| Description | Letter from J. Lister at Throxenby to Mr Ewbank attorney at law at Malton. He had previously sent recognizances to the Quarter Sessions with the chief constable, but he is sending them now as Mr Ewbank wants them before the Sessions. Thomas Hodgson of Burniston had been summoned to attend the Sessions at Easingwold on 15 January 1799 as a juror. He had a certificate from Robert Scott of York to say that he served on the jury at the Assizes in July 1795 and should therefore be exempt for at least four years. In the township of Stainton Dale in the parish of Scalby, there are several freeholders are liable to serve on a jury, but until last year, the township has refused to send in a list of them. Lister asks that two of them may be summoned to the Assizes or to the Sessions, and if they refuse to serve, they can be fined or compelled to produce their exemption |