It’s an indictment for theft, brought against Peter and Joseph Brunton, along with several others. The page-heading shows Pontefract (not Wakefield), 14 April 1724.
"And that Henry Spinks senior, lately of Scotton in the West Riding in the aforesaid county, labourer; Henry Spinks junior, lately of the same, labourer; Thomas Brown, lately of the same, labourer; William Dannye, lately of the same, labourer; William Hill, lately of the same, labourer; Geoffrey Wilkinson, lately of the same, labourer; Peter Brunton, lately of the same, labourer; & Joseph Brunton, lately of the same, labourer, on the first day of March in the tenth year of the reign of our lord George by the grace of God the present King of Great Britain, by force and arms etc., at Scotton aforesaid, in the West Riding in the aforesaid county, did unlawfully and unjustly take, carry away and convert to their own use one insignum (called a Sign) to the value of twenty shillings, from the goods and chattels of a certain Richard Maffham then and there being found, to the damage of the aforesaid Richard Maffham, and against the peace of the said Lord the present King, his Crown and Dignity etc."
