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At Every Bloody Level: A Magistrate, a Framework-Knitter, and the Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2012

Carolyn Steedman
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In November 1806, Nottinghamshire magistrate Sir Gervase Clifton was visited at his house by one of his poorer neighbours, “a pauper of the village of Wilford.” (Wilford is about three miles from Clifton village and Clifton Hall.) William Kirwin was attempting to sort out complicated domestic arrangements within the framework of the law that governed his family's life. He told the magistrate about his mother-in-law, a widow, currently living in Tollerton. “She is in a very distressed state,” he said; he and his wife wanted her to come and live with them, “so that she may be better taken care of & kept from want.” He had asked the Wilford overseer for permission to take her in but had been refused. The family had tried to help after her husband died: her son (with wife and children) had moved into her cottage on the understanding that “they would take care of her during her Life & allow her good victuals drinks firing & good cloathing.” Something had evidently gone wrong with that arrangement, but we are not to know what, or how, as the entry in Clifton's notebook breaks off here (as is the case with many pieces of magisterial business he recorded). Kirwin was aware of local ratepayers and tensions between parishes in regard to their financial responsibilities under the old Poor Law: what he proposed would keep his mother-in-law from “troubling the … parish of Wilford,” he said. She was financially independent, or at least on marriage she had “brought a many good with her & such as a beds & other goods.” He knew that a justice of the peace was a point of appeal in the vast, complex edifice of ancient statutory law (poor and settlement law) that dictated the way he lived his life. We can discern something of William Kirwin's understanding of these matters from the fragmentary, incomplete account of what he said, and the strategies he used in telling his story; we can discern some of Sir Gervase's from the action he did not take in this case, and what he did not have his clerk record.

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Law and History Review , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , May 2012 , pp. 387 - 422
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37. NA, M8050; DD 311/6.

38. NA, M8050, 176.

39. A one-line reference to George Jardine, professor of logic and philosophy at the University of Glasgow (1774 to 1826); a recipe for making what looks leather polish; and a note about someone being at Eton College on a particular day.

40. NA, M8050, 7.

41. NA, M8050, 86. Lambley is approximately 12 miles north east of Clifton, on the other side of Nottingham.

42. Costock is 6 miles south of Clifton. NA, M8050, August 10, 1772; July 22, 1776.

43. NA, M8050, July 31, 1777.

44. NA, M8051, 26.

45. NA, M8050 (blotting paper between two pages dated 1773).

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49. NA, M805, “Taken and made upon Oath before me this day of May 1805.”

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64. NA, M8050, 24.

65. NA, M8050, January 20, 1773.

66. 6 Geo. 3 c. 25 (1766); Deakin and Wilkinson, Law of the Labour Market, 63; Burn, Justice of the Peace (1772), 4:139–40.

67. NA, M8050, 122.

68. NA, M8050, June 30, 1779; Burn, Justice of the Peace (1772), 1:xiii; 4:120.

69. There was an enactment of 1766 that made it a felony punishable by transportation to assault someone in the street with the intent of damaging (and actually damaging) their clothes. 6 Geo. 3 c. 23 s.11; Burn, Justice of the Peace (1772), 1:107.

70. Ibid., 106. “Not withstanding the many ancient opinions to the contrary, it seems agreed at this day that no words whatsoever can amount to an assault.”

71. NA, M8050, May 4, 1781.

72. NA, M8050, May 26, 1779.

73. NA, M8050, June 28, 1784.

74. NA, M8050, June 8, 1785.

75. Burn, Richard, The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer … Continued to the present Time by John Burn … 18th ed., 4 vols. (London: B. Cadell, 1793), 4Google Scholar (no pagination; “Riot, Rout &c”). Woolley described a similar incident in Dalby in June 1804 after being thrown out of the alehouse; the keeper and his wife “were Glad they Got shut of us.” NA, DD 311/3, June 29, 1804.

76. Indecent offense was an offense (at common law) established during the eighteenth century. It was codified, and made a statutory offense in 1861 in the Offences against the Person Act.

