This self-contained explorer embeds 802 indexed entries in four working categories. The figures shown below are calculated from the records currently embedded in this HTML: 106 Pink, 233 Green, 42 Red and 421 Brown. These are indexed-record counts, not a claim that every entry has the same level of primary-source verification. The earlier advertised targets (108, 43, 107 and 67) do not match the embedded category allocation and are not presented as current totals. The specialist 88-case Petty Sessions register and statutory-offence Law Viewer are maintained on the linked companion page. To see the offence catalogue there, select its “Switch to Law Viewer (Offences)” control; the 153 entries are grouped 24 + 26 + 103 across the three Acts.
ALL INDEXED RECORDS802
All Four Indexed Categories
106 Pink Protected Stays · 233 Green Campaign Cases · 42 Red Municipal Cases · 421 Brown Research Records.
PASTEL PINK · PROTECTED STAYS106
Protected Stay & Halt Records
Named cases with pre-trial stays, nolle prosequi, superseding, diet deserted, Grand Jury No True Bill & discharge orders.
PASTEL GREEN · CAMPAIGN RECORDS233
Campaign Cases & Case Reports
Specific litigated & parliamentary petition cases and case reports (20-signature QS discharges, Chartist prisoner petitions, Ferrand & Smith, Gateshead Mayor Barras).
PASTEL RED · MUNICIPAL RECORDS42
Municipal & Private Bill Records
Specific ratepayer, burgess, and inhabitant petitions opposing local Boards of Health, council jurisdiction, corporate levies, and Private Bills.
PASTEL BROWN · RESEARCH RECORDS421
Research Articles & General Law Records
Articles on movements, general petitioning law (1661 Act signature rules, 1648 Ordinance, 1679 Proclamations), and wider institutional archives.
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Selected Forensic Case Examples (4)
The full 88-case Petty Sessions Constitutional Law Corpus is maintained in the companion viewer. This panel preserves four examples previously highlighted in this explorer; it is not a duplicate 88-case register and does not claim that these four entries exhaust or define that separate corpus.
Ferrand & Smith (1840): TNA MH 12/15158/87 — correspondence concerning 400 street placards and the Assistant Poor Law Commissioner's decision not to pursue proceedings.
Mayor John Barras (1839): TNA HO 40/42/55 — Gateshead Watch Committee, handbills and police measures during Chartist meetings.
Darnton Lupton (1840): Parliamentary Archives YHC/CL/JO/26/394, Item 10 — a described provincial Petty Sessions discharge under the Section 1 stay.
Stockdale v Hansard (1839–1840): Queen's Bench and Commons proceedings concerning contempt, publication and parliamentary privilege.
Seed Ledger (v0.5): Provenance Summary
The embedded dataset contains 797 records with CV-prefixed IDs, alongside five EX-prefixed curated entries. This HTML does not include a separate row-by-row 797-entry seed ledger or a complete source concordance, so this panel is a summary rather than the ledger itself.
The record entries carry repository names, reference fields and archive links where supplied. Those fields should be checked against the relevant holding institution; an archive link or catalogue reference alone is not proof that the described item has been inspected in full.
Archive Portal Examples (4 of 34 referenced)
Four portal examples are currently embedded below. The other 30 entries implied by the original 34-portal heading are not present in this HTML version.
The National Archives (Kew)Discovery Catalogue · HO 40, MH 12, ASSI 46, E 382
Parliamentary Archives (Preservica)Clerk of the Journals · YHC/CL/JO/26/394, STAT 14/3255
West Yorkshire Archive Service (WYAS)Wakefield & Bradford · QS4/1840 Quarter Sessions Rolls
Barnsley Archives & Local StudiesBarnsley Petty Sessions Registers · BARK/14/P1