Document referenceQSB 1797 1/10/5
TitleA list of convictions for false weights and balances in the wapentake of Gilling West
DescriptionA list of those convicted for having false weights and balances, as found by John Newby, inspector of weights and balances for the wapentake of Gilling West. Includes:

Greta Bridge
- Thomas Thompson blacksmith for a false steelyard
- Dorothy Pickering for two false weights

Rokeby
- James Cook paper maker for four false weights
- Thomas Harrison for a false steelyard

Bowes
- Ann Campbell poor for seven false weights
- Joseph Richardson for a false steelyard
- John Richardson for four false weights
- Jane Martin for four false weights
- Ambrose Denham for seven false weights
- Edward Johnson for a false steelyard
- Phebe Copeland for six false weights
- Henry Metcalfe for five false weights
- Thomas Laidman for three false weights
- John Watson for a false steelyard
- James Sayer for two false weights
- Charles Copeland for two false weights

Barningham
- William Etherington for a false steelyard
- William Hawdon for a false steelyard

Thorpe and Hunderthwaite
- George Goundry for a false steelyard
- Edward Hutchinson for seven false weights
- John Prudah for a false steelyard
- Robert Johnson for a false steelyard

Cotherstone
- Thomas Dixon for a false steelyard
- Alexander Stephenson for two false weights
- John Watson for three false weights
- John Hasleton for a false steelyard
- Ann Parmley for five false weights
- Sarah Watson for ten false weights
- John Vickers for six false weights
- Thomas Creighton for six false weights
- Jane Fox for seven false weights
- Matthew Hutchinson for five false weights
- George Jaques for a false steelyard
- Robert Allison for six false weights
- James Hogg for 11 false weights

Mickleton
- Joseph Sowerby for eight false weights
- John Burney for seven false weights
- Joseph Rain for 11 false weights
- Edward Harrison for a false steelyard
- Thomas Kidd for a false steelyard
- William Wrightson for six false weights
- Joseph Atkinson for a false steelyard
- Henry Alderson for four false weights
- Philip Elliot for a false steelyard

Startforth
- John Whitfield for seven false weights
- Christopher Roper for four false weights
- John Ridley for a false steelyard
- John Wiseman for a false steelyard
- Margaret White for four false weights

Lartington
- George Prudah for a false steelyard
- John Hutchinson for a false weight
Date15 Nov 1796
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