| Description | Certificate dated 6 December 1796 from H. Taylerson curate of Stokesley, William Lee and John Gillson, churchwardens, and John Haviside and John Twiddell junior, overseers, that John Spofforth and Thomas Thompson are of good character and fit to keep the alehouses previously occupied by Thomas Ward and Thomas Lamb
Recognizance dated 9 December 1796 made by John Spofforth innkeeper and John Petty draper his surety, and Thomas Thompson innkeeper and William Appleton butcher his surety, all of Stokesley, for Spofforth to keep good order in the house at Stokesley previously occupied by Thomas Ward, and for Thompson to keep good order in the house at Stokesley previously occupied by Thomas Lamb the younger |