[ Victorian Oxford Circuit. ] Printed: 'County of Worcester. | A Calendar of Prisoners for Trial at The Michaelmas Quarter Sessions of the Peace' [...] Before John William Willis Bund, Esq., Chairman, Richard Holmden Amphlett, Esq., Vice-Chairman.'

[2] + 19pp., 4to. Unbound and stapled. In fair condition, on aged paper with rusted staples. The calendar is divided into fourteen columns (the last five blank), and gives details of name of prisoner, age, trade, 'Degree of Instruction', details of committing magistrate, date of warrant, date of receipt into custody, details of 'Offence as charged in the Commitment'. It provides an interesting insight into social history. To give a few examples: Thomas Foster, Thomas Newell and George Crane are charged that they, 'On the 8th June, 1896, at the borough of Kidderminster, did with a view to compel one Enoch Lock to abstain from working in the employment of Messieurs J. E. Barton and Sons, carpet manufacturers, which the said Enoch Lock then had a legal right to do, unlawfully, wrongfully, and without legal authority use violence to the said Enoch Lock.' Albert Payne, a labourer, is charged that he, 'On the 14th July, 1896, at the parish of Church Lench, then being the bailee of certain chattels, to wit, one reaping hook, one wooden hook, one rubber stone, one whet stone, and one bag, the goods of one George Young, did fraudulently take and convert the same to his own use, and thereby feloniously did steal the same'. Charles Thomas Sanders, is charged that he, 'On the 5th August, 1896, at the parish of Broadwas, did unlawfully steal sixty pounds weight of plums, the property of William Freeman, and then and there growing in a certain garden of the said William Freeman'. From the papers of Sir Richard Harington (1861-1931) of Ridlington, 12th Baronet, practised on the Oxford Circuit before taking up an appointment as a Puisne Judge in the High Court of Justice at Fort William in Bengal, 1899-1913. No other copy traced, either on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC.