Market Harborough
Petty Sessions, April 19th

—Present, W. De Capell Brooke, Esq.

Only one magistrate being present to-day, several cases were necessarily adjourned, to the great disappointment, inconvenience, and expense of the parties attending.

W. Burditt, of Desborough, was charged by Wm. Morriss Iliff, with misconduct and general bad behaviour while in his service.

—Mr. Brooke was about to commit the defendant, but as Mr. Iliff wished to discharge him from his service, and the House of Correction being but a middling preparatory school for another situation, Burditt was dismissed on paying costs.

Northampton Mercury, Saturday 23 April 1842

See also a somewhat different account