Cymraeg
The Accused
The Crime
The Details
From file: 4/1002/6
Document: 19 1
May 23, 1740
Crime

Flint, Rhuddlan

Food riot. After meeting with other colliers at Mostyn Hall, Whitford, who were going to stop the corn from going 'to sea' : breaking the windows of the dwelling house of John Evans, Rhuddlan, parish clerk; breaking open and drinking a hogshead of bottled cider at a creek called Foryd; carrying away corn and powdered sugar from the nearby storehouse owned by George Colley, Rhuddlan, gent/agent/corn dealer/merchant. According to the information, the prisoner was one of five hundred armed persons from Llanasa and Newmarket. See also no. 6 in 4/1002/5. See text for no. 13 in this file. No indictment. more

Offence type: Riots and other public order offences
Specific offence: Riots, food (but not theft during a food riot for which see 'theft of food')

Accused
William Jones, Collier
Flint, Whitford
Plea:
Prosecutor
Unspecified
Result

Verdict:

Punishment:

Other:
I, R

  • 1 Details about offence are given but there is no indictment. In such cases 'No indictment' will be included in the 'Crime' field.
From file: 4/1002/6
Document: 46 1
May 24, 1740
Crime

Flint, Cwm

Theft of wheat from prosecutor's granary in the company of 'about four score persons armed with swords, guns, and halberds' from Newmarket, who had 'forced him to go along with them to his house...to deliver them his wheat' having mistakenly seized Edward Hughes, Cwm, farmer, first. The 'mob' had been told that the prosecutor had sold the corn 'to sea'. Related to food riot. See text to doc. no. 13 in this file. No indictment. more

Offence type: Larcenies
Specific offence: Theft of food, including harvested crops

Accused
Dafydd Emanuel, Weaver
aka David Emanuel 2
Flint, Newmarket
Plea:
Prosecutor
Robert Morris, Cwm, farmer
Result

Verdict:

Punishment:

Other:
E; R ( in 4/1002/5 )

  • 1 Details about offence are given but there is no indictment. In such cases 'No indictment' will be included in the 'Crime' field.
  • 2 Alias added from other related document(s) within the same Gaol File.
From file: 4/1002/6
Document: 46 1
May 24, 1740
Crime

Flint, Cwm

Theft of wheat from prosecutor's granary in the company of 'about four score persons armed with swords, guns, and halberds' from Newmarket, who had 'forced him to go along with them to his house...to deliver them his wheat' having mistakenly seized Edward Hughes, Cwm, farmer, first. The 'mob' had been told that the prosecutor had sold the corn 'to sea'. Related to food riot. See text to doc. no. 13 in this file. No indictment. Prisoner formerly from Diserth. more

Offence type: Larcenies
Specific offence: Theft of food, including harvested crops

Accused
Thomas Owens, Weaver
Flint, St Asaph, co. Flint
Plea:
Prosecutor
Robert Morris, Cwm, farmer
Result

Verdict:

Punishment:

Other:
E, R, Ca

  • 1 Details about offence are given but there is no indictment. In such cases 'No indictment' will be included in the 'Crime' field.
From file: 4/1002/6
Document: 5
Sep 19, 1740
Crime

Flint, St Asaph, co. Flint

Assault. Affidavit and discharge refers to an out of court settlement. more

Offence type: Offences against the person (excluding sexual offences)
Specific offence: Assault (including wounding, but not malicious wounding)

Accused
John Ellis, Yeoman
Denbigh, 1 Cefn 2
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
Griffith Jones, miller
Result

Verdict:
Guilty.3

Punishment:
Fined 1/-4

Other:
A, Di ( both in 4/1003/1 )

  • 1 Preferred parish in a different County from that given in the indictment.
  • 2 Parish given in related documents within the same Gaol File preferred over parish given in the indictment.
  • 3 Verdict added from related document(s) outside the records of the Great Sessions, usually the Criminal Registers in the National Archives.
  • 4 Sentence added from related document(s) outside the records of the Great Sessions, usually the Criminal Registers in the National Archives.
From file: 4/1002/6
Document: 6
Sep 30, 1740
Crime

Flint, Bangor-on-Dee, co. Fli

Theft of a sheep. Sheep skin recovered at Ellesmere, co. Salop. more

Offence type: Capital offences against property
Specific offence: Sheep-stealing

Accused
John Ralph, Butcher
aka John Ralpish the young
Flint, Bangor-on-Dee, co. Flint
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
John Smith the elder, Bangor-on-Dee, farmer
Result

Verdict:
Not guilty.

