| Description | This sub-series contains records of the judicial work of the Justices of the Peace out of Quarter Sessions, and includes:
Certificates of offences against statute of 6 & 7 William III for profane swearing and cursing:
- Thomas Brignall of Helmsley - 3 October 1705; Esther wife of Thomas Petch of Loftus - 17 October 1705; Robert Smith of Kirby Moorside - 31 October 1705; James Duck of Bilsdale - 28 December 1705; William Sigsworth of Oswaldkirk - 2 January 1705/06; Elizabeth wife of William Mackeridg of Farndale - 2 January 1705/06 [1 item]
- William Scurr and William Denison of Grimston - 1 February 1705/06; George Dixon of Barton le Street and wife Elizabeth - 1 March 1705/6 [1 item]
- Richard Hall of Hartoftdale - 25 April 1706; Thomas Moorehouse of Helmsley - 27 April 1706; Leonard Russell of Little Barugh - 17 May 1706; John Harrison of Kirby Moorside - 24 May 1706; Richard Brown of Lastingham - 14 June 1706; William Cockerill of Ugglebarnby - 19 June 1706; Robert Boyes for cursing in the words "God damn thee" - 26 June 1706; Roger Story of Newton Dale - 5 July 1706 [1 item]
- Robert Harrison of Fell Bridg for swearing five oaths in the parish of Kirkleatham - 11 July 1706 [1 item]
- Joseph Wood of Whitby for cursing often in the words "a pox on thee" - 17 August 1706; Samuel Prudome of Sleightholmedale for swearing profanely above 20 times in the space of an hour - 24 August 1706; Robert Dobby the younger of Aislaby yeoman - 6 September 1706 [1 item] |