Huntingdon Bedford and Peterborough Gazette 27 Oct 1827: Removal order Trumpington to Cottenham
Cottenham v. Trumpington. - This was an appeal against an order of removal, and the question for the consideration of the Court was, whether the pauper, Thos. Barrance, had been engaged in the service of Mr. Adams of the Coach and Horses, Trumpington, under a weekly or yearly hiring. - The pauper states, that about 12 years ago, he had lived with Mrs. Graves, of Cottenham, for several years, being regularly hired from year to year. Since that time he had lived with Mr. Hemington, of Trumpington; and subsequently with Mr. Adams, of that village. The witness said that Mr. Adams hired him for two shillings a week, all the vails, and board and lodging; witness went into his service upon this agreement, and continued with him for more than four years. He did not take his money weekly, but at the end of the year his master paid him £5 4s. At the end of the fourth year, witness asked him for an increase of wages, and his master told him he would give him £1 extra at the end of the year. - Mr Adams said, he hired the pauper as a weekly servant; he stopped more than four years, but witness considered him as a weekly servant during the whole period. -Mr PRYME, for the appellants, contended, that though at the first hiring the pauper might be considered as a weekly servant, yet at the end of the second and third years there was a yearly hiring, and that hasty interruption of service was never contemplated by the parties. -The Court, however, decided that there was no hiring for a year, and confirmed the order.