Clay Cross, Derbyshire - Chapel Burglary

Extracts taken from The Derbyshire & Chesterfield Reporter.

December 3, 1829.
Last Sunday week, the Methodist Chapel, at Clay Cross,* was entered, and the whole of the hymn books, etc. stolen therefrom.

May 27, 1830.
On Friday 14th inst. Charles Stone, of Baslow, one of the workmen employed by the Duke of Portland in draining his property, on the east moor, discovered a bundle of books amongst the rushes growing in Wadshelf Sitch. They were about forty in number, and were principally testaments, and school books; there was also a bible, having written in it the name of Richard Sills, 1822, Nottingham.

June 3, 1830.
The books which we named last week as having been found in Wadshelf Sitch, on Brampton East Moor, by one of the workmen employed by the Duke of Portland, prove to be a part of what were stolen from Clay Cross Sunday School, in the night of the 22nd of last November. Some of them have been restored to the school, but many were so much damaged, by lying in the morass, as to render them quite unserviceable.

*The Methodist New Connexion chapel of 1824.