Description | Summary conviction of John Haggitt of Shires House in the parish of Easingwold farmer for passing through private grounds belonging to William Matson and William Smithson, and other private grounds belonging to Thomas Keld esquire, with a waggon and three horses loaded with straw, with intent to avoid paying the tolls at Shires Turnpike Bar; on the information of Charles Bisset Walker of Thirsk clerk to the Trustees of the Turnpike Road leading from Northallerton to Thirsk, and from Thirsk through Easingwold to Burton Stone near the city of York, and witnessed by Jonathan Rider collector of tolls at Shires Bar
Offence committed at the parish of Easingwold on Tuesday 9 November 1819
Case heard at Thirsk |