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RICHARD WYATT (c.1730-1813) OF EGHAM, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: DEPOSITION BOOK, 1767-1776
Reference Number: 446
Descriptive Information about the Record (click to expand) Provenance Purchased in 1968.
-Introduction Richard Wyatt (c.1730-1813) appears in the Commission of the Peace for Surrey of 2 Dec 1767, the earliest surviving among the Quarter Sessions records. It is conjectured that he was made a justice of the peace at this date. The first entry in the volume is dated 30 Dec 1767.
-The records The volume begins with a table of fees (for warrants, orders, signing of rates, examinations, summonses etc). It is foliated, a number being given to each facing pair of pages. Apparently Wyatt's original intention was to write on the right hand pages only but many entries have been made on the left hand pages often with the book turned round ninety degrees. There is a nominal index at the end.
-Bibliography The volume has been published as The Deposition Book of Richard Wyatt JP, 1767-1776, ed. E Silverthorne (Surrey Record Society, vol 30, 1978).
-Access Conditions There are no access restrictions.
-- Series information for this collection
'Liber memorabiliorum [sic] vol 1': volume containing formal record o... Title 'Liber memorabiliorum [sic] vol 1': volume containing formal record of statements (examinations, depositions, informations) made before Richard Wyatt, mostly taken on oath and signed (many with a mark). In a very few cases Wyatt acted with a fellow justice; in all others (over 300 in number) he was alone. The offender in one case was bound over to Middlesex Quarter Sessions. The types of offence and subject matter include bastardy and settlement examinations, labour disputes, burglary, housebreaking, stealing horses and cattle, highway robbery, poaching and other infringements of the Game Laws, using false weights and measures, conducting an illegal lottery, pub brawls, assault and rape. The cases do not relate only to the area of Chertsey and Egham where Wyatt lived. Because this part of Surrey adjoined four other counties and communications were facilitated by a main road to the southwest (now A30) and two bridges across the Thames a number of events outside the county and individuals from all over the country are recorded here. For example a sailor travelling home to Somerset broke his journey in Egham and two horse thieves were apprehended there after a prolonged drunken spree beginning in Dulwich and including the sale of a horse in Henley on Thames. Reference 446/1 Unit Date 1767-1776 Start Date 17670101 End Date 17761231
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