77. NA, M8050, April 30, 1772.

78. NA, M8051, 33.

79. Heathcote, Ralph, The Irenach: or, Justice of the Peace's Manual. II Miscellaneous Reflections upon Laws, Policy, Manners &etc &etc. In a Dedication to William Lord Mansfield. III An Assize Sermon Preached at Leicester, 12 Aug. 1756 (London, privately printed, 1781), 188Google Scholar. In what sense was an assize sermon equivalent to a justices' handbook as a guide to magistrates? Heathcote was a Leicestershire clerical magistrate; the Irenach was not a conventional handbook. All three items included in the volume offered a meditation on Christianity and the everyday operation of the law. His own, 20-odd year old assize sermon was equally dedicated to the guidance and Christian education of his fellow magistrates.

80. Burn, Justice of the Peace (1793), 2:256–345.

81. NA, M8050, 17–20. This is one of Clifton's more extended pieces of writing; he was personally involved in these questions.

82. NA, M8050, April 27, 1773. Henry Allcock of Doverridge, Derbyshire was certainly chancing it. Dr Burn greatly liked this 1767 statute. It repealed all highway and turnpike legislation “which was before greatly confused,” and codified it anew very neatly. Burn, Justice of the Peace (1772), 2: 354, 378–79.

83. Devereux, “Promulgation of the Statutes,” 81.

84. NA, DD 311/1, 1–4.

85. He was most likely Joseph, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Woolley, bap. Clifton, 7 March 1773. NA, PR 3847, Clifton Parish Registers, 1573–1944.

86. NA, DD 311/1, 144, August 31, 1801; DD 311/3, 118; DD 311/5, January 8, 1813.

87. NA, DD 311/6, April 17, September 26, October 4, 1815.

88. NA, DD 311/2, April 19, 1803; DD 311/3, 99. “Henerey Allin arived at Clifton from London he was turned away from is place for Being too free with the Cooke or as people say he was Caut with hir in such a place as was no Credit to them it had Been sospected that they was more kind to Each other than they aught to bee before they left Clifton but they was not Caught till they was in London and then Sir Ger Gave poor harey a Bill of shifts.” DD 311/5, January 8, 1813.

89. NA, DD 311/3, January 1804: “a remarkable dream that was dreamt one night in Clifton John rue dreamt that Sir Ger Clifton would turn him out of his cottage.”

90. NA, DD 311/2, September 17, 1803. “The Rector was in no way related to the family, for his patron met him by chance at an inn, and offered him the vacant living, partly no doubt on account of his name.” Bruce, Rosslyn, The Clifton Book (Nottingham) (Nottingham: Henry B. Saxton, 1906) IIIGoogle Scholar.

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93. NA, M8050, October 8, 1804.

94. NA, DD 311/3, October 8, 1804.

95. There are arguments to say that all self-writing (letters and diaries as well as autobiography) should be analyzed historically in the light of Samuel Richardson's discovery of the possibilities of epistolarity in the late 1740s. He claimed that in Pamela (1740) he had invented a new form of writing––“to the moment.” Joe Bray, “An Historical Approach to Speech Presentation: Embedded Quotations in Eighteenth-Century Fictions,” Poetics, Linguistics and History: Discourses of War and Conflict. Proceedings of PALA XIX, Potchefstroom University, South Africa, March 1999, Published for PALA by the Oxford Text Archive, 546–56, http://www.pala.ac.uk/resources/proceedings/199 Woolley had read Richardson: “I read the following books out of Suttons Libbery pamela or virtue rewarded.” NA, DD 311/1, April 12, 1801.

96. Woolley read widely. He clubbed together with his friendly society to buy a weekly newspaper. He bought, borrowed (from Sutton's Library, Nottingham), and read, novels. Most of them were in the later established canon of English literature, including Richardson's Pamela (1740) and Fielding's Tom Jones (1749). He made a note of “Lackington and Co booksellers finsbury Square London” in the first extant diary. For Lackington and his bookshop, see Mascuch, Michael, Origins of the Individual Self. Autobiography and Self-Identity in England, 1591–1791 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)Google Scholar. Woolley's raucous accounts of drinking, swearing, and (other men's) whoring remind this reader very powerfully of another “comic epic poem in prose,” that of Henry Fielding. See Note 102.

