Description | A return of persons having defective weights and balances in the liberty of Whitby Strand between 17 June and 21 July 1817. Includes:
- Margaret Hall of Whitby grocer for having two half hundredweight weights, a 14-pound weight and a two-ounce weight that were defective
- James Mutter of Whitby baker for having two half-hundredweight weights that were defective
- John Dale of Whitby glazier for having two half-hundredweight weights, and weights of two-stones, seven pounds, and three and a half-pounds that were defective
- Elgie and Company of Whitby bacon factors for having three half-hundredweight weights that were defective
- William Atley of Whitby grocer for having four half-hundredweight weights that were defective
- Richard Vipond of Whitby whitesmith for having three half-hundredweight weights and weights of seven pounds and three pounds that were defective
- John Ayre of Whitby grocer for having two two-stone weights that were defective
- William Lynas of Whitby grocer for having one half-hundredweight weight and a two stone weight that were defective
- Mary Jefferson of Whitby grocer for having a 14-pound weight, a seven-pound weight, a two-pound weight, a one-pound weight, a half-pound weight, three four-ounce weights, two two-ounce weights, a one-ounce weight, and a half-ounce weight that were defective
- John Dixon of Whitby baker for having two half-pound weights that were defective
- John Brown of Whitby glazier for having a two-stone weight and a one-stone weight that were defective
- John Peacock of Whitby butcher for having two 14-pound weights and a half-pound weight that were defective
- John Havelock of Whitby grocer for having a four-stone weight and a three and a half-pound weight that were defective
- Thomas Wren of Whitby grocer for having a one-stone weight, a half-pound weight, a quarter-pound weight and a quarter-ounce weight that were defective
- William Hodgson of Whitby grocer for having a one-pound weight, a half-pound weight, a two-ounce weight and a one-ounce weight that were defective
- William Scurr of Whitby baker for having two three-and-a-half-pound weights that were defective
- John Sanderson of Whitby grocer for having a 14-pound weight and a three-and-a-half-pound weight that were defective
- William Cordiner of Hackness smith for having two four-stone weights, a two-stone weight and a one-stone weight that were defective
- Thomas Watson of Hackness miller for having a two-stone weight, two seven-pound weights and three three-and-a-half-pound weights that were defective
- John Pearson of Robin Hood's Bay grocer for having a half-pound weight, a four-ounce weight, a two-ounce weight, a one-ounce weight, and a half-ounce weight that were defective
- Mary Rickinson of Robin Hood's Bay grocer for having a half-[pound] weight, a four-ounce weight, a two-ounce weight, a one-ounce weight and a half-ounce weight that were defective
- Stephen Crosby of Robin Hood's Bay butcher for having a seven-pound weight, a three-and-a-half-pound weight, and a two-pound weight that were defective
- Elizabeth Fletcher of Fylingdales grocer for having a seven-pound weight, a three-and-a-half-pound weight, a one-pound weight, and a half-pound weight that were defective
- William Elgie of Ruswarp miller for having five half-hundredweight weights, a two-stone weight, a one-stone weight, two four-pound weights and a one-pound weight that were defective
- Robert Coulson of Ruswarp smith for having two two-stone weights, a one-stone weight, a four-pound weight and a two-pound weight that were defective
- John Noble of Ugglebarnby bacon factor for having two half-hundredweight weights, a two-stone weight and a one-stone weight that were defective
- John Swales of Ugglebarnby blacksmith for having a half-pound weight, a quarter-pound weight, a two-ounce weight, a one-ounce weight, and a half-ounce weight that were defective |