14 September 1787: Bond by Theophilus Norton [signs] of Buxton, county Derby, yeoman, Maurice Jones [signs] of Macclesfield, county Chester, yeoman and Joseph Fawkner [signs] of Macclesfield shoemaker, to Samuel Boyer gentleman clerk of His Majesty’s court of record for the manor and forest of Macclesfield, in £3: for Norton to appear at the next court to prosecute John Barlow and James Barlow of Macclesfield Forest yeomen, for wrongfully taking and unjustly detaining one bay gelding. Witness: John Jones