97. NA, DD 311/3, August 22, 1804.

98. Burn, Justice of the Peace (1772), 4:183–84

99. NA, DD 311/3, September 29, 1804.

100. NA, DD 311/3, October 6, 1804.

101. NA, DD 311/3, October 2, 1804.

102. “pd for 3 vol of the history of tom jones.” NA, DD 311/3, October 13, 1804.

103. NA, DD 311/2, September 29, 1803.

104. NA, DD 311/3, October 10, 1805; Phillimore, W. P. W. and Blagg, Thomas M., Nottinghamshire Parish Registers, Marriages (London: Phillimore, 1905), VII:112Google Scholar, “Sarah Waldram m. William Bradwell October 12, 1805, Clifton, Nott.”

105. Snell, Keith, The Parish and Belonging. Community, Identity and Welfare in England and Wales, 1700–1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 136Google Scholar, 143–44 for settlement examinations before single justices, and men “cajoled into marriage by the parish.”

106. See Note 102 for Woolley and Tom Jones. The examination of Moll Seagrim by Justice Allworthy occurs in the first volume (Book Four, ch. 11) of the edition that Woolley is most likely to have purchased: Henry Fielding, Esq., The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 3 vols, (London: T. Longman, B. Law & Son and 14 others, 1792), 1:156–57. Other magistrates were as pragmatic as Clifton appears to have been about statutory limitations on their powers. In April 1751 Northamptonshire JP Philip Ward heard the complaint of a local watchmaker that his apprentice had assaulted him. “I granted a Warrant agt the Apprentice to be brought before Me but it seemed to me upon second thoughts that I as a single Justice can neither punish him upon s. 21 of 5 Eliz c. 4 nor upon the 4 s. of 20 Geo.2 c. 19. but concealing my want of power I had the words of the Statute read over to him and he immediately desir'd he might be admitted to ask his Masters pardon upon promising never to offend more and so was forgiven.” Lincoln's Inn Library, Misc. Ms. 592. Manuscript Diary of Philip Ward of Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire, 1748–1751.

107. NA, DD 311/6, February 1815.

108. NA, DD 311/1, November 5, 1801.

109. See Note 27.

110. John Taylor, Elements of the Civil Law, 3rd ed. (London: Charles Bathurst, 1769), 407–8.

111. On the relationship of patrician “honour” to plebeian “honesty,” see McKeown, Michael, The Origins of the English Novel, 1600–1740 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), 131–75Google Scholar. For the modern idea of personality or character evolving in regard to the poorer sort's honesty as formulated by their employers in testimonials, or “characters,” see Robbins, Bruce, The Servant's Hand. English Fiction from Below (Durham, SC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), 27Google Scholar. For the self-narratives (autobiographies) demanded of the poor in magistrates' courts, see Steedman, “Enforced Narratives.”

112. NA, DD 311/1, December 10, 1800.

113. NA, DD 311/1, February 7, 1810.

114. NA, DD 311/2, September 29, 1803.

115. NA, DD 311/4, May 1809.

116. NA, DD 311/5 records two Clifton women setting off to Nottingham one February Saturday to get a warrant against a man who had badmouthed one of them; perhaps Sir Gervase was not at home. They “thaught to have Got a deal of money” out of the man—at least two guineas and the price of a new gown––but Nottingham magistrates found the older woman's “Caracter … so bold … Caut … [her] in so maney lies that they would not believe aney thing she said.” She “was disapointed,” said Woolley; she saved face by saying that “they did not whant to hurt [the man]… onley to humble him.”

117. Seventy-two boxes and forty-six volumes hold the Clifton family and estate papers––correspondence, deeds, manorial records, political papers, and accounts from the twelfth to twentieth century. University of Nottingham, Manuscripts and Special Collections, Clifton of Clifton. Cl A and Cl E are informative on Clifton's relationship with his tenants and the solicitors who managed them, for example Cl A 572/1–3; 572/2/1, “Solicitor's Accounts 1810–1812.”

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