| Description | Notice dated 18 December 1809, with copy, given by two Justices that Richard Kendall of Nunnington constable had complained against Hodgson Foxton and William Peacock overseers of the poor of the township of Nunnington for refusing to reimburse £48 6s 4d paid by him on the prosecution of John Peacock for an assault with intent to maim or murder Jane Lickers of Nunnington spinster. The complaint was heard by the Justices on 13 December 1809 when the reason given by the overseers for refusing was that some of the inhabitants thought that the constable ought not to have incurred the expense. As Lickers was too poor or incapacitated to conduct the prosecution herself, and as there was a probability that she could have been "so effectually tamper'd with by the opulent friends of the culprit as to stifle the prosecution", the Justices consider that Kendall had performed his duty and should be reimbursed
Notice dated 21 December 1809 given by William Peacock and Hodgson Foxton, overseers of the poor of the township of Nunnington to Richard Kendall now constable of the township of Nunnington, that they object to the allowance made by two Justices on 13 December 1809 of those parts of Kendall's accounts which relate to the expenses incurred in the prosecution of John Peacock for assaulting Jane Lickers. They intend to appeal against the account at the next Quarter Sessions held by adjournment at New Malton on 12 January 1810 |