Punishment:

Other:
E, R

From file: 4/1002/6
Document: 33 1
Oct 22, 1740
Crime

Flint, Overton

Refusal to take office as petty constable after being chosen as such by the court leet. No indictment. more

Offence type: Marketing, labour and administrative offences
Specific offence: Refusal to accept office

Accused
Edward Jones, Farmer
Flint, Overton
Plea:
Prosecutor
Unspecified
Result

Verdict:

Punishment:

Other:
R, Ce

  • 1 Details about offence are given but there is no indictment. In such cases 'No indictment' will be included in the 'Crime' field.
From file: 4/1002/6
Document: 10
Dec 5, 1740
Crime

Flint, Rhuddlan

Forcible entry and ejectment of prosecutor from his house. more

Offence type: Others
Specific offence: Forcible entry / ejectment and related offences

Accused
John Williams, Gent.
Flint, St Asaph, co. Flint
Plea:
Prosecutor
John Jones
Result

Verdict:

Punishment:

From file: 4/1002/6
Document: 8
Dec 9, 1740
Crime

Outside Wales, Ellesmere, co. Salop

Theft of food - muncorn and a bag. Prosecutor having bought the food at the market, left it with Benjamin Thomas, Penley, co. Flint, miller. He attended 'every market day to take the corn to his mill which his customers buy there'. The food was stolen from a shop, part of which was let to Benjamin Thomas to store the excess corn which he was unable to carry away. The shop was owned by John Hillgrove, Ellesmere, blacksmith. Related to food riot? more

Offence type: Larcenies
Specific offence: Theft of food, including harvested crops

Accused
Thomas Edwards, Labourer
Flint, Bangor-on-Dee, co. Flint
Plea:
Prosecutor
Mary Formstone, widow
Result

Verdict:
No true bill.

Punishment:

Other:
E, R, Ca

From file: 4/1002/6
Document: 9
Feb 8, 1741
Crime

Flint, Northop

Theft of cloth and handkerchiefs from an inn called the Boot. Prisoner aged 21. more

Offence type: Larcenies
Specific offence: Theft of cloth / wool

Accused
Margaret Johnson, Spinster
Flint, Northop
Plea:
Prosecutor
Thomas Sharp, Scotland
Result

Verdict:

Punishment:

Other:
E/R

From file: 4/1002/6
Document: 4
Feb 14, 1741
Crime

Flint, Overton

Theft of malt belonging to the prosecutor and a bag and rope belonging to Thomas Davies, Wrexham, miller, who had been hired by the former to bring him the malt he had bought at the market in Ellesmere, co. Salop. Thomas Davies was attacked and robbed on the highway on his return. Prisoner asked the latter if he was a corn dealer : 'whether ever he would have done badging on the side'. Thomas Johnson implicated, not indicted. Related to food riot? more

Offence type: Larcenies
Specific offence: Theft of alcoholic drinks, including foodstuffs to make such drinks

Accused
Thomas Edwards, Sawyer
Flint, Overton
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
Joshua Jones, Wrexham, co. Denb. innholder
Result

Verdict:
Guilty to the value of 6d - partial verdict

Punishment:
To be whipped1

Other:
E, R, Ca

  • 1 Sentence added from related document(s) outside the records of the Great Sessions, usually the Criminal Registers in the National Archives.
From file: 4/1002/6
Document: 12
Feb 19, 1741
Crime

Flint, Llanasa

Murder of Charles Hughes, Tremeirchion, sawyer, prosecutor's husband, by beating him. The prisoner, in the company of fellow miners on returning form work at Trelogan, called at a shop or smithy where they met the deceased. A long-standing dispute between the prosecutor and the prisoner resulted in the former challenging the latter to a fight. Prisoner charged the deceased with having nicknamed him John Gingerbread and that he was of 'an ill breed, thy grandfather killed thy grandmother'. more

Offence type: Offences against the person (excluding sexual offences)
Specific offence: Murder

Accused
John Griffith, Miner
Flint, Llanasa
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
Mary Hughes, widow
Result

Verdict:
Not guilty.

Punishment:

Other:
R, Iq, Ca, E (& in 4/1003/3 )

From file: 4/1002/6
Document: 11
Mar 12, 1741
Crime

Flint, Rhuddlan

Pound breach and rescuing two horses impounded by prosecutor for the damage done to his land. more

Offence type: Rescue, harbouring, escaping, returning from transportation
Specific offence: Rescue of livestock

Accused
William Morgan, Labourer
Flint, Cwm
Plea:
Prosecutor
Edward Hughes
Result

Verdict:

Punishment: