Debts by Installment

02/03/1897

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At the Peterborough County Court sitting of this day, a number of orders were made that give us a glimpse of the time. Charles Jenks, a labourer from Water Newton, had debts totalling £21 4s that had accrued due to his loss of work caused by illness. He offered to meet his debts to 8s 6d in the pound at the rate of 3s per month. An order was made allowing this situation. Daniel Monk, a labourer from Eye, was in deeper trouble with debts of £40 10s 4d. He was offering 9s in the pound on the debts - an offer accepted by the court and requiring him to pay at a rate of 6s per month. If my sums are right, that's five years of payments. Among the undefended cases we find that Charles Tebbs, butcher of Midgate, was seeking payment of £26 15s 6d from one W. Chapman of Robin Hood Chase in Nottingham. The claim was upheld and Chapman was required to pay the debt at 10s a month. Tebbs has to wait over four years for settlement of the debt - if he's lucky. (Peterborough Citizen)

Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.

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A Very Successful Jockey

26/11/1870

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This Saturday's Peterborough Times carried a small piece that will mean absolutely nothing to 99.9 per cent or better of Peterborians. It read:

The Peterborough Jockey - a table has just been published, which shows the performances of the principal winning jockeys in 1870, up to the conclusion of the Shrewsbury meeting. In the list Custance is placed as having 45 mounts, out of which he won 12 races and was second in 8, and third in eight others. This is better than any other jockey with the same number of mounts. Custance, the celebrated jockey, made his first appearance in the pigskin after his marriage, at Shrewsbury races last week.

Henry Custance was born in Peterborough on 27 February 1842. As a jockey he won the Cesarewich in 1858 and 1861; the 1,000 Guineas in 1867; the Derby in 1860,1866 and 1874 and the St Leger, also in 1866. He is one of a very small number to have ridden the winner of the Derby and the St Leger in the same year. He retired from riding at the end of the 1879 season, when he was no longer able to beat 8 stone 10lbs and became proprietor of the George Inn at Oakham. He died in 1908. (jockeypedia.co.uk)

Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.