RURAL POLICE
RURAL POLICE--Northamptonshire
At the late Quarter Sessions for this county, the Rev. J. Wetherall
presented petitions from the large parishes of Rothwell, Desborough, and
Charwelton, praying that, as the peace of the county has not been more
efficiently preserved, nor property more effectually preserved since the
establishment of the Rural Police, and as the expense incurred for the
support of it is very great, that it be forthwith removed. Mr. Wetherall
stated that all these petitions were numerously and respectably signed.
To the petition from Rothwell the names of the clergyman, the four
churchwardens, and almost all the principal rate-payers were affixed,
and no publican was allowed to sign it. He begged to add he was totally
unpledged as to what vote he should give when the motion of the Rev. Mr.
Litchfield should come on at the next sessions, but he thought such
petitions as he had presented, would have very great weight with the
magistrates in coming to a division upon this important subject.
Lincolnshire Chronicle,
Friday 21 January 1842