| Description | Certificate that Joseph Croft of Thornton in the division of Pickering Lythe was on 9 January 1804 allotted to serve in the militia and that Peter Niel of Manchester was on 2 February 1804 enrolled to serve as his substitute on behalf of the township in place of Joseph Hornsby substitute for Francis Barker of Thornton who was promoted on 25 September 1803
With request date 8 April 1804 from the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Thornton for money to be paid out of the county rates for their having provided another man to serve in the place of Joseph Hornby [sic] |