5th December 1823

Stamford Mercury

On Monday last, Charles Newborn, of Barnack, gardener,— Newborn Pask, of Ryhall, shoemaker,—and John Thompson, of Pilsgate, mason, were committed to Peterborough gaol, the two former as principals and the latter as accessary (and intended to be a witness for the prosecution) in the stealing of geese from the premises of Mr. Burbidge and Mr. Mean Ufford, the night of Wednesday the 26th ult.—Same day, Edward Kingsland, of Langtoft, poulterer, was committed to the gaol of this borough, on the charge of receiving the above stolen property, knowing it to be stolen.

24th January 1823

Stamford Mercury

Kesteven Sessions

Bourn.—At the General Quarter Sessions for the parts of Kesteven, held at Bourn on the 14th and 15th days of January instant, before William Augustus Johnson, Esq. chairman, the Right Hon. John Earl Brownlow, Thomas Birch Reynardson, Esq., the Rev. Brownlow Villiers Layard, Samuel Edmund Hopkinson, and William Waters, Clerks; 

Thomas Bingham, of Langtoft, labourer, was convicted of an assault on Mr. Charles Reading, an aged farmer there, and sentenced to three weeks' hard labour in Falkingham bouse of correction.