1841  That John Cooper, Charles Gibbons, Matthews, James Cowmeadow, Richard Cook, and George Meek, Free Miners, did on and after 9 April 1832 make applications for gales to be called the Cheltenham Companyís Protector Colliery, now forming part of Tormentor and Teazeall Colliery.  Applications not granted but proceeding anyway.

Tormentor Pit, Teazeall Pit, and part of Regulator Pits, forming Tormentor Colliery and Teazeall Colliery.

All that coal in the Rockey vein commencing at the end of the Cut out driven from the Tormentor Deep Pit, extending in a northern direction as deep as the level from the end of the said Cut out will drain, to the line of two boundary stones, 26 and 27, which line intersects the Regulator Level at the distance of 174 yards southward of Regulator Pit, No. 3, which distance is measured along the level, and extending as deep as Tormentor Level will drain, in a southern direction, to the distance of 400 yards beyond the line of the other two boundary stones, 28 and 29, which separate Light Moor and Crump Meadow Collieries, and extending in the land up to the line of Paragon Deep Pit Level so far as the same extends, and for the remainder of the distance up to the deep level of Georgeís Folly in Bennettís Regulator Award, except that against the line of the said Paragon Deep Pit Level and Georgeís Folly Level a barrier of coal 20 yards in width shall be left: and also all that other tract of coal in the Churchway High Delf vein, lying in the land of a level to be driven from the end of the present Cut out in the Teazeall Pit, and extending as deep as the said level will drain, in a northerly direction, a distance of about 70 yards to the line of two boundary stones, 30 and 31, to be set up as the north boundary of this colliery in the Churchway High Delf vein, and bounded on the south by the line of two other boundary stones, 32 and 33.  Rendering etc.

1841 p 335 Tormentor Pit, Littledean.  A young man met his death, in the pit owned by the Cheltenham Protector Coal Co. as several tons of marl fell on him.