John Shadrach Piercy

Hundred of Bassetlaw | Derivation of the Town's name | General description

Prefatory observations | Extracts from the Doomsday Book | Public and private grants, &c. chronologically arranged

First establishment of corporations | Recapitulation of ancient grants, charters, &c. | Charter of King James I.

State of the representation | Contested elections | Election of 1826 | List of representatives

Antiquity of the office of bailiff | Aldermen of 1607 | List of bailiffs from 1700 | Present body corporate

Places of public worship | The Parish Church | The Methodist chapel | The Independent Dissenters' chapel

The Free Grammar School | The National School | Sleswicke's hospital | The Alms Houses | The Dorcas Charity

Public buildings, works &c. | The Square, &c. | The Town Hall | The Theatre | The News Room | The Post Office | The Bank | The Workhouse | The bridge | The Broad Stone

The Great North Road | The Deanry of Retford | The Chesterfield Canal | The River Idle | The Cars and Commons

Miscellaneous articles | The Savings' Bank | Mr Holmes' Room | Mr John Hudson's Room | Biographical sketches

West Retford | General description | The Parish Church | Catalogue of the Rectors | Holy Trinity Hospital | The Free School | Baptists' Meeting House | Family of the Denmans

Babworth | General description | The Parish Church | The hamlet of Ranby | The hamlet of Moreton

Ordsall | General description | The hamlet of Thrumpton | Whitehouses | The Parish Church | Catalogue of Rectors

Grove | General description | Castle Hill Wood | The Parish Church | Catalogue of Rectors | Family of the Eyres

Clarborough | General description | The Parish Church | Catalogue of vicars | The hamlet of Bolham | Hamlet of Welham | Hamlets of Moorgate and Spittal-Hill | Hamlet of Little Greenley

1800

Edward Brown and John Thornton

1801

John Thornton and George Barker. Michael Denman and William Sykes, both of East Retford, were executed at Nottingham on the 5th of August, for breaking into the Brown Cow public house, at Mansfield, kept by Mr. Bowler, and stealing thereout a sum of money, and other articles.

1802

John Thornton and William Clarke

1803

Joseph Ginever and Isaac Dean. William Hill, of Lowdham, was executed at Nottingham on the 10th of August, for committing a rape (attended with great brutality) on Mrs. Sarah Justice, wife of a respectable farmer, at Bole, near Gainsbro’, on the 28th of May, in the same year.

1804

Joseph Ginever and James Clark. Change in the administration, and Mr. Pitt reinstated as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and First Lord of the Treasury.

1805

Beaumont Marshall and George Thornton. Robert Powell, a native of Stafford, suffered the extreme penalty of the law, on the 10th of April, for robbing the house of James Leemings, of Worksop. On the 3^rd of November, Thomas Otter, of Treswell, near Retford, murdered his wife at Drinsey Nook, being the evening of the day on which they were married. He was tried and executed at Lincoln, at the following assizes, and his body afterwards hung in chains on Saxilby Common, near the place where the horrid deed was perpetrated. He was malicious and revengeful and cruel to horses and other animals. A remarkable instance of which is related of him. Having cut out the eyes of a living ass, he made an incision with his knife in the rump, on each side of the tail, and stuck them in!

1806

John Thornton, Sen. and Joshua Cottam

1807

Joseph Ginever and John Mason

1808

William Clarke and William Golland

1809

John Thornton, jun. and George Hudson

1810

George Bailey and Thomas Welch

1811

William Clarke and John Hudson

1812

Richard Chappell and George Thornton

1813

Beaumont Marshall and William Cocking. This year £50. was subscribed by the Corporation for the distressed poor in Russia, consequent upon the French invasion.

1814

Joshua Cottam and John Dawber

1815

John Mason and Jonathan Banks. Battle of Waterloo. John Hemstock, alias Black, a native of West Retford, was executed at Nottingham, on the. 23rd of March, for the murder of James Snell, at the Whinleys, near Clarborough. His body was taken to the General Hospital near Nottingham for dissection; where his skeleton may at present be seen.

1816

Thomas Welch and William Meekley

1817

John Kirke, Esq. and William Cottam. The broad. stone removed from the market-place, to its present situation.

1818

John Parker and John Hoult

1819

Darker Parker and William Cartwright

1820

William Meckley and William Cartwright

1821

William Clarke and William Cottam

1822

John Thornton, Jun. and John Dawber. Henry Sanderson, a native of Carlton in Lindric, was executed at Nottingham, on the 22^nd of March, for the murder of William Cast gamelteeper to Sir Thomas Wollaston White, Bart.

1823

Joshua Cottam and William Cottam

1824

George Thornton and Thomas Appleby

1825

George Hudson and John Dawber.

1826

John Thornton, Sen. and George Bailey. Joshua Smith and George Milnes, were executed at Nottingham, on the 26th of July, for breaking into the shop of John and Ann Wheat, drapers, &c. of Rampton, near this place.

1827

John Cottam, Sen. and Samuel Hindley

1828

John Parker and William Elvidge (bailiffs elect)