4th March 1831

Stamford Mercury

The assizes for this county will open on Saturday, before Lord Lyndhurst, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Sir John Vaughan, Knt. 

John Pickering, aged 57, laborer, charged upon the oath of Ellen the wife of Thomas Roberts, of Langtoft, laborer, with having carnally known Ann Roberts her daughter, an infant the age of five years and eleven months, at Langtoft aforesaid, the 22d of April last.—Discharged on his recognizance to appear at these assizes to answer such charge as shall be then preferred against him.