| Description | Warrant for the constables of Pickering and West Ayton to raise £23 9s 2d to pay compensation to Richard Hill by distraining the goods and chattels of the acting Inclosure Commissioners for Lockton
At the Quarter Sessions held on 17 April 1787, it was reported that at the previous Quarter Sessions held at Easingwold on 9 January 1787, Richard Hill, on behalf of himself and the other inhabitants of Thornton and Farmanby, had appealed against the stopping-up and diverting by the Inclosure Commissioners of a road in the parish of Lockton leading from Thornton and Farmanby to Whitby. Hearing of the appeal was respited to the next Quarter Sessions, and three Justices were requested to visit the road and report back
According to their report, the new road was longer and less commodious to the public than the old road, and the old road was ordered to be re-opened, and compensation paid to Richard Hill for his expenses in the appeal
At the Quarter Sessions on 15 January 1788 it was found that the John Foord and Robert King, acting Commissioners, had not yet paid the compensation
Annotated with a receipt dated 7 April 1788 for money for compensation and cost, given to John Bell attorney for Richard Hill esquire by Matthew Rowntree constable of Pickering |