Presentments made at Courts Leet held for Francis Duke of Bridgewater for the Town...

Presentments made at Courts Leet held for Francis Duke of Bridgewater for the Town of Ellesmere, with lists of jurors. Presentments on 6 November 1793 29 cottages and incroachments on waste, 29 persons using trades in town, not being burgesses, with List of Officers for coming year;

5 November 1794 29 cottages and incroachments on waste, 15 persons for not scouring the brook, 30 for using trades, being non-burgesses, with List of Officers for coming year;

3 October 1795 29 cottages and incroachments on waste, 14 for not cleaning brook or nuisances, 33 for using trades, with List of Officers;

22 October 1796 30 cottages and incroachments on waste, 36 for using trades, with List of Officers;

11 October 1797 32 cottages and incroachments on waste, 1 for not cleaning brook, 44 for using trades, with List of Officers;

17 October 1798 34 cottages and incroachments on waste, 43 for using trades, with List of Officers;

17 October 1799 38 cottages and incroachments on waste, 42 for using trades, with List of Officers;

23 October 1800 34 cottages and incroachments on waste, 42 for using trades, with List of Officers;

15 October 1801 32 cottages and incroachments on waste, 36 for using trades, with List of Officers;

21 October 1803 17 cottages and incroachments on waste

38 for using trades, with List of Officers;

21 October 1804 17 Cottages and incroachments on waste,

Edward Edgecome for allowing a log to continue opposite his garden in Scotland Street; Edward Jones wheelwright for laying a quantity of timber, waggons, carts, harrows and ploughs, and also manure and compost opposite his house near the Pinfold,

James Clay for laying a quantity of dung or compost near the Pinfold,

Thomas Maddocks for laying a large quantity of soil or compost near the Pinfold,

Mr. William Jackson for suffering the scrapings of the road to lie against his stable end Francis Plowden for laying dung and compost opposite his house,

Mr. William Hawkins, Mr. John Welch, Mr. Richard Reddrop for suffering dung to lie near their houses,

Widow Higginson and Mrs. Price for not scouring ditches,

Mr. Samuel Burroughs for suffering dung to lie near the Mere,

Jurors order that the exhibition of stallions on fair and market days shall only be from the blacksmith's shop in the swine market to Thomas Noneley's house near Spar Bridge, and that they be not permitted to be led, rode or driven through any part of the market place between the hours of 11 in the forenoon and 5 in the afternoon to the place of exhibition (pain 10s);

The Jurors have examined the records of the towns' privileges and confirm the proceedings being carried on in the three weekly courts for recovery of small debts within the town and liberties for sums under 40s,

Samuel James and Richard Jones, sow serjeants, for default of duties Fine 10s each,

The jurors present to the Earl of Bridgewater the ill convenience of the butchers' shambles in the town, in order that they may be removed to some convenient place, being a great nuisance,

Non-burgesses using trades presented generally, with List of Officers;

24 October 1804 17 cottages and incroachments,

6 defaults of cleansing roads or nuisances,

44 for using trades, with Officers;

26 April 1805 17 Cottages and incroachments,

4 defaults of cleansing roads of nuisances,

(Including the surveyors of the highways for non-repair of Birch Lane to the Blackwater turnpike gate and of the street opposite the weighing machine in the town) The weights and measures in the town have not been examined for some time,

Sow Serjeants have neglected their duty,

Persons leaving a certain waggon near the New Inn,

Anyone travelling with team or carriage through the town on the Sabbath;

26 October 1805 17 cottages and incroachments,

Nuisances - pig sty on Church Hill, uncleansed water course, rubbish near New Inn and opposite the backway to the Swan Inn,

41 for using trades, with List of Officers.