![]() The civilized way to do this was to advertise in the local press: forĮxample in April 1780 Thomas Hutt of Headington Quarry advertised a reward for In adjoining parishes, it was also common for people to take the law into their Missing sheets, while in August 1789 gamekeeper Mark Shirman advertised that any Unqualified person sporting” in the Manors of Headington and Marston wouldīe “prosecuted to the utmost regard of the Law”, and that “steel Was also Lord of the Manor) published a notice in 1801 stating that “any Set man-traps and spring guns on their land: the Vicar of Headington himself (who Poachers caught in the Manors of Headington and Marston would be prosecuted. ![]() At that time the death penalty covered 200 offences, which would Traps and other destructive engines are set in Headington Copse and the groundsĪdjoining”. Here are some examples reported in Jackson’s Oxford Journal of late eighteenth-century Have acted as a deterrent and ensured that fewer criminals lived to reoffend.28 December 1757: Loaded guns were fired at Mr Wright’s windows, Headington. ![]() 27 March 1772: William Clarke was committed to the Castle, charged with stealing from Richard Carter of Headington.October 1772: A notice was published that persons stealing turnips in Headington fields were to be prosecuted.15 June 1774: Lavel Mullineaux (called Mullendar) of Garsington, who had absconded from service of Richard North of Headington Quarry.(He had been chiefly employed as a shepherd, brickmaker, and haymaker.) Was charged with stealing his master’s sheep.1 April 1775: William Guy was charged at Gloucester Assizes with stealing lace belonging to Joseph Holley of.Headington: he was condemned to death but reprieved.17 February 1776: Plants were stolen from Mrs Rowe’s garden, Headington Hill: it was announced that.12 September 1778: Sir Banks Jenkinson’s house was burgled.In the Castle, and Baynes, the acting parish constable for Headington, was praised Thomas Storer,Ī journeyman locksmith who had been cleaning locks at the Manor House, was imprisoned Was found in the Cherwell under Napper’s Bridge, above Holywell Mill. ![]()
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