Description | Order made at the Christmas Sessions 1833 quashing a rate assessment made for the relief of the poor on 7 November 1833 [sic] on property in the township of Northallerton held by Jonathan Wigfield, Thomas Lunn, and William Thompson. The grounds of their appeal were:
- the property rated was not accurately described
- these other people should also have been rated:- John Smith butcher for a butcher's shop, killing shop, hunger house, stable, carthouse and garden; Thomas Watson roper for a granary and stables in John Smith's yard; Christopher Langdale for a warehouse in the same yard; William Shaw malt maker for a dwelling house and warehouse or malt chamber; George Masterman the younger tallow chandler for a tallow's chandler's shop; George Fawcett weaver for a house and shop; Henry Atkinson weaver for a dwelling house and weaver's shop; Charles Douthwaite whitesmith for a whitesmith's shop, Robert Douthwaite shoemaker for a dwelling house, Robert Bell farmer for several closes or parcels of land; Thomas Masterman for a close or parcel of land on North Moors; Luke Dixon for a close or parcel of land; Elizabeth Young for a dwelling house; Hannah Brown for a dwelling house; Elizabeth Morrell for a dwelling house; Alice Wallace for a dwelling house; Frances Agar for a dwelling house; Enos Metcalf for a dwelling house and shop; and George Thompson labourer for a dwelling house
- Jonathan Wigfield was rated at a higher proportion for his property than Benjamin Hodgson and Isaac Hodgson, farmers
- Thomas Lunn was rated at a higher proportion for his property than Francis Hirst innkeeper, James Chapman joiner, John Webster butcher, George Masterman the younger, and James Wilkinson grocer
- William Thompson was rated at a higher proportion for his shop than George Gibson tallow chandler, Henry Dale chain maker, John Pape blacksmith, and Marmaduke Jaques the elder |