[Georgian Northumberland: legal documents.] Two printed lists of justices of the peace, in extracts from the Commission of the Peace for Northurmberland, one of them amended in manuscript; and two lists of grand juries, magistrates and counsel.

ONE: Printed document in the person of King George IV, containing a list of several hundred men appointed as justices of the peace, with extensive manuscript emendations and deletions in red and black ink. (A few names are added, but mostly the names of the dead are struck out.) Dated 16 November [1820] and signed in type ‘BATHURST.’ The first page is headed ‘Extracted from the Commission of the Peace for Northumberland.’ Aged and worn, with closed tear along fold-line of second leaf, the bottom corner of which is torn away, resulting in loss from around sixteen lines of text. 4pp, foolscap 8vo. Bifolium. Four pages of close text, with subject described in customary fashion for folding into packet lengthwise on the fourth page: ‘16th November. 1 Geo. IV. / NORTHUMBERLAND. / Extract / FROM THE / COMMISSION OF PEACE.’ Beneath this is the slug ‘B. WALKER, PRINTER, / NEWCASTLE.’ TWO: Printed document in the person of King William IV, relating to the appointment of justices of the peace. Similar in layout to Item One, but in good condition, lightly aged and folded into packet. Dated 6 November [1830] and signed in type ‘BATHURST.’ The first page is headed ‘Extracted from the Commission of the Peace for the County of Northumberland.’ 4pp, foolscap 8vo. Bifolium. Three pages of close text, with subject described in customary fashion for folding into packet lengthwise on the fourth page: ‘6th November. 1 William IV. / NORTHUMBERLAND. / EXTRACT / FROM THE / Commission of the Peace.’ Beneath this is the slug ‘B. Walker, Printer, Newcastle.’ The list in this case is not so long, but still constitutes around half the text. It contains almost two hundred names of those ‘assigned [...] jointly and severally, [...] to keep our peace in our county of Northumberland’. No manuscript emendations. THREE: Manuscript document headed ‘Mids[umme]r. Sessions - 3 July 1834. Thursday - Hexham.’ Giving a list of the names and addresses of twenty-one members of the grand jury, and names of magistrates and counsel. Docketed ‘Thurs 3 July. 1834. / Magistrates / Grand Jury / and / Counsel / Midsummer Hexham. / Sessions.’ 1p, foolscap 8vo. In very good condition. FOUR: Manuscript document headed ‘Grand Jury. / at the Quarter Sessions Moot / Hull on Thursday 7 January / Foreman. / 1836.’ As with Item Three, listing eighteen names and addresses of grand jury members, with magistrates and counsel. 1p, foolscap 8vo. On otherwise-blank reverse: ‘R Thorp Esq’. In very good condition.