagrant acts, property taken by prisoners, time spent on duty within his district.   
at the very bottom of the page has MARK MILLBANK Chairman at the bottom.
The next 2 pages are about the meetings.. written by someone else and Mark Millbank with his signature as witness ...Mr McPherson is a Policeman  June 1841 ...on £150 per year.. then the one below is for 1846 and hes on LESS money .. £120 year ...then another Secretray was appointed due to Mr Glaister being deceased ...then interesting again in 1846 the policeman had his salary reduced again to only £100 per year ..and his items belong to the assc on his departure...it seems there is another policeman Mr Johnson as well now....1847 there is something about the Policeman again and an application to Miss Peirse is to be made for a site for a Lock Up.
All the following pages are handwritten wording GENERAL SUMMARY and INDEX  .... with a list of all the townships , the page number you will find them on, amount of subscription ... on this page there are 58 places - townships named etc. 
Then the following pages are the places in MORE detail with the subscribers owner - occupiers name - house or land - annual subs - acreage - total subs... quite abit of extra pencil writing too between the dip ink pen writing ...
The next page ..has the place AINDERBY QUERNHOW ... crossed out....and is where the LATER person in the 1946 - 50,s era has started to do their own BOOKWORK in the spare page areas .. which as I said is rather annoying .. but is interesting too.. especially if you are RESEARCHING any families in the Bedale area.... the next page is c1841 original with AISKEW with LEEMING ( Little ) and a full page of info ...25 peoples names on here..interesting that this Association was a VERY LARGE DISTRICT even by todays area.. a Policeman would have a real job getting about....from Aikbor ...Akebar ... East & West Appleton - Brough with Saint Giles - Burton Upon Yore - Carthorpe - Colburn - Clifton -  East Tanfield - East Witton - Fingall - Gatenby - Hackforth - Garrison - Hornby - Kirby Fleetham and the Fencotes - Langthorne - Howgrave - Scruton - Snape - Thornton Steward - Wath with Norton Conyers - to name just a few .. its a large area that.
The people that are named from each place or township is very interesting for anyone into LOCAL family history etc.
When you get to the page for CARTHORPE and CATTERICK on the opposite page.. half is hand written with the 1841 info of the subscribers and what they paid etc.. then the lower half of both pages has the later 1949 accounts of Expences ...again this info will be interesting to anyone from the Bedale area as it has quite a lot of peoples names in.. probably business traders of the period....where items have been bought etc.
So the later hand written Expences go from page ...2 ..and start again 8 - 26 .. the pages vary if they are big townships they have a lot of 1841 original wording and if they are small townships ..over half of the page is written in the later expenses period....from page 26 - 74 .. all the rest is the 1841 book.. with no pages spoilt by the later work.
Page 58 has West Tanfield ....then a blank page then it starts with the Associations actual Expences bookwork starting in 1841 - 1850 ..finishing on page 74....with some interesting writings on here such as Paid to Isaac Askey Gun Smith £3 10 Shillings and to William Parker's executors Gun Maker £2-13-6... Richard Taylor for printing 10-17-/ .....Carriage of arms from London 6 shillings and 6 pence.... John Arnitt , Saddler 8-11-2 .....Messrs Brown Blacksmith 2-7-/.... The police officer agrees to keep the saddlery above paid for in repair in future and to pay towards shoeing the horse and his lodgings are to be 6 shillings a week....as I say a very interesting book in its own right .
The book is approx 13 inch x 8 inch with 74 pages....in overall very good condition... only a couple of pages are missing their bottom right hand corner.. the later Expences accounts have interesting wording such as HOE - SELF - NORTHALLERTON HOSPITAL - MOTHER - HAM - PARRAFIN - COAL - STAMPS - HAROLD - LOGS - GAS - ELEC LIGHT - REPAIRS - COLLARS - WREATH - SEEDS - BOOTS - REPAIRS AISKEW to name but a few I can read at a glance..         

 

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